MEIN BERLIN - MEIN LEBEN mit Ulli Zelle

In the organizer's words:

The legendary rbb reporter Ulli Zelle got them all in front of the camera: Klaus Wowereit, Mick Jagger, the artist Christo, Yoko Ono, Mikhail Gorbachev, Leonardo DiCaprio and many others. In his book, Zelle tells professional and private stories, funny and sad, unvarnished and in his own casual, friendly tone: from the seventies and eighties in West Berlin, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the transformation of Berlin to the present day...

Ulli Zelle was born on June 19, 1952 in Lower Saxony and worked for many decades as an rbb reporter. Today he is a presenter, author and singer ("Ulli & Die Grauen Zellen") and has lived in Berlin for many decades.
Influenced by his parents' social democratic background, he trained as an advertising salesman in Hanover and then began studying social and business communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where he graduated with a diploma. He then completed his second degree in journalism at the FU Berlin.

During his studies, Zelle lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg and worked as a freelancer for various agencies and newspapers. He worked as a reporter for SFB radio from 1984 and for television from 1985, presenting a talk show for VOX in 1993. From 1994, Zelle presented the program Berlin life, SFB, and also worked on other programs.
Zelle made the film programs Kulturreport and Bilderbuch Deutschland for ARD, and until spring 2025 he worked as a reporter at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) and hosted the Heimatjournal program until 2019, alternating with a colleague.

Zelle is a singer in the band Ulli & Die Grauen Zellen, which specializes in rock. He has had his own talk show Ullis Nachtcafé at Berlin's Schloßpark Theater since 2016. In 2025 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the City of Berlin.