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Brief introduction

Frank Plasberg is a famous German television journalist and presenter from television.

Youth

Moderator Frank Plasberg was born in the Tente District, Worelskirchen, where he also spent his childhood and then gained his first journalistic experience during his youth and school.

Career

Because he found his interest in writing as a school child, he wrote a few moments later for various newspapers and magazines such as The Rheinische Post, which was also published in Worelskirchen as Bergische Morgenpost. In 1975 he was able to complete his training with this newspaper in Leutkirch in Allgäu after graduating from high school. For a short time he worked as a police reporter and as an editor of the Munich Evening newspaper. Then at the Zimmer Frei!, He said that he found this job tiring and others who, at that time, also learned, were jealous of their free time. From 1980 he began studying theater, politics and pedagogy in the city of Cologne, which he stopped after 17 semesters. The first radio broadcast that airs starts in SWF3.

In collaboration with Christine Westermann, Frank Plasberg led WDR to show the current hour from 1987 to 2002. From 1993 he was also the editor in chief there. Frank Plasberg became famous when he moderated in 1988 during the taking of Gladbeck’s hostage and conducted an interview with the hostage taking. For this interview he was then criticized by the German Press Council. Then Frank Plasberg said that he did not make a mistake with the interview.

Career spotlight

Frank Plasberg’s career which actually began in 2000. From 2001, he was able to moderate the Hart political talk show but was fair on WDR television. From 2007 this program was broadcast on the first German television. In 2005 Plasberg founded the Ansager Und Schnipsemann GMBH & Co KG company with producer Jürgen Schulte, which produced and produced HART programs but a fair format and others were located in Düsseldorf. Another format allowed to host Frank Plasberg is the quiz shows the smartest children in the north by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). Famous journalists moderate this from 2008. Plasberg also moderates the 20xx-das quiz imten program from 2008. In 2012, he had the opportunity to act as a jury at the smartest quiz event in the first. In addition, Plasberg, together with Jörg Schönenborn, is responsible for moderating the state elections 2005, 2010, 2012 and 2017 for northern rhine-westphalia in the first place. He was also assigned a 2009 television duel moderation from the 2009 Federal Selection, where he stood in front of the camera with Maybrit Illner, Peter Kloeppel and Peter Limbourg.

From 2016 to 2017 Frank Plasberg and his wife appeared in the Paarduell night quiz, the program was broadcast for several months from Monday to Friday by Erste Deutsche Fernsehen and moderated by Jörg Pilawa himself. This broadcast also comes from its production company, Ansager and Schnipselmann GMBH. Frank Plasberg received many awards for extraordinary journalism achievements. In 2005, this included the Adolf Grimme prize for the Hart But Fair program, Ernst Schneider prize and Hanns Joachim Friedrichs prize in 2005, and Frank Plasberg became a 2005 journalist along with Alice Schwarzer in the “Political” area and was awarded the Bavaria TV prize on 2006 for moderation of Hart Aber Fair. Other awards including this year’s journalist in the field of “Politics” in 2006, Bambi in the category of “Moderation” in 2008 and respected Al Sprachwahrer Des Jahres 2012 from the German language world.

Famous quote

“Basically, saying that: not a journalist’s duty to maintain the party. That is the task of political competition. ”
Amazing facts
After graduating from high school and completing traineeship, Frank Plasberg can start working directly at Schwäbische Zeitung. Although desperate in theater studies, politics and pedagogy, he can then turn to television.

After Frank Plasberg married WDR presenter Angela Maas until 2007 and with whom he had two adults, in 2012 he married the famous presenter Anne Gesthuisen after separating from his first wife. Frank Plasberg has a son with him. Because of marriage to Frank Plasberg and work in Rome, Anne Gesthuisen handed over a prestigious work at Ard-Morgenmagazin in 2014.

Frank Plasberg even made it into the film when he was asked none other than Til Schweiger whether he was not interested in the big screen. When he said yes, he got a small role in his film “He’s Back”. In this film Frank Plasberg played alone. He made another appearance in the film “Guardian Angel”.