Harald Schmidt Net Worth

Short introduction

Harald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, presenter, cabaret artist and entertainer. He won extremely good reputation in particular thru his diverse late-night time shows, which had been constituted of 1995 to 2014. He presently lives together along with his accomplice withinside the Marienburg district of Cologne and is the daddy of 5 children.

Early life

Harald Schmidt become born in Neu-Ulm in 1957, the son of his father Anton and his wife. Both mother and father are displaced from home, the daddy from Karlsbad in western Bohemia and the mom from Brno in South Moravia. Schmidt grew up in Nürtingen in Baden-Württemberg and become raised strictly Catholic through his mother and father. He become a member of the Catholic Boy Scouts at a younger age and, after correctly finishing his schooling as a church musician on the church track college in Rottenburg am Neckar, labored as an organist withinside the Catholic network of St. Johannes in Nürtingen. Harald Schmidt additionally did his Abitur in his place of origin at Hölderlin Gymnasium earlier than he did his network carrier in a parish office. From 1978 to 1981 he studied performing at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. In 1983, Schmidt implemented to the Henri Nannen School of Journalism in Hamburg to advantage preliminary enjoy in movie and broadcasting. There he become removed withinside the very last selection. He become capable of advantage his first degree enjoy withinside the length from 1981 to 1984. During this era he performed numerous roles in portions at the municipal degrees in Augsburg. In 1984 Harald then moved to Düsseldorf to the cabaret degree “Kom (m) ödchen” and laid the inspiration stone for his cabaret profession earlier than he left the degree again.

Career highlights

His late-night time display “Die Harald Schmidt” remains his maximum a hit broadcast layout and has gained severa prizes. The display changed into provided the German TV Prize in the “Best Comedy” class, the German-French Journalist Prize in the “Television” class and the Adolf Grimme Prize in the “Special” competition. For his widespread paintings as a moderator, he changed into provided the German Television Award two times in a row in 2000 and 2001. Schmidt’s manufacturing employer obtained eight million euros a 12 months from ARD for broadcasting 60 packages of the “Harald Schmidt Show”.

Famous quotes

“In service stations in southern France, you don’t know: is that a pothole or is it already the toilet?”
-Harald Schmidt

“The wealth tax is coming. Rich tax or, as the FDP says, “membership fee.”
-Harald Schmidt

Amazing facts

Harald Schmidt had to deal with a stalker problem for years. As early as 1998, he bothered him with calls. The 39-year-old Koblenz terrorized Harald’s manager and his family in the years that followed until a court hearing occurred.