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Sarah Kuttner (born 29 January 1979) is a German television presenter and author.


Biography

Kuttner was born in
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. Her father is famed radio host Jürgen Kuttner. She has regularly appeared on the music television channel
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since November 2001 after being selected out of 1500 other participants in a casting held in summer of that year. Her popularity increased rapidly and in August 2004 she started to host her own show called ''
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'', a variation on the popular late show concept with comedy, a sidekick (Sven Schuhmacher), talk guests and musical guests. After
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bought
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in 2005, her show was moved to
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and renamed to "Kuttner." with no dramatic changes in concept or crew. Production was relocated from
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to
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. Kuttner announced the show's cancellation due to high production costs and low ratings in May 2006. She also co-hosted (with
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) the show "Germany 12 Points", the German pre-selection for the
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on publicly owned channel ARD on 19 March 2004. Kuttner wrote a weekly column in the national daily newspaper ''
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'' and a monthly column in music magazine ''
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''. Both were compiled in two books, "''Das oblatendünne Eis des halben Zweidrittelwissens''" (March 2006) and "''Die anstrengende Daueranwesenheit der Gegenwart''" (March 2007). "''Das oblatendünne Eis''" enjoyed a moderate success in Germany with mixed but largely positive reviews. Especially TV personality
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emphasized his admiration for the book. No figures or reviews for "''Die anstrengende Daueranwesenheit''" are yet available. In 2009 Kuttner released her first novel ''Mängelexemplar'', which dealt with the topic of depression. The film ''
Too Hard to Handle ''Too Hard to Handle'' (german: Mängelexemplar) is a 2016 German comedy film directed by Laura Lackmann. Cast * Claudia Eisinger - Karo * Katja Riemann - Luzy * Barbara Schöne - Oma Bille * Laura Tonke - Anna * - Max * Maren Kroymann - Annett ...
'' (2016) is based on the book. In November 2011, her second book ''Wachstumsschmerz'' was released. Kuttner's second novel is about the pains of growing up. In 2006 Kuttner accepted her first and so far only acting job, providing the German voice of "
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" in the dubbed version of the movie ''
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''. Beginning 11 November 2007 she will start hosting a weekly radio show, ''Kuttner & Kuttner'' together with her father Jürgen Kuttner, on Radio Eins in Berlin. In 2011 Kuttner hosted a talk show called "Ausflug mit Kuttner" of which three episodes where shot. In this show she interviewed celebrities while going on typical Sunday trips with them.


Publications

* ''Das oblatendünne Eis des halben Zweidrittelwissens''. Kolumnen. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, * ''Die anstrengende Daueranwesenheit der Gegenwart''. Kolumnen. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, * ''Mängelexemplar''. Roman. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009, * ''Wachstumsschmerz''. Roman. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011,


References


External links


Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuttner, Sarah 1979 births Living people German television talk show hosts German television personalities People from East Berlin Norddeutscher Rundfunk people ARD (broadcaster) people ZDF people