Arabella Kiesbauer

Arabella Kiesbauer
Kiesbauer in 2015
Born
Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer

(1969-04-08) 8 April 1969
Vienna, Austria
Occupations
  • TV presenter
  • writer
  • actress
Years active1989–present
Known forHosting Arabella, Starmania, the Vienna Opera Ball and the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Spouse
Florens Eblinger
​
(m. 2004)​
Children2
Websitewww.arabella-kiesbauer.at

Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer (born 8 April 1969), known professionally as simply Arabella Kiesbauer, is a German-Austrian TV presenter, writer and actress.

Career

Kiesbauer at an Advent celebration in 2004

Kiesbauer began her media career as a presenter for the Austrian public service television broadcaster ORF while studying journalism and dramaturgy. [1]

From 1994 to 2004 she hosted her own daily talk show Arabella on the German TV channel Pro7. On 17 January 2006 she started a weekly late night talk show Talk ohne Show on the Berlin TV station N24 TV.[2] However, after 40 shows she resigned suddenly claiming that the frequent traveling between Vienna and Berlin was putting too much stress on her private life.[3]

Kiesbauer won several awards for her TV work, in 1994 the Bavarian TV Award in the category "Beste Talk-Newcomerin" and in 1996 the media award Das Goldene Kabel. She appeared in the German Playboy on the cover and 14 pages in July 1995.[4] Kiesbauer also works as a model and fashion ambassador for the shoe company Vögele Shoes.[5]

On 17 December 2007, she hosted the 2007 FIFA World Player of the Year awards at the Zürich Opera House in Zurich, Switzerland with Rainer Maria Salzgeber.[6]

On 23 May 2015, Kiesbauer hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 along with Mirjam Weichselbraun and Alice Tumler at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna.[7]

Personal life

Kiesbauer's mother Hannelore Kiesbauer was a German theater actress, and her father Sammy Ammissah was a Ghanaian engineer. After they separated, she grew up in Vienna with her grandmother.

On 9 June 1995 she was the target of a letter bomb by the racist terrorist Franz Fuchs at the Pro7 studios. However she did not open the letter; this being done by her assistant who was subsequently injured by the bomb.[8]

Since November 2004, Kiesbauer has been married to the Viennese businessman Florens Eblinger.[9] They have a daughter called Nika who was born in Vienna on 2 December 2007 and a son Neo born on 19 December 2010.[10]

Filmography

Kiesbauer in 2022

Television

Year Title Channel Role
1989–1993 X-Large ORF Presenter
1990/1991 Inter-City 3Sat
1991 Rund um Hollywood ProSieben
1994–2004 Arabella
1996–97 Arabella night
1996 Arabella Help!
2002–04, 2006–09 Starmania ORF1
2003–06 Wiener Opernball[11] Co-presenter
2004 Comeback – Die große Chance ProSieben Presenter
Sound of Football ORF
Die Austro-Pop-Show
2005 Stars in der Manege ARD
2006 Arabella Kiesbauer N24
2012–13 Life Ball ORF eins Co-presenter
2012–14 Kiddy Contest Puls 4 Presenter
2014 Bauer sucht Frau ATV
2015 Eurovision Song Contest 2015 ORF eins Co-presenter
2020 The Masked Singer Austria Puls 4 Presenter

Books

  • Mein Erfolgs Programm (1998 VGS Verlagsges., K) ISBN 3-8025-1360-6
  • Nobody is perfect (2001 Lübbe) ISBN 3-404-14246-2
  • Mein afrikanisches Herz (September 2007 Pendo Verlag GmbH) ISBN 3-86612-132-6

Music

  • Number one (CD 1994, Eviam Musi (DA Music), EAN 4018771410320)
  1. Tonight
  2. Cold Fever
  3. All I Want (Classic-Mix)
  4. True Love
  5. No More Lonely Nights
  6. Life

7. Tonight (Moonlight-Mix)
8. When The Sun Goes Down
9. No One Like You
10. All I Want (Groove-Mix)
11. What A Love
12. Still My Number One
  • CD compilation Arabella Soul Night
  • Girl-Power (2000, presented by Arabella Kiesbauer)

References

  1. ↑ ORF Biography[link removed] (in German)
  2. ↑ N24 Archived October 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ sueddeutsche.de Zuviele Koffer in Berlin Archived January 24, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Playboy covers Archived March 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Vögele Shoes Archived February 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ FIFA.com Archived December 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Siim, Jarmo (19 December 2014). "Who gets to host Eurovision in Vienna?". eurovision.tv. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  8. ↑ Nachrichten.at
  9. ↑ NEWS Arabellas geheime Hochzeit Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ Kurier Arabella Kiesbauer bekam Tochter Archived July 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ ORF Opernball Geschichte
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