19 Facts About Alfred Biolek

Alfred Franz Maria Biolek was a German entertainer and television producer.

Alfred Biolek received many awards for his work on television which included popular long-running series, and pioneering work for talk shows and cooking shows in the 1970s.

Alfred Biolek received awards for his efforts for promoting the culture of food and wine.

Alfred Biolek was born in Freistadt in Czechoslovakia, into a Sudeten German family.

Alfred Biolek was raised a Catholic, and served as an altar boy.

Alfred Biolek attended the Gymnasium in Waiblingen and graduated in 1954.

Alfred Biolek then studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, and Vienna.

In 1969 Alfred Biolek moved to Munich and worked for a larger law firm.

Alfred Biolek took part in the bohemian community in Munich, and belonged to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's social circle.

From 1963, Alfred Biolek worked as an assessor in the legal department of the new public German TV channel ZDF where he soon switched to editorial tasks.

Alfred Biolek became the anchor man of the TV show Drehscheibe.

Alfred Biolek developed the art of sensitive conversation and attracted much attention.

Besides his media career, Alfred Biolek taught as an honorary professor at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne from 1990 onwards.

Alfred Biolek supported the intercultural work of the American Field Service Deutschland, with which he spent a year abroad in the US as one of the first German exchange students in the 1950s.

Alfred Biolek was actively engaged in the struggle against AIDS and unwanted pregnancy in Africa.

Alfred Biolek was on the advisory board for the German Foundation for World Population.

Alfred Biolek was one of the patrons of the vaudeville theatre "Bar jeder Vernunft" in Wilmersdorf.

Since October 2006, Alfred Biolek was on tour with his program Mein Theater mit dem Fernsehen, in which he illustrated parts of his TV career.

In 2010, Alfred Biolek suffered brain injuries from a fall on a stair.