Barbara Meier

Barbara Meier ( born July 25, 1986 in Amberg ) is a German fashion model and mannequin and actress. A wide audience, she was known as the winner of the second season of the talent show Germany's Next Top Model, which aired from March to May 2007, the TV station ProSieben.

Life

She grew up in the district of Amberg Raigering Meier acquired the technical college at the State Technical School in Amberg with an average of 1.2 and then began to study to be with the aim of programmer mathematics at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg.

Career

Beginning

During her studies she attended in October 2006, a spontaneous casting of Germany's Next Topmodel in Regensburg, whose first season they had pursued. There was Meier who possessed at that time had no model experience, approached by a model scout and then took part in the second season of the show hosted by Heidi Klum talent show, which aired from March 1, 2007 by ProSieben in prime time. Meier was able to prevail against more than 16,000 candidates and was one of the 100 pre-selected candidates, whose number decreased in the following twelve broadcasts on three final participants. In the course of a week on Thursdays broadcast television show, which led the participants among other things to St. Moritz, Bangkok, Los Angeles and Lisbon, Meier was successful in three of the so-called weekly " Challenges" in which the young models were put on special assignments. She received catwalk and acting training and was photographed by renowned fashion photographers such as the artist Joanne Gair body painting. They also got a small role in a McDonald's television commercial in which she performed together with Heidi Klum, and worked in the music video for Maximilian Mutzkes Single My automobile with.

In the finale of the second season, a broadcast on 24 May 2007 show in front of the studio audience, were the three remaining candidates, including not only Meier, the 21 -year-old in Schwerin Anne -Kathrin ( " Anni " ) Wendler and the brunette Hana Nitsche from Oftersheim belonged, before the jury to the presenter Heidi Klum, the model agent Peyman Amin, Bruce Darnell and the make-up specialist Boris Entrup. Meier, whose external characteristics of her long red hair and a pale complexion count was chosen as the winner and won a contract with the prestigious modeling agency IMG Models and an advertising contract and a cover shoot for the German -language lifestyle magazine Cosmopolitan. She also became the face of the new campaign of the Düsseldorf clothing company C & A.

Model career

Magazines / Editorials / Covers

Meier had editorials in magazines such as Vogue (Taiwan), Madame Figaro (Russia & Turkey ), Marie Claire (Turkey), L' Officiel ( France) Grazia (Italy) and graced more than 15 covers of German and international magazines, including the January 2008 for the second time the title of Cosmopolitan.

Advertising

Meier was among other things the advertising face in campaigns of brands Pantene, C & A, Disneyland Resort Paris, Yogurette, Müller Milch and McDonalds, as well as abroad for Maybelline, Fabi, Borsalino, Save the Queen, Colin's Jeans C'est comme Ca, Caractere, Miss Poem, and much more.

Catwalk

Since the beginning of her career Meier is primarily for national as well as international brands on the catwalk. So she ran in early 2011 for the fifth time for various designers at the Fashion Week in Berlin. However, their biggest success to date is the participation in the Paris Fashion Week in spring 2010, where she was booked by designer Wolfgang Joop for the prêt -à -porter show of his brand prodigy. Meier holds at regular intervals abroad for international auditions.

Acting Career

2010 Meier was " The Cry of the Forgotten " invited to a movie casting for the ProSieben mystery thriller. It commanded at that time had no acting experience and got the role of deaf medium Morgana.Nach the broadcast of the film in the fall of 2011 was taken Barbara Meier of the Berlin spectacle agency Fitz & Skoglund under contract and has since been represented by her in the film industry. In summer 2011, Meier graduated from basic training at the New York Film Academy and since then took private acting lessons with different coaches in Germany and the USA. In addition to small roles in television films Meier was also seen in an episode of major roles of various ZDF thriller series, short films and on the side of Christiane Hörbiger.

Others

2008 was Meier Ambassador for the Year of Mathematics, to which she was appointed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. 2012 Barbara Meier was one of the promotional ambassadors of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. 2013 Meier took part in the New York City marathon and crossed the finish line in a time of 3:59:37.

Filmography

Cinema

  • 2012: Munich looks back ( Social Spot )

Television / Film

  • 2010: (Ver ) Fits ( TV trailer )
  • , 2011. Bon Voyage ( short film )
  • 2011: Screams of the Forgotten
  • 2012: The prosecutor - Snake Pit
  • 2012: The Old Man - Blind Hatred
  • 2012: Lullaby (Short Film )
  • 2012: Hattingen - A Chiemsee Crime
  • 2013: Hamburg Dockland - The Secret of the Bride
  • 2013: Christine. Perfect was yesterday!
  • 2013: Coast Guard - The Devil's Hand
  • 2013: Again Henriette
  • 2013: Christine. Perfect was yesterday!
  • 2013: Pharmacist ( short film )

Agencies

Meier previously worked for the following agencies

  • IMG Models, Milan
  • IMG Models, Paris
  • Elite Models, Amsterdam
  • 301 Model Management, Istanbul
  • Cult Fashion Model Management, Athens
  • Major Model Management, Milan
  • Major Model Management, Munich
  • Major Model Management, New York
  • Major Model Management, Paris
  • Yuli Models, Tel Aviv
Regensburg University of Applied Sciences Centro Oberhausen Cosmopolitan (magazine) Vogue (magazine) The Old Fox Notruf Hafenkante Christine. Perfekt war gestern! Berliner Zeitung Jennifer Hof Jana Beller
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