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

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- Name
- Arabella Kiesbauer
- Birth Name
- Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer
- Born
- 8 April 1969
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Known for
- Hosting Arabella, Starmania, the Vienna Opera Ball and the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
- Occupation
- * TV presenter
- Full name
- Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Education
- Lycée Français de Vienne.
- Honours
- Romy and Bavarian TV Awards.
- Languages
- German and English.
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Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer (born 8 April 1969), known professionally as simply Arabella Kiesbauer, is a German-Austrian TV presenter, writer and actress.
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Key facts
• Name — Arabella Kiesbauer • Landscape — yes • Birth Name — Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer • Born — 8 April 1969 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Known for — Hosting Arabella, Starmania, the Vienna Opera Ball and the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 • Occupation — * TV presenter • writer • actress • Years Active — 1989–present • Children — 2 • Website — http: www.arabella-kiesbauer.at/
Career
Career
• Illustration — 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. 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. 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. 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. Kiesbauer also works as a model and fashion ambassador for the shoe company 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 Rainer Maria Salzgeber. 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
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. Since November 2004, Kiesbauer has been married to the Viennese businessman Florens Eblinger. They have a daughter called Nika who was born in Vienna on 2 December 2007 and a son Neo born on 19 December 2010.
Filmography
Filmography
• Illustration — Kiesbauer in 2022
Television
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 — 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
Music
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 #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)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Arabella Kiesbauer was recorded at birth as Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer. The authorities additionally record the headings Kiesbauer, Arabella and Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer. Her recorded languages were German and English.
Identity
Identity
Arabella Kiesbauer is recorded as having received Romy and Bavarian TV Awards.
Books
• Mein Erfolgs Programm (1998 VGS Verlagsges., K) • Nobody is perfect (2001 Lübbe) • Mein afrikanisches Herz (September 2007 Pendo Verlag GmbH)
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- 1.(in German)
- 2.October 13, 2007.
- 3.sueddeutsche.de Zuviele Koffer in Berlin
- 4.Playboy covers
- 5.Vögele Shoes
- 6.FIFA.com
- 7.Siim, Jarmo. Who gets to host Eurovision in Vienna?. eurovision.tv. 19 December 2014.
- 8.Nachrichten.at
- 9.NEWS Arabellas geheime Hochzeit
- 10.Kurier Arabella Kiesbauer bekam Tochter
- 11.ORF Opernball Geschichte
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