Alexander Waltz

Alexander Walzer , often just Alex Walzer , (born November 17, 1969 in Heidelberg ) is a German entrepreneur .

Life

Walzer grew up in Mannheim . He attended the school there, from which he graduated from secondary school. As a teenager, Walzer sold flea markets and took over cellar and apartment closings. From 1990 to 1992, Walzer sold watches at his own sales counter in his father's department store . In the following years he sold gold jewelry , purses , leather goods and various promotional items, among other things .

Walzer is now the owner of several of his own shops. He often bought out branches of department store chains that were running out. Walzer set up discount markets and large sales areas with cheap items and promotional goods in the properties taken over .

Walzer has been married to Nicole Walzer since the second half of the 1990s. Currently (as of 2020) he is the managing director of the "Ramba-Zamba-Markt" in Bad Gandersheim . With 4,000 m², the market is one of the largest low-cost department stores in Europe .

Media presence

Alexander Walzer became known to the general public through various documentary soaps and reality formats . He is referred to in the media as Alex Walzer, the junk king .

According to research by the journalist Stefan Niggemeier , over 130 television programs about waltzes were made between 2003 and 2008. These contributions were compiled and broadcast in various broadcast formats for television journalism, partly as a report or magazine contribution, but mainly in the form of docu-soap. Contributions with waltzes ran in the Sat1-Pro7 broadcasting group in the broadcast formats Sat1 breakfast television , Sat1 magazine , 24-hour report and Adventure Life . There were also reports on RTL and N24 .

In 2009, Walzer received his own TV show with the program Der Ramschkönig - Alex Walzer and his cheap realm . The documentary show accompanied Walzer in his daily work and in his private life: market opening, sales in the old Ramba-Zamba market, personnel management , coaching and management consulting , dealing with shoplifting and privately on vacation in Mallorca . The show only achieved mediocre viewership on average.

In 2009, Walzer, along with journalist Barbara Eligmann and fashion designer Michael Michalsky, was a member of the jury on the show The Best Idea Germany , in which entrepreneurs with business acumen and sales talent were sought.

Due to the media attention, various travel agencies offered bus tours and coffee trips to Bad Gandersheim to the “Ramba-Zamba-Market”.

Web links

• Alexander Walzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alex Walzer Official website at Sat.1
• Alex Waltz Ramba Zamba Market

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Item 12 of December 11, 2017: married for 20 years
2. ↑ "I can only be cheap!" ( Memento from May 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) The 24-hour report on Sat1
3. ↑ Junk kings among themselves ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stefan Niggemeier in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung TV blog from February 22, 2009 
4. ↑ Quota check: "Der Ramschkönig" quota meter from October 28, 2009
5. ↑ Germany is looking for the super folding chair in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 13, 2009