Background
She grew up in Vienna with her grandmother after her mother Hannelore (a German theater actress) and her father Sammy Ammissah (a Ghanaian engineer) separated.
She grew up in Vienna with her grandmother after her mother Hannelore (a German theater actress) and her father Sammy Ammissah (a Ghanaian engineer) separated.
While she studied journalism and dramaturgy she started to work as presenter with the Austrian public service television broadcaster ORF.
From 1994 to 2004 she hosted her own daily talk show Arabella on the German television channel Pro7. On 17 January 2006 she started a weekly late night talk show Talk ohne Show on the Berlin television station N24 television However, after 40 shows she resigned suddenly claiming that the frequent traveling between Vienna and Berlin was putting too much stress on her private life. She appeared in the German Playboy on the cover and 14 pages in July 1995.
Arabella Kiesbauer also works as a model and fashion ambassador for the shoe company Vögele Shoes.
On 23 May 2015, Kiesbauer hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 along with Mirjam Weichselbraun and Alice Tumler at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna. Personal life On 9 June 1995 she was the target of a letter bomb at the Pro7 studios.
However she did not open the letter. This being done by her assistant who was subsequently injured by the bomb.
Since November 2004, Kiesbauer has been married to the Viennese businessman Florens Eblinger.
1989–1993: Presenter of ORF youth magazine show, X-Large 1990/1991: Presenter of 3Sat city series, Inter-City 1991: Presenter of ProSieben magazine show, Rund um Hollywood June 1994 – 2004: Presenter of the ProSieben talk show, Arabella February 1996–April 1997: Presenter of ProSieben show, Arabella night September 1996: Presenter of ProSieben special broadcast, Arabella Help! 2002–2004, 2006–2009: Presenter of the ORF casting show, Starmania 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006: Presentation of the Wiener Opernball August 2004: Presenter of the Sound of Football gala Autumn 2004: Presenter of the Die Austro-People’s-Show Since 2006: Presenter of the N24 late night talk show, Arabella Kiesbauer May 2015: Presenter of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, alongside Mirjam Weichselbraun and Alice Tumler Number one (Civil Defense 1994, Eviam Musi (District Attorney ), EAN 4018771410320).
Arabella Kiesbauer won several awards for her, 1994 the Bayerischen Fernsehpreis in the category Beste Talk-Newcomerin and 1996 the media award Das Goldene Kabel. On 17 December 2007, she hosted the 2007 Fédération internationale de football association World Player of the Year awards in Zurich with Rainer Maria Salzgeber.
