Oliver Welke

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Oliver Welke (born April 19, 1966 in Bielefeld ) is a German satirist , television presenter , journalist , comedian , author and voice actor .

life and career

Beginnings

Oliver Welke grew up from the age of five in the East Westphalian town of Harsewinkel ( Gütersloh district ) as the son of an advertising agency owner and his wife. At the age of four, Welke briefly worked as a child's photo model for the motif of a canned sausage sleeve for the Schulte meat and sausage company . In 1985 he completed his Abitur in Gütersloh at the Evangelisch Stiftischen Gymnasium and then studied journalism at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he passed his exam in 1993.

From 1987 to 1994 he worked as a freelancer for Westfalen-Blatt in Gütersloh, for WDR television in Dortmund and various local radio stations in North Rhine-Westphalia . He then worked as a freelance author, speaker and volunteer at Frühstyxradio at the Lower Saxony radio station Radio ffn (with Dietmar Wischmeyer , Klaus-Dieter Richter , Andreas Liebold , Sabine Bulthaup and Oliver Kalkofe ) with his own comedy series and characters, including the series “Zwei Little Italians ”,“ Bad Oeynhausen Cops ”and“ Die Fahrgemeinschaft ”, some of which were also available on CD .

Sports moderation

Welke began in 1996 as a freelancer in the editorial team of Sat.1 football magazine ran , initially as a sports presenter on breakfast television and as a field reporter. In 1997 he then moderated the sports news ran daily as well as the reports of the Friday and Sunday games in ran on Friday or ranissimo , before he also moderated the main edition of the program on Saturday after Johannes B. Kerner's departure from ZDF in 1998. In 2000, he and his moderation partner Lou Richter developed the football comedy format Helmut & Hellmuth - the chain of two . In 2002 he hosted the show ran WM Fieber for the 2002 World Cup together with Paul Breitner , as well as numerous boxing matches .

After losing the Bundesliga rights to the ARD - Sportschau in 2003, Oliver Welke and Oliver Bierhoff moderated the UEFA Champions League , which was shown for the first time on Sat.1, and presented it for three years. In March 2006 he announced his departure from Sat.1, since the Berlin private broadcaster no longer broadcast Champions League games from summer 2006 and initially had no other sports broadcasts in its program.

From 2005 to 2009 Welke hosted the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge broadcast of the stock car race .

In the 2006/07 season, Welke moderated the broadcasts of the Bundesliga on the pay-TV broadcaster arena , before the broadcaster sublicensed the rights to Premiere in the summer of 2007 . In addition, Welke hosted the UEFA Cup games for FC Bayern Munich for ProSieben in the 2007/08 season . From August 2009 to 2012, Oliver Welke was again a regular presenter on ran on Sat.1 and Kabel eins and moderated the UEFA Europa League games .

Since August 2012 he has alternated with Jochen Breyer as the presenter of the Champions League on ZDF , which he presents together with the expert Oliver Kahn . After the successful cooperation in these two years, Welke also took over the pre- and post-coverage of the games on the ZDF broadcast days at the soccer World Cup 2014 in Brazil together with Oliver Kahn, who had always performed with Katrin Müller-Hohenstein at international matches . The UEFA EURO 2016 in France moderated wilting along with Kahn, other experts like Christoph Kramer and Holger Stanislawski and guests.

Comedy

At the beginning of 2003, Welke took over Rudi Carrell's permanent place in the comedy show 7 Days, 7 Heads , of which he was one of the regular cast until the end of the show in 2005. At the improvisation comedy Frei Schnauze he was part of the recurring cast, in May 2004 he hosted the short-lived show goXX .

Welke had several guest appearances as a police officer on the Sat.1 comedy show Schillerstrasse . Between 2006 and 2007 he had several appearances in various shows, such as Genial beside , Johannes B. Kerner , Pochers WM-Countdown or the Quatsch Comedy Club . From 2009 to 2011 he played Jürgen Vogel's subtenant in several episodes on Schillerstraße .

Since May 26th, 2009 Welke has hosted the heute show on ZDF . In this comedy or satirical broadcast in the style of a news broadcast, he and his team discuss political and social events on a weekly basis. In July 2011 he published the book heute-show: Das Buch on the show together with Morten Kühne . Welke is also a writer for the heute show.

In 2012, Welke also took part in the six-part comedy series Götter wie wir , which was shown on the special- interest channel ZDFkultur .

Further moderations

In 2004 he hosted his own prime-time television show for RTL with Guinness - the Show of Records . He also presented the Blue Moon sport on Radio Fritz with Lou Richter and MC Lücke on the first Sunday of each month .

From 7 August 2007, he moderated at ProSieben comedy-rate show Still Know Better - The big show of useless knowledge , guess in the four celebrities curious facts and in 2008 went into a second season. From 2005 to 2010 he moderated some of Stefan Raab's events at ProSieben.

From 2008 to 2009, Welke hosted the program Wer hats Seen? On NDR television . that he had taken over from Eva Herman and passed on to Florian Weber after the start of the show today .

On October 2nd, 2012, Welke and Olaf Schubert presented the 14th presentation of the German TV Prize , the recording of which was broadcast two days later on ZDF.

Film and dubbing

Together with Oliver Kalkofe and Bastian Pastewka , he wrote the screenplay for the movie Der Wixxer in 2003 , in which he played as Dr. Brinkman played along. With Oliver Kalkofe, Welke dubbed the English sketch show Little Britain , Come Fly with Me and Mystery Science Theater 3000: Der Film .

Management agency

Since the end of 2009, Welke has been running the management agency Knacker Einfach together with Matthias Krüger to develop and produce their own ideas. At the same time, the company also acts as a management and agency for other creative professionals. The name is explained by Welke's brief activity as a children's photo model for the motif of a canned sausage sleeve.

criticism

In two cases, Welke had to apologize publicly for broadcasts on the show today : once to the left-wing politician Marlena Schiewer , to whom he falsely slipped right-wing slogans, and the other time to the AfD politician Dieter Amann , whose stuttering Welke mocked, about the political To discredit analyzes of the politician without considering that there was a speech impediment.

Wolf Reiser found that Welke stood for a “slapstick” that resembled “boyish humor in the playground of a Waldorf school ”.

Private

Oliver Welke has been married to the TV journalist Diane Welke since 1997. The couple has two sons (* 1999, * 2002/2003) and lived in Berlin from 1997 to 2011 before moving to Bonn. Welke is a Protestant .

Together with his colleagues Lou Richter and MC Lücke and listeners to the Berlin radio station Radio Fritz , Welke founded Germany's first rubber boot throwing club in 2003 : Gib Gummi 03 Berlin .

social commitment

Oliver Welke is involved in the organization Weitblick , which advocates improved access to educational institutions. He is also involved in Terre des hommes for children in need.

Awards

  • 1995: Golden cable for the Frühstyxradio broadcast "Wir sind die Niedersachsen"
  • 2001: German television award as moderator of "ran - Sat.1 Bundesliga", for the best moderation of a sports program
  • 2004: Prize of the Offended Spectators (together with Gaby Köster and Ruth Moschner )
  • 2004: German Comedy Award as a member of the ensemble of “ 7 Days, 7 Heads ”, special award for perseverance and popularity
  • 2007: German Comedy Award as a member of the ensemble of " Frei Schnauze XXL ", for the best comedy show
  • 2009: German Comedy Award as a member of the “heute-show” ensemble, for the best comedy show
  • 2010: Grimme Prize as a member of the “heute-show” ensemble, for the entertainment category
  • 2010: German Comedy Award as a member of the “heute-show” ensemble, for the best comedy show
  • 2010: German television award in the category of best comedy as a member of the "heute-show" ensemble
  • 2010: Entertainment Journalist of the Year, by Medium Magazin
  • 2011: German Comedy Award as a member of the “heute-show” ensemble, for the best comedy show
  • 2012: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Prize for TV journalism as moderator of the "heute-Show" (together with the editorial team)
  • 2012: German Comedy Award as Best Comedian for the "heute-show"
  • 2012: German Comedy Award as a member of the “heute-show” ensemble for the best comedy show
  • 2013: Bavarian television award as moderator of the "heute-show"
  • 2013: Audience award for the best show in 50 years of ZDF for the "heute-show"
  • 2014: German television award as moderator of the “FIFA World Cup 2014” for the best sports program
  • 2014: Bambi in the Comedy category for the "heute-show"
  • 2014: German television award as a member of the “heute-show” ensemble, for the best comedy
  • 2014: Hans Oelschläger Prize for the "heute-show"
  • 2016: Golden Hen for the "heute-show"
  • 2017: Golden Camera in the category "Best Satire"

Publications

CDs

  • Kalk & Welk (together with Oliver Kalkofe ), 2000, Frühstyxradio ( rough trade )
  • Kalk & Welk: Two Angels of Mercy (together with Oliver Kalkofe), 2000, Frühstyxradio (rough trade)

Books

Synchronized work

Web links

Commons : Oliver Welke  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note in a detailed interview " Now let's be serious ", in: Westfalenpost of December 17, 2016, publisher's supplement Events
  2. ↑ http://www.knacker-einfach.de/wer-wir-sind/warum-der-name.html
  3. ↑ fsr-shop.de , accessed on December 19, 2016
  4. ^ Actor Hans-Joachim Heist. ARD, accessed on February 25, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Oliver Welke and Olaf Schubert present the German Television Award. In: filmecho. IMDb , September 4, 2012, accessed September 4, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Oliver Welke and Olaf Schubert present the German Television Award. (No longer available online.) Filmecho.de, September 4, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2014 ; accessed in April 2012 .
  7. ↑ knacker-einfach.de Note on the agency's homepage , accessed on December 19, 2016
  8. ↑ Apology from Oliver Welke: “Today show” turned left politician into AfD sympathizer. Retrieved on February 7, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Today Show" -Eklat: Left politician commented on gaffe Accessed on 7 February 2018th
  10. ↑ Oliver Welke on the AfD contribution: "If we had known that, we would never have broadcast it". Retrieved on February 7, 2018.
  11. ↑ Discrimination: "heute-show" apologizes to a stuttering AfD politician. Accessed on February 7, 2018.
  12. ↑ ZDF exposes stutterers: "heute-show" apologizes to AfD politicians. Accessed on February 7, 2018.
  13. ↑ Wolf Reiser , Witzischkeit and their limits , in: Cicero , 03.2019, p. 22.
  14. ↑ FOR YOU No. 18 of August 5, 2013, p. 98
  15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKKbO83BLI8
  16. ↑ tagesspiegel.de of July 14, 2007: As far as the soles fly , accessed on December 19, 2016
  17. ↑ Personalities. Retrieved February 25, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Celebrities get involved. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 8, 2014 ; Retrieved April 10, 2014 .
  19. ^ Annette Milz : Die Journalisten des Jahres 2010. December 21, 2010, accessed on December 22, 2010 .
  20. ↑ Awarded on October 10, 2012 in Hamburg; Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis goes to comedian Oliver Welke , accessed on February 25, 2013
  21. ↑ Bavarian State Chancellery: Minister-President Seehofer awards Bavarian TV Prize 2013 ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ Video heute-show is the most popular ZDF broadcast  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 27, 2014. (offline)
  23. ↑ a b award winners. In: deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. Retrieved October 3, 2014 .
  24. ↑ Award from the Society for the German Language. February 5, 2014, accessed July 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wilt, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld