Arabella Kiesbauer started her professional TV-career in the late 80 ies at the Austrian Broadcasting Station ORF with the youth program „X-Large“.
In 1994 she moved to Germany and got her own daily talk show „Arabella“ on the German TV channel Pro7 – for 10 years she was one of the most successful TV presenters of daily talk shows.
In 2002 Arabella Kiesbauer hosted the music show „Starmania“ in Austria and continued in Germany with the prime time show „Comeback – die große Chance“ for PRO7 and „Stars in der Manege“ on ARD. In 2006 she started a weekly late night talk show „Talk ohne Show“ on the News Channel N24.
Five times she hosted the famous viennese opera ball, twice the Life Ball with international guests like Hillary Swank, Antonio Banderas, Erwin Schrott, Melanie Griffith, Barbara Eden and Tatjana Patitz.
Arabella presents international TV-Events in different languages: Sylvestergala 2005 on Arte (french); the International Cirkusfestival 2007 in Monte Carlo on ARD; the FIFA World Players Gala 2007 on Eurosport (english) and the 60th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, viewed by over 200 million people worldwide.
From time to time Arabella accepted some roles as an actress, playing in 1996 in „Das Superweib“, in 2004 in „Kommissar Rex“ or in 2016 in “ Die Welt der Wunderlichs” , a film directed by Dani Levy.
Since 2016, Arabella Kiesbauer has been presenting the popular Christmas show „Christmas at Gut Aiderbichl“ with touching stories about the animal shelter Gut Aiderbichl on ATV.
In spring 2020 she hosted the Saturday evening primetime show „The Masked Singer Austria“ on Puls 4.
In spring 2021 the music show „Starmania 21“ with Arabella Kiesbauer as hostess celebrated a brilliant revival on ORF 1 and will be continued in 2022 due to its success.
The 18th season of ATV's hit format "Farmer wants a Wife" runs from fall 2021, as does the label „Arabella's Crime Time“ on TLC with the true crime formats „Crimes gone viral" and „Chaos in Court“ presented by Arabella Kiesbauer.
Arabella Kiesbauer is married and has two children.
She has been an integration ambassador since 2011 and was awarded the Golden Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria as a cultural Ambassador by the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture for many years of commitment to integration.
Schwarzkopf Hairdressing Awards
Siemens Pink Ribbon Kampagne
Austrian Airlines
Energy Globe World Awards
SCS Grand Opening
60 Jahre Sportalm Gala
Oberbank
Kika
ERSTE Bank und Sparkasse
Duftstars
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