Bettina Böttinger

Bettina Böttinger (2020)

Bettina Maria Böttinger (born July 4, 1956 in Düsseldorf ) is a German television presenter and producer.

biography

Bettina Böttinger (2010)

Bettina Böttinger is the daughter of a secretary and a film clerk. She grew up as an only child with her mother, attended elementary school on Gerresheimer Strasse in Düsseldorf, a " dwarf school " in Bergisches Land , and the Düsseldorf Goethe-Gymnasium. After graduating from high school in 1975, she studied German and history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn with the professional goal of becoming a teacher. During her studies she worked for the Bonner Rundschau (local and feature pages ). After her first state examination, she worked for this regional newspaper for a year because she wanted to become a journalist .

In the spring of 1985 Böttinger came to WDR . She worked for the current hour and the Bonn regional office, from which she was taken over as editor in November 1985 . From 1986 she moderated the radio magazine Zwischen Rhein und Weser and from 1986 to 1991 the WDR Folk Festival. In 1987 she moved to the Dortmund regional studio as editor of the radio program Echo West . From 1988 onwards, she regularly performed the television program Here and Today , which deals with topics from North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1989 she rose to head of the WDR regional office in Bonn and in July 1991 to head of the editorial group here and today (until May 1993).

From December 1991 she presented the media show Parlazzo. With this monthly WDR live broadcast, which featured prominent guests, arguments and music, the radio journalist came to television entertainment. In December 1995 she handed over her host role in Parlazzo to the journalist Sabine Brandi . In September 1993, Böttinger presented B. meets… for the first time , the somewhat different talk show in which two guests were invited to each program who did not know beforehand who they would meet for a common topic of conversation. In 1994 and 1996 she was nominated for the Grimme Prize with her Friday evening show . In 1994 she founded the production company Encanto GmbH, with which she not only brings out B. Meet ... , but also the animal docu soaps Ein Heim für alle Felle (2000), Ein Doc für alle Felle (2001) and Pinguin, Löwe & Co . (since 2006) and, together with the animal psychologist Martin Rütter, the dog programs Eine Couch für alle Felle (2003) and Ein Team für alle Felle (since 2005).

In 2001 she produced and hosted the four-part talk series Das Schwarze Schaf for the WDR summer program . In June 2004 the last episode of B. meets ... was broadcast. From 2004 to 2005 she presented the talk show format Böttinger , which she produced herself, and since March 2006 (initially together with Achim Winter ) the Kölner Treff . Since January 2007 she has been leading the talk show West ART Talk alternately with Holger Noltze . In 2013 and 2014 she led the series B. sucht on WDR television . In 1997 and from 2005 to 2007 she presented the awarding of the Grimme Prize in Marl and from 2002 to 2005 the awarding of the German Camera Prize in Cologne. In January 2006 she hosted the 50 years WDR anniversary event for her home broadcaster - the show .

Private life and social engagement

She is committed u. a. for AIDS help , since 1996 for the lobby for girls in Cologne , for burundikids and since 1994 for the women's rights organization " medica mondiale ". Since 2002 she has traveled several times to Afghanistan for this association that cares for traumatized women and girls in war zones .

Böttinger ran a marathon , acquired the C license for Formula 3 in 1999 and was an ambassador for the Gay Games 2010 in Cologne . She lives in Kirchheim in the Eifel and in Cologne. In July 2016 , she married her long-time partner.

Awards

• On June 21, 2007, Bettina Böttinger was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon by Federal President Horst Köhler in Berlin's Bellevue Palace .
• On October 5, 2009, Bettina Böttinger was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia by Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers in the Düsseldorf Ständehaus .
• 2019 Prize of the German Academy for Television in the category television entertainment for the production Who speaks with the forest - on the road with Peter Wohlleben (together with Henning Gode and Peter Wohlleben )

biography

• Bettina Maria Böttinger - Almost a self-portrait - A film by Klaus Michael Heinz (WDR television, July 8, 2016)

Works

• Bettina Böttinger: Especially as a woman: twelve portraits. Econ, Munich 1998, 187 pages, ISBN 3-430-11448-9 .
• Double portraits: portraits of prominent guests on the WDR program “B.trifft” / photographs by Michael Jaeger. In collaboration with Bettina Böttinger. [Ed .: Peter Graf; Holger Möllenberg], 1st edition, M7-Verl., Cologne 1999, 127 pages, ISBN 3-934511-12-0 .
• Martin Rütter , Bettina Böttinger (eds.): A couch for all skins: Problems in everyday dog ​​life? Analysis and Solutions. vgs, Cologne 2004, 125 pages, ISBN 3-8025-1606-0 .
• Martin Rütter, Ingrid Backes; Bettina Böttinger (Ed.): A couch for all skins 2: Animal problems - easily solved. Vgs, Cologne 2004, 142 pages, ISBN 3-8025-1639-7 .
• Oscar Wilde : The Selfish Giant: a fairy tale with music for piano four hands and speaker; op. 20 a / Oscar Wilde. From Stefan Heucke. Drawings by Dominique Rebourgeon. Andreas Grau & Götz Schumacher , piano. Bettina Böttinger, spokeswoman. 1 CD, Schott International, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-7957-0498-7 .

Web links

Commons : Bettina Böttinger  - Collection of Images

• Literature by and about Bettina Böttinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of Bettina Böttinger
• WDR presenter celebrates her 50th birthday ( Memento from July 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), WDR, July 4, 2006.
• Biography of the moderator Bettina Böttinger ( memento from July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), WDR, “Kölner Treff”.
• For some men I am a red rag ( memento from June 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tagesspiegel , June 16, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frauke Döhring: Women are conquering television - just not the top. In: Die Zeit , No. 43/1996.
2. ↑ Studio guest: Rütter, Martin ( memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), MDR, here from four , January 4, 2005.
3. ↑ Interviews with Martin Rütter at WDR ( Memento from July 3, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
4. ^ Website of the WDR for the show Kölner Treff .
5. ↑ West Art
6. ↑ B.sucht ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 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.  
7. ↑ 50 Years WDR - The Show ( Memento from February 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), WDR press information.
8. ↑ Bettina Böttinger: Where there is no plaintiff, there is no lawsuit ( memento of July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), 2003.
9. ↑ Deported and Forgotten - Women in Afghan Prisons ( Memento from April 19, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), Bettina Böttinger and Monika Hauser report on a joint trip to Kabul, April 3, 2003.
10. ↑ gay games cologne 2010: Bettina Böttinger ( Memento from October 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
11. ↑ Sarah Schmidt: I am a nature-loving person ??. In: Kölnische Rundschau . Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg - Expedition der Kölnische Zeitung GmbH and Co. KG, March 23, 2007, accessed on March 5, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Bettina Böttinger secretly married , STERN.de. July 18, 2016. Accessed March 16, 2017. 
13. ↑ Bettina Böttinger receives Federal Order of Merit ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , WDR, press release from June 15, 2006.
14. ↑ Bettina Böttinger receives Order of Merit .