Barbara Schöneberger


Barbara Schöneberger is a German actress, singer, and TV presenter.

Biography

Early life

Schöneberger is the only child of clarinet player Hans Schöneberger and his wife Annemarie. She studied sociology, Art history, and communication studies in Augsburg. She lives in Berlin with her second husband Maximilian von Schierstädt and has a son and a daughter.

Career

Television

Since 1999, Schöneberger has hosted several shows on German television, including Die Schöneberger Show and Blondes Gift, for which she received a Grimme Award nomination. She has also acted in a number of TV movies and hosted such award ceremonies as the Echo award 2009.
Schöneberger was Germany's spokesperson for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, held in Vienna, and for the 2016 contest, which was held in Stockholm – having earlier also presented Unser Lied für Stockholm, at which the German entry for the contest was chosen. In May 2017 Schöneberger was again the German spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest final, this time being held in Kiev. She also was the German spokesperson in Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon and has been confirmed again for the ESC 2019 in Tel Aviv.

Music

In 2007, Schöneberger published her first studio album, Jetzt singt sie auch noch!. Her second album, Nochmal, nur anders, followed in 2009. For 2014 she announced her first Music Tour in Germany.

Discography

Studio albums