Helga Guitton (born 18 December 1942) is a German
radio
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and
television presenter
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. She was a
disc jockey
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and interviewer for
RTL and was presenter of the
1973 Eurovision Song Contest.
Biography
Guitton worked for RTL from 1964 to 1994.
[ On Radio Luxemburg she co-hosted ''Tag Schatz, Tag Scherz'' with Jochen Pützenbacher, who later recalled that they worked so well together, there were rumours they were romantically involved. In 1983 she insisted on co-hosting a memorial programme for a colleague who had died of cancer, to give him moral support, but broke down crying.][Hendrik Leuker]
"Die deutschen Stimmen von Radio Luxemburg: Camillo Felgen, Jochen Pützenbacher und Helga Guitton"
''Radio-Kurier'', August 2004 (pdf). She hosted the weekday evening programme ''Viva – die Lust, zu leben'', which included quizzes and interviews as well as music.
In the 1990s she worked for RTL plus, now RTL television; in 1988 she was engaged with Rainer Holbe to moderate a sexy interview show, "Kopfkissen-Gespräche bei Prominenten" ( Pillow talk with VIPs); she later called these "Liebe ist..." interviews her most successful and enjoyable work, while she called ''Radio Telex'' her greatest failure.[ Her 1985 interview with a combative ]Klaus Kinski
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, who ate and drank throughout, only half an hour of which was broadcast, appears on the DVD ''Kinski Talks I'', issued by WDR in 2010.
On 7 April 1973, she was the presenter for the Eurovision Song Contest."Previous Eurovision winners and UK entries"
press release, BBC
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, 5 May 2005 (pdf)
After leaving broadcasting, Guitton became a style and behaviour coach.[
]
See also
* List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters
References
External links
TV serials presented by Helga Guitton
at Fernsehserien.de
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1942 births
Living people
Mass media people from Königsberg
German television presenters
German women television presenters
Norddeutscher Rundfunk people
RTL Group people