Stefan Raab (full name Stefan Konrad Raab, born on October 20, 1966 in Cologne, Germany) is a German entertainer and comedian. Before entering the media world, he worked as a butcher ^[1] and studied law before dropping out of college after five semesters. Stefan Raab became popular as the host of the comedy show Vivasion for the German music TV channel VIVA in 1996. Since 1999 he has hosted his own show TV total on the channel ProSieben. While TV total started as a comedy format, it soon turned into a late night show with musical performances, remotely similar to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He also presents occasional game show Schlag den Raab on the same network. October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... The article about perfume can be found at Eau de Cologne. ... An entertainer is someone who is hired to entertain people. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Butcher shop in Valencia A butcher is someone who prepares various meats and other related goods for sale. ... // A law school is an institution where future lawyers obtain legal degrees. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... For the bus system in York Region, Ontario, Canada, please see Viva (bus rapid transit). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... TV total is a German late night television comedy talk show that has run since March 8, 1999, on Pro 7 and is currently aired from Monday to Thursday at 22:15 CET. Created, produced and hosted by Stefan Raab, TV total particularly makes fun of some of the funniest... ProSieben is a commercial television channel in Germany. ... The First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush and current host Jay Leno. ... Jay Leno (born James Douglas Muir Leno April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC televisions long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. ... This article is about the television genre. ... Schlag den Raab (German for Beat [the] Raab) is a game show airing on the German television channel ProSieben. ...

Musical career

Raab began working as a freelance producer and composer of Jingles and Radio commercials in 1990 at his own studio in Cologne. MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ...

He wrote the music for the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1998, Guildo Horn's "Guildo hat Euch Lieb", and in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 he performed himself with the nonsense song "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?" ("What do you have there?"). Other famous songs include "Böörti Böörti Vogts" (a song about Berti Vogts), "Hier kommt die Maus" ("Here comes the mouse" a tribute to the TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus), "Maschendrahtzaun", "Gebt das Hanf frei!" ("Legalize Hemp!", featuring Shaggy and samples from German politician Hans-Christian Ströbele) and "Space Taxi". The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest to create a consistent visual identity. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 1998 was the 43rd Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 9, 1998 at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. ... Guildo Horn (born February 15, 1963 in Trier as Horst Köhler) is a German schlager singer and actor. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 13, 2000 in the Globen Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. ... Wadde Hadde Dudde Da? (English translation: What Do You Have There? related to the german words Was Hast Du Da which is a kind of mixture of some different german dialects) was the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, performed in an invented dialect of German by Stefan... Berti Vogts (6. ... The mouse Die Sendung mit der Maus (The show with the mouse) is a childrens series on German television. ... Maschendrahtzaun is a country music song by Stefan Raab. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Shaggy (artist). ... Hans-Christian Ströbele is a German politician and lawyer. ...

Raab cast the German entry for the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest on his show in a competition he called SSDSGPS ("Stefan sucht den Super-Grand-Prix-Star", "Stefan seeks the super Grand-Prix star" -- satirising the title of the German Idol series Deutschland sucht den Superstar ("Germany seeks the superstar"), commonly abbreviated to DSDS). The winner of this casting, Maximilian Mutzke, came in 8th place. The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the forty-ninth Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, with on 15 May 2004, and the semi-final two days earlier, on 12 May 2004. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the manufacturing process. ... Maximilian Nepomuk Mutzke (born May 21, 1981 in Krenkingen, Germany) sang Germanys entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. ...

Bored with the Eurovision Song Contest, Raab came up with the Bundesvision Song Contest in 2005 (Germany officially being the Bundesrepublik Deutschland). The contest featured representatives from each of the 16 states of Germany (Bundesländer) and stipulated that their song had to be (at least partly) in German. The first contest in 2005 was won by the band Juli from Hesse, followed by Seeed from Berlin in 2006 and Oomph! from Lower Saxony in 2007. Bundesvision Song Contest is a German contest created by Stefan Raab, a German entertainer, comedian and musician. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... Juli (English: July) is a German german rock/pop band from Gießen, Hessen, consisting of singer Eva Briegel, guitarists Jonas Pfetzing and Simon Triebel, bassist Andreas Dedi Herde and drummer Marcel Römer. ... Hesse (German: Hessen) is a state of Germany with an area of 21,110 km² and just over six million inhabitants. ... Cover for the album Next Seeed is a German reggae/dancehall band from Berlin. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... OOMPH! is a German industrial metal group. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ...

He is an autodidact, playing various instruments, such as piano, drums, guitar, ukulele, bass and some wind instruments. Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. ... Ukulele The ukulele (Hawaiian: , IPA pronunciation: ; Anglicised pronunciation usually IPA: ), sometimes spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or uke, is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four strings or four courses of strings. ...

TV total

Stefan Raab can be called the inventor of wok racing, when in November 2003 he initiated the first "official" World Wok Racing Championships in Winterberg, Germany. While Raab won the title in 2003, he subsequently lost to Olympic luger Georg Hackl in 2004 and 2005,and then Joey Kelly in 2006. Special Guest since 2004 is the Jamaican Bobsled Team, which became famous through the film Cool Runnings. He also arranged and took part at different Sport-Events, like two boxing-matches against Regina Halmich (WIBF's world champion) and an ice-skating race against Claudia Pechstein. He has lost both boxing-matches but has at least been able to stay in the boxing-ring until the last round. Another activity frequently organised by TV total is the PokerStars Night, usually not with real poker stars but general celebrities. Whatever activity is organised, it always seemed most essential for the show to include celebrities. Wok Racing is a new kind of sport developed by German talk show host Stefan Raab. ... Cooking in a wok The wok is a versatile round-bottomed cooking vessel originating in China. ... Championship is a term used to refer to various forms of sports competitions in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion; that is, the best competitor. ... Winterberg is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Hackl at the World Wok Racing Championships 2005 Georg Hackl (born September 9, 1966 in Berchtesgaden) is a German luger and a three time Olympic and World Champion. ... The Jamaican Bobsled Team first gained fame during their debut in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Cool Runnings is a 1993 comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub. ... De:Regina Halmich Regina Halmich (born November 22, 1976) is a popular female boxer from Germany. ... The WIBF (Womens International Boxing Federation) is, along with the IWBF and others, one of the most recognized world championship fight sanctioning organizations in Womens boxing. ... Claudia Pechstein (born 22 February 1972 in East Berlin) is a German speed skater. ...

Private life

There is hardly anything known about Raab's private life, which he keeps hidden from the media at all times. He has a girlfriend who is 8 years younger and a daughter, who was born April 17, 2004.

He likes sailing and American Country music. This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ...

Legal actions

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During his career, many lawsuits have been filed against Stefan Raab, some of which have gained public attention. Two famous examples are: Image File history File links Information_icon. ...

The then 16-year-old model Lisa Loch was excessively ridiculed during some shows through Raab's assertion that her name ("Loch" meaning "hole" in German) made her more likely to find a job as an actress in pornographic movies. Loch claimed she received anonymous obscene telephone calls, was mocked by her classmates and in public and as a result suffered sleeplessness and was afraid to leave her home. The court in Hamm eventually ordered Raab to pay € 70000 in compensation due to gross infringement of privacy.

During the 6 September 2004 episode, Raab showed a clip, originally destined for a news broadcast, of the 28-year-old Turkish mother Nil S. holding a Schultüte (schoolcone). Raab's comment, "Unbelievable! The drug traffickers are disguising themselves better and better", resulted in repeated lawsuits, and after a Munich court ruled against Raab, Nil S. settled for € 20000 compensation accompanied by a written apology. The Schultüte (or in English The School Cone [even though the word Tüte translates more as bag]; alternative spelling: Schultuete) is a paper (and later plastic) bag in particular. ...

External links

• Stefan Raab at the Internet Movie Database
• Official TV total website features clips from past shows (in German)