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Günther Jauch(I)

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Günther Jauch in 2015 - Das Quiz (2015)
Jauch grew up in the Berlin residential district of Lichterfelde-West. He attended the Catholic elementary school St. Ursula in Berlin-Zehlendorf. He later worked as an altar boy in the Catholic Church. After the Steglitz Old Language High School in Berlin and a high school diploma of 3.1, he attended the German Journalism School in Munich. In 1975, at the age of 19, he became the youngest graduate at the time. After graduating, he studied politics and modern history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He began his journalistic career in 1975 as a freelancer at RIAS Berlin Sportfunk. In 1977, Jauch moved to the sports department of Bayerischer Rundfunk, for which he later worked as a "Zeitfunk" editor and radio correspondent in Bonn. From 1985, Jauch worked with Thomas Gottschalk for the "B3 radio show", which was newly broadcast. Jauch was responsible for the journalistic part of the program, Gottschalk for the musical program.

The then 29-year-old Jauch gained his first TV experience as a reporter for the B3 program "Rätselflug". He then hosted the popular youth show "Live from Alabama". In 1986 ZDF became aware of Jauch and in March 1987 gave him the moderation of the program "So ein Zoff". That same year, during the International Radio Exhibition in Berlin, he presented the program "Na ihre!" every afternoon. Jauch became a whiz kid in ZDF entertainment. At Dieter Kürten's request, Jauch replaced Harry Valérien as one of the five moderators of the "Current Sports Studio" after the Summer Olympics in Seoul. He first hosted the show on October 29, 1988. As a television journalist, Jauch, who left Bayerischer Rundfunk in the summer of 1989, initially worked exclusively for ZDF. He also presented the show "People" there until 1996 and directed the "Big Show of the Eighties" together with Thomas Gottschalk. In 1989 Jauch signed a contract with RTL, where he worked as presenter and head of "sternTV" since April 1990.

From September 1992 to September 1994, Jauch also took over the editor-in-chief and achieved a market share of up to 25 percent with his show. From mid-1992, Jauch also worked for the private "Berliner Rundfunk" as a program coordinator. In June 1995 he signed a new contract with RTL. In 1998 he went on air there with his show "Millionaire Wanted! - The SKL Show". From September 1999, Jauch hosted the successful show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and in April 2001 he presented the first season of The 10 Million SKL Show. He also gained many fans through his reporting as a sports commentator for RTL, for example on the ski jumping competition of the 4 Hills Tournament and the Football Champions League. In 2000 Jauch founded his own production company; "i&u TV" stands for information and entertainment. This now produced, among other things, the programs "sternTV", moderated by Jauch himself, and the "70s/80s/90s Show", moderated by Hape Kerkeling and Oliver Geissen.

Jauch received several awards for his journalistic work, such as the "Golden Camera", the "Bavarian Television Prize", the "Tele-Star", the "Golden Lion", the "German Television Prize" and the "Adolf Grimme Prize". In representative surveys about the most popular show presenters, the German television audience placed Jauch in first place on the popularity scale several times, where he was followed by colleagues such as Thomas Gottschalk and Jörg Pilawa. In September 2003, Jauch was awarded the Audience Prize of the German Television Prize. Two months later he received the moderator received the "Bobby" media prize, which is awarded by the Federal Association for Life Support for People with Intellectual Disabilities for particularly sensitive dealings with disabled people.

With his quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Jauch set a record in autumn 2004 with a rating of 27.7% (8.96 million viewers). In mid-October 2004, Jauch was ranked 14th among the most important television producers in the magazine "Gentlemen's Quarterly" (GQ) by a jury of recognized media journalists. In November 2004, Günther Jauch was awarded the "Bambi" for "TV Event of the Year" for the program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - The Celebrity Special". In a survey of television viewers about the most popular TV personality in January 2005, Jauch took first place ahead of Johannes B. Kerner, Jörg Pilawa, Thomas Gottschalk, Sandra Maischberger, Harald Schmidt and Reinhold Beckmann. Meanwhile, Günther Jauch lived with his wife in Potsdam; Together they have two children, born in 1989 and 1993 became. In December 1997, Jauch adopted a 13-month-old girl, an orphan from Siberia. In early 2000, the couple adopted a second Siberian girl. The couple married in July 2006 after 18 years of relationship.

After Sabine Christiansen's announcement about the abandonment of her Polit talk show in 2007, Günther Jauch was in discussion about possibly taking over their broadcast slot, which he ultimately rejected in January 2007. As part of the 2010 Football World Cup, he was awarded the German Television Prize in the "Best Sports Program" category. From 2011 he hosted the weekly ARD talk show "Günther Jauch"; on Sunday evening at 9:45 p.m. Stars but also top politicians such as Chancellor Angela Merkel, Peer Steinbrück and former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt were regular guests. In 2012 he was awarded the audience award, moderation, the "Golden Hen".
BornJuly 13, 1956
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    Known for

    Wer wird Millionär? (1999)
    Wer wird Millionär?
    6.7
    TV Series
    • Self - Host
    • Self - Moderator
    • Self
    Na siehste (1987)
    Na siehste
    5.7
    TV Series
    • Self - Host
    Menschen (1982)
    Menschen
    4.0
    TV Series
    • Self - Host
    • Host (1988-1995)
    Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show (1998)
    Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
    3.0
    TV Series
    • Self - Host

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    Actor



    • Gipfel der Quizgiganten (2022)
      Gipfel der Quizgiganten
      TV Series
      • 2022
    • Legal Affairs (2021)
      Legal Affairs
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Günther Jauch
      • 2021
    • Pastewka (2005)
      Pastewka
      7.9
      TV Series
      • TV-Quizmaster (voice)
      • 2014
    • Le journal de Meg (2008)
      Le journal de Meg
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Moderator 'Wer wird Millionär?'
      • 2011
    • Der Wixxer (2004)
      Der Wixxer
      6.2
      • Talkshow-Moderator (uncredited)
      • 2004
    • Warmumsherz
      5.0
      TV Series
      • 1995
    • Man spricht deutsh (1988)
      Man spricht deutsh
      6.6
      • Radiosprecher (voice, uncredited)
      • 1988

    Soundtrack



    • Stern TV (1990)
      Stern TV
      5.3
      TV Series
      • performer: "Fröhliche Weihnacht überall"
      • 2010

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    • Height
      • 1.93 m
    • Born
      • July 13, 1956
      • Münster, Germany
    • Spouse
      • Dorothea SihlerJuly 7, 2006 - present (4 children)
    • Other works
      Worked as radio journalist for B3 (Bayerischer Rundfunk) mainly in the field of sports.

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      Children: Svenja (1989), Kristin (1993), Katja (b. 1996, adopted December 1997) and Mascha (b. 1999, adopted April 2000).

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