Helga Guitton

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Helga Guitton (born December 18, 1942 in Königsberg ) is a German radio and television presenter who mainly worked in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg .

Life and career

After studying foreign languages, taking dance and acting classes and an engagement at the Heidelberg City Theaters as well as television announcements in the regional program of the Südfunk Stuttgart , Helga Guitton was part of the speaking team of the four from November 9, 1964 to February 28, 1994 (until the early 1980s as Helga ) happy waves from Radio Luxemburg and was one of the stars of the station alongside Frank Elstner and Jochen Pützenbacher . In the 1960s and 70s, some of their most popular programs were initially night owls and guardian angels on duty in the evening FM program, the men's magazine and the request concert before and after Frank's hit parade on Sunday afternoon, the listener's mailbox in the Luxembourg radio canteen and once a week in the afternoon program Tag Schatz , Spatz Tag , an hour-long chat with Jochen, who played her husband so convincingly that many listeners believed that Helga and Jochen were actually married. Later, Helga Guitton moderated Viva - the desire to live Monday through Friday afternoons with quiz questions and current interviews. One of her favorite shows in the 1980s was the series Liebe ist ... , in which she interviewed a celebrity for an hour a day about the show's title topic. She left the Luxembourg broadcaster as a result of drastic restructuring of the program and confessed that afterwards she would have had no further opportunities to develop and would have been largely limited to standardized time and music announcements.

On television she acted as an announcer in the initial phase of the RTLplus program , after she had previously moderated the current showroom on NDR and the song circus on ZDF . In 1973 she presented the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson in French and English (and with a brief greeting in German and Luxembourgish) , which was held in Luxembourg that year.

Helga Guitton lived in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and, together with her RTL colleagues Jochen Pützenbacher and Haidy Jacobi (Adelaide Harbich), was awarded the Ordre de mérite of the Grand Duchy in 1986 . She was married to the French publicist René Guitton, who worked on RTL's French TV and radio program in the 1960s; Their son Joschi is a publisher and literary agent in Paris and organizes a literary festival on the Ile de Ré once a year. Today Helga Guitton lives in Heidelberg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Langenbach, Die Stars von Radio Luxemburg , in: Das Freizeit-Magazin, approx. 1975.
  2. ↑ https://www.radioforen.de/index.php?threads/helga-guitton-zu-rtl-und-formatradio.8467/ .
  3. ↑ https://howlingpixel.com/i-lb/Haidy_Jacobi .
  4. ↑ http://www.radiojournal.de/luxi/rtlradio-chronik/1984/1984.htm
  5. ↑ https://www.rene-guitton.fr/notice-biographique .
  6. ↑ http://www.francelivre.org/Ressources/Annuaire-professionnel/Joschi-Guitton-Sabine-Wespieser-Editeur .
  7. ↑ https://www.pressreader.com/luxembourg/luxemburger-wort/20190827/282505775262636 , accessed on July 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Guitton, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg