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Stefan Raab (full name '''Stefan Konrad Raab''', born on October 20 , 1966 in Cologne, Germany ) is a German Entertainer and Comedian . Stefan Raab became popular as the host of the comedy show ''Vivasion'' for the German music TV channel VIVA in 1996 . Since 1999 he has hosted his own show '' TV Total '' on the channel ProSieben . While ''TV total'' started as a comedy format, it soon turned into a late night show with musical performances, remotely similar to the '' Tonight Show with Jay Leno ''. Raab's often sarcastic comments on a number of German celebrities even led to rapper Moses Pelham breaking Raab's nose in 1997 . MUSICAL CAREER Raab began working as a freelance producer and composer of Jingles and Radio commercials in 1990 at his own studio in Cologne. He wrote the music for the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1998 , Guildo Horn 's ''Guildo hat Euch Lieb'', and in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 he performed himself with the nonsense song ''Wadde Hadde Dudde Da'' (''What do you have there''). Other famous songs include ''Maschendrahtzaun'', ''Gebt das Hanf frei!'' (''Legalize cannabis'', featuring Shaggy ) and ''Wir kiffen'' (''We smoke weed''). Raab cast the German entry for the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest on his show in a competition he called ''SSDSGPS'' (Stefan sucht den Super-Grand-Prix-Star, Stefan seeks the super Grand-Prix star). The winner of this Casting , Maximilian Mutzke , came in 8th place. Bored with the Eurovision Song Contest, Raab came up with the Bundesvision Song Contest in 2005 (Germany officially being the ''Bundes''republik Deutschland). The contest featured representatives from each of the 16 States Of Germany (''Bundesländer'') and stipulated that their song had to be (at least partly) in German. The first contest in 2005 was won by the band Juli from Hessen , followed by Seeed from Berlin in 2006. He is an autodidact, playing various instruments, such as piano, drums, guitar, ukulele, bass and some wind instruments. TV TOTAL Stefan Raab can be called the inventor of Wok Racing , when in November 2003 he initiated the first "official" World Wok Racing Championship s in Winterberg , Germany . While Raab won the title in 2003, he subsequently lost to Olympic luger Georg Hackl in 2004 and 2005. Special Guest since 2004 is the Jamaican Bobsled Team , which became famous through the Film '' Cool Runnings ''. He also arranged and took part at different Sport-Events, like a boxing-match against Regina Halmich (Female Boxing-World Champion) and an Ice-Skating Race against Claudia Pechstein. PRIVATE LIFE There is hardly anything known about Raab's private life, which he keeps hidden from the media at all times. He has a girlfriend who is 8 years younger and a daughter, who was born April 17, 2004. He likes sailing and American Country Music . LEGAL ACTIONS During his career, lots of lawsuits have been filed against Stefan Raab, some of them who have risen the attention of the public. The most famous ones: The 16 year old student named Lisa Loch ("Loch" is german for hole) was made fun of her name excessively during some shows by stating she had good chances to start a career in porn movies. She said she received anonymous, obscene phone calls due to this and was mocked by her classmates and unknown people on the street. She couldn't sleep well anymore and was ashamed of going out. The court of Hamm finally sentenced Raab to pay 70.000 Euro due to grave infringements of personality rights. In another case, in the episode of 6. September 2004, Raab showed a clip, which was originally meant to be aired for another (serious) newscast, of the 28 year old turkish mother Nil S. who held a large cornet of cardboard filled with sweets and little presents (usually given to children in Germany on their first day at school) of her daughter. He commented the scene with the words: "Unbelievable, the dealers are disguising themselves better all the time". After various lawsuit cases that were rejected and rolled up again, the court of Munich came to the conclusion that Raab is guilty. Nil S. didn't give her permission for the clip to be used in his show in a satirical sense. She finally settled for a compensation of 20.000 Euro with a written excuse. EXTERNAL LINKS
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