Bärbel Schäfer
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
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
- 1996: Golden camera for the talk show Bärbel Schäfer
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
- Official website
- Bärbel Schäfer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Bärbel Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Talk shows as a communication school - or as a replacement for it? Forum "Speaking Contacts" at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ N24.de: Bärbel Schäfer talks on N24 ( Memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ quotemeter.de exclusive: N24 parted ways with the «Bärbel Schäfer» talk show
- ↑ Information from the broadcaster about the talk show
- ↑ Bunte.de: She would have liked to become a mother earlier , from November 23, 2012
- ↑ Friedman and Schäfer in mourning - Bärbel Schäfer's brother dies in a horror crash , Focus . Retrieved August 30, 2014.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shepherd, Bärbel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television presenter and producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |