Mirjam Weichselbraun (born 27 September 1981) is an Austrian television host and actress, best known in Austria for presenting Dancing Stars, Life Ball and the Vienna Opera Ball. She is best known, outside Austria and Germany, for co-presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015.
Career In January 2002, she joined the newly started music channel VIVA PLUS in Cologne, where she hosted the show Cologne Day. After only eight months she switched to MTV Germany in Berlin where she hosted the live show MTV Select until January 2005. In Germany, she has interviewed some of the most famous artists in the music business including Jon Bon Jovi and Nickelback. She presented TRL Germany with Joko Winterscheidt (alternating with and ) until April 2007.
Since 2003, next to her job on MTV, she has also been hosting the ZDF online-magazine for the game show Wetten, dass..?. In 2004 she has, together with , hosted the live show (Expedition Austria), and one year later the Austrian preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, as well as the dancing show Dancing Stars with Alfons Haider on ORF. Her hosting of Dancing Stars earned her the Austrian Romy television award in 2006 and 2008. In 2006, Weichselbraun and Wayne Carpendale presented the German version of Dancing on Ice on RTL, which made her very popular in Germany.Dancing on Ice - Moderators (German) Other hosting jobs include the Life Ball, Kiddy Contest, The Dome and the Romy awards presentation in 2008 and 2013.
In addition to her job as a show host, Weichselbraun has also lent her voice to Jan Dress' audio drama Letzte Tage, jetzt (Last days, now) and worked as an actress. In 2007 she played in the ORF movie and in one episode of the first season of Die ProSieben Märchenstunde (episode: Frau Holle – Im Himmel ist die Hölle los). In 2008 and 2009 she appeared in two more films: H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel and . In 2009, she took the role of Sugar Kane in Peter Stones' musical Manche mögen's heiß (Some like it hot) at the Theater in der Josefstadt.
In 2015, Weichselbraun co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest alongside Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer in Vienna. In 2021, she hosted the second season of The Masked Singer Austria for Channel Puls 4.
Awards Romy Awards 2006: Special Jury Prize for Dancing Stars together with Alfons Haider 2007 and 2008: Top Spot Award ORF as advertising favourite of the yearMirjam Weichselbraun zu Gast in Willkommen Österreich Willkommen Österreich, 5 March 2012. Leading Ladies Award 2008 Romy Ceremony 2008: Romy as popular talk show host IPTV Award 2010: Viewership price for their backstage interviews Wetten, dass ..?ZDF: "Deutscher IPTV Award" für Wetten, dass..?-Online – Zuschauerpreis für die von Mirjam Weichselbraun geführten Interviews, 6 November 2010. Romy Ceremony 2011: Romy as a popular show entertainer Romy Awards 2012: Romy as a popular show entertainer along with Klaus Eberhartinger and diamond lapel ROMY 2015: Tyrolean of the Yearorf.at – ESC-Moderatoren Tiroler des Jahres. 2 October 2015.
Personal life Weichselbraun has a twin sister. Their parents married late, so each girl could choose her own surname. Melanie Binder took her father's name, while Mirjam Weichselbraun took her mother's.
After a two year-relationship Weichselbraun split up with the singer Marque. She had also been in a relationship with the Sat.1 host Jahn Hahn, but they split after four years. Since 2013 she has been in a relationship with Ben Mawson, the manager of Lana Del Rey. She has two children with him, two daughters.
Filmography
Actress Year Title RoleNotes 2007 Marie Gruber TV 2007 Die ProSieben Märchenstunde Chantal TV 2008 H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel Sidney TV 2008 Mutig in die neuen Zeiten – Alles anders Agnes Ulmendorff TV 2008 Bonnie TV 2009 Kathi 2011 Das Traumhotel (Episode: Malediven) Greta Junghans TV 2012 Die Braut im Schnee Dr. Thea Hollmann TV 2012 Unter Umständen verliebt Steffi TV 2012 Es kommt noch dicker (Episodes: Ein magischer Tag, Der Tanzwettbewerb) Ella Sandvoss TV 2012 Wir sind Kaiser Fifi TV 2012 Julia zu Hohenberg TV 2013 Herztöne Dutch Princess TV 2013 Zweisitzrakete Polizistin Sabrina 2013 Zur Sache, Macho! Lisa Rammser TV
Dubbing Year Title Role 2007 Bee Movie Vanessa Bloom
Presenter Year Title Channel Role 2001 Das Magazin TV TirolPresenter 2002 Cologne Day VIVA Plus 2002–2005 MTV SelectMTV Germany 2002–2007 TRL Germany Co-presenter 2003–2012 Wetten, dass..? ZDF Online presenter 2004 Expedition ÖsterreichORF1Co-presenter 20052007–20082010– Life Ball 2005 Song.Null.Fünf 2005– Dancing Stars 2006 Dancing on Ice RTL 2007–2008 Kiddy ContestORF1 Presenter 2008, 2013, 2019 Romy Television Awards Host 2008–2010 The Dome RTL2Co-presenter 2010 Die Hit-Giganten Sat.1 2010–2012 Willkommen ZDF 2011– Vienna Opera BallORF eins 2012–2013 Österreich rockt den Song Contest 2012 Hast du Nerven? Presenter 2012–2013 Die Harald Schmidt Show Sky Deutschland Sidekick 2013 Deutscher Filmpreis 2013ZDF Host 2014 Die Große Grillshow Co-presenter2015 Wer singt für Österreich?ORF eins Presenter Eurovision Song Contest 2015Co-presenter 2017 Echt jetzt?! 2021 The Masked Singer Austria Puls 4 Presenter
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