Arabella Kiesbauer

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name = Arabella Kiesbauer


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caption = Kiesbauer at Advent celebration 2004
birth_date = birth date and age|1969|4|8
birth_place = Vienna, Austria
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occupation = TV presenter, writer
spouse = Florens Eblinger (2004-present)
website = [http://www.arabella-kiesbauer.at/ www.arabella-kiesbauer.at]
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Arabella Cosima-Asereba Kiesbauer (born April 8, 1969 in Vienna, Austria) is a TV presenter, writer and actress. She grew up in Vienna with her grandmother after her mother Hannelore (a German theater actress) and her father Sammy Ammissah (an engineer from Ghana) separated.

While she studied journalism and dramaturgy she started to work as presenter with the Austrian public service television broadcaster ORF. [ [http://kundendienst.orf.at/orfstars/kiesbauer.html ORF Biography] (in German)] From 1994 to 2004 she hosted her own daily talk show "Arabella" on the German TV channel Pro7. On January 17, 2006 she started a weekly late night talk show "Talk ohne Show" on the Berlin TV station "N24 TV". [ [http://www.n24.de/tv/sendungen/arabella_kiesbauer/ N24] ] 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. [ [http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/artikel/780/93687/ sueddeutsche.de "Zuviele Koffer in Berlin"] ]

Arabella Kiesbauer won several awards for her TV work, 1994 the "Bayerischen Fernsehpreis" in the category "Beste Talk-Newcomerin" and 1996 the media award "Das Goldene Kabel".

On June 9, 1995 she was the target of a letter bomb at the Pro7 studios. However she did not open the letter; this being done by her assistant who was subsequently injured by the bomb. [ [http://nachrichten.at/drucken/245288 Nachrichten.at] ]

She appeared in the German "Playboy" on the cover and 14 pages in July 1995. [ [http://www.pbcovers.com/pbcovers.php?c=de&y=1995 Playboy covers] ] Arabella Kiesbauer also works as a model and fashion ambassador for the shoe company Vögele Shoes. [ [http://www.voegele-shoes.com/d/tvspots.html Vögele Shoes] ]

Since November 2004 Kiesbauer has been married to the Viennese businessman Florens Eblinger. [ [http://www.news.at/magazin/index.html?/articles/0506/510/104768.shtml NEWS "Arabellas geheime Hochzeit"] ] They have a daughter called Nika who was born in Vienna on December 2, 2007. [ [http://www.kurier.at/freizeit/gesellschaft/124983.php Kurier "Arabella Kiesbauer bekam Tochter"] ]

TV work

*1989-1993: Presenter of ORF youth magazine "X-Large"
*1990/1991: Presenter of 3Sat city series "Inter-City"
*1991: Presenter of ProSieben magazine "Rund um Hollywood"
*June 1994-2004: Presenter of the ProSieben talk show "Arabella"
*Feb. 1996 - Apr. 1997: Presenter of ProSieben show "Arabella night"
*Sept. 1996: Presenter of ProSieben special broadcast "Arabella Help!"
*2002/2003: Presenter of the ORF casting show "Starmania"
*2003/2004: Presenter of the ORF casting show "Starmania - Die neue Generation"
*2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006: Presentation of the "Wiener Opernball" [ [http://kundendienst.orf.at/sendungsinfos/sendungsprofile/orf2/opernball_geschichte.html ORF Opernball Geschichte] ]
*August 2004: Presenter of the "Sound of Football" gala
*Autumn 2004: Presenter of the "Die Austro-Pop-Show"
*Since 2006: Presenter of the N24 late night talk show "Arabella Kiesbauer"
*Since 2006: Presenter of the Austrian casting show Starmania
*On 17 December 2007 she hosted the 2007 FIFA World Player of the Year awards in Zurich with Rainer Maria Salzgeber [ [http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/awards/gala/news/newsid=662881.html FIFA.com] ]

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 3-8661-2132-6

Music

*Number one (CD 1994, Eviam Musi (DA Music), EAN 4018771410320)
*CD compilation "Arabella Soul Night"
*Girl-Power (2000, presented by Arabella Kiesbauer)

References

External links

* [http://www.arabella-kiesbauer.at Official homepage]
*imdb name|id=0452621|name=Arabella Kiesbauer
* [http://www.lacaceleb.hu/kulfoldi/arabella_kiesbauer/index.html Photo collection]