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 began her media career as a presenter for the Austrian public service television broadcaster ORF while studying journalism and dramaturgy. (in German)
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.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.sueddeutsche.de Zuviele Koffer in Berlin
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.Playboy covers Kiesbauer also works as a model and fashion ambassador for the shoe company Vögele Shoes.Vögele Shoes
On 17 December 2007, she hosted the 2007 FIFA World Player of the Year awards at the Zürich Opera House in Zurich, Switzerland with .FIFA.com
On 23 May 2015, Kiesbauer hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 along with Mirjam Weichselbraun and Alice Tumler at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna.
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.Nachrichten.at
Since November 2004, Kiesbauer has been married to the Viennese businessman Florens Eblinger.NEWS Arabellas geheime Hochzeit They have a daughter called Nika who was born in Vienna on 2 December 2007 and a son Neo born on 19 December 2010.Kurier Arabella Kiesbauer bekam Tochter
Filmography
Television Year Title Channel Role 1989–1993 X-Large ORFPresenter 1990/1991 Inter-City 3Sat 1991 Rund um HollywoodProSieben 1994–2004 Arabella 1996–97 Arabella night 1996 Arabella Help! 2002–04, 2006–09 StarmaniaORF1 2003–06 Wiener OpernballORF Opernball Geschichte Co-presenter2004 Comeback – Die große Chance ProSiebenPresenter Sound of FootballORF 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 4Presenter 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) Nobody is perfect (2001 Lübbe) Mein afrikanisches Herz (September 2007 Pendo Verlag GmbH)
Music Number one (CD 1994, Eviam Musi (DA Music), EAN 4018771410320)
Tonight Cold Fever All I Want (Classic-Mix) True Love No More Lonely Nights Life7. 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)
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Photo collection