Viktor Worms (born 30 August 1959) is a German radio and television host and producer.

Career

Worms was born in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

. After graduating from high school Koblenzer Straße in Düsseldorf in 1981, Worms completed a traineeship at

Radio Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg. It is known in most non-English languages as RTL (for Radio Television Luxembourg). The English-language service of Radio Luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earlies ...

. He then worked as an editor and presenter for the station, presenting the ''Morningshow'' along with

Hugo Egon Balder Hugo Egon Balder (born Egon Hugo Balder; 22 March 1950) is a German television presenter, producer, and comedian. Early life Balder was born in West Berlin to Egon Friedrich Balder (1904–1970) and Gerda Balder (née Schure; 1910–1997). Ger ...

and Hans Werner Olm.Viktor Worms
ard-zdf-medienakademie.de He gained notoriety from 1985 to 1989 as a host of the popular ''

ZDF-Hitparade The ''ZDF-Hitparade'', or ''Hitparade'' for short, by German TV channel ZDF, was one of the most popular and most well-known music television series presenting mostly German Schlager. From 1969 to 1984 the presenter was Dieter Thomas Heck. The l ...

'', which he took over from

Dieter Thomas Heck Dieter Thomas Heck (born Carl-Dieter Heckscher; 29 December 1937 – 23 August 2018) was a German television presenter, singer and actor. He is known as the presenter of the popular TV program ''ZDF-Hitparade'', featuring German Schlager mus ...

, who has criticised Worms for his handling of the show and for not caring about the German Schlager genre. From October 1990 to September 1991, Worms presented the TV show ''Stadt Land Fluß'' on

Tele 5 TELE 5 is a German free-to-air television channel that primarily broadcasts classic American films, science fiction series and anime. It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, which is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery International. ...

channel. In addition, he worked since 1988 for Antenne Bayern radio, first as a presenter, and from 1988 to 1994 as head of entertainment and head of vocal marketing. In 1994 he became program director at Antenne Bayern, significantly developing the channel. At the same time he worked as a freelance radio consultant until 1998 (e.g. in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

/ moderation coach for the BLM,

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

). From 1 December 1998 to 31 August 2001, Worms was

ZDF ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( ...

entertainment chief. In this function he was responsible among others for the production of '' Wetten, dass..?''. In 2002, he was managing director of Dolce Media for ten months, the TV production company of

Christoph Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzen ...

and

Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Johannes Gottschalk (born 18 May 1950 in Bamberg) is a German radio and television host and entertainer. He is best known for hosting ''Wetten, dass..?'', for many years Europe's biggest television show, which he steered to huge success i ...

. Since 2003, he has been managing director of MPS Mediconsulting GmbH, which was renamed Worms Mediapartner GmbH in 2004. From 2002 to 2008 he advised the Aktion Mensch. Until 29 March 2008, he produced on behalf of Dolce Media with his company ''Wetten, dass..?'', from 15 July 2008 until the end of 2010 he was editorial director and producer of the ZDF show '' Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel''. Worms was a consultant for

Red Bull Media House Red Bull GmbH () is an Austrian multinational private conglomerate company that created the Red Bull range of energy drinks. It is also known for its sponsorship, wide range of sporting events and Works team, teams. The headquarters of Red Bull ...

in 2011. He also collaborated with

André Heller Franz André Heller (; born 22 March 1947 as Francis Charles Georges Jean André Heller-Hueart) is an Austrian artist, author, poet, singer, songwriter, and actor. Biography Heller was born in Vienna into a wealthy Jewish family of sweets manuf ...

on the 2011 show ''Magnifico''.

References

External links

Official page
of Worms Mediapartner {{DEFAULTSORT:Worms, Viktor Living people 1959 births Mass media people from Düsseldorf German television producers German radio presenters German radio people ZDF people