Walter Freiwald (moderator)

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Walter Freiwald (born April 21, 1954 in Wittmund ; † November 16, 2019 ) was a German moderator .

Life

After finishing secondary school , Freiwald completed a commercial apprenticeship. In 1979 he got a job with the record company EMI . He then became an editor and later a presenter at various radio stations, including Radio Luxemburg and Radio Gong 2000 .

In 1989 Freiwald switched to television. At the side of Harry Wijnvoord he moderated the program The price is hot on RTL until 1997 and became known to a wider audience , initially through his voiceover , and became a favorite with over 1,800 programs.

In parallel, he hosted (then in 1991 on RTL RTL plus ) the teleshopping telecast show shop . In the mid-1990s Freiwald also appeared in the daily soap opera Unter uns . On March 1, 2001, RTL launched the RTL Shop teleshopping channel with Walter Freiwald at the head of the group of moderators. He also worked as program director at RTL Shop. Since then he has been seen on teleshopping programs almost every day. Before that he worked for the shopping channel QVC . At the end of 2007 he was the winner of the program The Perfect Celebrity Dinner and donated his winnings to the Burgwedel hospice movement.

In 2010 Freiwald applied to the SPD as a candidate for election to the Federal President . However, his application was denied.

From January 2012 to March 2013 he moderated the shopping channel Pearl.tv in Buggingen and worked there again for a short time at the end of 2017.

In January 2015 Freiwald was a candidate for the ninth season of I'm a Star - Get Me Out of Here! . After the audience voted, he had to leave the camp three days before the final. Parallel to the participation in the jungle camp, the single Artur, alles wird gut , which Freiwald had already released in 1993, was released as a new edition. In 2015 he won again in the program The Perfect Celebrity Dinner , and he donated his winnings to the Deutsche Hirntumorhilfe. This was followed by guest appearances at Circus HalliGalli , Neo Magazin Royale and Herbstblond - Gottschalk's big birthday show in the role of the Federal President. In August 2015, he accepted I'm a Star - Let me back in! part.

In November 2015 his biography Frei Schnauze was published with a twinkle in the eye by Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag in Berlin .

From February 1, 2016, he hosted the Freiwald am Morgen program twice a week on the teleshopping broadcaster 1-2-3.tv . In June 2016, he let himself be hypnotized under hypnosis on the RTL show Show me in the eye - celebrities . In October 2016 he acted as the presenter of the section The sweat is hot on Luke Mockridge's show Luke! The week and me with. Walter Freiwald has also been the advertising face for a car dealership chain in the federal states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Thuringia since 2016. Since 2017, he has also been part of the funk YouTube show World Wide Living several times , in which he mostly acted as a moderator for smaller games.

Freiwald was committed to the German Brain Tumor Aid . He was married, had two sons (including Neill Freiwald ) and lived in Meerbusch , Rhein-Kreis Neuss . On November 6, 2019, Freiwald made his incurable cancer public on his social media channels . He died just ten days later at the age of 65.

Publications

  • 1993: Artur, everything will be fine ( music single )
  • 2015: Walter Freiwald: Free snout and with a wink: the autobiography of the cult presenter, teleshopping pope, possible federal president and jungle king of hearts! Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86265-569-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Walter Freiwald , rtl.de, accessed on November 21, 2019
  2. ↑ Hans Hoff: "The man in the background" , Süddeutsche Zeitung, accessed on November 21, 2019
  3. ↑ Walter Freiwald. "The perfect celebrity dinner". (No longer available online.) In: VOX.de. December 16, 2007, archived from the original on November 1, 2012 ; Retrieved December 22, 2012 .
  4. ^ Jens Maier: Walter Freiwald - This is his letter of application as Federal President. In: stern.de. January 21, 2015, accessed January 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ First working day at pearl.tv - Walter Freiwald and Miss Germany Anne-Kathrin Kosch start at the new teleshopping channel. (No longer available online.) In: presse-artikel.org. February 2, 2012, archived from the original on September 18, 2012 ; Retrieved December 22, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Lückerath: No more presentations at Pearl.TV: Walter Freiwald's TV comeback is over again. In: dwdl.de . January 17, 2018, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  7. ^ "Circus HalliGalli:" Walter Freiwald compresses Joko and Klaas. In: stern.de. March 17, 2015, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jan Böhmermann raps his way to the top of YouTube. (No longer available online.) In: Focus Online . May 30, 2015, archived from the original on August 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 14, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Sven Kuschel: Between nostalgia and nonsense: The Gottschalk birthday in the BILD check. In: bild.de. May 19, 2015, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Bernd Peters: Jungle star Walter Freiwald celebrates TV comeback. In: express .de. January 23, 2016, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Timo Niemeier: Soon in daily use - Walter Freiwald celebrates TV comeback on Pearl.TV. In: dwdl.de . November 29, 2017. Retrieved November 21, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Lisa Nordholt: RTL puts celebrities under hypnosis - Walter Freiwald: This is my greatest horror. In: Focus Online. Retrieved August 31, 2016 .
  13. ↑ The perfect celebrity dinner: Walter Freiwald wins with Aurelio Savina . In: Rheinische Post , March 30, 2015.
  14. ↑ Walter Freiwald terminally ill: "Cancer is an asshole and will kill me". In: rp-online.de . November 6, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  15. ^ Message on Twitter. (No longer available online.) November 6, 2019, archived from the original on November 6, 2019 ; accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Walter Freiwald († 65): The TV star is dead. In: Bunte.de . November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ He recently made cancer public: TV star Walter Freiwald is dead. In: focus.de. November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Freiwald, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio, television presenter and teleshopping seller
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittmund
DATE OF DEATH 16th November 2019