Mirjam Weichselbraun | |
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Born | Innsbruck, Austria | 27 September 1981
Occupation(s) | Television presenter, actress |
Years active | 1999–present |
Known for | Hosting Dancing Stars , Life Ball and the Vienna Opera Ball |
Partner | Ben Mawson (2013–present) |
Children | 2 |
Website | mirjamweichselbraun |
Mirjam Weichselbraun (born 27 September 1981[ citation needed ]) is an Austrian television host and actress, best known in Austria for presenting Dancing Stars , Life Ball and the Vienna Opera Ball. She is best known, outside Austria and Germany, for co-presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015.
In January 2002, she joined the newly started music channel VIVA PLUS in Cologne, where she hosted the show Cologne Day.[ citation needed ] After only eight months she switched to MTV Germany in Berlin where she hosted the live show MTV Select until January 2005.[ citation needed ] In Germany, she has interviewed some of the most famous artists in the music business including Jon Bon Jovi and Nickelback. She presented TRL Germany with Joko Winterscheidt (alternating with Patrice Bouédibéla and Karolin Oesterling ) until April 2007.[ citation needed ]
Since 2003, next to her job on MTV, she has also been hosting the ZDF online-magazine for the game show Wetten, dass..? . In 2004 she has, together with Christian Clerici , hosted the live show Expedition Österreich (Expedition Austria), and one year later the Austrian preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, as well as the dancing show Dancing Stars with Alfons Haider on ORF. Her hosting of Dancing Stars earned her the Austrian Romy television award in 2006 and 2008. In 2006, Weichselbraun and Wayne Carpendale presented the German version of Dancing on Ice on RTL, which made her very popular in Germany. [1] Other hosting jobs include the Life Ball, Kiddy Contest , The Dome and the Romy awards presentation in 2008 and 2013.
In addition to her job as a show host, Weichselbraun has also lent her voice to Jan Dress' audio drama Letzte Tage, jetzt (Last days, now) and worked as an actress. In 2007 she played in the ORF movie Die Rosenkönigin and in one episode of the first season of Die ProSieben Märchenstunde (episode: Frau Holle – Im Himmel ist die Hölle los). In 2008 and 2009 she appeared in two more films: H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel and Hangtime . In 2009, she took the role of Sugar Kane in Peter Stones' musical Manche mögen's heiß (Some like it hot) at the Theater in der Josefstadt.
In November 2010, she hosted Die Hit-Giganten for Sat.1 together with the German jazz musician Roger Cicero.[ citation needed ]
Since 2011, she hosted the annual Vienna Opera Ball together with Alfons Haider and Barbara Rett for the Austrian TV broadcaster ORF.[ citation needed ]
In 2015, Weichselbraun co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest alongside Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer in Vienna. [2] In 2021, she hosted the second season of The Masked Singer Austria for Channel Puls 4.
Weichselbraun has a twin sister. Their parents married late, so each girl could choose her own surname.[ citation needed ] Melanie Binder took her father's name, while Mirjam Weichselbraun took her mother's.
After a two year-relationship Weichselbraun split up with the singer Marque. She had also been in a relationship with the Sat.1 host Jahn Hahn, but they split after four years. Since 2013 she has been in a relationship with Ben Mawson, the manager of Lana Del Rey. She has two children with him, two daughters. [6]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2007 | Die Rosenkönigin | Marie Gruber | TV |
2007 | Die ProSieben Märchenstunde | Chantal | TV |
2008 | H3 – Halloween Horror Hostel | Sidney | TV |
2008 | Mutig in die neuen Zeiten – Alles anders | Agnes Ulmendorff | TV |
2008 | The Wall: The Final Days | Bonnie | TV |
2009 | Hangtime | Kathi | |
2011 | Das Traumhotel (Episode: Malediven) | Greta Junghans | TV |
2012 | Die Braut im Schnee | Dr. Thea Hollmann | TV |
2012 | Unter Umständen verliebt | Steffi | TV |
2012 | Es kommt noch dicker (Episodes: Ein magischer Tag, Der Tanzwettbewerb) | Ella Sandvoss | TV |
2012 | Wir sind Kaiser | Fifi | TV |
2012 | Lost in Borneo | Julia zu Hohenberg | TV |
2013 | Herztöne | Dutch Princess | TV |
2013 | Zweisitzrakete | Polizistin Sabrina | |
2013 | Zur Sache, Macho! | Lisa Rammser | TV |
Year | Title | Role |
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2007 | Bee Movie | Vanessa Bloom |
Year | Title | Channel | Role |
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2001 | Das Magazin | TV Tirol | Presenter |
2002 | Cologne Day | VIVA Plus | |
2002–2005 | MTV Select | MTV Germany | |
2002–2007 | TRL Germany | Co-presenter | |
2003–2012 | Wetten, dass..? | ZDF | Online presenter |
2004 | Expedition Österreich | ORF1 | Co-presenter |
2005 2007–2008 2010– | Life Ball | ||
2005 | Song.Null.Fünf | ||
2005– | Dancing Stars | ||
2006 | Dancing on Ice | RTL | |
2007–2008 | Kiddy Contest | ORF1 | Presenter |
2008, 2013, 2019 | Romy Television Awards | Host | |
2008–2010 | The Dome | RTL2 | Co-presenter |
2010 | Die Hit-Giganten | Sat.1 | |
2010–2012 | Willkommen | ZDF | |
2011– | Vienna Opera Ball | ORF eins | |
2012–2013 | Österreich rockt den Song Contest | ||
2012 | Hast du Nerven? | Presenter | |
2012–2013 | Die Harald Schmidt Show | Sky Deutschland | Sidekick |
2013 | Deutscher Filmpreis 2013 | ZDF | Host |
2014 | Die Große Grillshow | Co-presenter | |
2015 | Wer singt für Österreich? | ORF eins | Presenter |
Eurovision Song Contest 2015 | Co-presenter | ||
2017 | Echt jetzt?! | ||
2021 | The Masked Singer Austria | Puls 4 | Presenter |
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