Ingo Schmoll

Ingo Schmoll 2009

Ingo Schmoll (born March 27, 1970 in Siegburg ) is a German radio and television presenter, musician, director and producer.

Life

At the age of 18, Ingo Schmoll initially worked as a production manager for various TV productions, including for WDR and RTL plus . In 1989 he switched to the camera and hosted the weekly music magazine Rapido on RTL plus , which was renamed Ragazzi in the same year , and at the same time took over the editing of the show.

Since 1990 he has also worked for the first time as a presenter for the radio station WDR and moderated various youth programs there.

1991-92 he was a frequent member of the jury for the Mini Playback Show (RTL Plus), in which he judged the children from the perspective of a younger music expert. In 1993 he moved to London and became (after Kristiane Backer ) the second German presenter on the Europe-wide program MTV Europe . From 1996 he presented the chart show BIG in Germany for Deutsche Welle TV International in English and German. In the same year he was seen in a guest role in the SWR television game Das Erste Mal and took over various programs on the WDR radio station 1LIVE , where he hosted until April 2, 2015. His program PLAN B dealt with pop culture in all its facets.

In addition to his work as a presenter, Schmoll has also worked as a spokesperson for advertising and dubbing (including for the TV series Dr. House , South Park ) and a variety of computer games for Xbox and Playstation 3 (including Transformers; Ghost Recon 2; Assassin's Creed, Heroes of Might and Magic). In addition, he has been producing occasional features for television since 2000, including a portrait of Peter Rütten , chief author of The Harald Schmidt Show and of the Blue Man Group in Las Vegas.

From 2006 to 2009, he and his radio colleague Raimund Fichtenberger produced the talk radio show RADIO BRENNT - the title of which alludes to a hit by the doctors in 1987 - as a podcast on the Internet, which has also been broadcast on the Internet radio station RauteMusik since May 2008 . The program landed in the non-commercial podcast charts on RBB radio station Radio Fritz for 40 weeks in a row at number 1 in the listener vote.

Schmoll was and is also active as an actor from time to time. From 1997 to 1998 he played Markus Steinfeld in the series Beloved Sisters . He has been working again since 2007, including in the serial pilot of a new TV series and in the hardcover film produced by Sönke Wortmann in 2008 by director Christian Zübert (Lammbock; solo album ). In 2009 Schmoll could be seen in the short films Bad Television by Manuel Meimberg and Children's Game by Dennis Dirksen. Bad television became & a. performed several times in January 2009 as part of the Max Ophüls Prize film festival in Saarbrücken. The short film Kinderspiel won at the end of 2009 a. a. the jury prize at the 7th Düsseldorf Film Festival and took 1st place at the Zeise - Shortfilm Slam in Hamburg. Schmoll also worked with Dennis Dirksen on a serial pilot at the end of 2009.

Ingo Schmoll has been a member of the team of moderators and authors for the Rockpalast on WDR television since March 2009 . In his own interview / documentary series Rockpalast Backstage , Schmoll has met well-known artists from the German music scene (including Casper , Kraftklub , Beatsteaks , Marteria , Kettcar , Thees Uhlmann etc.) and accompanies them for a full day.

In addition, Schmoll works as a director and author for various TV documentaries and film projects, including a. about the MELT festival for ARTE. In March 2013 Schmoll directed the documentary Mit den Donots durch Amerika for WDR and in August the documentary Rock, Hip Hop and Electro im Oslo Fjord about the Øya Festival 2013 in Oslo for Arte. In April 2014 Schmoll directed the music video When it ends it starts again for ATB, which was made in and around Las Vegas. The documentaries Tokio Hotel - The Return of Pop Refugees and Kraftklub and the Kosmonaut Festival were created in 2015 for MDR / WDR . A documentary entitled Flogging Molly's Salty Dog Cruise for WDR followed in 2016 . Schmoll co-produced and directed the Serdar Somuncu Live DVD Serdar Somuncu H2 The Seizure of Power . The recording of the live program, recorded in the Wuppertal city hall, has also been streamed on Netflix since December 2016. Schmoll again worked with the band Donots, directed and produced a live DVD for the band in 2016/2017.

Schmoll also worked as a singer and songwriter with the band "Non Art Art". The albums Shallow Dreams Undone and The Best of Pop were released .

In 2017 Schmoll embodied himself in the WDR radio play mockumentary Heil Ho, Let's Go - a radio play with DIE HITLERS by Thilo Gosejohann .

Moderation

• 1989–1991: Rapido / Ragazzi , RTL plus
• 1992: Edelhart , RTL plus
• 1993-1996: MTV Europe
• 1996–1999: Big in Germany , Deutsche Welle TV International
• 1996–2015: WDR 1LIVE
• 2006–2009: Talk radio show Radio Brennt
• since 2009 Rockpalast WDR television
• since 2011 Rockpalast Backstage , WDR television

Filmography

Director

• 2011: Scorpions Live in 3D - Making of
• 2012: Melt Festival 2012
• 2013: Through America with the Donots
• 2013: Making of 200th episode of Soko Cologne
• 2013: Oya Festival 2013
• 2014: When it ends it starts again , music video for ATB
• 2014: Betty's diagnosis - behind the scenes
• 2015: Tokio Hotel, the return of the pop refugees
• 2015: Kraftklub and the Kosmonaut Festival
• 2015: Making Of Soko Cologne 2015
• 2016: Flogging Molly's Salty Dog Cruise
• 2016: Serdar Somuncu - H2 The Seizure of Power Live DVD / Netflix
• 2017: Donots 1000 Live DVD
• 2017: Living in a Marteria World - Documentary WDR / MDR
• 2018: Summer vacation music video for MADSEN
• 2018: All the time in the world music video for DONOTS
• 2019: Other parents behind the scenes for TNT
• 2018: Orphaned Land - All is One documentary for WDR / MDR
• 2019: Donots 25 - Once upon a time in Ibbenbüren Documentary WDR
• 2020: My green heart in dark times , movie

Web links

• Ingo Schmoll's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thilo Gosejohann: Heil Ho, Let's Go - A radio play with DIE HITLERS . WDR. Retrieved July 27, 2019.