Markus Lanz

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Markus Josef Lanz (born March 16, 1969 in Bruneck , South Tyrol , Italy ) is a German - Italian television presenter and producer . Since 2008 he has hosted his talk show Markus Lanz, named after him, on ZDF . In 2012 he also hosted the Saturday evening show Wetten, dass ..? which he moderated until it was discontinued after the last broadcast on December 13, 2014.

life and career

Origin and education

Lanz comes from Geiselsberg in South Tyrol, a fraction of the municipality of Olang . As a high school student, he lived in the Neustift monastery schoolhouse . During this time he attended the classical high school at the Vinzentinum in Brixen from 1983 to 1984 . As a teenager he performed with his brother Gotthard as the music duo The W5 , where he played keyboard and piano. After the Matura , which Lanz obtained in Bruneck in 1988 , he was trained as a radio operator with the Italian army and served with the Alpini .

Media beginnings 1989–1998

After his military service , Lanz worked at Radio Holiday in Bruneck until 1991 . In the 1991/92 training year, he completed school training to become a communications specialist (BAW) at the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing in Munich. From 1992 Lanz completed a two-year traineeship at Radio Hamburg . In 1995, in protest against the French nuclear weapon tests on Mururoa , he released the single F…! Together with Marzel Becker and Stephan Heller under the name Le camembert radioactif . Chirac . Lanz produced the piece at home with his synthesizer, and Anja Krenz, who had previously worked with Heinz Strunk , was hired as the singer . The piece was played on Radio Hamburg's program without permission, and Lanz was subsequently dismissed. In the same year he became a news presenter on RTL Nord. From 1997 on, Lanz moderated the program Guten Abend RTL in Schleswig-Holstein .

Breakthrough at RTL

The breakthrough came Lanz when he to March 1999, September 1998 Barbara Eligmann during her maternity leave as moderator of the RTL telecast explosive - the magazine represented. From April 1999 to March 15, 2008 he moderated the show regularly and since November 2004 has also been the editor-in-chief. In addition, Lanz also took on the moderation of other RTL programs such as The Wedding Plan (2001), Outback (2002) and Ich bin ein Star - Get me out of here! - Special (2004). His unusually active style of moderation with interspersed puns was characteristic of Lanz .

He wrote his biography, published in 2007, with the television chef Horst Lichter .

Change to ZDF

Lanz has been working for the TV station ZDF since April 2008 . He represented Johannes B. Kerner there during his summer break in 2008 with the talk show Markus Lanz . Markus Lanz took over the Friday evening cooking program Kerners Köche from June 2008 to December 2012 under the new program title Lanz kocht! In 2009 he again represented Johannes B. Kerner during his summer break. After Kerner's departure from ZDF on October 1, 2009, the talk show Markus Lanz is now regularly running from Tuesdays to Thursdays. In addition to these two formats, Lanz moderated various other shows for ZDF.

Markus Lanz's journalistic activities include trips to the polar regions. After a film to the North Pole expedition, during which he and a companion were flown by helicopter to the vicinity of the pole, he took part in the television production The Race to the South Pole in December 2010 .

Since January 2011 Markus Lanz has been producing his programs via the production company "Mhoch2 TV", in which he and Markus Heidemanns each hold half.

Markus Lanz as the host of Wetten, dass ..? , 2014

On October 6, 2012, Lanz took over the moderation of the Saturday evening show Wetten, dass ..? on ZDF and thus succeeded Thomas Gottschalk . In addition, on December 2, he also took over the ZDF annual review, Menschen, from Gottschalk . On February 2, 2013 Markus Lanz received a prize for Wetten, dass ..? a golden camera as an audience award.

At the end of the bet that ..? -April 5, 2014 edition, Markus Lanz announced the end of the show; there will only be three more issues. Subsequently, the ZDF confirmed the "joint decision" to stop the show after 33 years at the end of 2014. Lanz finished the last bet that ..? - Broadcast on December 13, 2014 in Nuremberg with the words "Life goes on ... Wetten, dass ..?" He moderated a total of 16 issues of the format.

Private

Lanz has a son (* 2000) from a relationship (1998-2006) with the presenter Birgit Schrowange . In 2011, Lanz married business economist Angela Gessmann in South Tyrol, with whom he has been in a relationship since 2008. He has two daughters with her (* 2014 and 2018). Lanz lives in Hamburg .

TV presentations

Ongoing

Former / Unique

  • 1997–1999: Good evening, RTL , RTL
  • 1998–2008: Explosiv - Das Magazin , RTL
  • 2001: The wedding plan, RTL
  • 2002: Outback, RTL
  • 2004: I'm a Star - Get Me Out of Here! - Special , RTL
  • 2008: All the best, Karlheinz Böhm - A life for Africa, ZDF
  • 2008: Ciao, Luciano Pavarotti, ZDF
  • 2008–2009: I want to know, ZDF
  • 2008–2010: Good to know, ZDF
  • 2008–2012: Lanz cooks! , ZDF
  • 2009: Congratulations, Thomas Quasthoff, ZDF
  • 2009: Udo Jürgens - the birthday gala, ZDF
  • 2009–2010: History - the quiz, ZDF
  • 2010: Aid for Pakistan, ZDF
  • 2012–2014: Bet that ..? , ZDF
  • 2015–2018: Christmas in Bethlehem, ZDF
  • 2016–2017: You never go completely - a tribute to life, ZDF
  • 2019: Pastewka (TV series as himself in episodes 78 and 86)

criticism

In January 2014, an online petition was sent to ZDF calling for Lanz's release. She received over 230,000 signatures within a few days. The reason given was, among other things, that Lanz had shown once again that he was neither able nor willing to show benevolence , the right to speak and decency towards his guests on an equal footing . The petitioners reacted to an interview by Lanz with politician Sahra Wagenknecht on the show Markus Lanz , during which he had repeatedly interrupted her and wanted to provocatively ask her position on controversial issues such as her party's European policy.

Awards

Publications

literature

  • Markus Lanz , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/2014 of July 22, 2014, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
  • Michael Völkel: The Lexicon of TV Presenters. Anecdotes, facts and sayings from 50 years of TV history , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-524-4 , p. 311

Web links

Wikiquote: Markus Lanz  - Quotes
Commons : Markus Lanz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Second first name Josef according to his own statement in his show Markus Lanz on October 11, 2012 in conversation with Salman Rushdie .
  2. ↑ Markus Lanz in his broadcast on October 17, 2017 , that he now has both passports. (at minute 22:06)
  3. ↑ Markus Lanz: "I stayed a South Tyrolean mountain farmer" ( Memento from June 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Südtirol Online from June 1, 2010
  4. ↑ Markus Lanz was a coffee trip rocker . In: BZ , September 2, 2010, accessed December 20, 2013.
  5. ↑ Markus Lanz on ZDF.de
  6. ↑ Peter Unfried: Moderator Markus Lanz: He really wants to know . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 7, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 9, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Le Camembert Radioactif - F ...! Chirac. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Philine Lietzmann: Markus Lanz celebrates anniversary: ​​career as a stopgap? In: Augsburger Allgemeine , June 19, 2013.
  9. ↑ Markus Lanz in “The Wedding Plan”. At: sueddeutsche.de , October 5, 2012, accessed on November 5, 2012
  10. ↑ Michael Reufsteck, Stefan Niggemeier, "Das Fernsehlexikon", Goldmann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-442-30124-9 .
  11. ^ Michael Völkel: The Lexicon of TV Moderators , Berlin 2003, p. 311
  12. ↑ And suddenly you look up to the good Lord: The two lives of Horst Lichter published. from the Gütersloher publishing house.
  13. ↑ National Geographic: Markus Lanz - Eine Liebe im Eis ( Memento from July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , issue 7/2010.
  14. ↑ Markus Lanz founds new production company Mhoch2 TV on DWDL.de , October 9, 2010.
  15. ↑ [1]
  16. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of December 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ ZDF ends “Wetten, dass ..?” At: n-tv .de , April 6, 2014
  18. ↑ Birgit Schrowange became a mother. ( Memento from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) At: rp-online.de , September 22, 2000.
  19. ↑ Birgit Schrowange: "I have left Markus". At: rp-online.de , July 11, 2006.
  20. ↑ Dream wedding - Markus Lanz: In summer he says YES! At: bild.de , February 22, 2011
  21. ↑ He became a dad! At: Gala.de , October 23, 2014, accessed on May 12, 2016.
  22. ↑ The second baby has arrived: Markus Lanz has become a father! At: vip.de , July 10, 2018.
  23. ↑ Get out of my license fee with Markus Lanz! Petition on OpenPetition , January 17th, 2014
  24. ^ Petition against ZDF moderator. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 23, 2014.
  25. ↑ Wagenknecht-Talk: Markus Lanz finds himself “too rustic”. In: Spiegel Online , January 24, 2014.
  26. ^ Goldener Rathausmann for Markus Lanz. In: wien.orf.at. March 22, 2013, accessed on March 22, 2013 (in the run-up to his first Wetten, dass ..? Broadcast in Vienna.).
  27. ↑ Karoline Sielski: Golden Camera for Markus Lanz: The award ceremony on ZDF. In: stadtmagazin.com. Stadtmagazin , February 4, 2018, accessed on December 22, 2018 (newspaper article).
  28. ↑ Markus Lanz - medium magazine. Retrieved November 26, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Lanz, Markus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lanz, Markus Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-German presenter and producer on German television
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruneck , South Tyrol , Italy