Esther Sedlacek is one of Germany’s most famous sports presenters. She regularly appears on camera at ARD Sportshow as well as at major sporting events such as the Bundesliga, Olympic Games and World Cup. But who is the moderator?
Sedlacek was born on November 24, 1985 in East Berlin and was raised by a single mother. At the age of 16, she learned that she was the daughter of actor Sven Martinek, whom she met only by telephone. The 40-year-old man has four siblings.
Esther Sedlacek has three children, and she hides her husband from the public eye
The 1.83-meter-tall TV presenter was in a relationship with football player Kevin Trapp for several months in 2013. In April 2019, Sedlacek married a businessman who is not in the public eye. The couple lives in Munich. She is also the mother of three children: a daughter was born in 2019 and two sons in 2021 and 2025.
Before starting a career as a sports presenter, she studied fashion journalism and media communications in Berlin. In addition to studying political and administrative sciences at Fern University in Hagen, she completed an internship as a moderator at the ZIV Institute in Berlin in 2009.
She worked as a reporter for regional television stations in Berlin. At the casting, she beat out 2,700 other applicants and became a sports presenter on the Sky channel. At the station, she acted as on-field presenter in, among others, the Bundesliga, 2nd Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League and Europa League.
Sedlacek is the fourth woman in the history of Sportshaw
She also moderated broadcasts of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the 2025 Winter Olympic Games in Milan. In addition to sports programs, she has been moderating ARD’s “Quizduell” since August 2022, and in 2024 took over ARD’s Saturday evening show “Ask the Mouse.”