 stefan konrad raab (born 20 october 1966) is a german entertainer, television host, comedian, and musician. raab began his television career hosting the comedy show vivasion in 1993 and has been hosting the late-night comedy show tv total since 1999. he became well known in 1994 after composing a hit single spoofing national football coach berti vogts. raab has also created a number of other television shows, such as schlag den raab and bundesvision song contest. he has been considered the "most powerful man in german entertainment television". raab is also known for his recurring role as producer, writer and performer of german entries to the eurovision song contest. he was involved in the organisation of the national pre-selection show unser star fÃ¼r oslo (our star for oslo), in which germany's winning entry at the 2010 contest in oslo was determined. ==early life and family== raab grew up in cologne with his sister and his parents, who owned a butchers shop. he attended jesuit boarding school aloisiuskolleg in bonn. before entering the entertainment business, he worked as a butcher in his parents' shop and studied law before dropping-out of university after five semesters. raab lives in suburb of cologne and has two daughters (born 2004 and 2006) with his girlfriend nike.  other than this, very little is known about raab, who deliberately hides his private life from the media. ==career== === television === stefan raab became popular as host of the comedy show vivasion for the german music television channel viva from 1993 to 1998. since 1999 he has been the host and creator of tv total, which since april 2001 airs on prosieben four times a week. while tv tot
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