Bärbel Schäfer

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Bärbel Schäfer (2016)

Bärbel Schäfer (born December 16, 1963 in Bremen ) is a German television presenter and producer .

Life

education

From 1980 to 1981 Schäfer attended high school in the United States and received a tennis scholarship. She also hosted the talk show Guests In Our Town . After graduating from high school in 1984 at Parsevalstraße in Bremen, Bärbel Schäfer completed an apprenticeship as a hotel clerk in Cologne at the Hotel Europa from 1985 to 1988 . From 1988 to 1992 she studied theater, film and television studies, German literature and art history. In the early 1990s she did an internship at WDR .

job

Schäfer at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018 in conversation with the author Christopher Schacht
Imprint of Schäfer's hands in the Mall of Fame

After her internship at WDR, Schäfer stayed at the broadcaster and performed various programs there, including a. Hollymünd , Sixteen and U 30 . In 1995 she received her daily talk show Bärbel Schäfer on the private broadcaster RTL , which she hosted 1,500 times until 2002. On January 15, 2000 she first performed the RTL show You are probably crazy together with Kalle Pohl . Both the candidates and the moderators had to pass tests of courage. For example, she fell 25 meters in a car. In the show on September 17, 2000, she lay down between two tracks and let a freight train run over her. Since the risk of copying was assessed as too great, the program was discontinued - also at the instigation of the state media authority .

In 1998 she founded their own production company Couch Potatoes with her brother Martin Schäfer (born December 31, 1966 in Bremen ; † October 15, 2013 near Pegnitz ) . The show Bärbel Schäfer , previously produced by Hans Meiser's company creatv , was then produced by Couch Potatoes . From 2003 to 2004 she performed the program Wellness TV on ARD . Since September 2006 she has moderated the advice program I want back to life on RTL II ! . On January 16, 2007, she took over the talk show format from Arabella Kiesbauer on N24 . In 2008 the program was discontinued due to differences between the producer and N24. Bärbel Schäfer is a frequent guest on the television program Dings vom Dach , which is broadcast on hr-fernsehen . Schäfer has had its own talk format on the public radio station hr3 since January 2009 . It is broadcast live every Sunday between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.

Private

In 1998, Schäfer's then partner, photographer Kay-Uwe Degenhardt, died in an accident on the autobahn. In 2004 Schäfer married Michel Friedman in Eschborn . She then converted to Judaism and married according to the Jewish rite in the Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan . The couple have two sons. Schäfer has been involved in charitable work at UNICEF since 2001, and since 2004 also for Trauerland - Center for grieving children and young people. V. in Bremen.

On October 15, 2013, her 46-year-old brother Martin had a fatal accident in his Carrera 911 on the A9 near Pegnitz after he skidded on a wet road.

Awards

Book publications

  • If not him, who? Roman (with Susanne Luerweg). Diana, Munich 2005; Heyne, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-453-72202-6 .
  • I wanted my life back. People talk about their experiences with cancer (with Monika Schuck). Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-352-00658-X .
  • Foam kisses (with Susanne Luerweg). Diana, Munich 2007; as paperback 2009, ISBN 978-3-453-35289-6 .
  • The best years. Women talk about getting older (with Monika Schuck). Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-378-01091-8 .
  • The secret of happiness. Couples tell of the success of their love (with Monika Schuck). Kiepenheuer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-378-01102-1 .
  • Zen in the cucumber patch . Roman (with Achim Winter ). Weissbooks.w, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-940888-12-9 .
  • Is anyone up there? Because life is no walk in the park . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2016, ISBN 978-3-579-08637-8 .
  • My afternoons with Eva - On life after Auschwitz . (with Eva Szepesi ). Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2017, ISBN 978-3-579-08685-9 .

Web links

Commons : Bärbel Schäfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Talk shows as a communication school - or as a replacement for it? Forum "Speaking Contacts" at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf .
  2. ↑ Petra Fürst: Don't be afraid of emotions. August 25, 2006. Don't be afraid of emotions ( Memento of October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 7, 2006.
  3. ↑ N24.de: Bärbel Schäfer talks on N24 ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ quotemeter.de exclusive: N24 parted ways with the «Bärbel Schäfer» talk show
  5. ↑ Information from the broadcaster about the talk show
  6. ↑ Bunte.de: She would have liked to become a mother earlier , from November 23, 2012
  7. ↑ Friedman and Schäfer in mourning - Bärbel Schäfer's brother dies in a horror crash , Focus . Retrieved August 30, 2014. 
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Bärbel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen