Alice Tumler

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Alice Tumler
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Born11 November 1978
Innsbruck, Austria
NationalityFrench and Austrian
TelevisionTV shows : Eurovision 2015, Thalassa, ONE SHOT NOT TV channels : France TV, ARTE, ORF, TRACE TV
Website https://www.alicetumler.com

Alice Tumler (born 11 November 1978), is a French-Austrian TV host, public speaking and authenticity coach and a keynote speaker.

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Early life, education and the beginning of her media career

Alice Tumler was born on 11 November 1978 in Innsbruck, Austria, and is the daughter of a French mother and an Austrian father.

After her high school graduation in Austria she moves to London to study Mass Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of North London. She continues her higher education in Paris at the renowned drama school Cours Florent.

In 2003, she joins the local French West Indian radio and TV network RFO Martinique and hosts a radio program for young people for several months.

Career

In 2004 Alice Tumler joins TRACE TV in Paris to record voice-overs in French, English and German and hosts her first minor shows as a TV host.

The same year, she hosts her first weekly show “Le monde en direct” on French TV channel VOYAGE.

In December 2004 she co-hosts the KORA All African Music Awards, the biggest pan-African music prize, in Johannesburg, South Africa.  

After a two-year break, during which she travels through South America and Asia, she is spotted by the French production company KM Production and joins the French-German cultural channel ARTE to co-host the music program ONE SHOT NOT together with French drummer Manu Katché in French, English and German.

Between 2007 and 2014 Alice Tumler presents all sorts of different music shows and cultural events on ARTE, such as ARTE Lounge, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Les Vielles Charrues, the Hell Fest, the Jazz Open Stuttfart, “La Bohème en banlieu” or “Musik entdecken mit Thomas Hengelbrock: Romeo und Julia”.

In 2010 she travels along the Argentinian and Brazilian coast to shoot travel documentaries for THALASSA on France 3.

After giving birth to her first daughter she integrates the Austrian public service ORF in 2013 and host the prime-time entertainment show “Die grosse Chance”.

In Austria, her notoriety grows quickly and her international and multilingual personality enable her to present numerous international TV shows, such as the “Life Ball”, the world’s biggest charity event in the fight against AIDS.

After Conchita Wurst’s victory at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, Alice Tumler is selected to be one of the hosts of the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria, in 2015 together with Arabella Kiesbauer and Mirjam Weichselbraun.

After Eurovision, Alice Tumler decides to withdraw for the small screen. She gives birth to her second daughter in 2016 and returns to the stage only for a selection of committed international events, such as the Austrian World Summit In Vienna in 2017, organized by Arnold Schwarzenegger, or the « INDEX : Design to Improve Life Award » in Copenhagen the same year, during which she shares the stage with Princess Mary of Denmark.

In December 2017 she is invited to interview French president Emmanuel Macron in Accra, Ghana for the program “TRACE Meets Macron” – an exchange between the president and the African youth.

Public speaking coaching, personal growth and conferences

Alice Tumler puts her TV career aside in order to commit herself to her personal projects. She develops her own coaching method “Authentic Expression by Alice Tumler”, mixing public speaking and personal growth.

She is also back on stage as a professional speaker with her favorite subject: authenticity.

Her first show, a conference with a stand-up comedy twist, is entitled “Quand je serai grande, je serai comme moi-même” (“When I grow up, I’ll be like myself.”)

Private life

Alice Tumler lives in Lyon together with her partner Francis Nyock and their two daughters Tia, born in 2011, and Lilo, born in 2016.

She speaks four languages fluently: German, French, English and Italian, and is able to also communicate in Spanish and Portuguese.

Television shows

DateShowChannel
June 2018Life Ball : Der Auftakt ORF
December 2017TRACE Meets Macron TRACE TV
February 2016Wer singt für Österreich ?ORF
May 2015Eurovision Song ContestORF, broadcast all over the world
May 2015Life BallORF
February 2015Musik entdecken mit Thomas Hengelbrock: Romeo und JuliaARTE, Doclights
May 2014Europe Sings  ORF, broadcast across Europe  
May 2014Life Ball – Der AuftaktORF
2013-2014Die Grosse Chance    ORF
July 2013Jazz Open Stuttgart    ARTE, Opus Stuttgart
December 2012Un Prince presque parfait, officiel previewRenault TV,  Publicis, Zodiak
November 2012Apocalypse Flash InfosARTE, Program33
2012-2014ARTE Lounge  ARTE, studio.tv.film
July 2012Les Vieilles Charrues  ARTE, Sombrero
June 2012HellfestARTE, Sombrero
June–September 2010ThalassaFrance Télévision, Bonne Pioche
2007-2010ONE SHOT NOTARTE, KM
December 2009Fiesta Cubana Réveillon 2009ARTE, EuroArts
September 2009La Bohème en banlieue        ARTE, SF, TSR
July 2009Montreux Jazz FestivalARTE, TSR
June 2009Pari RollerRenault TV, RDF Media
May 2009Cannes Film Festival  Renault TV, RDF Media
February 2009London Fashion WeekRenault TV, RDF Media
October 2008Rock in the CityARTE, Morgane Production
July 2008Paleo FestivalARTE, Sombrero Productions
December 2004KORA All African Music AwardTRACE TV, SABC
2004-2005Le Monde en directVoyage
2004-2006Voice overs    TRACE TV

Event hosting

DateEventPlace
September 2017INDEX:Design to Improve Life

Award 2017    

INDEX, Copenhaguen
June 2017R20 -Austrian World Summit Vienna
January 2013Visionary Monday, MIDEMReed Midem
2012German High Tech Champion Award, Pollutec Lyon, organised by Fraunhofer Research

Radio productions

2003 : « Missié Polo » - RFO Martinique

Rewards

2015 : Tirolerin des Jahres

Preceded by Eurovision Song Contest presenter
2015
With: Mirjam Weichselbraun and Arabella Kiesbauer
Succeeded by

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