Kristiane Backer
Kristiane Verena Backer (born December 13, 1965 in Hamburg ) is a German television presenter , television journalist and author .
job
From 1987 to 1989 Backer volunteered at the private radio station Radio Hamburg . She then worked until 1995 as the first German presenter ( video jockey ) for the then exclusively English-language TV broadcaster MTV Europe . At the same time, she created and hosted the youth program Bravo TV on RTL II from 1993 to 1995 ; In 1993 she presented the ZDF Pop Show once . Backer was awarded the Golden Camera and two Golden Otto's for her television work.
On MTV she moderated a. a. the Coca-Cola Report , the European Top 20 and Awake on the Wild Side . From 1996 she presented the daily cultural program The Ticket on NBC Europe for two years .
After a long break in the television business, Backer has presented several travel programs on Travel Channel ( Reise 2009 , Reise 2010 and Reise 2011 ) and the program Matters of Faith for the international channel QLAR (formerly Ebru TV ) since 2009 . She also moderates business presentations, conferences and galas across Europe.
Private life
Until 1995 Backer was in a relationship with the Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan for several years .
In 1995 the then Protestant converted to Sunni Islam . She does not wear a headscarf, but advocates "that women who cover themselves are not discriminated, but respected". About her conversion to Islam, she published the book From MTV to Mecca - How Islam Changed My Life in May 2009 .
On April 14, 2006, she married the Moroccan television journalist Rachid Jaafar. She is now divorced and lives in London . She works as a homeopath.
Publications
- From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Changed My Life , Paul List Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-471-30009-1
- Islam as the way of the heart: Why I am a Muslim , Ullstein Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-74511-4
Trivia
- The cashiers dedicated their album The holy spirit attacks to Backer to the instrumental song Die Scheide by Kristiane Backer .
literature
- The lexicon of TV presenters. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2003. ISBN 3-89602-524-4
Web links
- Kristiane Backer on YouTube - Channel on YouTube
- Kristiane Backer on Facebook - on Facebook
- “Islam is very accessible” , interview with the Islamic newspaper on October 11, 2006
- Interview with Kristiane Backer , interview with Ayasofya magazine on April 30, 2011
- Biography Kristiane Backers in Matters of Faith (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile on own website
- ↑ Hasnain Kazim: Who is the new strong man in Pakistan? In: spiegelonline.de. July 27, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Electrobeats and verses from the Koran. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 11, 2006, accessed December 19, 2014 .
- ↑ How to Become a Better Person. In: tagesspiegel.de. September 20, 2006, accessed December 19, 2014 .
- ↑ For Kristiane Backer, MTV is history ( memento from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) augsburger-allgemeine.de from July 16, 2009
- ↑ Kristiane Backer. Retrieved November 17, 2012 .
- ↑ From MTV to Mecca - The Change by Kristiane Backer rp-online.de from June 19, 2010
- ↑ Kristiane Backer: From MTV to Mecca. In: Spiegel Online photo gallery. June 9, 2009, accessed December 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Katharina Sperber: Kristiane Backer: Search for love. In: fr-online.de . June 2, 2009, accessed December 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Miriam Hollstein: How MTV diva Kristiane Backer came to Mecca. In: welt.de . June 3, 2009, accessed December 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Moderator Kristiane Backer: The Converted , June 13, 2009
- ^ Cashier: Art and Culture. In: Ox-Fanzine . 1999, accessed July 18, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Backer, Kristiane |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Backer, Kristiane Verena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |