Désirée Nosbusch

Désirée Nosbusch (born 14 January 1965) also known as Désirée Becker, is a Luxembourgish actress and television presenter. She was the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 1984.

Early and personal life Nosbusch was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg to a Luxembourgish father, Albert Nosbusch, and an Italian mother, Rosa Piccoli. She speaks Luxembourgish, German, French, English, Italian and Spanish.

From 1991 to 2002, Nosbusch was married to Harald Kloser, with whom she had two children. She was later married to Mehmet Kurtuluş. She has been married to Tom Alexander Bierbaumer since 2018.

Career Nosbusch has acted in both French-language and German-language films and television productions since her mid-teens. In 2014, she directed the film Succès Fox about the actor Fernand Fox.

In 2024, Nosbusch was one of the hosts of the Luxembourg Song Contest, the national final to select Luxembourg's first Eurovision Song Contest entry after an absence of 31 years. She was also the spokesperson for the Luxembourgish national jury in the Grand Final.

Publications

Selected filmography

(1981, directed by Wolf Gremm) Der Fan (1982, directed by Eckhart Schmidt) (1983, TV film, directed by Rolf von Sydow) Sing Sing (1983, directed by Sergio Corbucci) Questo e Quello (1983, directed by Sergio Corbucci) Good Morning, Babylon (1987, directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani) (1988, directed by ) (1989, directed by Andy Bausch) (1990, directed by Alain Maline) (1990, directed by José Pinheiro) (1991, TV film, directed by Andy Bausch) (1992, TV miniseries, directed by Florestano Vancini) Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri 2 (1993, TV miniseries, directed by and Felice Farina) Böses Blut (1993, TV film, directed by ) The Way to Dusty Death (1995, TV film, directed by Geoffrey Reeve) Opernball (1998, TV film, directed by Urs Egger) Amico mio (1998, TV series, directed by Paolo Poeti) Contaminated Man (2000, directed by Anthony Hickox) High Explosive (2001, directed by Timothy Bond) Hostile Takeover (2001, directed by Carl Schenkel) The Code of Life (2002, directed by ) The Secret of St. Ambrose (2006, TV film, directed by ) The Cursed Treasure (2007, TV film, directed by ) (2008, TV film, directed by ) (2018, directed by Félix Koch) Bad Banks (2018, TV series) Capitani (2019, TV series) Der Irland-Krimi (since 2019, TV series, 8 episodes) Confessions of Felix Krull (2021, directed by Detlev Buck)