Simon Krätschmer

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Simon Krätschmer gives a laudation at the 2011 Web Video Prize

Simon Martin Heinz "Bimon" Krätschmer (born February 28, 1979 in Hanau ) is a German television presenter .

From March 2001 to February 2006 he worked for various GIGA TV formats and was also the presenter of the late night show Nachtfalke on Tele 5 in 2004 . He designed the video game program Game One with Daniel Budiman and was the presenter there from 2006 to 2014. He has been a co-founder of the production company Rocket Beans Entertainment GmbH since 2011 and has been a presenter at Rocket Beans TV since 2015 .

Life

Krätschmer was born in Hanau in 1979. He is the son of the former mayor of Wächtersbach for many years , Rainer Krätschmer, and grew up in Lohrhaupten .

From 1995 to 2000 he worked as a freelance writer for Modern Media Publishing , where he wrote solution books for video and computer games. In 1998 he graduated from high school and was then, among other things, editor at the magazines fun generation (here as deputy editor-in-chief), the official PlayStation magazine , the official PlayStation2 magazine , play playstation and the gaming internet portal opm-net.de . His first television appearance was Krätschmer in the broadcast market trends of the Hessian Radio .

Career

Career at GIGA

On April 9, 2001 Krätschmer had his first appearance on the program GIGA GAMES , an interactive television program on NBC Europe , which dealt with computer and video games. Here he worked in the Help / MAXX department, which he moderated with various colleagues until April 2003. From April 7, 2003 he moderated the console area together with Michael Neudert , which he left on July 17, 2005. When the GIGA \\ GAMES Roadshow began in June 2005, he acted as a moderator at GIGA GAMES and was no longer responsible for a specific area. On February 23, 2006, Krätschmer opened the show for the last time and then left the GIGA station.

Career at Game One

From August 2006, Krätschmer worked on the program Game One , which was initially broadcast as MTV Game One on the TV station MTV . Here he moderated and produced together with his former GIGA colleague Daniel Budiman, with whom he had designed the show. Like Krätschmer and Budiman, some other Game One employees were also previously at GIGA. The show received the audience award of the Grimme Online Award in 2011 . It later also aired on VIVA and Comedy Central .

Game One was discontinued in 2014 and the last new episode aired on December 23, 2014.

Career at Rocket Beans TV

In October 2011, Krätschmer co-founded the media production company Rocket Beans Entertainment GmbH alongside Daniel Budiman , Etienne Gardé , Nils Bomhoff and Arno Heinisch . He moderated some videos on the YouTube channel of the company Rocket Beans TV , which received the German Web Video Award in 2014 for one of its videos . On January 15, 2015, the company founded a station of the same name, which has been broadcasting the program on the Twitch streaming portal and since September 1, 2016 on YouTube. In June 2015, the station was awarded the 2015 Web Video Prize for its services over the past year.

Since the start of the broadcast, Krätschmer has moderated individual formats on topics such as computer games or literature. He is also a regular guest presenter in talk formats such as Almost Daily and was a co-presenter on the show Bohn Jour .

Others

From March 1 to June 18, 2004, Krätschmer was the presenter of the late night show Nachtfalke , which was broadcast on Tele 5.

From April 2008 to October 2010 he worked as a columnist for derwesten.de and wrote with Daniel Budiman in the Budimon column on the subject of computer games and culture.

In 2010, he and Daniel Budiman gave a laudation for the German Computer Game Award during the award ceremony .

On June 4, 2016, Krätschmer hosted the German Web Video Award as part of Rocket Beans.

In February 2017, Simon Krätschmer and his colleagues Etienne Gardé, Nils Bomhoff and Daniel Budiman from Rocket Beans TV received the German Television Award in the category “best entertainment moderation”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Krätschmer - Questionnaire 1 (summer 2002). In: GIGA-Games-fans.de. Retrieved August 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Almost daily, issue 96 on the YouTube channel of Rocket Beans TV. (accessed on: July 30, 2014)
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJMIfq1Lj0
  4. ↑ Profile on rocketbeans.de (accessed on: July 30, 2014)
  5. ↑ Interview on faz.net
  6. ↑ Grimme Online Award 2011. grimme-online-award.de, May 11, 2011, accessed on January 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Nice mess ... MTV ends "Game One" , DWDL.de (accessed on January 21, 2015)
  8. ↑ Information ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rocketbeans.de (accessed on: July 30, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rocketbeans.de
  9. ↑ Contribution to the 2014 Web Video Prize , May 24, 2014. Accessed August 22, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Rocket Beans" - The web video stars from Eimsbüttel
  11. ↑ Short biography ( memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) for the German Gamestage 2013 .
  12. ↑ Simon Krätschmer: Mental risk or the definition of the common nerd on derwesten.de (published on: April 16, 2008)
  13. ↑ Simon Krätschmer et al .: The last column of all time on derwesten.de (published on: October 27, 2010)
  14. ↑ Press release of the German Computer Game Award 2010, April 14, 2010. ( Memento of December 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Prize Winner 2017 , German Television Prize 2017, accessed on February 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Krätschmer, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krätschmer, Simon Martin (full name); Krätschmer, Bimon (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau