Colin Gäbel

Colin Gäbel (born October 15, 1976 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German moderator , editor , network reporter and musician . He became known through his moderation at GIGA . He has been a presenter on Rocket Beans TV since 2015 .

Life

Gäbel's older brother is the singer and entertainer Tom Gaebel , his younger brother is the jazz musician Denis Gäbel .

He graduated from high school himself in 1996 and completed his teaching degree in 2000 . From 2000 to 2003, Gäbel worked as editor of the video game magazine MAN! AC . In the middle of 2003 he switched to play the PlayStation magazine as a freelance editor , which was published by CyPress GmbH . In the following year, Gäbel was a freelance writer for magazines such as eGames , Consoul and MAN! AC.

From March 7, 2007, Gäbel presented the programs GIGA Games Console , 360 , Screen and GIGA Games Ingame on the specialty broadcaster GIGA. After Premiere took over the station in 2008 , GIGA's broadcasting operations were discontinued on February 13, 2009 due to cost-cutting measures. Thus, Gäbel's work for the station ended.

He then became the presenter of the program Play'd and Seen on the Internet television broadcaster Bunch TV together with former GIGA colleagues such as Etienne Gardé and Viola Tensil . Together with Viola Tensil, he has presented the FTW - For the Win series on ZDFkultur on competitive gaming in eSports since 2011 .

At the beginning of 2012 he founded the YouTube channel Vorzocker together with Tensil , which is conceptually close to the program Play'd . Gäbel worked there as a moderator and editor until 2015. After a request, he switched to the Internet television network Rocket Beans TV. Since May 2015 he has been a TV presenter at Rocket Beans for game and talk formats, some of which are broadcast live. Since November 18, 2016 he has been responsible for the program Game Two as editor-in-chief.

Gäbel is also guitarist and singer in the band Mondo Kane.

Further moderations

• Stage moderation of the German Computer Game Award 2009
• Moderation of the Plus X Awards for GIGA in 2008
• Stage moderation of the Games Convention 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] ZDFkultur broadcasts the start of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 2012/13 / "FTW - For the Win" shows eSports at gamescom in Cologne on FOCUS.de. August 16, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
2. ↑ Bean Wiki: Colin Gäbel
3. ^ Thomas Lindemann: Award ceremony - The best computer games in Germany. welt.de , April 1, 2009, accessed February 5, 2015 .