Sebastian Klussmann

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Sebastian Klussmann (born April 24, 1989 in Berlin ) is a professional German quiz player , speaker and author, who is best known for his role as a "hunter" in the ARD quiz show asked - hunted , in which he has appeared since 2013.

Career

Klussmann has been the founding chairman of the German Quiz Association since 2011 . From 2011 to 2018 he won the Berlin Quiz Championship eight times in a row. For many years he was one of the five best juniors worldwide, ie quizzers under the age of 30, and as a nine-time national team member (2010 to 2018) he is a record German national player at the European Quize Championship . At the European Quiz Championships 2017 in Zagreb, he was the second German ever to win a medal in an international quiz competition. The following year he and his team “Sage Supercilia” became European champions. In all of his participations in the quiz world championship, he ended up in the top five Germans and was best German in 2014. In 2015 he won the annual overall ranking of the Deutschland Cup and came second in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018. At the German Quiz Championship he won in 2013, 2017 and 2020 in the double competition (each with Sebastian Jacoby ) and in 2019 and 2020 in the team competition (with Sebastian Jacoby, Roland Knauff and René Waßmer).

Klussmann has been appearing regularly in the role of “hunter” since 2013 in the ARD quiz program Asked - Hunted , with the program being broadcast from 2012 to 2015 on NDR and from 2015 on Erste . In the show, Klussmann plays several duels against one or more candidates, each with a starting advantage. His battle name is "The know-it-all". In the September 13, 2019 edition, Klussmann set a negative German record when he lost a final in which he could not catch the seven points submitted by the candidates.

Klussmann lives in Berlin and works as a consultant with a focus on memory, education, general knowledge and geopolitics as well as a speaker and moderator and gives lectures at companies and organizations. In February 2019 he held a TEDx talk at WHU in Vallendar with the title "How to become a know-it-all and why bother in the age of Google".

In his first book Knowing better with the know-it-all. How to train your general education at Ullstein Verlag , Klussmann explains how you can effectively and playfully expand your general education and why this is still important for a society in the age of Google.

He also writes TV quizzes and live quiz events. He speaks six languages ​​including Chinese and Japanese .

In the literature

In Death Mark , the fifth volume in his series about Sabine Nemez and Maarten S. Sneijder, the Austrian writer Andreas Gruber lets an old professor appear who keeps watching the same sequence of Asked - Chased on a video cassette. The protagonist, Commissioner Sabine Nemez, explains: "I love being asked - hunted ... My favorite hunter is the know-it-all."

Fonts

  • Know better with the know-it-all. This is how you train your general education. Ullstein Verlag , Berlin 2020, 978-3-548-06384-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Asked hunted" - The four hunters in portrait :. This is how the quiz aces Sebastian Jacoby, Sebastian Klussmann and Co. tick In: www.news.de. December 7, 2015, accessed January 28, 2016 .
  2. ^ German Quiz Association eV: Tournaments | Deutscher Quiz-Verein eV Accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  3. ^ German Quiz Association eV: National team | Deutscher Quiz-Verein eV Accessed on July 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ TEDx Talks: How to become a know-it-all - and why bothering in the age of Google - Sebastian Klussmann - TEDxWHU . April 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Sebastian Klussmann (born 1989). In: daserste.de. Retrieved July 22, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Gruber: Death Mark . In: Sabine Nemez and Maarten S. Sneijder . tape 5 . Goldmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-48656-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Klussmann, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German quiz player
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany