Birgit Schrowange

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Birgit Schrowange with friend Frank Spothelfer at the German Television Award 2018

Birgit Schrowange (* 7 April 1958 as Birgit Schrowangen in Nehden , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German television presenter .

Life

Birgit Schrowange 2012 at the Golden Camera

Birgit Schrowangen grew up with her three siblings on a farm , but was aware of her desire to become a presenter at an early age. She graduated from the Marienschule, a secondary school sponsored by the Archdiocese of Paderborn , in Brilon and then learned to be a lawyer and notary assistant .

She began her television career in 1978 at the age of 19 at Westdeutscher Rundfunk as an editorial assistant, while taking acting lessons . In 1983 she switched to ZDF , where she worked as a program announcer until 1994 and was considered to be the station's “most beautiful smile”. At the same time she moderated the WDR regional magazine current hour until 1984 and then until 1985 the weekly afternoon talk show Wiedersehen is Joy on ZDF. On May 22, 1987 Schrowange played in the episode Sometime in the crime series Ein Fall für Zwei as supporting actress Rosi, and in the same series in 1990 and 1993 in the episodes Bloody Roses and Vengeance . In 1998 she had a leading role in the episode Shadow in Paradise of the ARD series Klinik under Palms .

From January to September 1994 Schrowange moderated the monthly program Die deutsche Schlagerparade on what was then Südwestfunk , before switching to RTL in October 1994 . From 13 October 1994 to 23 December 2019, she hosted there weekly infotainment telecast Extra - The RTL magazine . In April 2000 she made negative headlines in a moderation with the sentence about disabled people: "There are people who are so ugly that they can be happy never to meet themselves on the street". In addition, she presented on 23 November 1995 to 2004, the lifestyle - magazine Life! - The desire to live . Since 1998 she presented at New Year, until 2009 together with Hans Meiser , the Pannenshow Life! That went stupid, in which a ranking television breakdown clips of the past year is made.

Since the beginning of her career, Schrowange has occasionally worked as a singer (with her friend Isabel Varell, among others ), for example on TV with Andrea Berg - The 20 Years Show (2012) or Florian Silbereisen's The Great Festival of the Best and 20 Years of Celebrations (2014) . At Silbereisen she presented her Schlager CD, which contains three titles, and her book It may be a little more! is enclosed.

Birgit Schrowange was in a relationship with her then RTL colleague Markus Lanz ( Explosiv - Das Magazin ) from 1998 to 2006 , with whom she had a son who was born in September 2000. She lives in Cologne and with her partner in Switzerland.

On September 11, 2017, Schrowange revealed on the TV show This Time Next Year that from now on she wanted to appear with her natural hair color gray. She had previously dyed her hair for 20 years. For her change of type, she had her hair cut short and then wore a wig for twelve months. This type change generated a lot of media coverage and was seen as a statement against the “youth craze”.

social commitment

Birgit Schrowange sings with Isabel Varell at a benefit concert, 2006
  • Honorary godmother of the German Children's Prize from World Vision Germany
  • Member (since 1995) of the board of trustees of the German after- cancer care for children in Tannheim in the Black Forest, which is committed to the rehabilitation of chronically ill children and their families
  • Godmother at the children's hospice in Olpe
  • Collaboration with the children's aid organization Arche
  • Collaboration at RTL children's homes

Honors

Works

Fonts

music

  • Ask. HMV Musik- und Video-Vertriebsges., Barsbüttel 1986 (with Werner Magnus)
  • Merry Christmas. Edel AG, Hamburg 1999 (with Peter Schreier and Max Raabe )
  • We'd love to be locked in the department store on the album There's still something going on. Telamo Palm, Munich 2013 (guest singer with Isabel Varell)
  • Music CD for the book It may be a little more! Nymphenburger Verlag, Munich 2014

Web links

Commons : Birgit Schrowange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appearance in the show Zimmer frei! dated March 30, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c Birgit Schrowange in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW - BIOGRAPHY , accessed January 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d From 40 everyone is responsible for their own face. In: WAZ . April 7, 2015, accessed April 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ Petra Kleine: A dream came true - the unparalleled career of Birgit Schrowange from Nehden. WOLL autumn 2014. pp. 46–47.
  6. ↑ a b c d biography Birgit Schrowange official website, accessed on January 5, 2016
  7. ↑ Birgit Schrowange embodies the type of journalist actor and is therefore very much in line with the trend The hair wet and disheveled on berliner-zeitung.de, June 6, 1997, accessed July 15, 2016
  8. ^ Biography Birgit Schrowange ( memento from March 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), moderation agency MSC Promotion
  9. ^ Spiegel.de: Criminal complaint against Birgit Schrowange , May 4, 2000, accessed on August 27, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Life! Going Dumb ”continues to lose ground , accessed January 5, 2016
  11. ↑ DNB 351924582 - Entry of the album Questions from 1986 in the catalog of the German National Library, accessed on January 5, 2016
  12. ↑ DNB 357424085 - Entry of the album Merry Christmas from 1999 in the catalog of the German National Library, accessed on January 5, 2016
  13. ^ Aids gala in Cologne Really sexy: Birgit Schrowange plays Schlager-Andrea , accessed on January 5, 2016
  14. ↑ Andrea Berg: Singing Trio with Birgit Schrowange , accessed on January 5, 2016
  15. ↑ a b Birgit Schrowange: her book includes a hit CD , accessed on January 5, 2016
  16. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendung/ndr_talk_show/NDR-Talk-Show-05062020,ndrtalkshow5948.html
  17. ↑ Suddenly gray: Birgit Schrowange dares to make radical changes in type. In: stern.de. September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Sponsors. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 9, 2010 ; Retrieved July 11, 2010 .
  19. ^ German Children's Prize 2007 ( Memento from May 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ Birgit Schrowange TV presenter and journalist ( Memento from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ Kaiser-Augustus-Orden goes to Birgit Schrowange , accessed on January 6, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schrowange, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Nehden (now Brilon )