Oliver Welke Explained

Oliver Welke
Birth Date:	19 April 1966
Birth Place:	Bielefeld, West Germany
Occupation:	Television presenter, journalist, satirist, comedian, voice actor
Years Active:	1996–present

Oliver Welke (born 19 April 1966) is a German television presenter, journalist, satirist, comedian and voice actor.

Biography

Welke was born in Bielefeld and 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 (as Crow T. Robot) 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.^[1]

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 (TV series)
• 2007:
• 2012: Götter wie Wir (TV series)

CDs

• Kalk & Welk (together with Oliver Kalkofe), 2000, Frühstyxradio (Rough Trade Records)
• Kalk & Welk: Zwei Engel der Barmherzigkeit (together with Oliver Kalkofe), 2000, Frühstyxradio (Rough Trade Records)

Books

• Der Wixxer (together with Bastian Pastewka and Oliver Kalkofe), 2007, Vgs,
• heute-show: Das Buch (together with Morten Kühne), 2011, Rowohlt Verlag,
• Frank Bsirske macht Urlaub auf Krk – Deutsche Helden privat (together with Dietmar Wischmeyer), 2013, Rowohlt Verlag,

Awards

• 2001: Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Award)
• 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 team heute-show
• 2011: German Comedy Award as part of team heute-show (best comedy 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 (best comedy show)
• 2013: Bayerischer Fernsehpreis as presenter of the heute-show^[2]
• 2014: Deutscher Fernsehpreis as presenter of the FIFA WM 2014, for the best sports telecast^[3]
• 2014: Bambi in the category Comedy for the heute-show
• 2014: Hans-Oelschläger-Preis for the heute-show^[4]

External links

• Official website
• Sueddeutsche: Oliver Welke im Gespräch: SchwarzGelb war bislang gut für uns
• Oliver Welke in the German Dubbing Card Index

Notes and References

1. http://heuteshow.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/18/0,1872,7555090,00.html HeuteShow:Oliver Welke
2. Bayerische Staatskanzlei: Web site: Ministerpräsident Seehofer verleiht Bayerischen Fernsehpreis 2013 . 22 May 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222132845/http://www.bayern.de/Pressemitteilungen-.1255.10434981/index.htm . 22 February 2014 .
3. Web site: Preisträger. Deutscher-fernsehpreis.de. 3 October 2014. German.
4. Web site: Auszeichnung der Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache. 1 July 2016. 5 February 2014. de.