Johannes B. Kerner

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Johannes B. Kerner (2018)

Johannes Baptist Kerner (born December 9, 1964 in Bonn ) is a German television presenter , journalist and former football commentator . He was also co-owner / managing director of the television production company Fernsehmacher until September 2009 .

Life

Kerner grew up in Hersel in a Catholic family. In Bonn- Friesdorf he went to the Catholic elementary school and then attended the Jesuit high school Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg. After graduating from high school , he studied business administration without a degree. In 1986 he began his television career as an intern at Sender Freie Berlin . As a TV sports reporter, he presented the programs Sport 3 and SFB-Sportreport there .

From 1990 to 1992 he was alternately a moderator for Punkt 5 country report on ARD. From August 1992 to the end of 1997, Kerner moderated the Sat.1 football magazine ran . In 1996 he got his first daily talk show on Sat.1 under the title Kerner .

Since his time at Sat.1, Kerner has used his name in the form of Johannes B. Kerner .

Franz Beckenbauer (l.) And Johannes B. Kerner (r.) At the ZDF international soccer match between Germany and Luxembourg (7-0) , 2006

In 1996 Johannes B. Kerner switched to ZDF , where he was one of the presenters of the program das current sportstudio until 2006 and commented on international football matches. He also moderated the ZDF annual review Menschen and the series Our Best . Kerner was not an employee of the ZDF, but moderated as a freelancer .

From January 1998 Kerner had his own show named after him on ZDF, Johannes B. Kerner , which has been broadcast from Tuesday to Friday since January 2002. In the program, which was produced by Kerner's production company JBK TV-Production together with Spiegel TV subsidiary a + i art and information for ZDF, he asked celebrities about current projects and their lives.

In 2004, Kerner and Markus Heidemanns founded the television production company Die Fernsehmacher , which among other things produces the television programs Lafer! Lichter! Lecker! , Born to cook and our best produces. In 2009 he left the production company.

In April 2009, the ZDF announced that the collaboration with Kerner would end at the end of 2009 because they could not agree on the conditions for a contract extension. Kerner also announced his move back to Sat.1 . On November 2, 2009 his show Kerner started on the new (old) station Sat.1 , with a weekly broadcast on Monday evening. The first broadcast already had fewer viewers than expected; thereafter the audience rating fell further from issue to issue. Sat.1 therefore postponed the show to Thursday evening after a few episodes. He gave up this program on December 15, 2011 in the form of an annual review. Also on Sat.1 he moderated the UEFA Champions League games and annual reviews, the event show series Germany versus ... - The Duel and The Great General Knowledge Quiz, which began on June 2, 2010 . From the 2009/10 season to the end of the 2012/13 season, Kerner hosted Bundesliga soccer games at LIGA total! , a Deutsche Telekom broadcaster . Since autumn 2013, Kerner has been in front of the camera again for ZDF programs.

TV presentations

Ongoing

Former / Unique

criticism

In Kerner's talk show on October 9, 2007, Eva Herman was a guest to speak with other guests on the subject of "The distribution of roles between men and women". In the course of the program, she was unloaded by Kerner. In his opinion, she had not distanced herself sufficiently from National Socialism. In the daily newspaper Die Welt the program was described as “The public execution of Eva Herman”, with which Kerner “did himself (...) no favor”. In order to watch the program, one had to “briefly” fade out “that one lives in a democracy.” Die Zeit commented: “First and foremost, the presenter Johannes B. Kerner put on a bad show.”

When Kerner advertised, among other things, the IPO of the airline Air Berlin in 2006 , he was criticized from many sides because he also worked for a public broadcaster. The German Association of Journalists also considered it problematic when a prominent moderator like Kerner used his face for commercial campaigns.

Kerner's broadcast in December 2010 from Afghanistan about the deployment of the Bundeswehr there together with the then Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and his wife Stephanie zu Guttenberg was also criticized .

other activities

Kerner was committed as an ambassador for the 2006 World Cup for people with disabilities in Germany. As an ambassador, he supports the Respekt! No place for racism . In 2010 and 2011 he advertised as a testimonial for mixed sausage made from poultry and pork under the Gutfried brand , and previously for bonaqa and other products.

In the comedy film Der tote Taucher im Wald he had a cameo as a jogger in 2000 .

Private life

From 1992 to 1994 Kerner was in a relationship with the presenter Monica Lierhaus .

Kerner was married to the former national hockey player Britta Becker since 1996 and is the father of four children. In June 2016, the couple announced that they had separated. He currently lives in Hamburg . Kerner ran the Berlin Marathon , the Hamburg Marathon and regularly takes part in the traditional Hamburg charity game, Kicken mit Herz .

Awards

Kerner at the Romy Awards in Vienna (2008)

1996

  • Golden Lion of the TV channel RTL
  • Sport Bild Award as the most popular sports presenter
  • Bravo Otto four times (two silver, two bronze), until 1999

1997

  • Sport Bild Award as the most popular sports presenter

2002

2003

2004

2005

  • Bambi in the audience award category together with Steffen Seibert for their moderation of the ZDF program “We want to help - a heart for children”.
  • Herbert Award (in gold) for Best Live Sports Commentator
  • Toques d'Or Culture Prize for his contribution to the preservation of culinary tradition and the communication of "the joy of cooking"

2006

2007

2008

2009

  • Herbert Award (in silver) in the category of best TV sports presenter and special prize for the sports saying of the year .

2014

2015

  • Green twist pass for the moderation of the ZDF quiz show Der Quiz-Champion

2019

  • Emperor Augustus Order of the Trier Carnival Working Group (ATK)
  • Radio Regenbogen Award in the Media Man category 2018

Trivia

In 1993, Johannes B. Kerner and an acquaintance stole an advertising poster from Anna Nicole Smith or H&M at a bus stop and, according to their own account, was sent to prison for it.

In March 2020 Johannes B. Kerner suffered from a mild form of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and went into quarantine at home for 14 days .

Web links

Commons : Johannes B. Kerner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Johannes B. Kerner  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The career of the ZDF presenter at a glance ( Memento from December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Jürgen Udolph, Sebastian Fitzek: Professor Udolph's Book of Names, ISBN 978-3-570-00879-9 , p. 160
  3. ↑ Spiegel Group: a + i art and information (August 15, 2006) ( Memento of July 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Spiegel Group: "Johannes B. Kerner" (August 15, 2006) ( Memento of May 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Website of the company Die Fernsehmacher (accessed on April 16, 2008)
  6. ↑ "Kerner is no longer a television maker" on quotenmeter.de (accessed on October 12, 2009)
  7. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Johannes, the defector ( Memento from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). News from April 22, 2009
  8. ↑ Spiegel.de: Kerner gives up "Kerner" , report from October 18, 2011
  9. ^ FAZ: After four years - Johannes B. Kerner returns to ZDF
  10. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/politik/pressestimmen/Nichts-zu-flach-um-Quote-zu-machen-article13234356.html
  11. ^ Eva Herman: Eva Herman at Kerner from October 9, 2007 - part April 1 , April 4, 2017, accessed on April 20, 2018 .
  12. ^ Herman expulsion from Kerner: The programmed scandal. In: Spiegel Online . October 10, 2007, accessed May 14, 2020 .
  13. ^ The public execution of Eva Herman , October 10, 2007
  14. ↑ Who was more embarrassed?
  15. ↑ welt.de June 26, 2008: Part-time job at Air Berlin is causing trouble again for Kerner
  16. ^ Zeit-Online from December 17, 2010
  17. ↑ Ambassador - Culture and TV. Charitable respect! No space for Rassismus GmbH, archived from the original on February 14, 2015 ; accessed on February 14, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Star couples: In love, engaged, forgotten. January 2, 2019, accessed January 2, 2019 .
  19. Jump up ↑ marriage after 20 years . Spiegel Online, June 3, 2016.
  20. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Johannes B. Kerner stole H&M poster from Anna Nicole Smith - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Why was it tested for Corona? Johannes B. Kerner responds to criticism accessed 2020-03-23
  22. ↑ Johannes B. Kerner (ZDF): Corona test of the moderator positive - important request to fans accessed 2020-03-23
personal data
SURNAME Kerner, Johannes B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerner, Johannes Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn