Michael Wigge

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Michael Wigge (born September 23, 1976 in Brilon / Sauerland ) is a German television reporter , presenter and author .

Life

Wigge attended the Mauritius high school in Büren until 1996 . After graduating from high school, he lived in California and New York for 18 months to do his community service abroad and gain his first television experience. He then moved to London for four years to study at the film school.

Michael Wigge now lives in Berlin, but is mostly on other trips. His television appearances are characterized by an unconventional mixture of comedy, entertainment and documentation. He has received several awards for his entertaining reports.

In 2002, Wigge drew attention to himself for the first time with unusual comedy interludes on the TV channel VIVA Plus with the daily program London Calling . In this context, he attempted a donkey record attempt. In 2003 he returned to Germany and fell as a satirical external reporter “Dr. Wigge ”at the WDR political magazine Kanzlerbungalow in the serious political business. From 2004 to 2006 he was an outside reporter for Sarah Kuttner - Die Show for VIVA and MTV and carried out various unusual actions, e.g. B. a four-day prison portrait of the prison in Cologne in a voluntary self-experiment as a detainee. He also appeared on ARD-Morgenmagazin as a special reporter for the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2004 European Football Championship .

Wigge also produces independent formats such as Wigge diplomiert in Japan 2004 for VIVA, Metropolenreport 2003 for RTL II and 2006 Kulturschock , where he lived with the Sanema Indians in the Amazon rainforest. In 2007 he started the self-deprecating culture series “The Truth About Germany” for the magazine euromaxx - Life and Culture in Europe on DW-TV . For this he was awarded platinum in the category “On-Air Talent” at the 41st Houston World Filmfest in 2008 and made it into the round of the last six at the New York Filmfest. In the same year Wigge made his first appearance as a GEO foreign reporter in Canada.

In 2009 he received the ZDF Video Journalist Award in the Newcomer category. After Wigge had traveled 35,000 kilometers (from Germany to Canada, North and South America) to Antarctica in another self-experiment without money , in 2010 he published his book Without Money to the End of the World and the report series of the same name on the TV station ZDFneo . In the same year he produced the series “The Most Beautiful Country in the World” for “euromaxx - Life and Culture in Europe”.

In 2011 he undertook a six-month trip from Germany across all continents to Hawaii for the report Wigges Tauschrausch broadcast by ZDFneo and successfully swapped his way from a bitten apple to a habitable house at his destination. He also documented his trip in a blog and in a book. To achieve his exchange goal, he used a mixture of networking , engaging the local media, and inspiring strangers for his mission.

From April 2013 to June 2013 he worked for his project, "On the scooter through Germany". Germany crossed from Sylt to Haldenwanger Eck in north-south direction over a distance of 2505 km.

In 2016 Michael Wigge traveled in less than 50 days through all 50 states of the USA, took up a challenge in each state and then reported in the book "Fifty States of Wigge" on all 50 tasks and his findings on the current US election campaign.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Wigge: Without money to the end of the world . An adventure trip. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04181-1 .
  2. ↑ Michael Wigge: Wigge blog. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 27, 2011 ; Retrieved December 18, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.zdf.de
  3. ↑ Michael Wigge: Wigges exchange frenzy. Around the world for a home. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-60668-9 .
  4. ↑ Michael Wigge: On the scooter through Germany.
  5. ↑ Michael Wigge: Fifty States of Wigge. 50 states, 50 days, 50 challenges. CONBOOK, Meerbusch 2016, ISBN 978-3-95889-119-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Wigge, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television reporter, presenter and author
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd September 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Sauerland