Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2012 - Maxi Biewer

Maxi Biewer (born 24 May 1964) is a German

television presenter A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces or hosts television show, television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. It is common for people ...

and

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. Biewer was born in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

, the daughter of actor Gerd Biewer and

Brigitte Krause Brigitte Krause (1929–2007) was a German actress who from 1948 was trained at the East German DEFA studios in East Berlin, Berlin. While still a student, in 1949 she made her debut as Christel in Kurt Maetzig's film ''Girls in Gingham''. She wen ...

. She speaks German, English, Russian, and French. Biewer attended a Polytechnic High School in Berlin, Köpenick, where she also passed the

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts "Ernst Busch" in Berlin. Between 1987 and 1989 she served in an ensemble of actors on

East German East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally vie ...

television in guest roles and worked at the Theater Dessau. In 1989 Biewer moved to West Berlin, and since 1992 she has been the weather presenter at

RTL Television RTL (from '), formerly RTL plus and RTL Television, is a German-language free-to-air television channel owned by RTL Deutschland, headquartered in Cologne. Founded as an offshoot of the German-language radio programme '' ,'' RTL is cons ...

. She achieved some notoriety for a televised fit of laughter she suffered while presenting a weather forecast on the RTL Morning Program ''Punkt 6'' and for one of her presentations on the same program which was set to music by Stefan Raab. In 2010 Biewer played herself as an RTL weather expert in the award-winning series '' Doctor's Diary'', which aired in January 2011. In 1996 she was romantically linked with the RTL morning show presenter Wolfram Kons. A year later she married the French-Canadian Jean-Patrice Venn, whom she met on one of her many trips to

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. Biewer currently lives with her husband in

Hennef Hennef (Sieg) () is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Sieg (river), Sieg, approx. south-east of Siegburg and east of Bonn. Hennef is the fourth-biggest town in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ...

. She spends much of her spare time on a sailboat on the Baltic Sea.

Filmography (selection)

* 1981: ''Der Kuckuck bin ich'' * 1983: ''Rügensagen'' * 1984: ''Kaskade rückwärts'' * 1984: ''

Polizeiruf 110 ''Polizeiruf 110'' ("Police call 110") is a long-running German-language detective television series. The name refers to the emergency telephone number of the ''Volkspolizei''. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic ...

: Schwere Jahre (1. Teil)'' (TV series) * 1985: ''Ferienheim Bergkristall: Ein Fall für Alois'' (TV Series) * 1985: ''Ernst Thälmann'' * 1987: ''Maxe Baumann aus Berlin'' (television Film) * 1987: ''Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria'' (TV miniseries) * 1987: ''Der Geisterseher'' * 1987: ''Glück hat seine Zeit'' * 1987: ''Sidonies Bilder'' * 1987: ''Vater gesucht'' * 1988: '' Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: Ohne Wenn und Aber'' (TV series) * 1989: ''Der lange Weg zu Angerer'' * 1989: ''

: Der Wahrheit verpflichtet'' (TV series) * 1989: ''Auf den zweiten Blick'' * 1990: ''Himmelsschlüssel'' * 1990: '' Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht'' (TV series) * 1996: '

References

External links

Official site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Biewer, Maxi 1964 births Living people Actresses from Berlin German television presenters Television weather presenters German women television presenters RTL Group people Actresses from North Rhine-Westphalia People from Hennef (Sieg)