Andreas Lukoschik

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andreas Lukoschik in Studio Fernsehmacher, broadcast by Markus Lanz 2012.

Andreas Lukoschik (born January 31, 1953 in Bad Salzuflen ) is a German television presenter, actor and author, also known under the pseudonym Leo .

Life

The graduate psychologist gained nationwide fame from 1987 to 1991 through his society magazine “Leo's”, which was broadcast on ARD . For this he received the Adolf Grimme Prize with bronze in 1989 together with Stephan Reichenberger . At Christmas 1991, Lukoschik said goodbye to the screen - “because you should stop when it's at its best” - to tackle new projects. Among other things, as head of entertainment at VOX , he invented the media magazine Canale Grande .

Lukoschik played a. a. in the feature films “ Schtonk ” or “Peanuts” as well as in the television series “Two Men at the Cooker” or “The Crimes of Prof. Capellari”. In addition, he wrote seven books with which, according to Peter Wippermann, he became the “stem cell of trend research in Germany”. Lukoschik was also involved in Eberhard Schoener's “Virtopera” project. It is the first opera for the internet in which a virtual character animated in real time - Cold Genius by name - attempts to find out what makes people so different from virtual “contemporaries”. Lukoschik was co-author and gave Cold Genius facial expressions and voice. In 1994 he founded the children's aid organization Children for a better World together with Florian Langenscheidt . Since it was founded, he has been a member of the honorary board and directs the organization with four other honorary members. In an anthology from 1995, Lukoschik describes his memories of childhood and youth.

He currently lives in Switzerland in the canton of Schwyz . Since 1998 he has been head of Amadeus AG, an agency for international cultural engineering and marketing. In 2001, Lukoschik put Intel as the main sponsor of the Grimme Online Award for the Adolf Grimme Institute . In 2012 Lukoschik published a non-fiction book on the tourism industry with the title “Do the staff sleep on board too? A Cruising ABC ”, in which he sheds light on professional life on cruise ships . In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of the “Y Mag” magazine, which is supposed to showcase the Canton of Schwyz.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Prof. Wippermann, Trendbüro Hamburg).
  2. ↑ Activity report of the Children for a better World association for the year 2009, accessed on June 4, 2010, page 4.
  3. ↑ Self-portrait of childhood and youth in: Florian Langenscheidt (ed.): With us at home. Celebrities talk about their childhood. Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3430159458 .
  4. ↑ SPON career.
  5. ↑ PDF at www.rigi-mythen.ch.
personal data
SURNAME Lukoschik, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter, actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzuflen