Mirjam Weichselbraun
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Mirjam Weichselbraun 27 September 1981 Innsbruck, Austria |
| Occupation | Television presenter |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Known for | Hosting Dancing Stars, Life Ball and the Vienna Opera Ball |
| Height | 5 ft six ¼ in (168 cm) |
| Partner(s) | Ben Mawson (2013–present) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | mirjamweichselbraun |
Mirjam Weichselbraun (born 27 September 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian television host and actress, best known in Austria for presenting Dancing Stars, Life Ball and the Vienna Opera Ball. She is best known outside Austria for presenting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015.
Her first experience in broadcasting was with the regional radio station Antenne Tirol in 1999 and she first appeared in front of the camera in 2001 on the culture program Das Magazin on the channel TV Tirol.
In 2000, she was voted the BRAVO-Girl of the year among 25,000 contestants.
In January 2002 she joined the newly started music channel VIVA PLUS in Cologne, where she hosted the show Cologne Day. After only eight months she switched to MTV Germany in Berlin where she hosted the live show MTV Select until January 2005.
In Germany, she has interviewed some of the most famous artists in the music business including Jon Bon Jovi and Nickelback.
She presented TRL Germany with Joko Winterscheidt (alternating with Patrice Bouédibéla and Karolin Oesterling) until April 2007.
Since 2003, next to her job on MTV, she has also been hosting the ZDF online-magazine for the game show Wetten, dass..?. In 2004 she has, together with Christian Clerici, hosted the live show Expedition Österreich (Expedition Austria), and one year later the Austrian preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, as well as the dancing show Dancing Stars with Alfons Haider on ORF. Her hosting of Dancing Stars earned her the Austrian Romy television award in 2006 and 2008.
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