Barbara Schöneberger

Schöneberger is the only child of clarinet player Hans Schöneberger and his wife Annemarie. She studied sociology, Art history, and communication studies in Augsburg.[1][2]

Since 1999, Schöneberger has hosted several shows on German television, including Die Schöneberger Show and Blondes Gift ("Blond Poison"), for which she received a Grimme Award nomination. She has also acted in a number of TV movies and hosted such award ceremonies as the Echo award 2009.[2]

Schöneberger was Germany's spokesperson for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, held in Vienna, and for the 2016 contest, which was held in Stockholm – having earlier also presented Unser Lied für Stockholm ("Our Song for Stockholm"), at which the German entry for the contest was chosen. In May 2017 Schöneberger was again the German spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest final, this time being held in Kyiv. She also was the German spokesperson for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon and for the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv.

In 2007, Schöneberger published her first studio album, Jetzt singt sie auch noch! ("Now she's singing too!"). Her second album, Nochmal, nur anders ("Again, only different"), followed in 2009.[1] In 2014 she announced her first Music Tour[3] in Germany. On October 25, 2013, Schöneberger's third album, known from radio and television, was released, which thematically revolves around her life between a television woman and a housewife, and which she also presented on stage in 2014.

On May 11, 2018, Schöneberger's fourth album Eine Frau gives Informations was released, which thematically deals with different perspectives of women in each song and pokes fun at the men's world critically, but with a wink.