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Désirée Nosbusch

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Désirée Nosbusch
Désirée Nosbusch (2018)
Born (1965-01-14) 14 January 1965 (age 59)
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Other namesDésirée Becker
Occupation(s)Actress, singer and television presenter
Spouses
(m. 1991; div. 2002)
(m. 2005; div. 2013)
Tom Bierbaumer
(m. 2018)
Children2

Désirée Nosbusch (born 14 January 1965) also known as Désirée Becker, is a Luxembourgish actress and television presenter. She was the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 1984.

Early and personal life

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Nosbusch was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg to a Luxembourgish father and an Italian mother. She speaks Luxembourgish, German, French, English, Italian and Spanish.

From 1991 to 2002, Nosbusch was married with Harald Kloser, with whom she had two children. She was later married to Mehmet Kurtuluş. She has been married to Tom Alexander Bierbaumer since 2018.[1]

Career

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Nosbusch has acted in both French-language and German-language films and television productions since her mid-teens.[1] She was a member of the youth drama group of the Lycée Hubert Clément of Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).

At twelve years old, she started working at Radio Luxemburg, and then did a show with Anke Engelke on ARD. At 16, she held the leading role of the German film After Midnight.[1]

She appeared in some Italian-language TV miniseries. She presented the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 in Luxembourg, and hosted a kids' version of the game show Ruck Zuck called "Kinder Ruck Zuck".

Nosbusch is also a singer. In 1984, she recorded a duet with Austrian singer Falco, "Kann es Liebe sein?".[1]

In 2001, she directed her first short film, Ice Cream Sundae.[2] In 2014, she directed the film Succès Fox about the actor Fernand Fox.[2]

In 2021, she launched the production of the feature film Poison, an adaptation of Lot Vekemans' play,[2] starring Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm.[3]

In 2024, Nosbusch was one of the hosts of the Luxembourg Song Contest, the national final to select Luxembourg's first Eurovision Song Contest entry after an absence of 31 years. She was also the spokesperson for the Luxembourgish national jury in the Grand Final.[4]

Publications

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  • Nosbusch, Désirée (2022). Endlich noch nicht angekommen (in German). Ullstein eBooks. ASIN B09KYHZQPK.

Selected filmography

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Nosbusch at the German television awards in 2019

See also

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References

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Media related to Désirée Nosbusch at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by Eurovision Song Contest presenter
1984
Succeeded by