The note of their legitimate intermediate to the most academic aspirations: a smooth 1.0. Nevertheless, said Barbara Schöneberger University Adieu. "Where is this life?" She asked - and was starting a career as a television presenter and singer.
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Somehow this must have been a misunderstanding, between her and the students. Because it was not that she was a bad student or that the content they are not interested. Nevertheless - ask Barbara Schöneberger what in retrospect was the best in the three subjects that they studied, she said once: "Nothing, to be honest, nothing."
However, the 35-year-old does not miss her studies. It was a "great opportunity, a crazy social event, every day full of action," says Barbara Schöneberger. The television made them funny as fast known speaker, she is now the "NDR Talk Show" and is part-time singer: 2007 she published her first album called "Now they even sing," a jazz-pop record with horns, strings and German , ironic lyrics. You will find: Every man should study.
A solid career goal Schöneberger Barbara had no eyes. After graduating in 1993 in Munich, she erstmal an internship at a fashion magazine. They have appealed to study, went for four days to Paris, then looked again and again into a thick book in which all possible courses of study were described. Every evening she subjects by which it is not liked. Remaining at the end of sociology, communication sciences, history of art. In 1994, her first semester at Augsburg: And now they are still studying.
"Was not in advertising, media and so?"
Its three subjects were studied a great generale, with insights into many areas, politics, history, psychology. Today would recommend Schöneberger, times three semesters of one of these three subjects to do, but also something else. Or you need to know in advance where you want to land these subjects.
She knew it not: "It really runs like a chicken with a severed head by the university, has no plan, what all this is where it leads, why I ever do and what the others all. You think all the time: Where is this life? Is it already happening, or I have not heard the shot? " Barbara Schöneberger had no idea what it should be. She had only the feeling that it will fold.
"Was not on the advertising in the media and so?", She sings self on stage. "Sass is not around on the sofa, in a television show? Flashy and colorful, lush and blond." With momentum shifting and evening dresses she goes from one corner to another, sings and tells of her life. Some believe that their mother every two years on the new friend, said: "It is now" - until he and glass on a Formula-1-car as a table when you decided to move.
These live performances with the program like it. "I'm incredibly touched every time, even if the people stand up, scream or sing along," she says in a black cotton sweater, her blond curls tied to horse's tail.
Dear advertising agency as a student assistant job
Five years they lived in Augsburg in a four-WG, they liked the study, as time passed in flight. "I liked then go to the library and know that by 16 clock I go over, and then I drink a coffee with a Snickers." You liked the structure, the fixed periods in which it was incorporated as a student. "I have hated myself to leave." After the school had their structures, a fixed time schedule and the truth. Even so she thought: Man, now you studierst times.
Only her study, says Schöneberger retrospect, quite the practical and realitätsfremdeste what they can imagine. No professionals told times in the lecture hall, which he does all the time and how he then came into being. So Schöneberger found no reference to any kind of occupation. "There was talk about deviant behavior, about terrorism, about the system of bureaucracy by Max Weber, I do not know about everything - but you did not know what that actually is," she says: "Why should I know about and how can I apply? I'm afraid it can not apply. You can thus only to some standing pose. "
Specify on the fetus should Studienabbrecherin Schöneberger not be a problem. Finally, she was a good student, even a very good: The intermediate existed as only one with a grade of 1.0. The professor gave her a team-Hiwi body at the chair on. Schöneberger refused - the body was not lucrative enough.
From her parents she was awarded 500 marks per month, while her roommate room already cost 450 marks. To the car, cell phone and apartment to finance, she worked at the university instead prefer at an advertising agency. During her studies she stumbled on the first small step of their television career: it was Assistant Elmar Related in the game show "Jack, Queen, Hörig, a Sat.1-morning broadcast.
"I simply wanted to work"
After ten semesters was then concluded with sociology, because real life was waiting: Schöneberger was studying race and went to television, then moderated the "Wake Up Show", on Sunday morning went on Sat.1. It had all the power they already receipts together, only the master's thesis and Testing lacking: "I had no destination, but I have a long way, and I think now it is somehow so that it says: man, cool, where me the way hingeführt has. "
Their catwalk is the television was known as Schöneberger and "Blondes Gift", one of her self-developed Talk format, which from 2001 to 2005 in the first local program window of a private channel, ran and then in the WDR, and most recently at ProSieben. Your "Schöneberger Show" on ZDF on the other hand, was terminated after 17 impacts. Thereafter, she was increasingly in various formats, comedy and quiz shows as a guest.
Like the current crop NDR Ina Müller was somehow Schöneberger long to find a show format that makes it quite the entertainer as a big breakthrough brings. It has more or less to wait to see what happens. "I wanted to just work," says Schöneberger. "I went there, five days a week to be busy, and I succeeded." Since 2008 she once again, the "NDR Talk Show". That gave her, she says: "I would not otherwise make. I am away, to think that the RTL primetime broadcast the right place for me."
Schöneberger, the blonde from blackbird Othmarschen "seems to have found long after they did not know where, how and what they are actually here and there makes. In her words: She sits on the sofa now rum, in a television show. One item that was actually a little too complacent for its temperament.
