Holger Waldenberger

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Holger Waldenberger (* 1967 ) is a German quiz player living in Hamburg . In 2012 he was the only German quiz European champion to date, won the Club European Championship with his team in 2017 and is multiple German champion. He is generally considered to be one of the best German quiz players.

Success in quizzes

Waldenberger has been taking part in the quiz world championship every year since 2009 and was the best German every time; only in 2014 he could not take part due to illness. Globally, Waldenberger landed in 2009 in 48th place, in 2010 in 24th place, in 2011 on place 22nd in 2012 he reached 13th place with almost 2,000 participants, in 2013 he landed on 24th place in 2015 with the fifth place worldwide best result. This was followed by 13th place in 2016, 12th in 2017, 22nd in 2018 and 36th in 2019.

In November 2012 he became the first German and second of three non-Englishmen to date in the European Quiz Championship, which is always played in English. In the doubles competition he achieved his best result to date with the Croatian Dorjana Širola with third place. In 2017 he was able to win the team competition of the European Championship with his team "Europalia", which consists of four nations - the other team members are Dorjana Širola (Croatia), Thomas Kolåsæter (Norway) and Derk De Graaf (Netherlands), after two second places in 2011 and 2012 and two third places in 2014 and 2015 with the same team. In 2018 “Europalia” came second again.

Waldenberger has only been participating in the German Quiz Championship since 2015. In 2015 and 2016 he won the championship title in the doubles competition together with his doubles partner, while he acted as the author of the questions in the singles and was therefore unable to participate. In his first individual participation in 2017, he immediately became German champion and in 2018 he was able to successfully defend his title. In 2019, he finished third in singles, just two points behind the winner, and won the title in doubles with Markus Solty. In 2020 he became German champion in the individual competition for the third time, took second place with Markus Solty in the double competition and also won the German buzz championship.

As the best German quiz player, Waldenberger is also a regular member of the German national quiz team at European and World Championships. a. together with Sebastian Klussmann , Sebastian Jacoby and Manuel Hobiger .

Television appearances

In the summer of 2012 as "Hamburger mastermind" designated forest Berger as "hunters" in six episodes of the first season was NDR telecast demand - Chased a larger German public known. As an employee of the production company ITV Studios Germany , he played against a team of challengers that consisted of four celebrities. His appearance was described by Sidney Schering vonquotemeter as inconspicuous at that time. In the two other seasons of asked - hunted on NDR he was not seen.

When the show asked - hunted changed to the evening program of the first in 2015 , Waldenberger appeared again as a hunter, now under the battle name "The Giant". He was seen in seven episodes of the first ARD season broadcast from May to July 2015 and was also part of the second (from November 2015) and third (from October 2016) ARD season. Its appearance was now attested to increasing entertainment value. In the last episode of the third ARD season, Waldenberger announced that he would no longer appear as a hunter, and has therefore not been seen since the fourth ARD season.

In November 2016, Waldenberger was the winner of the ZDF broadcast Der Quiz-Champion and won € 250,000 after failing in the final there in October 2014. In this special edition under the name “Champions-Special” all previous finalists competed again.

In the broadcast on November 4, 2019, Holger Waldenberger was a telephone joker in the Austrian millionaire show . He was able to answer the following question, which was endowed with 30,000 euros:

We know Rebecca Rolfe, who died over 400 years ago, better than ...? A) Mary Poppins ; B) Pocahontas ; C) Mulan ; D) Esmeralda (Correct answer: B)

Private

In 2013, Waldenberger said he worked as a freelance translator .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ World Quizzing Championships 2018 Results. In: worldquizzingchampionships.com. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  3. ↑ World Quizzing Championships 2018 Results. In: worldquizzingchampionships.com. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ World Quizzing Championships 2018 Results. In: worldquizzingchampionships.com. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ World Quizzing Championships 2018 Results. In: worldquizzingchampionships.com. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ World Quizzing Championships 2019 Results. In: worldquizzingchampionships.com. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ EQC 2012 Individual Results. In: kilb.ee. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  8. ↑ 2012 results. In: quizverein.de. Archived from the original on January 8, 2016 ; accessed on May 10, 2019 .
  9. ^ German Quiz Association - tournaments and results , www.quizverein.de (accessed on June 27, 2018)
  10. ↑ Article on the championship. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
  11. ↑ German Quiz Championship - Singles 2018. German Quiz Association, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  12. ↑ German Quiz Championship - Singles 2019. German Quiz Association, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ German Quiz Championship - Double 2019. German Quiz Association, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ German Quiz Championship - Singles 2020. German Quiz Association, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  15. ↑ German Quiz Championship - Double 2020. German Quiz Association, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Guido Marquardt: DQM 2020 in Berlin (2). German Quiz Association, March 5, 2020, accessed on March 30, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Alexander Bommes is the moderating all-purpose weapon. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . July 5, 2012, accessed January 19, 2016 .
  18. ↑ "Panorama 3" and quiz show for presenter Bommes on NDR television. In: Kiel News . June 12, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2016 .
  19. ↑ «Asked - hunted» - ran dead. In: quota meter . July 9, 2012, accessed January 19, 2016 .
  20. ↑ by Manuel Nunez Sanchez: Not in top form yet: Has the potential of “Asked - Hunted” been exhausted? In: quotenmeter.de. June 16, 2018, accessed June 19, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Quiz athletes test their knowledge in the Anzeiger high-rise. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . June 3, 2013, accessed January 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Waldenberger, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German quiz player
DATE OF BIRTH 1967