Arabella Kiesbauer – Television Entertainment Pioneer

Many of us grew up with her on our TV screens. The pioneer of talk shows on German-language TV was born Cosima Arabella-Asereba Eblinger in Vienna in 1969. At the age of just 18 she stood in front of the cameras for the first time as the presenter of the ORF youth magazine program “X-Large” and has since made TV history several times. Whether as the host of her very own ProSieben talk show “Arabella,” which had stellar ratings on afternoon television, as the presenter of the talent show “Starmania,” or in a dirndl on the cult TV show “Bauer sucht Frau.”

Television Entertainment Pioneer shines a spotlight on Arabella Kiesbauer’s career from her television appearances to Playboy cover shoots to the screen icon’s reception in German and Austrian media.

Curators: Dalia Ahmed, Joana Tischkau, Anta Helena Recke, Elisabeth Hampe und Frieder Blume