Volker Piesczek (* 14 May 1969 in Klosterneuburg) is a former footballer and Austrian television presenter.
Before his career in television he was a professional footballer with FC Tulln (92/93 and 00/01), SVStockerau (93/94), SKN St. Pölten (95/96) and VfB Mödling (96/97). In the 94/95 season, Piesczek played in the Austrian Bundesliga for Wiener Sportclub. In his entire professional football career he made 3 appearances in the UI Cup and 7 appearances each in the Regionalliga Ost and the ÖFB Cup. He also played 58 times in the 2nd division and 28 times in the Bundesliga.
Piesczek studied journalism and political science parallel to his football career.Politikwissenschaften.[3] For ATV, he worked for seven years as a football presenter.[4] Before that, he worked for Sat.1 and DSF Plus or in the Austrian and German Bundesliga as a football presenter. For ORF 2 he worked as a news reporter and in 2000 he presented the island show Expedition Robinson for ORF 1 and RTL II.[5] In 2004 he switched to Puls TV and ProSieben Austria, where he presented Austria Top News[6] alternately with Helmut Brandstätter.
Piesczek took part in the ORF football show "Das Match" during the 2008 European FootballChampionship in Austria and Switzerland.[7] From 2010 to 2013 he presented the magazine ATV Life on ATV.[8] In 2011[9] and 2012[10] he was awarded the Austrian Film and Television Award "Romy" in the category Most Popular Presenter - Entertainment.[11] In 2011, he landed in second place in the Sports category of the "Austrian Journalist of the Year" awards.[12]
From March 2017 to April 2017, he was a celebrity contestant on the ORF dance show Dancing Stars.[13] In 2018, he commented on matches of the Football World Cup in Russia on OE24.[14]
In 2003, Piesczek made a guest appearance in the television series Kommissar Rex (episode: Berühmt um jeden Preis[15]). Since 2 June 2005 he has been married to the former Austrian politician Eva Glawischnig.[16]
