Annette Frier
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Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) is a German actress and comedian
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
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Biography
After the AbiturAbitur
Abitur is a designation used in Germany, Finland and Estonia for final exams that pupils take at the end of their secondary education, usually after 12 or 13 years of schooling, see also for Germany Abitur after twelve years.The Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife, often referred to as...
she studied classical acting at the school of the German theater "Der Keller" for three years and worked as a theater actress in Cologne.
Actress career
In 1997 Frier was member of the cast of the RTLRTL Television
Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...
series Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast
Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast
Hinter Gittern – Der Frauenknast was a German television series in the form of a soap opera and told the dramaturgically oversubscribed-life in a prison for women. The series was broadcast from September 22, 1997 until February 13, 2007 at the private broadcaster RTL...
for 54 episodes. In the same year she took a part in the thriller Post Mortem which was on RTL as well. The thriller eventually became a series in 2007. In 1998 she started her comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
career in the Pro7 programme Switch. Besides she took part in the Sat.1
Sat.1
Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....
crime series SK Kölsch
SK Kölsch
SK Kölsch is a German television series....
from 1999 to 2001.
From 2000 to 2002 Frier was co-host of the Wochenshow. Since 2004 she is a regular on the improvisational comedy show Schillerstraße
Schillerstraße
Schillerstraße is a German improvisational comedy show that airs weekly on Sat.1. It is recorded without a script and broadcast unedited to a large extent...
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Since 2005 Frier is also a cast member of the children's programme Sesamstraße (Sesame Street)
Sesamstraße
Sesamstraße is the German-language version of Sesame Street, a children's television program. It airs primarily in Germany and the surrounding German-speaking countries. The show premièred on 8th January 1973, Sesamstraße has been running on Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 1973; it's now in its...
, as well as of the Pro7 comedy series Alles außer Sex
Alles außer Sex
Alles außer Sex was a German "dramedy" television series which aired on the TV station ProSieben between 2005 and 2006. The German television premiere was on 9 November 2005 with an audience of 2.9 million viewers. Thematically, it is reminiscent of the American television series Sex and the City...
. Frier made a guest appearance in an episode of the series Familie Heinz Becker
Familie Heinz Becker
Familie Heinz Becker is a German television series....
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Moderator career
Additionally she hosted the Stefan RaabStefan Raab
Stefan Konrad Raab is a German entertainer, television host, comedian and musician. Raab began his television career hosting the comedy show Vivasion in 1993 and has been hosting the late-night comedy show TV total since 1999. He became well-known in 1994 after composing a hit single spoofing...
show SSDSGPS in 2004 and his Bundesvision Song Contest
Bundesvision Song Contest
The Bundesvision Song Contest is an annual competition created by German TV entertainer Stefan Raab in 2005. For each of the 16 states of Germany a song is chosen by regional radio stations. The songs are performed on live television in order to find the most popular song in the competition...
in 2005.