Barbara Stöckl
Barbara Stöckl (born 2 April 1963 in Vienna) is an Austrian television and radio presenter.
After attending a sports school, she studied in Technical Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology. During her studies she worked as an assistant director for the ORF youth program "Okay" which she hosted from 1985. In the German ZDF she moderated 1988-1993 the youth magazine colon. Stöckl commented for ORF at the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb. Stöckl began hosting Die Millionenshow - the Austrian version of the globally popular British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - in May 2000, becoming the first female presenter of the Millionaire format worldwide. After her departure in 2002, Armin Assinger took over as the show's presenter.
Together with director Peter Nagy, Stöckl operates the production company KIWI TV.
She has three sisters and one brother, one of them is the TV personality Claudia Stöckl.[1]
References
- ^ "Barbara Stöckl schwer verliebt!". Heute. 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2015-05-02.