Daniela Katzenberger

Daniela Katzenberger
Daniela Katzenberger at the RTL Television charity marathon (2014)
Background information
Birth name	Daniela Denise Katzenberger
Born	(1986-10-01) 1 October 1986 (age 30)
Origin	Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer, Reality-TV-Star, Model
Years active	2009-present
Labels	EMI
Website	www.danielakatzenberger.de

Daniela Denise Katzenberger (born 1 October 1986) is a German reality TV personality, actress, restaurateur, singer, television presenter, and model. Her first single, a version of Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now reached number 19 in the German single charts in 2010. She has featured in several television shows in Germany, mostly on VOX.

Daniela Katzenberger was born and raised in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. After secondary school she trained and qualified as a beautician. Her mother, Iris Klein, was a participant in the 10th season of the German version of TV show Big Brother.

In 2009 Katzenberger lost the Top Model of the World Mallorca beauty competition. Her breakthrough came in the same year when she featured in the VOX television docu-soap Auf und davon – Mein Auslandstagebuch (English: Up and away - my diary abroad). In the show a camera crew follow her as she attempts to break into photographic modelling in the United States, including trying to meet Hugh Hefner and applying to appear in the American Playboy magazine, neither of which succeed. In the second season of the show the viewers follow her as she undergoes plastic surgery to further her glamour modelling career.

Katzenberger also featured in MTV Home and at the VIVA Comet Awards 2010.

From January 2010 she was featured in the TV show Goodbye Deutschland! Die Auswanderer (English:Goodbye Germany! The emigrants.) as she opened a café in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca. The show had up to 2.29 million viewers and 11% market share. She also appeared in the music video Vamos a la playa by Loona.

She signed a recording contract with EMI in May 2010 and her first single, a cover of Samantha Fox's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" was released. The song reached number 19 in the German charts and number 14 in Austria. The song was released as a digital download and audio CD in August 2010. She has her own show on the German TV channel VOX, entitled "Daniela Katzenberger - natürlich blond". This started airing on 21 September 2010.