“Let’s Dance” cult Patrick Linke: “From time to time I am recognized, but not often”

When the dance professionals with their celebrities float again on the “Let’s Dance” parquet from Friday (February 21), his striking voice can also be heard in the RTL dance show again: Patrick Linke (54). In an interview with the news agency Spot on News, the man behind the microphone gives rare insights into his work as an announcer and into his life away from the ramp light.

Patrick Linke: I live my life in off, so to speak. You know the voice, but not the face. Sometimes it is not that bad if you can go to the supermarket without being hugged or asked for selfies. From time to time I am recognized, but not often. This is certainly also due to the fact that I don’t say 200 grams of hack “with my pathetic” Let’s Dance “voice at the meat counter” Good morning.

Left: There are speaker colleagues that take a water glass and bubbles with a straw to get more volume. And there are colleagues who do without alcohol and smoking. I also do without smoking, but not alcohol. In general, I do not specially train or maintain my voice. Only: if I have a cold, I really cure it. That is important, but otherwise it was.

Left: Yes, thank God I only get them once a year. Often in December in the Christmas season or around New Year. Strangely, always at the same time. Everyone in my environment also knows that. Once I was also cold during “Let’s Dance”. That was last year – but everyone really sniffed and coughed up. You can protect yourself and wash your hands as much as you want, you just get stuck.

Left: This is probably very sobering, which I tell you now: in terms of content, I rather prepare less because my texts are all predetermined. Above all, I prepare myself physically by sleeping for a long time on the show day because the live broadcast goes for a very long time on Fridays and I have to be there for the dress rehearsal at 15/16. In addition, there is a special meeting before the relay start, which deals with the pronunciation of the names. There are other celebrities every time and the dancers also vary.

Left: I’m also a speaker and not a promise – fun aside, they are not particularly long texts. “This is where Erna and Peter come with Cha Cha Cha.” Anyone who also promises to be there is probably nothing. I can hide the live feeling well. Fortunately, I have no stage fright, some of them really do that. But I think that lamp feather is only so uncomfortable if you don’t prepare properly. Or if you don’t know what to expect. For example, you don’t know how the spectators react in the studio or how the shipment generally works. But everything is specified for me. What should I happen to me in my speaker cabin?

Left: The speaker cabin is located about 200 meters from the studio. We see everything about screens. The speaker cannot be in the studio because it doesn’t work from the sound. If the spectators get up and cheer, it would be transferred to the microphone and you wouldn’t hear much anymore.

Left: I can also dance, but of course not like the professionals. I would like to dance air with Christina in front of the camera. It is magical – and also fits my size well.

Left: Yes and it is not a protected profession either. I started on the radio and made a traineeship there. After graduating from high school, I also studied German studies. And at some point I switched from the radio to a regional television station. I did a lot there, also moderated. However, it also crystallized that I always got the contributions and advertisements. At some point I thought that I could actually do it full -time and so it happened. I started my own business and from then on I was only a speaker. At that time Frankfurt and Düsseldorf were the advertising castles, so I’m always commuting. At some point RTL called and so I became the RTL voice …

Left: It starts playing a role. In the case of telephone announcements or in the social media area, AI generated speakers can now be heard. But I don’t think that you will no longer need any speakers in the future – at least not yet. Because empathy, passion, irony, sarcasm may be singing in between, maybe singing in between – the AI ​​can’t do that yet.

Left: These are all good examples, although it is a pitched, so changed voice at “Celebrity Big Brother”. You don’t hear the spokesman Philipp Daub directly. Daniel Werner from the “perfect dinner” is a very good colleague of mine. Susi Müller was the cult vote for the “Herzblatt” and Peter Urban the long -time voice of “ESC”. I lost sight of Susi Müller, but I meet the other colleagues in the course of a sound studio. In fact, I have little contact with colleagues, which is certainly also in the nature of the matter. Rarely are several speakers in a clay cabin, mostly we are booked individually.