Early life

Oliver Welke, regarded for the Today Show, as a sports activities professional and journalist, changed into born on April 19, 1966 in Bielefeld. From the age of 5 he grew up in Harsewinkel close to Gütersloh, his father changed into the proprietor of an marketing and marketing employer. Back then, on the age of 4, he labored for a quick time as a youngsters’s image version and his face changed into seen on canned sausages. Later in his college profession, he graduated from excessive college in Protestant after which studied journalism on the college in Münster. During his studies, he labored as a freelancer for a nearby mag employer from Gütersloh.

Career

Little via way of means of little he got here into touch with the paintings as a radio host. He additionally took his first steps as a radio and tv presenter as a freelancer for neighborhood radio stations and the WDR.

Oliver additionally seemed in comedy collection for the duration of this time and performed his personal characters in those collection.

From 1996 he additionally began out operating for Sat.1 as a freelancer, amongst different matters he changed into visible withinside the then very famous soccer display “ran”. He additionally acted as a moderator at different wearing events, inclusive of boxing matches.

When Sat.1 confirmed the UEFA Champions League, he moderated those packages with Oliver Bierhoff. Since 2012 he has additionally been a moderator for ZDF at European or World Championships, which he moderates collectively with Oliver Kahn.

Career highlights

He changed into getting increasingly more gives from tv stations for indicates. It changed into additionally an increasing number of obtrusive that he changed into pushing into the comedy area. So he already had a everlasting area with Rudi Carrell in his display “7 days, 7 heads”. This changed into accompanied via way of means of in addition appearances in diverse comedy indicates, considering the fact that May 2009 Welke has moderated his personal comedy display with the “heute-Show”.

But his profession highlights encompass a whole lot extra than that due to the fact he additionally made a call for himself as a screenwriter and voice actor.

Together with Bastian Pastewka (who additionally starred withinside the film) and Oliver Kalkofe, he wrote the screenplay for the film “The Wixxer”, and additionally dubbed English indicates and films.

Since 2009 he has additionally been going for walks a control employer together along with his partner, which additionally works for different innovative artists.

Due to his a success profession in radio and tv, he obtained awards nearly each year. For the primary time he changed into presented the “golden cable” in 1995 for his breakfast application at the radio. The German Comedy Prize, the Grimme Prize, the German Television Prize and plenty of different awards accompanied.

The highlights additionally encompass posted CDs, diverse ee-e book releases and dubbing.

Amazing facts

Oliver Welke is a real workaholic and way to his difficult paintings and ambition he changed into capable of steady a everlasting area withinside the tv landscape.

He has been married to his spouse Diane considering the fact that 1997, who additionally works as a TV journalist. The couple have sons collectively, they lived in Berlin from 1997 to 2011, and the own circle of relatives now lives in Bonn. Together with colleagues and listeners of the radio station “Radio Fritz”, Oliver based the primary “long-distance rubber boot throwing membership in Germany”. In addition, he seems time and again for social engagement, amongst different matters he works for “youngsters in need” organizations.

He regularly needed to solution for diverse criticisms of statements made, so he needed to make an apology publicly due to the fact he two times wrongly assumed that the left-wing flesh presser Marlena Schiewer changed into right-wing.

Another time he discredited AFD flesh presser Dieter Amann due to his stuttering, with out taking into consideration that he changed into laid low with a speech disability.

But the now 54-year-antique Welke is first-class regarded for his humor, that is why he loves to knock sayings.

One of those sayings is: “OK, if a person places 4 mobileular telephones of their pockets, at the least they not must be sterilized!”