Brigitte Xander

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Brigitte Xander (born April 27, 1942 as Brigitte Ksander in Bruck an der Mur , Styria , † October 18, 2008 in Vienna ) was an Austrian radio and television presenter .

She completed her school education, as well as her studies (law and interpreting), in Vienna. To finance her studies, she took part in a speaking competition on the advice of her mother and worked on the radio.

Career

Radio presenter

On the radio, she moderated the Ö3 alarm clock for 27 years (1969–1996) , which was temporarily taken over on Sundays by the broadcaster Free Berlin , and for 16 years she conducted the 100,000 Schilling Quiz , first on Sunday lunchtime on Ö3 and later on Radio Niederösterreich, through The 100,000 Schilling Quiz that she up to moderated on her retirement in 2000. From 1995 she was a presenter for motorists on the move on Ö2 and during the holidays she presented Radio Holiday - Die Ferienwelle von Ö3 .

TV presenter

In the 1970s she hosted the television program Wir , for 14 years the cooking program Please to Table with Prominent Guests, 12 years the Vienna edition of Bundesland heute and in Germany she became known through the game show Dalli Dalli with Hans Rosenthal , where she was among others with Ekkehard Fritsch , Mady Riehl and Christian Neureuther formed the jury for 15 years . She last sat on the jury for the second season of Taxi Orange in 2001 .

Private life

A "trademark" Xander was next to her voice, the pageboy hairstyle that sometimes lead to confusion with the almost same age, also wearing pageboy and we moderating Chris Lohner led.

She met her husband in 1985 and shared a passion for diving with him . She died after a brief, serious illness and was buried on November 10, 2008 at Sieveringer Friedhof (Section 1, Group 7, No. 15) in Vienna.

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personal data
SURNAME Xander, Brigitte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ksander, Brigitte (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian radio and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 2008
Place of death Vienna