Petra Vieten
Petra Vieten (* 8. September 1964 in Duisburg as Petra Lang skirt ) is a German entrepreneur and presenter . She used to work as an actress and model .
Early years
Petra Langrock grew up in Duisburg and Düsseldorf . From 1975 to 1985 she belonged to the youth group Spatzen of the St. Rochus parish in Düsseldorf. The youth group, known nationwide in North Rhine-Westphalia since winning the 1st environmental protection award of the state capital in 1980, was presented in 1983 in the talk show Wednesdays in ... by Manfred Erdenberger on WDR television. This was Petra Langrock's first TV appearance. She made at Ursuline High School in 1984 in Dusseldorf High School . This was followed by a degree in business administration , mathematics and English at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. The course was discontinued in 1986.
Entrepreneur
Organizer of private tours in the USA
During the 1985 summer vacation, Petra Langrock and four friends from the Spatzen youth group organized a private tour across the United States to Texas . The people of Düsseldorf, including her later husband Wolfgang Vieten, happened to be hired as extras for the television series Dallas for a week . German media reported on this. After an appearance on the WDR show So isses by Jürgen von der Lippe , 800 viewers reported to the youth group. In addition to participating in the Dallas series, the program also reported on the self-organized tour. In the summer of 1986 Petra Vieten (married in June 1986), Wolfgang Vieten and Andrea Keller privately organized two first round trips with 30 participants each in the USA during the semester break. In the beginning, round trips were offered under the motto "Adventure and Sightseeing". The customers drove with tour guides, including Petra Vieten herself, in rented cars through the USA and Canada, with overnight stays at campsites. Big cities, national parks and other sights in the USA were visited. In 1987 Petra Vieten appeared again in several episodes of the television series Dallas as an extra. Until 1989, further tours were organized privately during the semester break.
Vietentours
Petra Vieten, Wolfgang Vieten and Andrea Keller founded the travel company Vietentours in 1990 . The Vieten have each held 50% of the shares as shareholders in Vietentours since the company was founded . Petra Vieten has been the commercial director of the company since it was founded. Since 1991, in addition to trips to the USA, trips to Australia and New Zealand have also been made. In 1992 destinations in the Caribbean and from 1993 in Africa were added.
In 1994 the first sports trip was organized during the soccer World Cup in the USA , with Vietentours being selected as one of the three official German tour operators. Since 1997, the Neuss-based company has been mainly active as a sports and incentive tour operator . The adventure travel division was taken over by Andrea Keller, the former managing director of Vietentours . Trips to major sporting events such as soccer and handball world and European championships, tennis grand slam tournaments and the Olympic Games are now being organized on a wider scale .
Model
Petra Vieten worked as a model from 1984 to 1992 . She was on different covers of magazines, e.g. B. 1992 TV week . In 1992, she won the Cover Girl competition of Rudi Carrell Show and then was cover girl for the TV hearing and seeing . Fashion shoots took place for companies such as Triumph International , Christian Dior and Kaufhof . She worked as a model at trade fairs such as Igedo , Boot Düsseldorf and Munich Fashion Week .
From November 1987 to September 1996 Vieten reported in around a hundred illustrated articles on nudist holidays and activities around the world in several European nudist magazines. She posed as a model herself and wrote the articles in three languages herself.
As a model, Vieten also made revealing pictures. She appeared, among other things, topless as a page 3 girl in the British tabloids The Sun (1985) and Daily Star (1986) and was seen naked in men's magazines and other soft erotic magazines. Her photos in the German-language edition of the men's magazine lui appeared in June 1986 at the same time as the broadcast of the television series Dallas , in which she was an extra, and on the day of her wedding. This caused a sensation in the parish of St. Rochus, whose youth group Spatzen she belonged, and in the local press in Düsseldorf. In February 1988 Vieten was on the cover of Gallery , a US erotic magazine, in September 1988 in the German edition of High Society and two months later in American High Society . In 1988 she was one of the faces of the year for Bild Zeitung . In the USA she was on the covers of Easyriders , Super Cycle and Velvet in 1989 . In Italy she was the erotic model of the Excelsior magazine with several photo series in 1989 and 1990, in the German equivalent even "Girl of the Year 1990". In July 1986 it was pictured in the US penthouse , in the English penthouse in May 1987 Pet of the Month and then in the Pet of the Year, and in the German penthouse in October 1993.
Presenter and actress
From 1991 to 1992 Vieten took acting lessons at the Junge Theater in der Altstadt (JuTA) in Düsseldorf and speaking lessons in Cologne. During these years she already appeared as the presenter of the scratch-off star lottery at SDR . In 1992 Vieten took part in a WDR young talent competition. It took first place out of 1,800 competitors. Two days later, reported Express and image about her work as "nude model" and appearances as a striptease -Tänzerin in Tutti Frutti and the Italian original version of the erotic - game show Colpo Grosso . Petra Vieten performed repeatedly as a Eurogirl under different names and nationalities from 1990 to 1991 with Tutti Frutti and regularly in 1990 with Colpo Grosso . In addition, she was regularly seen in the 1990s in the erotic program Electric Blue on SAT.1 and RTL 2 . In view of these activities, Petra Vieten did not get a moderator position at WDR, which she had previously won in casting, but was given the opportunity to complete a test broadcast that was broadcast in the main evening program of ARD in 1992.
A little later, Petra Vieten got a role in the television series Lindenstrasse . From 1992 to 1998, from episodes 360 to 639, she played the doctor's assistant Corinna Marx . In 1993 she appeared as a program announcer at ORB and spokesperson for news and weather at SFB . Together with Jörg Pilawa , Petra Vieten presented the show RSH Gold: Hit of the Year on SAT 1 in 1993 . There were also other appearances as a presenter on various broadcasters.
In the ZDF series Lots of Life , she played the secretary Brigitte from 1995 to 1996 . A few smaller roles followed and a. in the series SOKO 5113 (ZDF) and as a Hollywood reporter (RTL).
Vieten has been a moderator at trade fairs, sports events and events since 1990. In the field of sports she moderated the Sports Press Ball 2007 in Berlin, from 2007 to 2011 five times the Olympic Ball Night in Wiesbaden and other events. She was employed as a moderator at events of numerous companies. She also guided through the program at 50 carnival sessions in Cologne and the Rhineland .
Private life
Petra Vieten has been married to the entrepreneur Wolfgang Vieten, her business partner, since 1986. Wolfgang and Petra Vieten have known each other since 1970 from a youth group in the St. Rochus parish in Düsseldorf and have been a couple since 1980. They have three children, Annika (born October 1996), Sina (born June 2000) and Benjamin (born January 2003). Odenhausen Castle , a listed property in Wachtberg in the Rhein-Sieg district , has belonged to the Vieten couple since 2005 .
literature
- Henry Sprenger: An interview with Petra Vieten. nrw sports & nrw events , January – February 2012, pp. 24–26.
- Marcuß, Westphal: Preferably barefoot ... - Petra Vieten: from glamor girl to company boss. you + me , April 2012. p. 30.
Web links
- Petra Vieten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Petra Vieten - official website
- Vietentours - official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spiegel from May 18, 1992 - section Petra Vieten , accessed on January 18, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vieten, Petra |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Langrock, Petra (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress, model, presenter, entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |