Verona Pooth

Verona Pooth (2013)

Verona Pooth (*  thirtieth April 1968 as Verona Feldbusch in La Paz , Bolivia ) is a German presenter , entrepreneur , actress and model .

Life

Childhood and youth

Pooth's parents are the German mechanical engineer Ernst Feldbusch (1927 / 28–2003) and the Bolivian hairdresser Luisa Feldbusch (1935–2015). In the first year of Verona Pooth's life, the parents moved with her and her brother to Hamburg, her father's hometown. When she was ten years old, the parents divorced.

She then grew up with her mother and attended a secondary school in Hamburg . When she was approached by an advertising photographer on the street at the age of 15, she began working as a model . At the end of the 1980s, she attended the Holzdamm commercial and commercial college without a degree.

Music career

During a visit to a discotheque in 1990, the DJ Alex Christensen approached her to sing the song Ritmo de la Noche . With Pooth as part of the Chocolate formation, the title reached number 23 in August of that year and stayed in the German single charts for 21 weeks, and eighth in the Dutch charts . Ritmo de la Noche became a summer hit across Europe in 1990 and also hit the charts in Great Britain , France and Spain . Chocolate received a gold record for this in 1990 and toured the world for around three years. Alain Midzic has been Pooth's manager since then .

Success in beauty pageants

From 1989 Pooth successfully participated in several national and international beauty contests. As Miss Hamburg , she took second place in the Miss Germany Company's choice of Miss Germany in 1990. In 1993 she was again Miss Hamburg and Miss Germany of the Miss Germany Association (MGA). She then represented Germany worldwide as the beauty queen. She participated in the 1993 Miss World election in Sun City ( South Africa ) and won the Miss Intercontinental World title in the same year and the Miss American Dream title in 1995 .

Television career

Verona Pooth (2004)

The television station RTL 2 moderated Pooth August 1996 to March 1999, the television show erotic peep! . Here she made the headlines when she unexpectedly ended her moderation work on the grounds that the show had "become too pornographic" for her. On RTL , Pooth received her first own late night comedy talk show entitled Veronas Welt , which she hosted from August 1998 to March 2000. From October 2004 she joined The Swan - finally beautiful! 16 women in eight programs on ProSieben , how they were transformed from “ugly duckling” to “beautiful swan” with cosmetic surgery.

Between May 2007 and February 2008, two seasons (16 episodes) of their own docu-soap Engel were broadcast on RTL 2 - with Verona Pooth . RTL 2 terminated the further cooperation in April 2008 because her husband Franjo Pooth was being investigated for bribery and delaying bankruptcy . In September 2010, Pooth returned to television with new episodes of Engel in action .

In October 2010 she had a guest role in the ZDF crime series Die Rosenheim-Cops in the episode Die kalte Gräfin . In 2013, Pooth was a member of the jury for the RTL show Die Pool Champions - Celebrities under water . In March 2014, RTL broadcast a single test series Verona privately - at home with the Pooths . In February 2020, she was the protagonist in the RTL knowledge show Am I smarter than ...? and in April 2020 on the ZDF show The game begins! to see. In addition, she was in the program, which was broadcast in July 2020 - Hunted in the First and in two episodes of Die! Which aired in July and August . Heart! Blow! Show! to be seen on ProSieben. Pooth was in several issues of improvisation - Comedy Show murder with announcement on Sat.1 to see.

Film career

Movie poster for Marry Me!

In 1998, Pooth made her acting debut in Gabriel Barylli's comedy Who loves, wings will grow . In 1999 she made the television film Modern Talking and took on her first leading role in the comedy Marry me! . In 1998 she worked in an episode of the US series Conan, the adventurer , in 2000 then in an episode of Acapulco HEAT. In the same year she had a brief appearance in the movie 2002 - Crazy in Space with Leslie Nielsen . In 2001 she had a small role in the movie Driven . In 2002 she was part of the German film production 666 - Don't trust anyone you sleep with! in front of the camera. In the German version of the film Himmel und Huhn (2005) she lent her voice to the character Susi Schnatter and thus made her debut as a voice actress .

Entrepreneur

In 1990 she and a school friend opened the Immerschön boutique in Hamburg-Rotherbaum , where she also offered collections that she had designed and sewn herself . From 2002 to 2004 she marketed lingerie and jewelry under the label Veronas Dreams in the Karstadt branches and at Otto-Versand . The company Verona's Dreams - Feldbusch GmbH was founded in 1998 by her father. In 2008, Pooth agreed the exclusive marketing of its So ... Perfect cosmetics line with the teleshopping broadcaster HSE24 for an initial two years.

Promotional activities

Their quickly growing level of awareness helped Pooth to win several advertising contracts. For the telephone information of Telegate she made the slogan "Because you will be helped!" Popular, for the spinach advertising firm Iglo the slogan "When he makes at last, Blubb '?". Together with Peter Ustinov she promoted the world exhibition Expo 2000 in Hanover when the visitors did not come. Between 2001 and 2003, Pooth was the face of the advertising campaign for Schauma hair care products. She also promoted Maxfield, her husband's company.

After the affair about Franjo Pooth's business activities, several advertising partners withdrew. Under the slogan “Better than how you think”, KiK started a new advertising campaign in August 2009 with Pooth as a testimonial in Germany and Austria . The collaboration between Pooth and the company, which was often criticized for its production and working conditions, was discussed in the German media, as Pooth repeatedly emphasized her social commitment.

Volunteering

Pooth has been an ambassador of the German Stroke Foundation for the concerns of those affected since 2007 .

Marriages and families

Verona Pooth (2015)

Pooth's short marriage to musician and producer Dieter Bohlen made the headlines . The couple married on May 13, 1996 in Las Vegas . The split followed four weeks after she claimed she had been beaten by him. Bohlen said this happened in affect after Pooth threw a sharp-edged key in his face. After reconciliations in the meantime, the couple divorced on May 27, 1997.

Since 2000, Pooth has been the life partner of the then student and later entrepreneur Franjo Pooth . She gave birth to her first child on September 10, 2003. She wrote the book Der kleine Feldbusch about the period of pregnancy . On May 18, 2004, she married Pooth in San Diego and took his family name. The church wedding took place on September 10, 2005 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , where a church wedding was held for the first time in 15 years. On June 4, 2011, the couple's second son was born.

Insolvency of Maxfield GmbH

At the beginning of 2008, Franjo Pooth's company Maxfield GmbH had to file for bankruptcy due to over-indebtedness . The chairman of the board of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf , involved in the bankruptcy , Heinz-Martin Humme, often moved in the private sphere of the Pooths. B. with six employees at the couple's wedding in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral and while playing golf. A member of the Sparkasse's board of directors publicly suspected that the loan had been granted too lightly due to the “Verona factor”.

Awards

• 1990: Gold record  - once gold
• 1993: Miss Germany
• 1993: Miss Intercontinental
• 1995: Miss American Dream
• 2000: German Comedy Award for Best Comedy Advertising
• 2003: Maxim -Woman of the year (Business-Woman)
• 2004: Brisant Brillant for their social commitment

Discography

Singles

as part of Chocolate

• Ritmo de la Noche (1990)
• Brazil! Brazil! (1990)
• Everybody Salsa (1991)
• La Ola (1991)

than Verona

• Kiss (1997)

Albums

• Rhythmflowerbeats (1990)

Fonts

• Verona Pooth with Johanna Völkel: Take everything, give a lot: the Verona principle. mvg, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-86882-988-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Verona Pooth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Verona Pooth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Verona Pooth in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Short biography prosieben.de, accessed on February 8, 2018
2. ↑ Verona's gray eminence stern.de, March 28, 2009.
3. ^ Affair Pooth: Verona has had its day as an "angel in action" on RTL 2 Horizont.net, April 8, 2008.
4. ↑ Verona is celebrating its television comeback ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. news.de, September 7, 2010. 
5. ↑ RTL does "Am I smarter than ...?" With Verona Pooth. In: dwdl.de , January 16, 2020.
6. ↑ The Bohlen book is a "mess" stern.de, October 17, 2002.
7. ↑ Verona's Dreams: Father Feldbusch founds a lingerie company  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. TextilWirtschaft, June 29, 1998.  
8. ↑ Verona Pooth presents her cosmetics line So ... Perfect exclusively at the shopping channel HSE24 , article on presseportal.de from March 11, 2008, accessed on June 29, 2018
9. ↑ Verona on sale at Süddeutsche.de, May 17, 2010, accessed on April 3, 2014.
10. ↑ Verona Pooth as an ambassador for stroke aid. Abendblatt.de, August 11, 2007, accessed on August 4, 2019 . 
11. ^ Report - Verona went Vienna. Travel journalistic marginal notes on the "Wedding of the Year" Michael Müller Verlag.
12. ↑ Your baby is called Rocco Ernesto , Bunte, June 8, 2011.
13. ^ Insolvency proceedings against Franjo Pooth opened Die Welt, March 3, 2008.
14. ↑ Sparkasse ohne Glamor ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 29, 2008. 
15. ↑ Bribery allegation against Verona's husband: Sparkasse - you will be helped  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. RP-online, February 21, 2008.  

predecessor	Office	Successor
Miss Germany Association Diana Leisgen (disqualified) Meike Schwarz Miss Germany Corporation Astrid Kuhlmann	Miss Germany (Miss Germany Association) 1993 Miss Germany Corporation Cornelia Oehlmann	Miss Germany Association Tanja Wild Miss Germany Corporation Beate Almer