Mirjam Weichselbraun
Mirjam Weichselbraun (born September 27, 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian television host.
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[edit] Life and career
Her first experience in broadcasting was with the regional radio station Antenne Tirol in 1999 and she first appeared in front of the camera in 2001 on the culture program Das Magazin on the channel TV Tirol.
In 2000, she was voted the BRAVO-Girl of the year among 25,000 contestants.
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 current presents TRL Germany with Joko (Alternates with Patrice and Karolin) until April 2007.
Beside her job on MTV, she started 2003 to host for the ZDF online-magazine from Wetten, dass..?. Furthermore she guided since 2004 in conjunction with Christian Clerici the live shows on ORF: Expedition Österreich (Expedition Austria), one year later the austrian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Songcontest plus the dancing show Dancing Stars with Alfons Haider. For her hosting job by Dancing Stars, she was decorated 2006 and 2008 with the austrian Romy.
2006, Weichselbraun and Wayne Carpendale were the presenters of RTL's 2006 Dancing on Ice contest and she became more popular for the people in Germany. [1] More hosting jobs were the Life Ball (2007), Kiddy Contest (2007 and 2008) and the Romy award presentation (2008). Since November 2010 she hosts in collaboration with the German jazz musician Roger Cicero the Hit Giganten on Sat.1.
Parallel to her hosting job, Weichselbraun was a dubber from Jan Dress' audio drama Letzte Tage, jetzt (Last days, now) and as actress. 2007 she played in the ORF-movie Die Rosenkönigin and in one episode of the ProSieben Märchenstunde (Frau Holle - Im Himmel ist die Hölle los). 2008 and 2009 she played in another movies, 2008 in H3 - Halloween Horror Hostel and 2009 in Hangtime - Kein leichtes Spiel (Hangtime - Not an easy game).
2009 she took the role as Sugar Kane in Peter Stones musical Manche mögen's heiß (Some like it hot) at the Theater in der Josefstadt.
2011 and 2012 she hosted in collaboration with Alfons Haider and Barbara Rett for the TV broadcaster ORF the Vienna Opera Ball.
[edit] Personal life
Weichselbraun has a twin sister. The partents from their twins married late, so every girl could choose her own surname. Melanie Binder took the name from the father, Mirjam Weichselbraun from their mother.
After a 2 year-relationship Weichselbraun splitted the relationship with the singer Marque. She was also in relationship with the Sat.1 host Jahn Hahn, but they also splitted their relationship after four years.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Die Rosenkönigin | Marie Gruber |
| 2007 | ProSieben Märchenstunde | Chantal |
| 2008 | H3 - Halloween Horror Hostel | Sidney |
| 2008 | Mutig in die neuen Zeiten - Alles anders | Agnes Ulmendorff |
| 2008 | Wir sind das Volk – Liebe kennt keine Grenzen | Bonnie |
| 2009 | Hangtime - Kein leichtes Spiel | Kathi |
| 2011 | Das Traumhotel (Episode: Malediven) | Greta Junghans |
| 2012 | Die Braut im Schnee | Dr. Thea Hollmann |
| 2012 | Unter Umständen verliebt | Steffi |
[edit] Synchronisation
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Bee Movie | Vanessa Bloom |
[edit] References
- ^ Dancing on Ice - Moderators (German)
[edit] External links
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