Markus Lanz

Markus Lanz
Lanz in 2021
Born	(1969-03-16) 16 March 1969 Bruneck, South Tyrol, Italy
Citizenship	Italy Germany
Occupations	Television presenter host producer
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Angela Gessmann ​ (m. 2011)​
Partner	Birgit Schrowange (1998–2006)
Children	3

Markus Lanz (born 16 March 1969) is an Italian-German¹ journalist, television presenter and talk show host, based in Germany.

Lanz is a member of the German-speaking majority in the Italian province of South Tyrol. He grew up in Geiselsberg, a village located 1,344 metres above sea level in the central Alps. Lanz stated that his family was poor, and that his father died at an early age, leaving his mother to care for three children.² His good school grades earned him a scholarship to the monastery of Neustift, where he went to private Catholic secondary school. He finished high school at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Bruneck in 1988³ and completed military service as a radio operator in the alpine division of the Italian army before working at the radio station Radio Holiday. In 1992, Lanz completed a vocational training course in communications at the Bayerische Akademie für Werbung und Marketing.

In 1992, Lanz started a two-year trainee program at Radio Hamburg in Hamburg. In 1995, he became the news announcer at the regional TV station RTL North, and in 1997, started as presenter of a regional evening news show in Schleswig-Holstein.

Since 2008, Lanz has hosted the weekly cooking show Lanz kocht!

Since October 2009, he has hosted the talk show Markus Lanz three evenings a week.

Between October 2012 and 2014, he presented the monthly German TV show Wetten, dass..? as successor to Thomas Gottschalk.

Lanz plays the piano and founded the band "W5" in which he played with his brother.³ He has a son (born 2000) from a previous relationship with TV presenter Birgit Schrowange. In July 2011, Lanz married Angela Gessmann.⁴ Lanz is a Roman-Catholic.⁵

• Lanz, Markus (2007). Und plötzlich guckst du bis zum lieben Gott : die zwei Leben des Horst Lichter (in German). Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus. ISBN 978-3-579-06459-8. OCLC 244573814.
• Lanz, Markus (2010). Grönland meine Reisen ans Ende der Welt (in German). Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-86690-195-7. OCLC 664386847.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)