Thomas J. Kinne

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thomas J. Kinne
Occupation	Translator
Date Of Birth	Feb 26, 1961(1961-02-26)
Age	63
Birthplace	Neuwied
Country	Germany
Birth City	Rhineland-Palatinate
Horoscope	Aquarius

Thomas J. Kinne Biography

Thomas J. Kinne is one of the most popular and richest Translator who was born on February 26, 1961 in Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Thomas J. Kinne (born 26 February 1961 in Niederbieber-Segendorf, today part of Neuwied, Germany) is a German translator, author, editor, proofreader, travel writer, movie expert, comic-book collector. He gained a lot of attention in Germany due to his frequent performances as contestants as well as winner in a myriad of game shows that air on German as well as U.S. television. Since 2018, he has been among the “chasers” on Gefragt – Gejagt Gefragt – Gejagt, one of the German version of The Chase, the U.K. gameshow The Chase.

After a long absence from TV, Kinne came back in 2015 as one four contestants in episode 27 of season one of Gefragt – Gejagt which is which is the German edition of The Chase. For the”Cash” Builder contest, Kinne completed 12 of the questions correctly which set an unbeatable records for the German show. Then, in the Final Chase, he and two contestants defeated “chaser” Sebastian Jacoby for an amount of around 37,500 euro. The following year, Kinne was the winner of four contestants on episode 11 in season 22 of show hessenquiz which is a show that concentrates on trivia related to Hesse. Hesse and follows the example of his daughter Alisa who had been awarded an installment a year before. A few months after the show was aired, Kinne appeared on episode 25 of the show Der Quiz-Champion in which contestants are required to be able to win 5 consecutive “duels” against celebrity experts in a variety of disciplines (in this case, television and film and sports, literature geography, history, and geography). In the final, Kinne beat another contestant to take the top prize of €100,000 as the 11th “quiz champion” in the time of the program. In the seventh season of game shows Kinne was one of chasers on Gefragt – Gejagt with the name “Quizdoktor.” He also played a similar character on the show Jackpot-Jager as one of three “masters” against whom the three contestants must play to win the show’s prize.

Kinne returned to the television screen in 2001 for The German edition of The Weakest Link, in which he defeated eight of his competitors and was declared the winner. Then, a short time later Kinne appeared in The German edition of the show 1 against. 100. He was the only contestant to be left out of”the “Mob” to become the “One,” but was later defeated.

Thomas J. Kinne Net Worth

Thomas J. Kinne is one of the richest Translator from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thomas J. Kinne 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kinne was the first person to make a television appearance on the 11th of June 1991, in an episode on Riskant!, the first German version of the U.S. game show Jeopardy!. In the same year Kinne filmed an appearance in Tic Tac Toe, the German version of Tic-Tac-Dough which he won the maximum amount of three episodes and went on to become the undisputed champion. When Jeopardy! was revived on Germany in 1994, under its original name and a version of its original game, Kinne made up one the three contestants on the show’s premiere, which was presented by Frank Elstner. Kinne was the winner of this episode and the subsequent four episodes making Germany’s first first five-time unbeaten Jeopardy! champion. A year later He appeared on the inaugural German Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, where Kinne was narrowly defeated in the semis of an unheard of tie-breaker that was multiple. But, due to his proficiency with English, Kinne was invited to represent his native country in at the very first international Jeopardy! event within the United States (as Tom Kinne). Then, a few months later and back to Germany, Kinne reached the final round of Every against jeden tournament, that’s the German version of Five to One.

Kinne graduated as a magna cum loupe in 1994, presenting a thesis about the key elements of Jewish traditions in the works from Woody Allen, placing currents television and film series into an overall literary and cultural context that goes back to the Bible.Books and television shows that were his part as a translator were awarded many international and national awards. For instance among them, The ZDF documentary The Drama of Dresden was recognized in 2006 by the International Emmy Award in the “Best Documentary” category; the documentary Goring The Story of a Career was awarded the Gold World Medal at the 2007 International TV Programming and Promotion Awards in New York; and 75 Years of DC Comics was awarded an Eisner Award by Will Eisner in the year 2011.

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