
Barbara Stöckl (born 2 April 1963 inVienna) is anAustrian television and radio presenter.
After attending a sports school, she studiedEngineering Mathematics at theVienna University of Technology. During her studies, she worked as an assistant director for theORF youth program "Okay", which she hosted from 1985. Between 1988 and 1993, she presented the youth magazine "colon" in German ZDF. Stöckl commented for ORF at the1990 Eurovision Song Contest in Zagreb. She began hostingDie Millionenshow - the Austrian version of the globally popularBritish game showWho Wants to Be a Millionaire? - in May 2000, becoming the first female presenter of the Millionaire format worldwide. After her departure in 2002,Armin Assinger took over as the show's presenter.
Together with director Peter Nagy, Stöckl operates the production company KIWI TV.
She has three sisters and one brother, one of them is TV personality Claudia Stöckl.[1]
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