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Markus Lanz

Italian television presenter

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Italian television presenter

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name	Markus Lanz
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birth_place	Bruneck, South Tyrol, Italy
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years_active	1991–present
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partner	Birgit Schrowange (1998–2006)
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Markus Lanz (born 16 March 1969) is an Italian television presenter based in Germany.

Early life

Lanz is a member of the German-speaking majority in the Italian province of South Tyrol. He grew up in Geiselsberg, a village located 1,344 metres above sea level in the central Alps. Lanz stated that his family was poor, and that his father died at an early age, leaving his mother to care for three children. His good school grades earned him a scholarship to the monastery of Neustift, where he went to private Catholic secondary school. He finished high school at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Bruneck in 1988 and completed military service as a radio operator in the alpine division of the Italian army before working at the radio station Radio Holiday. In 1992, Lanz completed a vocational training course in communications at the Bayerische Akademie für Werbung und Marketing.

Career

In 1992, Lanz started a two-year trainee program at Radio Hamburg in Hamburg. In 1995, he became the news announcer at the regional TV station RTL North, and in 1997, started as presenter of a regional evening news show in Schleswig-Holstein.

Since 2008, Lanz has hosted the weekly cooking show Lanz kocht!

Since October 2009, he has hosted the talk show Markus Lanz three evenings a week.

Between October 2012 and 2014, he presented the monthly German TV show Wetten, dass..? as successor to Thomas Gottschalk.

Private life

Lanz plays the piano and founded the band "W5" in which he played with his brother. He has a son (born 2000) from a previous relationship with TV presenter Birgit Schrowange. In July 2011, Lanz married Angela Gessmann. Lanz is a Roman-Catholic.

Books

References

(22 October 2017). "Markus Lanz vom 17. Oktober 2017 HD".
(4 October 2012). "Markus Lanz, treuer Sohn seiner Heimat Südtirol". WeltN24 GmbH.
(27 July 2020). "Markus Lanz: Karriere, Privatleben und wichtigste Sendungen im TV".
[https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv/wetten-dass/darum-ist-er-der-richtige-fuer-wetten-dass-23111896.bild.html] Bild.de, 13 March 2012: "letzten Sommer heiratete Markus Lanz seine neue Lebensgefährtin Angela Gessmann" (''last summer Markus Lanz married Angela Gessmann'') and "Elf Jahre ist ihr gemeinsamer Sohn Laurin jetzt alt" (''their common son Laurin is now 11 years old'')
[https://rp-online.de/panorama/leute/tv-moderator-markus-lanz-fuer-seinen-einsatz-fuer-christliche-werte-ausgezeichnet_aid-64239125 ''Markus Lanz für seinen Einsatz für christliche Werte ausgezeichnet''] (in German), rp-online.de, 24 November 2021, retrieved 7 June 2022

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