| Capital: | € 1.5 million |
| Age: | 39 |
| Born: | February 23, 1981 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | Journalist and moderator |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Jan Böhmermann who is not only known as a German satirical, but also as a presenter on television, radio and podcast. He is also a writer, journalist, film producer, and musician. His career began with a bumpy, but his talent and courage made him famous and successful.
Early life
Jan Böhmermann was born in Bremen in the Gröpesingen district in 1981. He was raised in the Vegesack Bremen District. Jan Böhmermann likes to keep his personal life personal and rarely express serious comments about it. Therefore, not much is known about his past life. His father was a police officer and died of leukemia when Jan Böhmermann was 17 years old. His mother emigrated to Germany in the 1970s. Jan Böhmermann gained his first experience as a journalist in 1997 at Die Norddeutsche, which is a local edition Bremer Tageszeitung AG.
Career
He started at Radio Bremen in 1999 as a radio presenter and reporter and remained loyal to the station for a long time. He continued his radio career at 1 Live and the WDR. Here he worked as a moderator and comedian. His popularity rose above all through the column “Lukas’ diary”, in which he was Lukas Podolski, who was a professional footballer at 1. FC Köln at the time. In 2007 Jan Böhmermann found his way to television with the comedy show “genuinly Böhmermann”. Two years later, his first book with the title “Everything, everything about Germany – half knowledge compact” was published and achieved commercial success. In 2009 Böhmermann found his permanent place in the ARD ensemble of Harald Schmidt. Until 2011, Böhmermann hosted the satirical show “The very big Jan Böhmermann radio show” every month on radio station 1 Live. His most famous television show is the night show “Neo Magazin”, which was broadcast on ZDFneo from 2013 to 2019. In the “Neo Magazin”, Böhmermann satirically worked on current political topics in addition to well-known guests, especially from German politics and the media industry.
Career highlights
Böhmermann received his first German television award in 2009 in the “Best Comedy” category for TV Heroes on RTL. In 2013 he was nominated for Grimme Prize for the “Roche & Böhmermann” program in the “entertainment” category. In 2014 he finally received a grimme prize for “Neo Magazin” in the “entertainment” category. In the same year he was awarded the best journalist this year in the category of “entertainment / culture”. In the following years, the Grimme prize was further followed by most of the entertainment category. He has also received other awards such as the “Goldenne Camera Digital Award in 2017 or the” Romy “award in 2018. Jan Böhmermann received his last Grimme prize in 2019 for the performance” Let Yourseal Be Monitor! Prism is a dancer performance “from Zdfneo. Jan Böhmermann has worked with songwriter Olli Schulz for many years. Since 2013 both of them have moderated the radio program “Gentle & Cathing”, which was first heard on Eins radio, then at five other radio stations. As the successor to the “Gentle & Cathing” program, Schulz and Böhmermann have moderated the “Fest & Flauschig” podcast since 2016.
Amazing facts
Jan Böhmermann must overcome some obstacles at the beginning of his career. He was rejected by three drama schools and stopped studying history, sociology, theater, film and television studies at the University of Cologne. However, he managed to switch from journalists to television presenters.
