Dennis Wilms

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Dennis Wilms (2015)

Dennis Wilms (born March 21, 1975 in Kiel ) is a German television presenter .

He became known to a wide audience through the moderation of the Tigerenten Club and the knowledge shows Planet Wissen and W for Knowledge .

Life

At the age of 18, Dennis Wilms improved his pocket money as a schoolboy with radio broadcasts, making him one of the youngest German radio presenters of that time. After graduating from high school in Wellingdorf , he began an editorial traineeship at Radio Schleswig-Holstein , which was followed by a visit to the Academy for Journalism in Hamburg .

After the Berlin film and television agency Acting with People discovered him in 1996, he switched from radio to television. From September of the same year he hosted the Tigerenten Clubhouse on KiKA before ARD hired him for the main program Tigerenten Club . By 2002 he hosted more than 260 episodes of this children's program. In addition, he was in 1998 and 1999, together with Mike Diehl, moderator of issues of the program Chart Attack on ZDF .

After the Tigerenten Club, Wilms switched to the knowledge show Planet Wissen in 2003 , which is broadcast on weekdays by the third television program and which he moderates together with Birgit Klaus . He remained loyal to children and young people; From 2004 to 2006 he hosted the program We test the best , a television quiz for schoolchildren and the surprise show A Star for You on the Disney Channel television station .

He is also musically active. His band, Phase Four , was awarded the John Lennon Prize for Media in 1993 . In the meantime he has released two CDs with his bands, which were created in collaboration with Harold Faltermeyer and DJ BoBo .

Since January 6, 2008, Wilms has been moderating the ARD program W wie Wissen as the successor to Ranga Yogeshwar , which has been produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk since 2012 . Since October 2009, he has hosted the weekly program Polettos Kochschule in addition to the Hamburg star chef Cornelia Poletto . In August 2010, the NDR-SR coproduction, which had previously been shown on NDR , made the leap to the top - on Sunday morning. On January 13, 2011, Wilms replaced Ingolf Baur as moderator of the SWR science magazine Odysso .

In April 2012, Wilms, accompanied by a camera team from Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), went on the Jesus Trail from Nazareth to Capernaum in Israel. The result was Der Jesuswanderweg , a 45-minute documentary that was first broadcast on Good Friday 2012 on WDR.

From May 2015 until the end of 2016, Dennis Wilms is also a columnist and writes for Axel Springer SE. Every Saturday he answered a knowledge question in the federal edition of the Bild newspaper under the brand “WILMS WEISS DAS!” .

In 2018 Wilms published his first book. In prudent appetite - cooking for more power in your head it comes to brain food, so to food and more than 60 recipes that are designed to help the body and the mind to stay fit. The book was published by ZS-Verlag, Munich.

In addition, Wilms has been the official organ donation ambassador for the state of Schleswig-Holstein since autumn 2008 and moderates the official organ donation day in Germany every year .

In 2019 he was one of the sofa judges in the SWR program Die Sofa-Richter. Since 2019 he has also moderated the health magazine all around healthy on SWR television.

Prices

Numerous programs by the presenter have already been awarded prizes. The Tigerenten Club received the Golden Telix in 1999 and after Wilms had received the Golden Spatz , the German children's film and television award , as a presenter in 2003, his quiz We test the best received the same honor in 2005 . In 2003 Planet Wissen was nominated for the Japan Prize in the “Adult / Web” category, and in 2004 the program won the Grimme Online Award . In 2010 Wilms received the "Messenger of Life" from the Federal Association of Organ Transplant recipients for his commitment to organ donation. Also in 2010 his program W wie Wissen was awarded the Ludwig Demling Prize of the Gastro League. In January 2011, a 70-member jury of experts voted him Journalist of the Year 2010 in third place in the science category.

Web links

Commons : Dennis Wilms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Südwestrundfunk (SWR): Dennis Wilms moderates “Planet Wissen” on SÜDWEST Fernsehen . On March 25, 2003 on presseportal.de
  2. ↑ http://www.swr.de/odysso/-/id=1046894/nid=1046894/did=7251142/1sqi0pb/index.html
  3. ↑ Der Jesuswanderweg , video in the WDR ( memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ https://classic.ardmediathek.de/tv/Die-Sofa-Richter/Die-Sofa-Richter-Sendung-vom-11-M%C3%A4rz-/SWR-Fernsehen/Video?bcastId=42623050&documentId=59073004
  5. ↑ The Journalists of 2010
personal data
SURNAME Wilms, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel