Oliver Geissen
Oliver Geissen (born August 21, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German television presenter and producer .
Career
Geissen gained his first experience as a presenter at the private youth broadcaster OK Radio in Hamburg, which made him well-known in the Hanseatic city. From 1994 to 1998 he worked at ZDF , where he presented various magazines. From 1995 to 1997 he was the head of the sports department at the local TV station Hamburg 1 . There he moderated the weekly sports magazine "Rasant". He then switched to RTL .
In addition to his daily talk show Die Oliver Geissen Show , which ran on RTL from August 23, 1999 to 2009, Geissen regularly hosted successful Saturday evening shows on the broadcaster. His breakthrough came in 2000 as the presenter of the second German season of Big Brother , after he had made negative comments about the format about the first season: "I think BB is totally boring and I can't understand the people who do that." He was also the presenter of Top of the Pops from April to August . This was followed by series of shows such as Die 80er Show (2002), Die 90er Show (2004) and 20 Jahre RTL (2004). Since 2003 he has been hosting The Ultimate Chart Show . In September 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, he presented the Saturday night live broadcast Guinness World Records - The Greatest World Records , the candidates of which were included in the Guinness Book of Records if they were successful . In January 2009 Geissen hosted the two-part anniversary show on the occasion of RTL's 25th anniversary.
The Oliver Geissen Show was discontinued in September 2009 after the last broadcast had been recorded on May 19. From 2011 to 2013 Geissen hosted the show Es kann nur E1NEN . In January 2012, there was also an edition of the show Children Ask - Comedians Answer , which was discontinued after the first show due to poor audience ratings . In January 2015, Geissen replaced Daniel Hartwich in moderating the RTL Comedy Grand Prix .
For Germany, the superstar hosted Geissen is looking for the event shows of the 12th and 13th season in spring 2015 and 2016 and the re-introduced motto shows in seasons 14 , 15 and 16 from 2017 to 2019 .
From February to June 2020 he hosted the new kitsch or box office on RTL.
TV presentations
Ongoing
- since 2003: The ultimate chart show , RTL
- since 2015: The RTL Comedy Grand Prix , RTL
Former / Unique
- 1994: X-treme, ZDF
- 1995–1996: 2:15 pm - trends and hits for cool kids, ZDF
- 1998: Dreamland Germany, ZDF
- 1998: Wanderlust, ZDF
- 1999–2009: The Oliver Geissen Show , RTL
- 2000–2001: Big Brother , RTL II
- 2001: Temptation in Paradise, RTL
- 2002: The 80s Show , RTL
- 2003: The GDR Show, RTL - together with Katarina Witt
- 2003: Die 25… , RTL
- 2003–2004: Absolutely…, RTL
- 2003–2007: Echo - The German Music Prize , RTL
- 2004–2005: The 90s Show , RTL
- 2004–2008: Guinness World Records - The greatest world records, RTL
- 2006: Top of the Pops , RTL
- 2007: Surprise, Surprise !, RTL
- 2008: The show of the week, RTL
- 2010: 18 - The best time of my life, RTL
- 2011–2013: cozy skirt, RTL
- 2011–2013: There can only be E1NEN , RTL
- 2014: Celebrities, mishaps and scandals - The strangest stories from 20 years of Exclusiv , RTL - together with Frauke Ludowig
- 2015: The 10 most popular James Bond songs of all time, RTL
- 2015–2016: Duel of the Decades, RTL
- 2016: Look me in the eye - celebrities under hypnosis, RTL
- 2016–2017: Ruck Zuck , RTLplus
- 2016–2017: The Big Music Quiz, RTL
- 2016: The great parenting experiment, RTL
- 2018: Let's Dance , RTL (one episode - illness replacement for Daniel Hartwich )
- 2018: Lego Masters , RTL
- 2015–2019: Germany is looking for the superstar , RTL
- 2020: Kitsch or box office, RTL
Norddeich TV
In 2004 Geissen founded his own production company, Norddeich TV . The company is a joint project between RTL Television (75%) and Oliver Geissen (25%). One of the managing directors is Ollie Weiberg, with whom he already worked at Hamburg 1. The company produced The Oliver Geissen Show from summer 2004 (up to 20.6% market share in the target group of 14 to 49 year old viewers), in September 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 Guinness World Records - The greatest world records (2005: 21.2%) for RTL, the super RTL retro show series Das große ABC (ø 5.7% market share in the target group of household managers with children) with Aleksandra Bechtel and in spring 2006 started the eight-part broker documentary Our new home (die Pilot broadcast in January 2006 saw 3.67 million viewers aged 3 and over) with Inka Bause .
Private
The son of a Berlin fishmonger went to the German armed forces for two years after graduating from the Goethe-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Lurup in 1988 . Before Geissen went to television, he played American football from 1992 to 1993 as a kicker for the Hamburg Blue Devils and football in the Hamburg Oberliga for SV West-Eimsbüttel , SV Lurup and 1. SC Norderstedt .
His first marriage (from 1999 to 2008) had two sons. Geissen has been in a relationship with actress Christina Plate since summer 2007 and has been married to her since 2009. The couple have a son who was born in 2008. Both live in Hamburg.
book
- Coconut tea . Atlantik Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-65138-6 .
Web links
- Oliver Geissen homepage
- Oliver goats in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Report in Spiegel Online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Big Brother Magazine . 1, 2000, p. 15.
- ↑ https://www.bildderfrau.de/promi-party/article227893541/Mit-Oliver-Geissen-Bares-fuer-Rares-Konbewerb-bei-RTL.html
- ↑ RTL brings Alexander Klaws back to DSDS. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
- ↑ TV presenter Oliver Geißen the red and white SV Lurup jersey (89/90) for one year.
- ↑ Oliver Geissen: “Chartshow” continues ( Memento from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hamburg, your celebrities live here
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goat, Oliver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |