Nils Bomhoff

Nils Bomhoff at the Games Convention 2006 in Leipzig

Nils Bomhoff (born January 29, 1980 in Hamburg ) is a German television presenter and editor . He became known through his moderation at GIGA and Game One . He is a co-founder of Rocket Beans Entertainment GmbH and has been a presenter at Rocket Beans TV since 2015 .

Life

Bomhoff was born on January 29, 1980 in Hamburg. He has two sisters.

In 2004 he studied business administration at the University of Lüneburg , but dropped out early.

Career

Nils Bomhoff at the 2015 Web Video Prize

Career at GIGA

Bomhoff had his first television appearance in the program GIGA GAMES , in which he was presented on April 6, 2004, together with Daniel Budiman . After initially moderating the MAXX area, he switched to the PC area on February 2, 2005.

With the departure of Simon Krätschmer from GIGA, Bomhoff took his position as moderator of GIGA GAMES . After GIGA abandoned the original concept of a two-hour program GIGA GAMES , Bomhoff moderated the program GIGA The Show at Etienne Gardé's side until the end of broadcasting on February 13, 2009.

In addition to the moderation of programs that deal with video games, Bomhoff moderated together with Etienne Gardé a late night show called Late Knights , which was broadcast from July 13, 2006 to December 20, 2008 on GIGA.

Career at Game One

Shortly after the end of GIGA TV Bomhoff joined together with Etienne Gardé for MTV telecast Game One , which was founded by her former colleagues Simon GIGA Krätschmer and Daniel Budiman.

Initially, however, Bomhoff and Gardé were mainly employed as web editors for the newly established Game One website and appeared very rarely on the television program. Since the relaunch in August 2011, both Budiman and Krätschmer have supported the show as moderators.

In October 2011 Bomhoff founded the media production company Rocket Beans Entertainment GmbH together with Etienne Gardé, Simon Krätschmer, Daniel Budiman and Arno Heinisch , which from then on worked for Game One and other television productions. Parallel to Game One , Rocket Beans Entertainment has been producing a YouTube channel called Rocket Beans TV since August 2012 , on which Bomhoff was often seen as a presenter. In 2014 the company received the German Web Video Award for one of its videos .

The show was discontinued in 2014 and the last new episode aired on December 23, 2014.

Career at Rocket Beans TV

After Game One was discontinued, Rocket Beans Entertainment decided to transfer the concept of the YouTube channel Rocket Beans TV to a daily broadcaster. The Rocket Beans TV of the same name was launched on January 15, 2015 and will from now on broadcast program content on the Twitch streaming portal and, since September 1, 2016, on YouTube. In June 2015, the station was awarded the 2015 Web Video Prize for its services over the past year.

Bomhoff has been moderating individual formats on topics such as computer games, football and literature since the start of the broadcast. He is also a regular guest moderator in talk formats such as Almost Daily or co-moderator in the show Bohn Jour .

Others

After Bomhoff made a name for himself on German television, primarily through broadcasts about video games, he joined the 2009 children's handicraft program Artzooka! which was broadcast on Nickelodeon Germany . For a short time he was also seen as the presenter of Favorite Game Special on the same channel.

In April 2009 he first worked as an author on DerWesten.de in the Bomgard column alongside Etienne Gardé and wrote articles on computer games and gaming culture. The last column appeared on October 27, 2010.

In 2012 and 2013 he and Andreas Bursche were responsible for stage moderation at Microsoft at CeBIT . He was also briefly seen in an advertising campaign for Nokia at the end of 2008 .

In September 2013, he and Etienne Gardé took over the web hosting for the first season of Celebrity Big Brother .

At the RTL Nitro program presentation in 2016/2017 it was announced that Bomhoff would moderate the Nitro car quartet.

In February 2017 Nils Bomhoff and his colleagues Etienne Gardé, Simon Krätschmer and Daniel Budiman from Rocket Beans TV received the German Television Award in the category "best entertainment entertainment".

Private

He became a father for the first time in January 2016.

Web links

• Rocket Beans Entertainment GmbH website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ INTERVIEWS. Retrieved January 25, 2016 . 
2. ^ Information from the company. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
3. ↑ Web video award 2014 - The winners . ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Published on May 24, 2014 on webvideopreis.de. Retrieved September 12, 2015. 
4. ↑ Nice presents ... MTV ends "Game One" . Published on December 22, 2014 on DWDL.de. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
5. ↑ "Rocket Beans" - The web video stars from Eimsbüttel . Published on June 15, 2015 on welt.de. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
6. ↑ http://de.nickelodeon.wikia.com/wiki/Nils_Bomhoff
7. ↑ Nicole Lange: Former GIGA moderators join the Budimon column . Published on March 3rd, 2009 on derwesten.de.
8. ↑ Simon Krätschmer et al .: The last column of all time . Published on October 27, 2010 on derwesten.de. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
9. ↑ Heike Scholz: Nokia Wishlist TV . ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Published on November 5, 2008 on mobile-zeitgeist.com. 
10. ↑ Profile for Celebrity Big Brother. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
11. ^ Quote meter GmbH, Würzburg, Germany: RTL Nitro 16/17: 'Only the best for men'. Retrieved July 15, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Prize Winner 2017 , German Television Prize 2017, accessed on February 27, 2017.