Olaf Pessler

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Olaf Pessler (born October 27, 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German journalist, moderator and speaker.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1981, he began training at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . After a short stay at a subsidiary of the FAZ in Munich, he was offered a traineeship at what was then Radio Luxemburg , RTL's German-language radio program. At Radio Luxemburg, Pessler worked as an editor and presenter for almost all programs. In January 1987 he became a spokesperson for the RTL radio program Von Schiller bis Miller , in which he read from works of world literature. From September 1987 he was a presenter in the RTL television program Guten Morgen Deutschland. After a year, he was fired to make room for Rainer Holbe .

Pessler moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he worked as a presenter for Hessischer Rundfunk . Pessler has been working full-time as a freelance speaker since 1992. He has appeared in numerous reports, documentaries and contributions for ARD, ARTE and ZDF. The Panama Papers is one of his most famous audio books. In addition, his voice can be heard in the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt and in the Porsche Museum , Stuttgart , as a voice guide through the entire exhibition. He also speaks for Porsche on the DVD “Der Porscheweg”. Pessler has been the station voice for Klassikradio since mid-2017 .

Olaf Pessler is married for the second time. He has two children from his first marriage. He lives in Königstein im Taunus .

Publications as a speaker

  • Frozen souls . AME Hören, Berg 2007, ISBN 978-3-938046-73-9 (audio book, 6 CDs, 442 min., Read by Olaf Pessler).
  • One eye, one thumb, one ear , 2014 (audiobook)
  • Klaus Herbers: Jakobsweg - history and culture of a pilgrimage . Listen to AME, 2008, ISBN 978-3-938046-84-5 (160 min. Read by Olaf Pessler, 2 audio CDs ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RTL Radio Luxemburg Chronicle. 1957 until today. radionjournal.de, accessed on March 20, 2018
  2. ↑ Alex Raack: 30 years of breakfast television: “Have you gone mad?” One day on Spiegel Online , September 22, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Olaf Pessler speaks "Giraffe, Meerkat & Co." . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, May 15, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Pessler, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German moderator and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH around 1963