Andrea Kiewel Catch Us. Die Jagd durch Europa, Digi Mart USA News: “It was like a vortex.” That is how TV presenter Andrea Kiewel describes her experience on ProSieben’s new show “Catch Us. Die Jagd durch Europa” (“Catch Us.
The Chase Through Europe”). The 61-year-old, known from the ZDF Fernsehgarten, was one of three targets: celebrities who flee from hunter teams while completing tricky tasks.
The show is a large treasure hunt across Europe that incorporates social media. Game master Steven Gätjen gives the start signal in Cologne, and the three targets set off with a one-hour head start.
Besides Kiewel, they are journalist Jenke von Wilmsdorff with his son Jánik, and comedian Chris Tall. Their goal is to stay hidden for five days in different major European cities.
Six two-person hunter teams try to track down the fugitives with help from their communities. The hunter teams include YouTubers Benni and Dennis Wolter, the presenting duo Alina Merkau and Matthias Killing from Sat.1 breakfast television, former racing driver Timo Scheider with model Betty Taube, reality stars Cecilia Asoro and Serkan Yavuz, the influencer couple Maren and Tobias Wolf, and content creators Rick Azas and Alex Freerun.
Hiding is not enough for the targets. Fleeing celebrities must wear red-and-white striped shirts and complete challenges that require them to appear in public.
Kiewel, whose route led to Venice, had to find a way to reach Italian radio or television. The targets may also use social media and lay false trails, which they did.
“There were moments when I just wanted to cry,” Kiewel admits, “because I thought: how am I going to pull this off?”
The targets have an unlimited travel budget, while each hunter pair has only 2,500 euros. Each day, the hunter pair furthest from any fleeing celebrity is eliminated.
Kiewel began by traveling by train toward Frankfurt, where she hid in the Duty Free area of the airport. “I looked down because, like a child, I thought: if I can’t see them, they can’t see me.
It was absurd.”
Comedian Chris Tall described the experience as “intense,” saying he was under constant stress and adrenaline and was in a slump for at least a week afterward. Kiewel said she forgot the camera and microphone were always present and began voicing her thoughts aloud.
She also said she was sad that there would be no New Year’s Eve show at the Brandenburg Gate this year, and that the show partly consoled her.
ProSieben airs the show over three evenings: Tuesday, November 10 at 9:25 p.m., and Wednesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 12 at 8:15 p.m. The show can also be streamed on Joyn.
Kiewel says she has not yet seen it. “I think it will be a mix of being embarrassed and laughing myself silly.”
