Arabella Kiesbauer

Who is Arabella Kiesbauer?

Cosima Arabella-Asereba Kiesbauer is a TV presenter, writer and actress. She grew up in Vienna with her grandmother after her mother Hannelore and her father Sammy Ammissah 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 TV channel Pro7. On January 17, 2006 she started a weekly late night talk show Talk ohne Show on the Berlin TV station N24 TV. 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.

Arabella Kiesbauer won several awards for her TV work, 1994 the Bayerischen Fernsehpreis in the category Beste Talk-Newcomerin and 1996 the media award Das Goldene Kabel.

On June 9, 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.

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.