Oliver Welke
Oliver Welke is a German television presenter, actor, comedian, voice actor and sports journalist.Life
Welke studied journalism at the University of Münster, graduating in 1993. He then worked in a number of fields and eventually became a rather well-known sport journalist and presenter. Together with Oliver Kalkofe, whom he met while working for a public radio station, he provided the German voices for and the British comedy show Little Britain, and also co-wrote the script for the crime film parody Der WiXXer. Since May 2009, Welke has been the host of the satirical heute-show on German public broadcaster ZDF, which is commonly viewed as a German adaptation of The Daily Show.
Welke is married and has two sons. He is involved in several charities such as Terre des hommes.Filmography
- 2004: Der WiXXer
- 2006-2009: Schillerstraße
- 2007: Neues vom WiXXer
- 2012: Götter wie Wir
CDs
- Kalk & Welk, 2000, Frühstyxradio
- Kalk & Welk: Zwei Engel der Barmherzigkeit, 2000, Frühstyxradio
Books
- Der Wixxer, 2007, Vgs,
- heute-show: Das Buch, 2011, Rowohlt Verlag,
- Frank Bsirske macht Urlaub auf Krk - Deutsche Helden privat, 2013, Rowohlt Verlag,
Awards
- 2001: Deutscher Fernsehpreis
- 2004: German Comedy Award as part of team 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe
- 2007: German Comedy Award as part of team Frei Schnauze XXL
- 2009: German Comedy Award as part of team heute-show
- 2010: Grimme Award as part of team heute-show
- 2010: German Comedy Award as part of team heute-show
- 2010: Deutscher Fernsehpreis in the category Best Comedy as part of theam „heute-show“
- 2011: German Comedy Award as part of team heute-show
- 2012: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Award for television journalism for him and his team of "heute-show"
- 2012: German Comedy Award as part of team heute-show
- 2013: Bayerischer Fernsehpreis as presenter of the „heute-show“
- 2014: Deutscher Fernsehpreis as presenter of the „FIFA WM 2014“, for the best sports telecast
- 2014: Bambi in the category Comedy'' for the „heute-show“
- 2014: Hans-Oelschläger-Preis for the »heute show«
