Frank Elstner

Frank Elstner

Frank Elstner, full name Tim Maria Franz Elstner (b. 19 April 1942 in Linz, Austria) is a German television presenter.

Elstner went to school in Rastatt in Germany and gained his first experience in broadcasting as a child when he acted in radio plays for the station then known as Südwestfunk, now as Südwestrundfunk, which served the Rhineland Palatinate and southern Baden-Württemberg.

He first became famous as a presenter (and later as the programme director) for the German radio broadcasting programme on Radio Luxembourg (until 1983). He started out in television with shows such as "Spiel ohne Grenzen" (Game With No Limits; the same as "It's a Knockout") and "Die Montagsmaler" (The Monday Sketchers, a game similar to Pictionary).

In 1981 he invented the show Wetten, dass..? ("Wanna bet..?") which became extremely popular and is still one of the most successful shows in Europe. That year, Elstner was presented with a Bambi, the German television and media prize. In Britain it was copied as You Bet! and ran from 1988 to 1997. Elstner presented the German show himself until 1987, appearing 39 times altogether, before handing it over to Thomas Gottschalk.

Elstner worked for ZDF television company for many years but moved to RTL when viewing figures dropped. Here, he presented the German version of the quiz show Jeopardy!. He also has his own company, "Elstnertainment", which develops new ideas for TV shows and sells them to both public service and private television companies.

Today Elstner mainly works for Südwestrundfunk (SWR) again (formed from the old "Südwestfunk" and Süddeutscher Rundfunk, presenting the talk show "Menschen der Woche". Since 28 September 2002 he has worked for ARD as the presenter of the Saturday evening show "Verstehen Sie Spaß?", the German equivalent of Candid Camera, following on from Cherno Jobatey. Until the start of 2005 he also presented the show "Einfach Millionär" (Simply A Millionnaire) run by the ARD television lottery; today he still announces the weekly winners of the ARD television lottery.

In 2006 Frank Elstner was listed in the Rose d'Or Hall of Fame, on the 25th anniversary of his greatest success, "Wetten, dass..?". The same year he went on a 517-kilometre pilgrimage along the Way of St James, inspired by fellow television presenter Hape Kerkeling's pilgrimage diary "Ich bin dann mal weg" ("I'm off for a bit, then").

Since 12 September 2006 Frank Elstner has presented the quiz show "Die Besten im Südwesten" (The Best in the Southwest) on the SWR. He also presents the ARD show "Die große Show der Naturwunder" (The Biggest Natural Wonders Show), along with Ranga Yogeshwar.

Frank Elstner is married, has five children, is a vegetarian and wears an ocular prosthetic as he suffers from microphthalmia.

ource

:"Much of this article is translated from the German wikipedia article of December 30th 2006"

ee also

*German television comedy
*Wetten, dass..?

External links

* [http://www.frank-elstner.de/ Frank Elstner's website (German)]
* [http://www.swr.de/die-besten-im-suedwesten/ "Die Besten im Südwesten" (German)]


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