Barbara Schöneberger
High-truck syndrome bothered her
In an interview, Barbara Schönberger remembers her career start and reveals that she had suffered from the high-truck syndrome.
Barbara Schöneberger (51) is one of the most famous moderators in Germany and is with programs like “Do you understand fun?” and “NDR Talk Show” firmly anchored in the TV program. But as she revealed, she doubted her qualifications for a long time.
She felt like a “random stroke” for a long time
In the new interview, she confesses that she had “certainly” suffered “for ten years” from Impostor syndrome, the so-called high-stapler syndrome. “This means that suddenly it is uncovered that in truth you can’t do anything.” This fear only subsided with the “NDR Talk Show” in 2008. “But before that I felt more like a random.”
This may also be due to the fact that, in addition to studying sociology, communication science and art history at the University of Augsburg, she randomly got into the television business with initial jobs. “In retrospect, a lot is beyond me. My career was really not planned. Like all reasonable people on TV, I also come from a rather bourgeois home, have studied, broke off at some point and only ended up in front of the camera by chance.”
First of all, she was booked primarily because of her appearance: “I should always be a bit colorful for television and otherwise keep my mouth. The sexy mouse stop. That was of course not what I imagined for my life.” Nevertheless, she did not question her work. “Back then it was modern that young assistants of older moderators were handed over. That was my world.”
One of her secrets of success: she does not take anything personally
Her optimistic view helped her: “But I always made the world the way I wanted to see it. And if it didn’t go so well, I always forgiven myself.” She was simply “coated with Teflon”. With this she has ideal conditions for a career in show business. “I can displace it excellently, I don’t take anything personally and I am completely inferior, because I take neither criticism nor praise particularly seriously. Both pearl on me.”
Schöneberger thinks about quitting, who started in 1998 as an assistant of Elmar Hörig (75) in the Sat.1 game show “Bube, lady, Hörig”, by the way. “Work makes us better people, me too. I love everything that has to do with people and dealing with other people.” It is important to “continue”. She is a better person if she has a task – but that doesn’t necessarily have to be a TV show. She also likes to act as a host at home. “I would like to simply provide myself, my house and my good mood and make it beautiful to other people.” It just has to have something meaningful to do.
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Source: Stern
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