Fred Kogel

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Fred "Fredy" Kogel (born December 15, 1960 in Wiesbaden ) is a German media manager and former television presenter and television producer .

Life

The son of an opera singer and a ballet master studied law and political science in Munich . From 1981, while still studying, he worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk . He quit there in 1984 and built the Munich local station Radio 44 , which soon merged with Radio Xanadu (later renamed Energy Munich ) ( Fredy Kogel - the man with the iron lower lip ). In 1985, after taking the first state examination , he moved to Neue Constantin Film as Bernd Eichinger's assistant . From 1986 he was an editor and moderator at musicbox , from 1988 to 1990 also for its successor Tele 5 . In addition, in 1988 he became program director of Radio Gong 96.3 . In addition, Kogel worked as a freelance television producer until 1993, for example for the Grand Prix Eurovision (1989–1991) or Wetten, dass ..? (1992/93). In 1993 he became head of entertainment and head of the show's main editorial team at ZDF .

In 1995, Kogel switched to Sat.1 as program manager and made headlines with the spectacular engagement of the trio of presenters Fritz Egner , Thomas Gottschalk and Harald Schmidt (start of the Harald Schmidt Show ). After Sat.1 had written high losses in 1997, Kogel launched a radical cost-cutting program in 1998, whereupon the well-known moderators Reinhold Beckmann , Johannes B. Kerner and Erich Böhme left the station.

With the merger of Sat.1, ProSieben , kabel eins and N24 in mid-2000, Kogel gave up his position at Sat.1 in favor of his deputy Martin Hoffmann and in 2001 moved to the management team as deputy managing director and responsible for purchasing, sales and production Kirch Media . However, cost-cutting measures in film purchasing could no longer prevent the Kirch group from going bankrupt. Together with four other managing directors, he filed for bankruptcy on April 8, 2002.

In addition, Kogel was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Constantin Film AG from 2001 to 2003 , and from 2003 to 2008 he was Chairman of the Board of Management there, succeeding Bernd Eichinger. In September 2004, Kogel also founded Kogel & Schmidt GmbH together with Harald Schmidt , which produced the Harald Schmidt program, which was broadcast from 2004, and later Schmidt & Pocher and, from 2011, The Harald Schmidt Show .

From January 2013 until the end of the show Kultabend in July 2015, he could be heard regularly in Bayern 3 .

From January 1, 2016 to August 27, 2017 he was CEO of Constantin Medien AG .

Since then he has worked for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), a private equity company, and has built an integrated media group out of several German investments.

Kogel has two sons, one from a previous relationship with Ramona Leiß .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.uhini.de/uhini_sites/munichweiter.html
  2. ^ Decision of the AG Munich of April 8, 2002 ( Memento of March 15, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 354 ​​kB)
  3. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/karriere/0,2828,552277,00.html
  4. ↑ BAYERN 3: Broadcasting deadline for the “cult evening” . Online at www.radioszene.de. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ Constantin Medien AG: Constantin Medien AG Ismaning, August 25, 2017. Accessed August 26, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kogel, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kogel, Fredy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media manager and television producer as well as former television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden