Percy Hoven – Wikipedia

Percy Hoven (Born February 20, 1965 in Munich) is a former German radio and television presenter.

After graduating from the St. Blasien college, Hoven completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk at the Bavarian mortgage and change bank. He then studied philosophy and economy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and media marketing at the Bavarian Academy of Advertising in Munich. He received his journalistic training at Bavarian Radio.

Percy Hoven came into contact with the entertainment industry through his father, the actor, director and film producer Adrian Hoven, as a child: he worked in his two witch films ( Witches tortured to the blood and Witches – desolated and tortured to death ) 1969 and 1972. After completing his training, he worked as a television, radio and event moderator for various transmitters and companies as well as as a voice actor. [first] He gained national fame in 2000 as a moderator of the first big brother relay on German television. At the end of 2004 Hoven turned his back on television. Since then he has been running a portrait painting studio in Munich. [2]

In 2014 he moderated the Augsburg press ball. He has been running rhetoric courses for the Swiss ZFU International Business School since 2015. [3]

Percy Hoven was married to the moderator Silvia Laubenbacher, who died in 2022. The couple lived with his two children in Bobingen. [4]

Percy Hoven performed on his own YouTube channel without revealing his identity in the role Dr. Alfons ProEbstl on. According to the Augsburger General In supposedly satirical form “right -wing extremist positions”, the moderator and DJ Matthias Matuschik assigns his statements to the “brown swamp”. [5] Matuschik already had Hoven on September 9, 2015 as Dr. Proebstl identified. [6] Time writes that Hoven has spread “xenophobic resentment”. [7]

As a proebstl, Hoven also stepped on that of the magazine peculiarly organized Russia conference in November 2014, [8] also at a Pegida event in spring 2015. [5]

The identity behind the figure of the Dr. Alfons ProEbstl remained secret until the beginning of October 2015 Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung An article published that the actor was Percy Hoven, who had made himself unrecognizable with a rubber mask. He admitted to the newspaper that he was Dr. Proebstl had appeared and announced the end of the figure.

Across from N-TV represented Hoven that Dr. Proebstl A joint project with the Munich producer Alfred Schropp and with his editorial team. [9]

  1. Percy Hoven ( Memento from January 3, 2008 in Internet Archive ) Prominent, machmit-5amtag.de, accessed on October 3, 2015.
  2. What is Percy Hoven doing today? (We will be 4. May 2011, express.de)
  3. Percy Hoven as a rhetoric trainer
  4. Percy Hoven and Silvia Laubenbacher Promipärchen and the small difference (accessed on December 30, 2007, prosieben.de)
  5. a b Percy Hoven justifies himself. ( Memento from October 6, 2015 in Internet Archive ) In: augsburg.tv , 5. October 2015.
  6. Holger Sabinsky-Wolf: Percy Hoven: From television favorite to the Pegida star. In: Augsburg general , 2. October 2015.
  7. Does that mean pergida now? , ZEIT ONLINE from October 7th, 2015
  8. The show is getting better. In: peculiarly free, 20. August 2014.
  9. Percy Hoven is Pegida favorite Dr. ProBstl. In: N-TV , 6. October 2015.