Stefan Raab owns a estimated net worth of 120 million euros. This is primarily due to the high income that the TV broadcaster Pro 7 paid for its services. For the last 5-year contract alone, Stefan Raab allegedly earned 185 million euros with his company. The all-rounder is best known to many Germans for its TV Total format. This contract is considered to be the most valuable in the history of German television. Accordingly, even his colleague Günther Jauch earned less money on this point. The production company Brainpool does not comment on how much Stefan Raab got from these sums himself, but it was around 5 million euros per year the speech.
Stefan Raab’s TV career ended at the end of 2015
As Pro7 announced in a press release, the TV giant has it Ended his TV career at the end of 2015 and since then retired from television. The doors should still be open for him to “withdraw from retreat”. For 16 years, Stefan Raab accompanied entire generations with his show format “TV Total”. With his fortune, however, everyday senior life will not cause him any worries.
Comeback as Showmaster 2018
On October 18, 2018, Cologne Lanxess Arena, Stefan Raab made his comeback as show master, but only for a live event that will not be shown on TV. It remains to be seen whether it will actually be a one-off event or whether several shows will follow. However, spectacular guests are announced and the TV total band “Heavytones” are also at the start.
Further fields of activity as an entrepreneur
Apart from the merit of the commitment to Pro 7 as a TV and television producer, Raab also works as a songwriter. In the past, Raab often picked up the microphone himself, which is also related to the start of his career in the industry, because Stefan Raab initially produced advertising jingles, i.e. melodies that were played in TV commercials. Raab also discovered the singer Lena-Meyer Landrut, who with the song Satellite 2010 won first place at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway, and who then released an album that was produced by Stefan. As an entrepreneur and inventor, Stefan Raab sells the product Doosh its own shower head, which was developed personally by Raab. Doosh doesn’t get your hair wet and is sold through the Butlers retail chain. With every piece sold, he continues to earn money.
The Brainpool and Raab TV holdings
Stefan Raab is the owner of the production company Raab TV or 51% belong to him, because the remaining 49% holds Brainpool holding company. According to the commercial register, the entertainer held a 12.5 percent stake in the Brainpool company until the beginning of 2018, where he produced successful formats such as the Wok WM, Schlag den Raab, Ladykracher, Stromberg, Das Ding des Jahres, Pastewka and many more. Raab earned annually from the profit distributions. In 2012, the Brainpool investment company made surpluses of 17.1 million euros, in 2015 it was only 6.7 million euros and in the last report in 2016 only 1.7 million euros. 12.5% of this was a considerable income in the heyday that made Stefan’s fortune grow every year.
At the beginning of 2018 Raab sold his shares to the French television group Banijay and was able to earn 9.5 million euros. In the future, Stefan will only handle other TV formats via Raab TV, where he has full control and where Brainpool is involved. According to the contract, he should only be allowed to participate in three TV events per year that are not produced by Raab TV or Brainpool.
His own produced shows
TV total
elton.tv
beat the celebrity
Poker Stars
Beat the rabbit
Our star for Oslo
Wok WM
Federal vision song contest
2012 to 2013 ran Raab’s specially produced show “Absolute majority“. The political program was shown on Pro 7. Five talk guests (politicians, celebrities and also lesser-known people) discussed three topics together. The aim of the discussion was to then gather the absolute majority of the audience behind them. The winner of the show was able to win 100,000 euros. Raab produced the Politics Show with the aim of getting young viewers interested in politics again.
Stefan Raab’s career
The moderator has a sister and grew up with her with her parents in Cologne-Sülz. The Raab family ran their own butcher’s shop there. After graduating from high school and completing basic military service, Stefan decided to study law. At the same time, he also completed one Apprenticeship as a butcher in his parents’ business. After 5 semesters of law, he gave up his studies. He completed his apprenticeship as a butcher with a very good and as district best in 1990. He then went into business for himself as a producer of advertising jingles. He created jingles for the ARD morning magazine, talk shows and the toothpaste Blend-a-med.
Stefan’s television career began in 1993 with the moderation of Vivasion on VIVA. From this further offers developed and so he also moderated the show Ma’kuck’n. Her own songs followed, for example the rap song Böörti Böörti Vogts, which reached number 4 in the German charts in 1994. In 1996 developed the song Here comes the mouse. This happened on the occasion of the 25th birthday of the show with the mouse. For this he even got the gold record. Many more songs followed, which achieved good positions in the charts. In 1999 he succeeded with his own Show TV Total the definitive breakthrough in television. For 16 years, Stefan Raab was able to inspire millions of people behind the television with the format. TV Total was also the starting signal for his many other shows.
The private life
Raab keeps his private life secret from the public and the media. He made a conscious choice to be the public not to give any insight into his private life. Stefan Raab never commented on questions from journalists about private matters. Little is known about Stefan Raab’s wife. But we do know that he lives in a Cologne villa with his long-time girlfriend Nike and their two daughters. His partner also works for the production company Brainpool TV. Nike and Stefan Raab met and fell in love with each other through work in 1997. The names and exact ages of his daughters are also unknown. So Stefan Raab can enjoy his private life in peace, away from the limelight.
World Cup 2014 song for the German national team
Just in time for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Stefan Raab has his WM song published for the German national team. With an online audience voting, viewers were able to choose between three different variants.
Here is the winning version of “We’re Coming to Get Him”:
Image sources: Stefan Raab – Daniel Kruczynski / Flickr [CC-BY-SA 2.0] Stefan Raab at the Stock Car – L3XLoGiC / wikimedia [CC-BY-SA-3.0]
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