The bestselling author Sebastian Fitzek will host the talk show Riverboat in the RBB. “We are very much looking forward to a charming, intelligent and curious host on Friday evening,” said Torsten Amarell, program department manager of the station. Together with Kim Fisher, “Germany’s most successful author” will host the talk show from October 15th.
For Sebastian Fitzek, author of numerous popular thrillers, it is the first big moderation job on television. Before his writing career, Fitzek, 49, was a journalist and worked for various radio stations, including in the program management of the Berlin broadcaster 104.6 RTL. Simultaneously with his debut at Riverboat The talk show will also be broadcast from Berlin for the first time in October.
The talk show will be produced alternately by the RBB and MDR from autumn and broadcast in parallel
Riverboat was previously in the MDR. In May, RBB and MDR announced that Riverboat will also be featured on the RBB television program from autumn. According to the announcement at the time, the program will be produced by both public broadcasters on a weekly basis and will be broadcast on Fridays at 10 p.m. at the same time. Fisher and Fitzek will moderate the Berlin editions. The broadcasts from Leipzig should stay with the team made up of Fisher and Jörg Kachelmann, according to the broadcasters in May.
The writer reaches an audience of millions with his books, and his novels regularly reach the top of the list mirrors-Best seller list. The stations are very happy. “Sebastian Fitzek unites the broadcasting area of RBB and MDR in his biography like hardly anyone else,” it says in a press release. He was not only born in Berlin, thanks to his family history, Fitzek is also deeply rooted in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.