Helga Guitton

{{short description|German radio and television presenter (born 1942)}}

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| occupation = Disc jockey, television presenter

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Helga Guitton (born 18 December 1942) is a German radio and television presenter. She was a disc jockey and interviewer for RTL and was presenter of the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest.

Biography

Guitton worked for RTL from 1964 to 1994. On Radio Luxemburg she co-hosted Tag Schatz, Tag Scherz with Jochen Pützenbacher, who later recalled that they worked so well together, there were rumours they were romantically involved. In 1983 she insisted on co-hosting a memorial programme for a colleague who had died of cancer, to give him moral support, but broke down crying.Hendrik Leuker, [http://www.addx.org/textarchiv/04-08-12-15.pdf "Die deutschen Stimmen von Radio Luxemburg: Camillo Felgen, Jochen Pützenbacher und Helga Guitton"], Radio-Kurier, August 2004 {{in lang|de}} (pdf). She hosted the weekday evening programme Viva – die Lust, zu leben, which included quizzes and interviews as well as music.

In the 1990s she worked for RTL plus, now RTL television; in 1988 she was engaged with Rainer Holbe to moderate a sexy interview show, "Kopfkissen-Gespräche bei Prominenten" (Pillow talk with VIPs);[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13526579.html "Blödeltalk und Sexy-Follies"], Der Spiegel, 7 March 1988 {{in lang|de}} she later called these "Liebe ist..." interviews her most successful and enjoyable work, while she called Radio Telex her greatest failure. Her 1985 interview with a combative Klaus Kinski, who ate and drank throughout, only half an hour of which was broadcast, appears on the DVD Kinski Talks I, issued by WDR in 2010.Christoph Dallach, [http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/klaus-kinski-dvd-kugelblitz-in-plauderlaune-a-741756.html "Klaus-Kinski-DVD: Kugelblitz in Plauderlaune"], Der Spiegel, 27 January 2011 {{in lang|de}}[https://archive.today/20140529131845/http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/kultur/Lass-mich-ausreden;art4308,725125 "'Lass mich ausreden!'"], Südwest Presse, 19 November 2010 {{in lang|de}}

On 7 April 1973, she was the presenter for the Eurovision Song Contest.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/05_may/06/eurovision.pdf "Previous Eurovision winners and UK entries"], press release, BBC, 5 May 2005 (pdf)

After leaving broadcasting, Guitton became a style and behaviour coach.