Willi Weitzel

Willi Weitzel, 2013

Willi Weitzel (born December 13, 1972 in Marburg as Helmar Rudolf Willi Weitzel ) is a German television presenter and reporter . He hosted the TV shows Willi wills Wissen and Willis VIPs . In 2008 he made the movie Willi and the wonders of this world . Other TV shows he hosted were Willis Quiz Quark Club , Willi wants to know - Good question, next question! , Willi wills know from A – Z and A good reason to celebrate (2011 to 2013). Since 2013 he has been traveling wild ways in Germany with his live program Willis . Since January 2018 he has moderated the magazine Gut zu Wissen on BR TV .

Life

Willi Weitzel comes from Stadtallendorf (Hessen), where his family ran a retail business for several generations . In 1992 he passed his Abitur at the Stiftsschule St. Johann in Amöneburg and then did community service . He then began studying theology , which he broke off after four semesters. Then he began an internship at Bayerischer Rundfunk .

At the same time he began a teaching degree for the secondary school in the subjects of Catholic religion, German , geography and sport , which he completed in early 2001.

During his time as a reporter for children's radio , he was discovered in 2001 as a reporter for the newly designed children's TV report format Willi wills Wissen ; Willis VIPs and QQC joined in 2005. All series are produced by Megaherz Film und Fernsehen on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk , broadcasting stations are Das Erste , KiKA , Bayerisches Fernsehen , WDR Fernsehen , hr-fernsehen , SWR Fernsehen and 3sat .

In 2008 Weitzel shot the film Willi and the wonders of this world in Australia , southern Algeria , Tokyo , the Canadian Arctic and in Germany . The adventure film was released on March 5, 2009.

In summer 2010 Weitzel released his CD / DVD Peter and the Wolf with the Ambassade Orchestra Vienna - a Willi version of Sergei Prokofiev's musical fairy tale . In December 2010 Weitzel filled the Frankfurt Opera for two consecutive days when he performed Peter and the Wolf together with the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra under the direction of General Music Director Sebastian Weigle . Weitzel was also on stage with Peter and the Wolf at the 2011 summer festival of the Federal President in the park of Bellevue Palace . Further concerts followed, as well as a Willi version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel .

In January 2010, Weitzel announced a longer retreat from television. In December 2010, the ZDF announced that Weitzel would be the presenter of a series on the Catholic holidays. The first edition of the series A good reason to celebrate was broadcast on Epiphany 2011 with Sven Hannawald , further episodes on Corpus Christi with Minh-Khai Phan-Thi , on Assumption of Mary with Bettina Wulff and on All Saints' Day with Johanna Klum . In 2012 editions were shown on the Epiphany with Karlheinz Brandenburg , on Corpus Christi with Klaus Allofs , on Assumption of Mary with Jörg Pilawa and on All Saints' Day with Thomas Huber . In 2013, the last episode of the series with Weitzel was sent to Dreikönig. On Corpus Christi the program was taken over by Jordana Schmidt , from All Saints' Day it was moderated by Andreas Korn . On Corpus Christi 2018 Nicodemus took over Schnabel .

In 2012 Weitzel designed a cookbook for children and families and published it in Südwest Verlag under the title Willi kocht .

In 2012 Weitzel founded the production company Welterforscher Film und so weiter GmbH, with which he produces his films. In 2013 he was on the road for the carol singers and produced the films for the annual campaigns 2013, 2014 and 2015 ( On the way for the carol singers - Willi in Tanzania 2013; On the way for the carol singers - Willi in the refugee camp 2014; On the way for the carol singers - Willi in the Philippines 2015 ).

In 2013 he wanted to find out whether it is possible nowadays to wander with a donkey from Nazareth to Bethlehem , as in the Christmas story. Weitzel succeeded.

Weitzel's latest project is Willis Wildewege , an adventure multivision lecture in which he reports on his adventures: how he hiked a donkey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, hitchhiked to paradise, was hunted by wild animals in Ethiopia or to Walked from Munich to Venice . In 2013 he was on tour for the first time with Willis wilde ways .

Weitzel has lived in Herrsching am Ammersee since 2013 . He has been married to his manager since 2012 and has a daughter born in 2008 from a previous relationship.

Works (selection)

• 2010: Good question, next question: Willi gives clever answers to clever questions (with Florian Sailer). Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-548-37351-5
• 2010: CD / DVD Peter and the Wolf (with the Ambassade Orchestra Vienna )
• 2012: Willi cooks. Easy recipes for young and old. Südwest Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-517-08785-6

engagement

• Weitzel works as a UNICEF sponsor for the rights of children.
• Weitzel is the ambassador of Trauerland - center for grieving children and young people in Bremen .
• Weitzel is committed to the Childhood Foundation , headed by the Queen of Sweden.
• Weitzel is the patron of the Young Researchers e. V.
• Since June 2010 Weitzel has been a prominent sponsor of the Schwalmgymnasium's anti-racism project
• Weitzel has been the ambassador for the Central Hesse region since August 2010
• Weitzel has been one of the German ambassadors for the UN Decade of Biological Diversity since November 2011
• Weitzel has been a member of the board of trustees of “For Children and Young People in Our City - Foundation of the Stadtsparkasse Munich” since 2013.
• Weitzel has also been a member of the Heraeus Education Foundation's advisory board since 2014 .

Prices (for Willi wills know )

• 2003
  • Bavarian television award
  • Erich Kästner TV Prize for the episode "How about death?"
• 2004
  • Robert Geisendörfer Prize of the Evangelical Church
  • Comenius Medal of the Evangelical Media Center Bavaria
  • Journalist Prize from the Diakonie Baden and Württemberg
• 2006
  • "The Silver Horse", media prize of the German Rider and Driver Association (DRFV)
• 2008
  • Emil of the television magazine TV Spielfilm for Willis VIPs
• 2010
  • Adolf Grimme Prize
• 2013
  • Silver medal from the German Gastronomic Academy for "Willi kocht"

Web links

Commons : Willi Weitzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Willi Weitzel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website from Willi Weitzel. In: williweitzel.com
• World explorer film and so on GmbH
• Willis wild ways
• Bayerischer Rundfunk: Willi wants to know - reports for children and everyone who wants to know ( Memento from October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Bayerischer Rundfunk: Willi introduces himself ( Memento from December 20, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
• Petra Ahne: Ms. Merkel, what was your first name again? Willi Weitzel is allowed to ask things that nobody else dares to ask. The children's reporter about the courage to be naive, the fear of the camera and the challenge of making television for six year olds. In: Berliner Zeitung. February 28, 2009. Retrieved July 3, 2012 . 
• Lecture program by Willi Weitzel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Why Willi Weitzel is leaving children's television No further questions. In: Berliner Zeitung , February 20, 2010
2. ↑ Willi introduces himself. In: Br-online.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk, September 18, 2014, archived from the original on December 20, 2003 ; Retrieved April 26, 2015 . 
3. ↑ TV star Willi Weitzel visits “Straße der Experimente” as a star guest on May 30th. In: Gießener Anzeiger. May 7, 2010; Archived from the original on May 12, 2010 ; Retrieved July 3, 2012 . 
4. ↑ This is Willi Weitzel. ( Memento of December 17, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) kinder-stadt consumer protection around the child eV, October 2004, accessed on July 3, 2012
5. ↑ Katharina Riehl: A phenomenon called Willi. In: Münchner Merkur. March 5, 2009, accessed July 3, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Jens Dehn: Willi Weitzel is taking time out - "Willi wills know" until mid-2010. In: wunschliste.de. January 19, 2010, accessed July 3, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Daniel Wirsching: Helmar Weitzel takes a break: Willi no longer wants. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. January 20, 2010, accessed July 3, 2012 . 
8. ^ "A good reason to celebrate": Helmar Willi Weitzel on ZDF on the trail of Christian holidays. ZDF press release. In: presseportal.de. December 7, 2010, accessed July 3, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Willi Weitzel: My hero. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 20, 2017
10. ↑ saechsische.de: The teacher who never wanted to be one , Sächsische Zeitung , January 18, 2018
11. ↑ Willi Weitzel, popular reporter from children's TV "Willi wills Wissen", has been Herrschinger by choice for four years: Everything is a little bit more comfortable , Kreisbote.de, November 8, 2017
12. ↑ Hörzu No. 9 of 2009, p. 110
13. ↑ Willi Weitzel: See the world in a completely new way. In: Focus Schule Online. March 5, 2009, accessed July 3, 2012 . 
14. ↑ Willi wants to know , bild.de, September 2, 2012
15. ^ Willi knows enough , hna.de, January 18, 2010
16. ↑ Patron - Initiative Young Researchers (IJF) eV In: Initiative Young Researchers (IJF) eV ( initiative-junge-forscher.de [accessed on December 4, 2018]).
17. ↑ TV presenter Willi Weitzel enthused the Schwalmgymnasium. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA). June 6, 2010, accessed January 12, 2015 . 
18. ↑ hp: Willi Weitzel is the new "Middle Hesse Ambassador". In: Gießener Allgemeine. August 26, 2010, accessed July 3, 2012 . 
19. ↑ List of ambassadors ( memento from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of the UN Decade of Biological Diversity