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Short introduction

Harald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, presenter, cabaret artist and entertainer. He won remarkable reputation specially via his diverse late-night time shows, which have been created from 1995 to 2014. He presently lives together along with his accomplice withinside the Marienburg district of Cologne and is the daddy of 5 children.

Early life

Harald Schmidt became born in Neu-Ulm in 1957, the son of his father Anton and his wife. Both dad and mom are displaced from home, the daddy from Karlsbad in western Bohemia and the mom from Brno in South Moravia. Schmidt grew up in Nürtingen in Baden-Württemberg and became raised strictly Catholic with the aid of using his dad and mom. He became a member of the Catholic Boy Scouts at a younger age and, after effectively finishing his schooling as a church musician on the church song faculty in Rottenburg am Neckar, labored as an organist withinside the Catholic network of St. Johannes in Nürtingen. Harald Schmidt additionally did his Abitur in his fatherland at Hölderlin Gymnasium earlier than he did his network carrier in a parish office. From 1978 to 1981 he studied performing at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. In 1983, Schmidt carried out to the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg to advantage preliminary revel in in movie and broadcasting. There he became removed withinside the very last selection.

He became capable of advantage his first level revel in withinside the length from 1981 to 1984. During this era he performed numerous roles in portions at the municipal levels in Augsburg. In 1984 Harald then moved to Düsseldorf to the cabaret level “Kom (m) ödchen” and laid the inspiration stone for his cabaret profession earlier than he left the level again.

Career

In 1985 Harald Schmidt went on excursion together along with his first solo program. Schmidt sooner or later won his first revel in in broadcasting in 1988 on the station “Freies Berlin”. This became observed with the aid of using in addition TV codecs which includes the charge display “Psst…” and the display “Schmidteinander” which he moderated collectively with Herbert Feuerstein. From 1992 to 1995 Schmidt additionally moderated the famous tv display “Do you recognize fun?”. Shortly thereafter, Schmidt’s best-recognised tv layout “The Harald Schmidt Show” began. The late-night time display polarized strongly, way to Harald’s cynical and sarcastic nature. The display ran frequently from 1995 to 2003, from 2011 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2014 earlier than being absolutely discontinued. Harald Schmidt became lively in lots of different tv packages as a presenter and in diverse German characteristic movies in essential and minor roles earlier than absolutely retreating from the tv enterprise in 2015. He became additionally found in a few German tv series. Schmidt has regarded in episodes of the TV series “Wilsberg” and “Unser Charly” and has been withinside the position of Oskar Schifferle withinside the series “Das Traumschiff” considering 2008.

Career highlights

His late-night time display “Die Harald Schmidt” remains his maximum a success broadcast layout and has gained severa prizes. The display became provided the German TV Prize withinside the “Best Comedy” class, the German-French Journalist Prize withinside the “Television” class and the Adolf Grimme Prize withinside the “Special” competition. For his popular paintings as a moderator, he became provided the German Television Award two times in a row in 2000 and 2001. Schmidt’s manufacturing business enterprise acquired eight million euros a 12 months from ARD for broadcasting 60 packages of the “Harald Schmidt Show”.

Famous quotes

“In carrier stations in southern France, you don’t know: is that a pothole or is it already the toilet?”

-Harald Schmidt

“The wealth tax is coming. Rich tax or, because the FDP says, “club fee.”

-Harald Schmidt

Amazing facts

Harald Schmidt needed to address a stalker hassle for years. As early as 1998, he stricken him with calls. The 39-12 months-vintage Koblenz terrorized Harald’s supervisor and his own circle of relatives withinside the years that observed till a courtroom docket listening to occurred.