Thomas Kinne

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Kinne (2020)

Thomas Kinne (born February 26, 1961 in Niederbieber-Segendorf ) is a German translator , author , editor , editor , travel journalist, film expert, comic book collector and Americanist . He became known as a participant and winner of quiz and game shows on German and American television . In the fourth ARD season of asked - hunted , Kinne joined the show's hunter team as “Der Quizdoktor”.

Career

After high school at Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied and studied military service Kinne at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the San Francisco State University in San Francisco American , English studies , Hispanic studies , journalism and film . During his studies, he began to work as a translator and freelance editor for various television broadcasters and TV production companies, and at the same time appeared as a candidate on TV game shows. He translated scripts of well-known TV series such as Cheers and Hill Street Blues (in the respective improved versions) into German, but also numerous dialogues and comments for export versions of series, films and historical or scientific documentaries of the ZDF into English (including SOKO Leipzig , Coast Guard , Unser Charly , Terra X , Deutschlandspiel ).

Kinne worked for the Seychelles Tourist Office for several years and then worked in tourism marketing. In the mid-1990s he went freelance as a translator and since then has translated nonfiction books in addition to his work for television, mostly from the fields of film and comics . In addition, he wrote or edited several travel guides and illustrated books and continues to translate texts from various industries for commercial purposes.

In addition to his job, Kinne is also privately involved in languages ​​and has one of the world's most extensive collections of volumes from the French comic series Astérix in over 120 languages ​​and dialects.

Kinne is married, has two daughters and has lived in Nauheim, Hesse , since 1996 .

Achievements and awards

Kinne received his doctorate magna cum laude in 1994 with a dissertation on the elements of Jewish tradition in Woody Allen's work , in which he made connections between current films and television series and a millennia-old cultural and literary tradition. Television and book productions, in which he was involved in the following years, were honored with numerous international prizes. The ZDF production Das Drama von Dresden 2006 was awarded an international Emmy in the “Best Documentary” category, and the documentary Göring : Eine Karriere 2007 won the Gold World Medal at the International TV Programming and Promotion Awards in New York and the volume 75 Years of DC Comics 2011 with the Will Eisner Award .

watch TV

1990s

Kinne had his first television appearance on June 11, 1991 in episode 188 of Riskant! , the first German version of the US game show Jeopardy! on RTLplus . In the same year there was an appearance in three episodes of TicTacToe with Michael Förster , which RTL broadcast in March 1992. After the maximum number of three wins, Kinne was eliminated undefeated. As a jeopardy! Was reissued in 1994 by RTL in the original look and under the original title, Kinne was one of the three candidates in the premiere episode with Frank Elstner , won this and the following four episodes and thus became the first German Jeopardy! -Champion and at the same time the first German five-time champion. Since participation was limited to five programs, Kinne was also eliminated here undefeated and took part in the first “ChampionsCup” a year later. He won the quarter-finals here too, but then retired after several play-offs in the final round of the semi-finals against Karl Gruber from Austria with the same number of points . Since Kinne speaks fluent English , he was the first German to participate in the first international Jeopardy in 1996 ! Tournament in the USA, moderated by Alex Trebek . Here, too, Kinne narrowly failed in the final round of the semi-finals, this time against the British Mandi Hale, after the third candidate had not reached the final round: Both remaining players answered the final question correctly, but Hale had previously scored and placed more points. Half a year later, Kinne made it into the three finalists again in the quiz show Everyone against everyone on Sat.1 .

2000s

After five years of abstinence from TV, Kinne returned to German television in 2001 with the show, The weakest flies , hosted by Sonja Zietlow . In the episode, which was broadcast on October 19, 2001 on RTL, he successively defeated his eight fellow candidates. Shortly afterwards he beat 99 opponents in episode 6 and 7 of the RTL quiz show One against 100 , which was moderated in its first German-language edition by Linda de Mol . He was the only remaining candidate in the audience and was then allowed to take a seat on the “hot seat”, but was unable to secure the winnings in episode 8.

2010s and later

After another break of several years, Kinne competed in 2015 in episode 4/27 of Asked - hunted , which was broadcast for the first time on June 24, 2015, with three colleagues against the hunter Sebastian Jacoby . In round 1, Kinne won the record sum of 6,000 euros with 12 correctly answered questions. In the final round, the team beat the hunter with a total of 16 correct answers (including 4 setbacks) and was able to collectively take home 37,500 euros. A year later, Kinne asked himself special questions about his adopted home in the hessen quiz of the hr television and was able to win - like his daughter Alisa the year before - in episode 11 of the 22nd season. Two months after it was broadcast, he was back in front of the camera in Berlin when he met the experts Michael Herbig (film and television), Franziska van Almsick (sports), Axel Milberg (literature ) in episode 26 of the ZDF series Der Quiz-Champion and language), Wigald Boning (geography) and Guido Knopp (contemporary history) and emerged from the final round as the eleventh quiz champion in the history of this series with a profit of 100,000 euros. Since 2018 he has been one of the "masters" in the series Jackpot-Jäger of the hr-television and one of the "hunters" in the quiz series Asked - hunted by the NDR . In August 2019 he was also seen as a “decoy” for his daughter Alisa on the ZDF game show Sorry for everything , where he rapped with Eko Fresh and also set the world record for catching bridal bouquets with blindfolds. In September 2020 he and his colleague Sebastian Jacoby competed in the “ Hunted ” team in the show Quizduell Olymp im Erste.


TV appearances as a candidate

series episode First broadcast Channel Moderator (Final) opponent output
Risky! 188 1991-06-11 RTL plus Hans-Jürgen Bäumler Steffen Schindler (winner); Steffen C.
TicTacToe 31 1992-03-26 RTL Michael Forster Ellen, Helga, Werner winner
TicTacToe 32 1992-03-27 RTL Michael Forster Andreas, Wolf, Sibylle winner
TicTacToe 33 1992-03-30 RTL Michael Forster Siegbert Woring, Harald, Ines winner
Jeopardy! 1 1994-10-17 RTL Frank Elstner Tanja Dönhoff, Josef Schmitz winner
Jeopardy! 2 1994-10-18 RTL Frank Elstner Stefan Schröter, Anka Feldhusen winner
Jeopardy! 3 1994-10-19 RTL Frank Elstner Norbert Selbach, Andrea Schröder winner
Jeopardy! 4th 1994-10-20 RTL Frank Elstner Martin Mache, Regina Bojak winner
Jeopardy! 5 1994-10-21 RTL Frank Elstner Peter Ricken, Joachim von Richthofen winner
Jeopardy! 231 1995-10-09 RTL Frank Elstner Norbert Schaefer, Armin Dörr winner
Jeopardy! 237 1995-10-17 RTL Frank Elstner Karl Gruber (winner), Dagmar Henn Semi-finalist
Jeopardy! (UNITED STATES) 2752 1996-07-16 syndicated Alex Trebek Mandi Hale (winner), Søren Wedderkopp Semi-finalist
Every man for himself 63 1996-12-04 SAT 1 Hans-Hermann Gockel Jochen Werry (winner), Eric Frost finalist
The weakest flies 155 2001-10-19 RTL Sonja Zietlow Christa winner
One against 100 6th 2002-02-23 RTL Linda de Mol in the game
One against 100 7th 2002-03-09 RTL Linda de Mol Chair candidate
One against 100 8th 2002-03-09 RTL Linda de Mol
Asked - hunted 4.27 2015-06-24 The first Alexander Bommes Sebastian Jacoby (hunter) winner
hesse quiz 11/22 2017-02-05 watch tv Jörg Bombach Dirk Friese, Petra Henke, Valeska Sommer winner
The quiz champion 25th 2017-04-29 ZDF Johannes B. Kerner Dominik Wahlig winner
Quiz duel Olymp 122 2020-09-04 The first Jörg Pilawa in a team with Sebastian Jacoby

Works (selection)

Own publications

  • Elements of Jewish tradition in Woody Allen's work . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-631-48530-1 .
  • Woody Allen and the Jews: Welcome to the club. In: Beate Neumeier (ed.): Jewish literature and culture in Great Britain and the USA after 1945. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-447-04108-0 .
  • Seychelles: Dream Islands in the Indian Ocean (with Thomas Haltner, photographer), Verlagshaus Würzburg, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8003-4467-3 .
  • Seychelles (= polyglot on tour ). Gräfe and Unzer, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8464-0460-7 .
  • Dr. Chin's consultation hour . QDr-Verlag, Nauheim 2020, ISBN 979-8-6339-2925-6 .

Translations

Web links

Commons : Thomas Kinne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Növer: For him, the whole life is a quiz: Ex-Neuwieder goes on the ARD program on the hunt for candidates. In: Rhein-Zeitung . July 27, 2018, accessed July 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b «Asked - hunted» - return: Two hunters for one giant? In: quotenmeter.de. March 8, 2018. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Asked - Hunted: New episodes and two new hunters for the quiz! In: Adorable. May 3, 2018, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Abitur. In: Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium. Retrieved August 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Supervised Theses. Retrieved January 4, 2018 .
  6. ↑ “Asked - Hunted”: All 7 hunters in portrait. In: kino.de. Retrieved April 24, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Thomas Kinne. In: IMDb. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Portrait in Der Quiz-Champion , ZDF, broadcast on April 29, 2017
  9. ↑ Thomas Kinne: Dr. Chin's consultation hour . QDr-Verlag, Nauheim 2020, ISBN 979-86-3392925-6 , p. 295 .
  10. ↑ “The Drama of Dresden” wins the Emmy award in New York. In: tempusfilm.com. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  11. ^ New York Festival: Awards for German TV productions. In: kino.de. February 7, 2007, accessed November 9, 2017 .
  12. ^ Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Winners - 2011. In: comicsalliance.com. July 23, 2011, accessed November 9, 2017 .
  13. ↑ TicTacToe 33 1992-03-30. In: YouTube. July 24, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Harald Gebhardt, "As once Asterix from victory to victory", Mainzer Rhein-Zeitung , 22./23. October 1994, p. 11.
  15. ↑ Jeopardy! DE 005 1994-10-21. In: YouTube. July 23, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  16. ^ Frank Aretz, "Elstner's candidate on US-TV", Express , August 2, 1996, p. 11.
  17. ↑ Mandi Hale. In: IMDb. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Mandi Hale. In: apterous.org. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  19. ^ Show # 2752. In: J! Archives. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
  20. ↑ The weakest flies 2001-10-19. In: YouTube. July 24, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Asked - hunted Season 1, episode 27. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Asked - chased ARD season 1, episode 27 June 24, 2015. In: YouTube. October 6, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  23. ↑ Asked - hunted (Список выпусков). In: gameshows.ru. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Alisa Kinne. In: IMDb. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Jackpot Hunter. In: IMDb. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Sorry for everything. In: IMDb. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kinne, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kinne, Thomas J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television personality
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederbieber- Segendorf