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, hosts television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. Nowadays, it is common for people who garner ...

and

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...

. Biewer was born in

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

, 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 Berlin. While still a student, in 1949 she made her debut as Christel in Kurt Maetzig's film ''Girls in Gingham''. She went on to take ...

. 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 yea ...

. 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 the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

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 the RTL Group, headquartered in Cologne. Founded as an offshoot of the German-language radio programme '' ,'' RTL is conside ...

. She achieved some notoriety for a televised fit of laughter she suffered while presenting a weather forecast on the RTL Morning Progra
''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 ''Doctor's Diary'' is a German-Austrian medical drama that aired for three seasons from 2008 to 2011 on RTL in a coproduction with ORF. The focus of the series is the young doctor Margarete "Gretchen" Haase, who wants to make a career in a h ...

'', 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

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

. 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, approx. south-east of Siegburg and east of Bonn. Hennef is the fourth-biggest town in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (i.e. distri ...

. 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 likened to Poirot. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the ''Volkspolizei''. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the ...

: 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 ''Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort'' ("The state prosecutor has the floor") was an East German television series. See also * List of German television series External links * German crime television series 1965 German television series de ...

: 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 Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht (Our teacher Doctor Specht) is a series of family author Kurt Bartsch, directors Werner Masten (episodes 1-57), Vera Loebner (episodes 58-63) and Karin Hercher (episodes 64-70), shooting starting in 1991 in Germany. T ...

'' (TV series) * 1996: '

References

External links

Official site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Biewer, Maxi 1964 births Living people Actresses from Berlin German television presenters Weather presenters German women television presenters RTL Group people