MY BERLIN - MY LIFE with Ulli Zelle
The RBB reporter legend Ulli Zelle brought 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 talks about professional and private, funny and sad things, without make-up and in his own casual and friendly tone: about the seventies and eighties in West Berlin, about the fall of the Wall, about the transformation of Berlin up until the immediate present...
Ulli Zelle
Ulli Zelle was born in Lower Saxony on June 19, 1952 and worked as an RBB reporter for many decades. He is now a presenter, book author and singer (“Ulli & Die Grauen Zellen”) and has lived in Berlin for many decades.
Influenced by his parents' social democracy from childhood, he trained as an advertising salesman in Hanover and then began studying social and business communication at the University of Arts in Berlin, which he completed 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. He hosted a talk program for VOX in 1993. From 1994, Zelle hosted the program Berlin life, SFB, and he also worked on other programs.
Zelle shot the film programs Kulturreport and Bilderbuch Deutschland for ARD, until spring 2025 he worked as a reporter at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) and hosted the program Heimatjournal in alternation with a colleague until 2019.
Zelle is the singer in the band Ulli & Die Grauen Zellen, which specializes in rock. Since 2016, he has had his own talk show Ullis Nachtcafé in Berlin's Schlosspark Theater. In 2025, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the City of Berlin.
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