- "Legends" among them: the staff in the summer jungle 2024
RTL sends 13 semi-celebrities into its "Legends Jungle". All were once part of the show. Here's who they are and what you need to know.
Giulia Siegel (49)
Giulia Siegel, known as a TV personality, actress, model, DJane, and daughter of Grand Prix composer Ralph Siegel, looks back on the longest Dschungelcamp history. She was there in 2009. She left the show due to back pain. It was the season where actress Ingrid van Bergen, then 77, dignity ate live maggots and won. Siegel was rather remembered for her smoking.
Sarah Knappik (37)
Sarah Knappik, known as a model ("Germany's Next Topmodel"), was part of the 2011 staff, which gave long-time viewers a pleasant shiver. Then, actor Mathieu Carrière begged her on his knees: "You're our problem. Leave. Please, please, please leave us!" She eventually left voluntarily, but left some English quotes for eternity ("My air was away"). RTL said she wants to "rescue the little Sarah who got lost in the jungle back then."
Georgina Fleur (34)
Georgina Fleur moved into the Dschungelcamp in 2013 after her - if you can put it that way - star rose as a participant in the dating format "Der Bachelor". Later, she moved into the "Sommerhaus der Stars" with her then-partner Kubilay, where there were many disputes, including between the two. Even afterwards, the couple's relationship, which is no longer a couple according to RTL, was often a topic in the tabloids.
Winfried Glatzeder (79)
Winfried Glatzeder was one of those participants when he moved into the jungle in 2014, where one briefly wondered: Why him? The actor became famous in 1973 with the leading role in Heiner Carow's "Die Legende von Paul und Paula". He was once called the "Belmondo of the East". But that was all a while ago. Now he's 79 and back in the jungle. "My children need money and I need the confirmation that I can be the oldest participant of a super format in my eightieth year," he explained to RTL.
Mola Adebisi (51)
Mola Adebisi is known to everyone who loved Viva. The moderator was practically part of the inventory at the former music channel. In 2014, he moved into the Dschungelcamp without leaving a big mark - he ended up in eighth place. In 2024, he and his wife Adelina became parents to a son. Before the jungle, he told RTL: "My main focus is on losing weight!"
David Ortega (38)
David Ortega is likely the least known figure in the summer camp 2024, even for Dschungel fans. When the former actor in the series "Köln 50667" first appeared in the show in 2016, he had short black hair and a neatly trimmed beard. Today, with long hair and a white robe, he looks like a wayward Jesus actor. In 2021, Ortega was briefly a guest in the show spin-off "Die große Dschungelshow" and raised more questions than answers with his appearance and some very erratic thought processes.
Thorsten Legat (55)
Thorsten Legat, Ex-Footballer (among others, VfB Stuttgart) and walking powerhouse, has become a kind of mascot of the jungle. This was due to his appearance in the 2016 season, in which he stood out with pronounced ambition (to put it mildly). Probably no other candidate in the history of the show took the hunt for the star-shaped meals as seriously as Legat with his muscle mountains. On top of that, he has a talent for getting extremely worked up in speech. In other words, good candidate material.
Kader Loth (51)
Kader Loth is something like the grande dame of German trash TV. She became known many years ago through her participation in the formats "Big Brother" and "Die Alm". At "Die Burg", another such format, she was witness to one of the early scandals of the genre, when Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt urinated in her bathtub. In 2011, she moved into the jungle camp for the first time. That she has internalized the mechanisms is shown by a statement like "I basically have no desire for people", which she recently said to RTL.
Hanka Rackwitz (55)
Hanka Rackwitz belongs to the mothers of German reality TV - she already participated in the container show "Big Brother" in the year 2000. Later, she worked in the real estate business and was part of the real estate show "mieten, kaufen, wohnen" on Vox. In the 2017 jungle camp, many viewers felt sorry for her - her pronounced phobias remained in memory. Now she said to RTL that she gets along better with her compulsions and fears. But she also said: "How am I? I've been sitting on the couch with my cat for six years - and now comes the jungle camp." She said she was "afraid".
Elena Miras (32)
Elena Miras became known through the dating and body contact show "Love Island", where she also met her later partner Mike Heiter (who participated in the jungle camp season at the beginning of 2024). Miras moved into the jungle in 2020 and sometimes stood out as a shouting chola. One of her bigger themes was, among other things, that a bottle was mixed up. She still doesn't seem to have come to terms with it today: "The bottle issue was so present in my jungle back then. I think it cost me my win", she said to RTL. She is no longer together with Mike Heiter.
Daniela Büchner (46)
Daniela "Danni" Büchner moved into the jungle camp in 2020 and still holds the record for the most jungle trials (12). As the widow of the former camper "Malle" Jens Büchner, she wanted to pay her late husband respect with her participation, according to general reports. However, Büchner often caused friction, and the atmosphere was not good. Even the moderator duo asked the audience not to send the now 46-year-old into the jungle trials anymore. Now she wants to show "who she really is".
Eric Stehfest (35)
Eric Stehfest became known as an actor in the RTL soap "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten" and for the ruthlessness with which he speaks about his own story. His autobiography, in which he wrote about his experiences with Crystal Meth and previous drug problems, became a bestseller. In the 2022 jungle camp, he stood out because he did not participate in a trial because he did not want to turn against his fellow campers. He was not ready to play for food "for people who don't like me", he explained at the time. This was a kind of taboo break in the values of reality TV.
Gigi Birofio was only in the jungle camp in 2023, but he's already allowed back in. The reality TV star ("Ex on the Beach") has a talent for bonding with other participants and coming up with everyday philosophical quotes ("The path here didn't just have one step, it had an entire staircase", "My English is still shit"). He's remembered for when he and fellow camper Cosimo couldn't resist the tempting crunch of a pizza - to the detriment of the other candidates.
In the 2023 season of "Dschungelcamp", reality TV star Gigi Birofio made an impression with his ability to form connections and share philosophical quotes in English. Ralph Siegel's daughter, Giulia Siegel, also has a connection to the show, having participated in 2009 and becoming known for her smoking.
