Jessica Libbertz

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Jessica Libbertz (2018)
Jessica Libbertz in an interview at Bayern 1 (April 2019). Interviewer: Thorsten Otto.

Jessica Libbertz (born Kastrop ; born June 11, 1974 in Saarbrücken ) is a German television presenter and non-fiction author . She currently works for Sky as a presenter for the Bundesliga , DFB Cup and Champions League .

Life

After graduating from high school, Libbertz initially worked as a trainee for the daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz . She then studied journalism at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 2000 to 2003 she worked as a sports editor for the Bild newspaper , first in Hamburg , then in Munich.

Since 2004 Libbertz has been working for the pay TV channel Premiere, which was renamed Sky in 2009 . In 2008 she was also the presenter of n-tv's sports news . She also hosted the Herbert Award , the T-Home Lounge for Deutsche Telekom and, from 2010 to 2013, the TV total PokerStars.de night on ProSieben . In addition to live broadcasts, including games from the 2010 World Cup , she has also moderated various magazines on Sky in the past and, from 2010 to 2014, together with Oliver Pocher Saturday LIVE! after the Bundesliga game on Saturday night. Libbertz is herself a supporter of 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

Libbertz became better known through a curious scene: During the preliminary reporting on the Bundesliga match between 1. FSV Mainz 05 and VfB Stuttgart on August 22, 2010, she was hit by a ball on the head during an interview on the sidelines with the Stuttgart sports director Fredi Bobic . which the Stuttgart player Khalid Boulahrouz had shot in their direction during the warm-up program. The scene quickly found itself on the Internet portal YouTube , generated over 1 million clicks and was then also featured on numerous international news websites . It also gave Libbertz appearances in talk and late-night shows such as Markus Lanz and TV total, as well as international interview requests, for example through CBS or CNN , and made attempts to repeat such a scene with some players. As a result, she became the presenter of Stefan Raab's PokerStars.de night, until then only working on pay TV .

She was the first woman in Germany to host the UEFA Champions League .

She is a voluntary advisory board member at the aid organization Right to play .

On June 14, 2018, she married the writer Roman Libbertz am Tegernsee.

Her non-fiction book No Shame on the taboo subject of shame, for which she met Peruvian shamans, Indian Brahmins and Western neuroscientists, among others, became a bestseller and was also widely recognized in the features section. Following the publication, she gave lectures on the subject of shame at the Frankfurt Book Fair and at the German Media Congress. In the "Die Story im Erste" documentary "The final whistle for Uli Hoeness" she was the only woman besides Karlheinz Rummenigge, Oliver Kahn, Uli Hoeness and BVB boss Hans-Joachim Watzke to be asked about her view of the Bayern boss.

In May 2020, she started a weekly podcast with tennis player Angelique Kerber .

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Web links

Commons : Jessica Libbertz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Header video: Jessica Kastrop a star worldwide , accessed on November 27, 2015
  2. ↑ Focus
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ Moderator Jessica Kastrop: Love hit her like a ball on the head , accessed on July 14, 2018
  5. ↑ South German
  6. ↑ zdf.de
  7. ↑ https://www.buchreport.de/news/wer-coacht-den-chef/
  8. ↑ https://www.horizont.net/medien/nachrichten/deutscher-medienkongress-geballtes-know-how-fuers-neue-jahrzehnt-178089
  9. ↑ https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/sendung/der-bayern-boss-schlusspfiff-fuer-uli-hoeness-100.html
personal data
SURNAME Libbertz, Jessica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kastrop, Jessica (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German presenter
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken , Saarland , Federal Republic of Germany