Klaus Otto Nagorsnik

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Klaus Otto Nagorsnik (born July 29, 1955 in Billerbeck ) is a German quiz player and librarian . He is known as one of the "hunters" in the ARD television program asked - hunted .

Career

Nagorsnik grew up as the eldest of six siblings in a working-class family. He passed the Abitur at the Gymnasium Nepomucenum in Coesfeld and then studied eight semesters of history and ethnology in Berlin. After an apprenticeship as a bookseller and completing his basic military service in the Bundeswehr , he has been working as a librarian in the Münster city library since 1983 . From 1984 to 1997 he was in charge of the local car library . He hasn't owned a TV since 1988 because he believes that reading will allow him to absorb more and better information.

He won the Germany Cup of the German Quiz Association several times . In 2014 he became the German quiz champion in doubles. At the German Quiz Championship 2019 he finished ninth, fourth in doubles and eighth in the team. In the age group over 60 he was the best German at the quiz world championship.

In autumn 2013 he appeared in the ARD game show The German Masters 2013 for the first time in a television show. He won against Sebastian Jacoby in the category “ City - Country - River ” and won prize money of 5000 euros; in the final of the show, in which the winners of the categories had to face challengers from other European countries, he defeated the Austrian Gerald Schmid. In 2015 he reached the final of the ZDF show Der Quiz-Champion, the final as a candidate , but failed when he wrongly assigned the speed skater Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann to the tobogganers.

Since 2014 he has appeared as “The Librarian” in the quiz show Asked - Hunted (initially on NDR television , from 2015 on the first ) in the role of “hunter” against candidates.

Works

In the literature

In Death Mark , the fifth volume in his series about Sabine Nemez and Maarten S. Sneijder, the Austrian writer Andreas Gruber lets an old professor appear who keeps watching the same episode of Asked - Chased on a video cassette. The protagonist, Commissioner Sabine Nemez, explains: “I love being asked - hunted …. My favorite hunter is the know-it-all, "to which the old lady replies:" Mine is the librarian. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Henning Stoffers: Very personal ...: Klaus Otto Nagorsnik. sto-ms.de, accessed on June 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Klaus Otto Nagorsnik - Asked - Hunted - ARD - Das Erste. In: daserste.de. Retrieved January 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Ratefuchs from Münster chases candidates on TV. Die Glocke online, February 10, 2016, accessed on May 25, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Maria Meik: Cup for well-read masters. Westfälische Nachrichten, November 20, 2015, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ German Quiz Championship 2019. In: quizverein.de. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Klaus Otto Nagorsnik - "The Librarian". In: quizverein.de. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Karin Völker: Wandering Lexicon: Librarian of the city library wins with Kai Pflaume. Westfälische Nachrichten, November 5, 2013, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ The candidates and winners of the second show. The first, accessed June 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The winners of the final show. The first, accessed June 9, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Heusner: The Quiz Champion 28.03.2015 Klaus-Otto Nagorsnik. In: YouTube. July 31, 2018, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Andreas Gruber: Death Mark . In: Sabine Nemez and Maarten S. Sneijder . tape 5 . Goldmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-48656-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Nagorsnik, Klaus Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German quiz player and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Billerbeck