Axel Bulthaupt (born 21 February 1966) is a German

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and

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. Bulthaupt was born in Melle, Lower Saxony,

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. He studied history and literature in

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and

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

. He worked during his university studies for a newspaper. After Bulthaupt finished his studies he began at German TV-station

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. He was moderator of the TV magazine ''Jetzt kommt's'' and of the TV-show ''LebensArt''. In 1994 Bulthaupt worked for the German TV-station

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. There he was moderator of the TV magazine ''Brisant''. Together with

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and Ines Krüger he got 2000 the German TV award

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for ''Brisant''. 2003 Bulthaupt started the history documentation ''Expedition Bulthaupt''. Since 2004 Bulthaupt worked as host for the MDR magazine ''Sonntag - Die Show der Überraschungen''. Bulthaupt was presenter from 1998 to 2003 of Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson and since 1996 each year of the TV gala

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. Bulthaupt lives with his partner in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

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External links

Official website by Axel Bulthaupt

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bulthaupt, Axel 1966 births Living people German LGBT journalists People from Melle, Germany German television personalities German male non-fiction writers 21st-century German LGBT people