
Sarah Kuttner (born 29 January 1979) is a German television presenter and author.
Biography
Kuttner 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 ...
. Her father is famed radio host Jürgen Kuttner. She has regularly appeared on the music television channel
VIVA
Viva may refer to:
Companies and organisations
* Viva (network operator), a Dominican mobile network operator
* Viva Air, a Spanish airline taken over by flag carrier Iberia
* Viva Air Dominicana
* VIVA Bahrain, a telecommunication company
* Vi ...
since November 2001 after being selected out of 1500 other participants in a casting held in summer of that year. Her popularity increased rapidly and in August 2004 she started to host her own show called ''
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show'', a variation on the popular
late show concept with comedy, a sidekick (Sven Schuhmacher), talk guests and musical guests. After
Viacom bought
VIVA
Viva may refer to:
Companies and organisations
* Viva (network operator), a Dominican mobile network operator
* Viva Air, a Spanish airline taken over by flag carrier Iberia
* Viva Air Dominicana
* VIVA Bahrain, a telecommunication company
* Vi ...
in 2005, her show was moved to
MTV Germany
MTV Germany is a German language free-to-air television channel operated by Paramount Global. The channel launched on 7 March 1997 as MTV Central, as part of a regionalisation strategy by Paramount Global, then MTV Networks Europe.
Availabi ...
and renamed to "Kuttner." with no dramatic changes in concept or crew. Production was relocated from
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
to
Berlin
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. Kuttner announced the show's cancellation due to high production costs and low ratings in May 2006.
She also co-hosted (with
Jörg Pilawa
Jörg Michael Pilawa (born 7 September 1965, in Hamburg) is a German television presenter.
Life
Pilawa studied after his school at Gymnasium Hummelsbüttel first medicine and then history, but he did not finish his university studies. From 1987 ...
) the show "Germany 12 Points", the German pre-selection for the
Eurovision Song Contest on publicly owned channel
ARD on 19 March 2004.
Kuttner wrote a weekly column in the national daily newspaper ''
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat.
Histo ...
'' and a monthly column in music magazine ''
Musikexpress
The ''Musikexpress'' is a monthly German magazine that mainly writes about the rock and pop music. In addition to detailed interviews and articles about important rock, electro, hip-hop, pop, and independent musicians, the magazine offers reviews ...
''. Both were compiled in two books, "''Das oblatendünne Eis des halben Zweidrittelwissens''" (March 2006) and "''Die anstrengende Daueranwesenheit der Gegenwart''" (March 2007). "''Das oblatendünne Eis''" enjoyed a moderate success in Germany with mixed but largely positive reviews. Especially TV personality
Harald Schmidt
Harald Franz Schmidt (born 18 August 1957) is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows.
Early and private life
A son of refugees who fled from Sudetenland (now Cz ...
emphasized his admiration for the book. No figures or reviews for "''Die anstrengende Daueranwesenheit''" are yet available.

In 2009 Kuttner released her first novel ''Mängelexemplar'', which dealt with the topic of depression. The film ''
Too Hard to Handle'' (2016) is based on the book. In November 2011, her second book ''Wachstumsschmerz'' was released. Kuttner's second novel is about the pains of growing up.
In 2006 Kuttner accepted her first and so far only acting job, providing the German voice of "
Red
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" in the dubbed version of the movie ''
Hoodwinked!
''Hoodwinked!'' is a 2005 computer-animated musical comedy mystery film. It retells the folktale '' Little Red Riding Hood'' as a police procedural, using backstories to show multiple characters' points of view. It was produced independently b ...
''.
Beginning 11 November 2007 she will start hosting a weekly radio show, ''Kuttner & Kuttner'' together with her father Jürgen Kuttner, on Radio Eins in Berlin.
In 2011 Kuttner hosted a talk show called "Ausflug mit Kuttner" of which three episodes where shot. In this show she interviewed celebrities while going on typical Sunday trips with them.
Publications
* ''Das oblatendünne Eis des halben Zweidrittelwissens''. Kolumnen. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006,
* ''Die anstrengende Daueranwesenheit der Gegenwart''. Kolumnen. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007,
* ''Mängelexemplar''. Roman. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009,
* ''Wachstumsschmerz''. Roman. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011,
References
External links
Official website*
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1979 births
Living people
German television talk show hosts
German television personalities
People from East Berlin
Norddeutscher Rundfunk people
ARD (broadcaster) people
ZDF people