Günther Jauch

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Günther Jauch (2019)

Günther Johannes Jauch (born July 13, 1956 in Münster ) is a German television and former radio presenter as well as entertainer , journalist and producer .

Family background

The Belvedere in Potsdam, where Jauch got married

Günther Jauch comes from the Hanseatic Jauch family . He is the eldest of three children of journalist Ernst-Alfred Jauch (1920–1991) and his wife Ursula, b. Welter (1930-2005). His grandfather Hans Jauch (1883–1965) was an officer, free corps fighter and cement manufacturer.

Jauch grew up in Münster during the first three years of his life and then in the Berlin villa district of Lichterfelde-West . As a child he spent his holidays at the Othegraven winery . With his wife Dorothea (Thea) Sihler, a physiotherapist, and four children, he has lived at the Heiligen See in Potsdam since the 1990s . The couple has two biological children and adopted two from Russia coming orphans .

Jauch and Sihler married after 18 years of partnership on July 7th, 2006 in Potsdam , initially in the open air in the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg and then in church in the Friedenskirche .

Career

education

Jauch attended in Berlin , the Catholic Primary School St. Ursula in Zehlendorf and Clemens Brentano Elementary School in Lichterfelde . During his school days he was an altar boy in the Berlin parish of the Holy Family in Lichterfelde for seven years . After graduating from high school at the old-language Berlin high school in Steglitz , he began studying law in Berlin. At the same time, he applied to the German School of Journalism (DJS) in Munich . In 1975 he broke off his law studies and switched to the journalism school, which he graduated two years later as a participant in the 15th DJS teaching editorial team.

Activity in radio

He then became a sports presenter at the Bavarian Radio and studied politics and modern history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After two years, Jauch switched to the Zeitfunk des Bayerischen Rundfunks and gave up his studies because his new tasks did not leave him enough time.

From 1985 to 1989 Jauch hosted the B3 radio show together with Thomas Gottschalk . Gottschalk's moderation time was from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Jauch followed from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. The duo became known through mutual taunts, which always took place shortly before 4 pm when Jauch came into the studio and which was about who had the "better" (higher-profile) guests. Gottschalk's guests came more from show business, Jauch's guests more from politics.

Television career

Jauch switched to the television business at the age of 29 . In 1982/1983 he was an external reporter for Rätselflug for the SDR or moderated programs such as Live from Alabama for Bayerischer Rundfunk and, from 1986, the program So ein Zoff for ZDF, and in the same year he was part of the advice team for the program Sag die Truth . From 1987 to 1989 he hosted the show Na siehste! who succeeded Thomas Gottschalk's Na sowas! was designed.

In 1988 he led the current sport studio for the first time , until 1996 he also presented the ZDF annual review Menschen and, together with Thomas Gottschalk, the great show of the eighties .

In 1990 he signed a contract with RTL . From April 4, 1990 until his farewell broadcast on January 5, 2011, he hosted the RTL TV magazine stern TV 891 times. The show caused a stir at the time, among other things, because of the broadcast of falsified articles by journalist Michael Born . Günther Jauch, who was Born's editor-in-chief at the time , defended himself during his interrogation against the accusation of lack of care on the grounds that he had never worked in the cutting room .

In 1998, Günther Jauch and Marcel Reif were awarded the Bavarian TV Prize on April 1, 1998 for their moderation of the " Torfall von Madrid " in the Champions League game Real Madrid against Borussia Dortmund . The start of the game was delayed by 76 minutes as a goal was collapsed by spectators in the first rows and had to be replaced. Jauch and Reif bridged this time so successfully and entertainingly that the ratings remained higher than in the subsequent game, which ended with a 2-0 win for the Madrilenians. Some of the sayings then became cult, such as Jauch's statement: "For all viewers who have only turned on now, the first goal has already been scored."

The quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , which has been broadcast by RTL since September 3, 1999, Jauch pushed himself to the top of the audience's favor. In most surveys of the most varied kinds, he was in the top positions, not infrequently in first place. When it was voted the most popular German in a survey by the market research institute Ipsos in January 2005, he prevailed among more than 2100 people. For the celebrity special from Wer wird Millionär? Broadcast on the occasion of the 2006 World Cup . with Hape Kerkeling alias Horst Schlämmer , Jauch received the German Television Award 2006 in the category of best entertainment program .

In addition, Jauch moderated numerous other programs: From January 2000 to December 2006, he moderated ski jumping together with “expert” Dieter Thoma . In 2001 the annual live show The Great IQ Test started . During the 2006 soccer world championship, he hosted the Sunday games on RTL with Rudi Völler . Jauch was also involved in the moderation of several DFB cup finals with various partners. On September 15 and November 24, 2007 Günther Jauch presented the Show 6! Set - the knowledge duel big versus small in the RTL program. On January 19, 2008, he hosted the show experiment The Wisdom of the Many .

Jauch commented on TV celebrity in 2009:

“I claim the half-life for television people is six to nine months. After nine months, half the audience forgot you. Another nine, and a further half of those who remain will be dropped, then another nine months, a little more than two years in total - then nobody remembers, except for a few older people. "

- Günther Jauch : Is there life after television?

In the quiz show 5 against Jauch , which was broadcast for the first time on September 4, 2009 , he was challenged by a team of five candidates. In the course of the program, the questions to be answered become more difficult and bring higher sums of money. If the candidate team has earned a higher amount of money in the end, it will be paid out; if Jauch wins, the amount will be donated. The program is moderated by Oliver Pocher , Frank Buschmann held this position between December 2017 and 2019 .

From 2013 to 2017, the show Die 2 - Gottschalk & Jauch gegen alle was shown on RTL . In it Thomas Gottschalk and Günther Jauch competed against several studio candidates, the studio audience and the TV viewers. Barbara Schöneberger moderated . In the summer of 2018, the follow-up program because they do not know what happened , in which Jauch, Gottschalk and Schöneberger always randomly find out who is moderating the program and which remaining presenters compete in various games against prominent guests. Thorsten Schorn acts as the game director and referee . From 2016 to 2017 Jauch moderated the program 500 - The Quiz-Arena, which was also broadcast on RTL .

As part of the COVID-19 pandemic , Günther Jauch was part of the short-term TV format Die Quarantäne-WG - Willkommen HOME! He discussed the current situation with Thomas Gottschalk and Oliver Pocher via livestream on the Internet and also spoke to connected guests. After a total of only three editions, the show was discontinued on March 25, 2020 due to a sharp drop in audience numbers.

producer

In the summer of 2000 Günther Jauch founded his own production company i & u TV (Information & Entertainment TV). The company achieved a turnover of 52.3 million euros. Among other things, she produces the show stern TV , which was moderated by Günther Jauch himself for 20 years (successor has been Steffen Hallaschka since January 2011 ), and the 70s / 80s / 90s show , moderated by Hape Kerkeling and Oliver Geissen . The production is almost exclusively for German private television stations. After the publishing house Gruner + Jahr withdrew from the company, Jauch was the sole shareholder. Andreas Zaik heads the production company and is also managing director and editor-in-chief. From September 2011 to 2015 i & u TV also produced the political talk show Günther Jauch .

On March 29, 2019, it was announced that Jauch will sell its shares in the production company i & u TV to the US financial investor KKR . However, he will continue to work as a moderator and advisor. In 2011, Manager Magazin put Günther Jauch in first place in the “Stars of Production” ranking with twelve productions from his company .

Jauch on ARD

Günther Jauch (2011-2015)

From September 11, 2011 on, Günther Jauch hosted the weekly talk show on Sunday evening at 9.45 p.m. in the Erste , Günther Jauch for more than four years . He replaced Anne Will , who continued her broadcast on a slot on Wednesday. In 2007, Jauch's ARD engagement for the Sunday evening talk show still failed. At that time he canceled the successor to Sabine Christiansen after negotiations with the ARD on the grounds that he did not want to be sacrificed to "political color theory". In May 2011 he announced that he would no longer be available for advertising contracts in view of his new position at the public service broadcasters. He emphasized that all income from advertising contracts would be donated to charity.

The program was produced in the Gasometer Schöneberg in Berlin. It regularly achieved good to very good ratings and was not infrequently seen by more than 5 million viewers. It always received a lot of attention in the newspapers' media sections and was often discussed critically - especially when it came to controversial guests and topics. At the beginning of June 2015, Jauch announced that it would not extend the contract with the NDR, which expired at the end of 2015. The last issue aired on November 29, 2015; the only talk guest was Wolfgang Schäuble . Anne Will returned to the broadcast slot .

Jauch returned to ARD in September 2018. Since then he has appeared as one of the three “quiz giants” in the show I know everything! Moderated by Jörg Pilawa . on. Since December 2008 he has also been a permanent candidate in the annual program 20xx - Das Quiz , which is moderated by Frank Plasberg .

Others

As a voice actor, Jauch lent his voice to the Zebra Stripes in the 2005 film Im Rennstall das Zebra ist los .

Jauch is one of the TV stars who consistently sifts and is sighed by others. According to his own statement, he only uses dues on television with Thomas Gottschalk , Frank Elstner and small children.

Charitable work

The Fortunaportal in Potsdam (left)

Jauch denotes a withdrawn lifestyle. In interviews, for example, he said that he took the freedom to lead a life that did not correspond to his assumed economic possibilities. According to his own statements, he has been using significant parts of his income for charitable purposes since his early career, including passing on all of the profits from his advertising activities. In 2002 he played a key role in financing the reconstruction of the Fortunaportal at Potsdam City Palace . Jauch has also financially supported other projects in Potsdam, such as the Belvedere on the Pfingstberg, where he married in 2006, the Potsdam City Canal , the Kloebersaal in the north wing of the marble palace opposite his villa on the Holy See , and the renovation of Neptune's grotto in the Sanssouci Palace Park . He also supported the establishment of the Roman Catholic Marienschule in Potsdam, a school of the Archdiocese of Berlin with a grammar school and elementary school for boys and girls. The Brandenburg Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck judged: "Günther Jauch is a city citizen as any mayor could wish for." Jauch supported the Berlin Pro Reli campaign, which failed in April 2009 , as a testimonial .

Jauch's grandmother 's ancestor Anna Weißebach was the founder of today's Caritas conferences in Germany. Jauch's own family had already set up a feeder for the poor in Hamburg in the 19th and 20th centuries and founded and maintained poor houses there and in other places . In this foundation tradition, in addition to an endowment for the establishment since 2009, Jauch himself has borne the ongoing property and personnel costs of the Potsdam facility of Die Arche - Christian children and youth organization in Drewitz (Potsdam) , which feeds children in need free of charge.

Winery owner

Manor house and park of the winery von Othegraven in front of the Kanzemer Altenberg (2011)

In viticulture , too , Jauch is continuing “a family tradition of more than 200 years”: In 2010 he successfully applied for membership in the Association of German Prädikats- und Qualitätweingüter (VDP) in order to transfer the Othegraven winery, which is one of the top German wineries, from a relative to Kanzem on the Saar . The Manor House , his English landscape garden and the subsequent location Kanzemer Altenberg (Wine Route 1, 1a) are since 2003 as an ensemble under monument protection . The winery belonged to Jauch's ancestors since 1805, when it was acquired by his ancestor , the Trier factory owner, businessman and alderman Emmerich Grach (1753-1826). The winery, in which Jauch's grandmother Elsa von Othegraven and, after her death, his grandfather Hans Jauch and his father Ernst-Alfred Jauch were part of an undivided community of heirs until the mid-1950s , was inherited from a relative in a branch line in 1996. Jauch acquired the property because it “threatened to be sold out of the family”. The well-known previous owner was Jauch's great-great-great-uncle Franz Weißebach . The VDP said: “A gem of a winery that is extremely rare in this quality and with such an attractive vineyard property.” In 2011, Jauch also acquired the 3.5 hectare Wawerner Herrenberg in Wawern on the Saar, which also belongs to his ancestor Emmerich Grach would have. Aldi has been selling wines that he helped develop under his name since 2018 .

Privacy Controversy

In the run-up to his wedding in July 2006, Günther Jauch wanted to have any reporting on it legally prohibited. The Berlin Regional Court gave him the right in an injunction against the Bild newspaper and other publications by Springer Verlag, but the Berlin Court of Appeal decided in June 2006 against a general ban on reporting. Because of its high prominence , so the judges, the date and place of the wedding may be reported. After the magazine Bunte published photos of the wedding and reported on details of the ceremony, Thea Sihler-Jauch took the publisher to court and demanded compensation of 250,000 euros and compensation for pain and suffering of at least 75,000 euros. In January 2008, the Hamburg Regional Court awarded her only 25,000 euros in compensation for pain and suffering. The judgment was overturned in October 2008 by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court: Jauch was a public figure and the public's interest in his wedding was legitimate. The Federal Constitutional Court did not accept another complaint from Sihler-Jauch . Günther Jauch's request for compensation in a separate proceeding was also in vain.

The couple then asserted before the European Court of Human Rights that the German judiciary had not adequately protected his right to privacy and violated his fundamental right to property protection because he was not granted compensation for the unwanted printing of the photos. The Strasbourg judges confirmed the general public interest in Jauch's wedding and the couple's claims as "obviously unfounded". The German judiciary “carefully weighed between the right to protection of private life and the magazine's right to freedom of the press ”. The Jauchs complaint was declared inadmissible.

(In addition, it has nothing to do with the Hanseatic family of the same name .)

Moderations

Ongoing

Former / Unique

Filmography

Awards and honors

Trivia

  • The great-great-great-great-grandfather of Günther Jauch, Emmerich Grach , was the first deputy mayor of Trier to sign Karl Marx's birth certificate .
  • On September 10, 2016, Jauch christened a passenger ship in Münster with the name MS Günther . It came about because Leon Windscheid , who is the eleventh candidate for Wer wird Millionär? won a million euros, had promised in the show to buy a ship with the profit and to name it after Günther Jauch. Jauch then promised to take over the christening of the ship as godfather. Jauch's willingness to take part in such an event is an exception, as candidates repeatedly try to engage the moderator for events, for which Jauch, as he says, does not have the time.
  • In April 2019 it was announced that Jauch had bought the Villa Kellermann am Heiligen See in Potsdam three years earlier and will be opening a restaurant there after the renovation of the star chef Tim Raue .

literature

  • The millionaire madness: Günther Jauch and the clever way to get rich. In: Der Spiegel No. 12/2000, Hamburg.
  • Iris Hammelmann: Yes. His life, his successes, his envious people. Europa Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-203-85087-7 .
  • Christian Sonntag: Günther Jauch - the face rental company. In: Stephan Weichert (ed.): The alpha journalists: Germany's spokesman in portrait. Halem, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938258-29-3 , pp. 180-187.
  • Boards full of gremlins . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 2007 ( online - Günther Jauch calculates sharply with the fast partner ARD).

Web links

Commons : Günther Jauch  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Günther Jauch  - Quotes
 Wikinews: Günther Jauch  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Jauch marries his Thea . In: Berliner Morgenpost . March 28, 2006.
  2. ↑ Thomas Heuzeroth: Günther Jauch builds out of concrete. In: Welt.de. July 31, 2001, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Günther Jauch adopts second orphan. In: RP.online. May 7, 2000, accessed June 3, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Martin Klesman: Günther Jauch and Thea Sihler got married fairly privately in Potsdam . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 8, 2006.
  5. ↑ Many photographers, few onlookers. In: Potsdam's latest news . July 8, 2006, accessed July 29, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Many celebrities were altar servers. In: faz.net. September 24, 2014, accessed October 2, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Günther Jauch dropping out of college: Life is a quiz . In: Spiegel Online . October 10, 2006.
  8. ^ A wistful farewell to “Stern TV”. In: Focus online. January 6, 2011, accessed January 25, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Pritzl: The Fake Factor. Searching for clues in the largest case of fraud on German television . kopaed, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-938028-69-6 .
  10. ↑ Volker Lilienthal : The witness Günther Jauch in the film forger trial. In: time online. November 1, 1996, accessed June 15, 2013 .
  11. ↑ W. Timpe: We are victims - Günther Jauch saw, checked and broadcast the falsified contributions by Michael Born - but others are supposed to be guilty . In: The week . October 25, 1996.
  12. ↑ Alexander Krei: Günther Jauch remains the most popular moderator. In: quotenmeter.de. May 15, 2008, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  13. ↑ RTL ski jumping without Günther Jauch. In: RP online. November 17, 2006, accessed December 9, 2012 .
  14. ↑ Christoph Amend: Is there a life after television. In: time online. August 20, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Uwe Mantel: Kogel and KKR take over Jauch's production company i & u TV. In: dwdl.de. March 29, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ FOCUS : Top earners on television: Günther Jauch is the Moneten Croesus. July 21, 2011, accessed December 23, 2011 .
  17. ↑ a b Joachim Huber: Günther Jauch gives up his talk show. In: tagesspiegel.de. June 5, 2015, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Günther Jauch never wants to advertise again. In: welt.de. June 1, 2011, accessed June 1, 2011 .
  19. ↑ Andrea Dernbach: Jauch's harmlessness event. In: time online. October 19, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Thomas Schmoll: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jauch. In: n-tv.de. November 28, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015 .
  21. ↑ Anne Will succeeds Günther Jauch. In: Sueddeutsche.de. June 9, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015 .
  22. ↑ From today onwards - Günther Jauch on "you". In: Conducting interviews - the blog . March 31, 2010, accessed February 20, 2019.
  23. ↑ Günther Jauch: Only this one person on German TV is allowed to do it . In: Promipool.de . January 7, 2019, accessed July 14, 2019.
  24. ↑ Jauch gives away "every cent" ( Memento from February 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). In: Netzeitung.de . February 1, 2005.
  25. ↑ A dome made of Brandenburg pine and oak . In: Berliner Zeitung . January 29, 2002, accessed January 25, 2014.
  26. ↑ A case for Jauch: Kloebersaal reopened . In: welt.de . June 28, 2003.
  27. ↑ Günther Jauch donates a million for grotto renovation . In: RP online . January 24, 2014, accessed January 25, 2014.
  28. ^ Opus Dei is banned from school . In: Focus . May 2, 2007
  29. ↑ Günther Jauch and Katherina Reiche are godparents . In: Potsdam's latest news . July 30, 2008; Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  30. ^ Speech by Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck on the presentation of the Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award 2003 to Günther Jauch. State Chancellery Brandenburg.
  31. ^ Hamburg: (1) Auguste Jauch Foundation , Bürgerweide; (2) Home for Old Men , Stadtdeich; Wellingsbüttel: Half of the costs for the construction of the poor house in the village of Wellingsbüttel, Kiel: Ladies donation out of gratitude , Jakobikirche
  32. ↑ Nicola Klusemann: Flood of money for the "Arche" . In: Potsdam's latest news . April 10, 2008.
  33. ↑ a b VDP press release, March 3, 2010, VDP Prädikatsweingüter: Günther Jauch added . Press release VDP, in: meininger.de . March 1, 2010, accessed August 3, 2017.
  34. ↑ Günther Jauch becomes a winemaker . In: Focus-online . February 25, 2010.
  35. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Trier-Saarburg. Mainz 2020, p. 19 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
  36. ↑ Thomas Tuma: “I am free of fear.” Günther Jauch on the effort to be Günther Jauch and the greatest challenge of his career . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 2011, p. 136-139 ( Online - June 27, 2011 ).
  37. ↑ Manfred Klimek : Günther Jauch “Never be offended if someone doesn't like your wine”. In: The time . September 21, 2011, accessed December 10, 2011 .
  38. ↑ Jauch reveals new details about his Aldi wine. In: merkur.de. April 3, 2018, accessed April 4, 2018 .
  39. ↑ Image is not allowed to give details about Jauch's wedding . In: Mittelbayerische.de . May 9, 2006.
  40. ↑ Jauch's ban on reporting restricted ( memento of July 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). In: Netzeitung . June 27, 2006.
  41. ↑ Günther Jauch and his wife fail with a lawsuit before the Human Rights Court . In: tagesspiegel.de . June 16, 2016.
  42. ↑ Thomas Gehringer: Everything will be fine! In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de . 18th September 2015.
  43. ↑ Schinkel Prizes 2006 awarded - also to Günther Jauch. In: Baunetz.de . March 13, 2007, accessed October 20, 2014.
  44. ↑ Assunta Tammelleo: Wrench on the ribbon. Humanistic Press Service (hpd), September 16, 2009.
  45. ↑ Michael Schmitz: VIPs everywhere you look - Günther Jauch receives the Kaiser Augustus Order . In: volksfreund.de . January 8, 2016.
  46. ↑ Günther Jauch's Potsdamer Restaurant is awarded by Gault & Millau , Berliner Zeitung, November 5, 2019.
  47. ↑ Winemaker Günther Jauch: "It's not just a hobby!". In: Westfälische Nachrichten . June 30, 2012.
  48. ↑ "Either the ship is made of cardboard or the bottle is made of concrete" . In: RP.online . September 10, 2016.
  49. ↑ "Ships are actually named after women" . Interview with Günther Jauch. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . September 7, 2016.
  50. ↑ Günther Jauch brings Tim Raue to Potsdam. Spiegel Online, April 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jauch, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jauch, Günther Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster , Westphalia