Previous winners at Germany’s Next Top Model

At the 20th anniversary season of GNTM 2025 Male models are allowed to compete again after season 19 – there will therefore be a winner this year. But give us a little look into the past beforehand. Who actually won the previous 19 seasons? Do you remember the respective winner or the winner of the last season? We are happy to help your memory.

GNTM winners: previous winners at Germany’s Next Top Model

The Cloppenburg native was 17 years old at the German premiere of the show. Today she is well in business as a model and television presenter. From 2009 to 2012 she moderated the first four seasons of « Austrias Next Top Model ». She was also a moderator or jury moon in shows such as « The Voice of Germany » and « The Super Talent ».

She was born in Amberg in 1986 and, after « GNTM » as a model on the catwalk and in the advertising for brands such as C&A, Disneyland and McDonald’s, career. She has also been seen several times as an actress – she initially had lessons at the New York Filmacademy and has been trained privately since then. In 2008 she was an ambassador for the « Year of Mathematics » on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Research.

The Rodgauer was a 17-year-old student when she won the title. She was under contract with the IMG Models model agency for two years. She completed a cover shoot for the German edition of the Cosmopolitan And received a VW Scirocco from the main sponsor Volkswagen.

The then 19-year-old Munich native went to school when she took part in the casting show. As a daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, she was the first child with a black skin color, who was ever born in Erding hospital. She is involved in Karlheinz Böhm’s « People for People ». In 2016 she founded the « Nurucoffee » company together with her sister Sali.

The then waitress from the Austrian Mattighofen is a Syrian descent. As a basketball player, she made it into the U-16 national team of her new home. She ended the model contract with OneEins early and then switched to Eskimo Models, City Models in Paris, Elite Models in Milan, Elite Models in London, Pars Management Germany and MC2 Models in New York.

The then 20-year-old from Haltern am See was still a student when she competed with Heidi Klum. It comes from a Russian -German family that immigrated to Germany from a village near Omsk. Before « GNTM » she was as early as July 2009 « girls’ dreams – math in the morning, at noon model » RTL-Doku series « 30 minutes Germany » to see.

The model, born in 1994 in East Frisian East Frisian, was one under – according to the broadcaster – more than 15,000 candidates who applied for season 7 of « GNTM ». At that time, filming took place in Thailand, Los Angeles and Cancún (Mexico). In the final on June 7th in the Cologne Lanxess-Arena, the jury around moderator Heidi Klum, creative director Thomas Hayo and fashion designer Thomas Rath chose the favorite to the winner.

The student from Hamburg was already at the tender age of 16. Her mother is German, her father comes from Nigeria. She had no experience as a model until participating in the casting, she said in an interview. She called Heidi Klum « Baby Beyoncé ». Like the previous winners, she was on the cover of the German -language edition of Cosmopolitan to see.

Giesinger comes from Karlsruhe, where she was born in 1996. She also comes from Russian -German parents who came to the Federal Republic as late republic. She is now under contract with the New York model agency Muse Model Management. In 2021 she participated in the Amazon film « Celebrity Hunted – any trace can reveal you ». She has been lined with Marcus Butler since 2016, a British YouTuber.

Fuchs, born in Bergisch Gladbach in 1996, was the senior high school student of the integrated comprehensive school in Paffrath when she took part in Heidi Klums Casting. The school broke them off before graduating from high school. As the winner, she received a model contract with Günther Klum’s model agency OneEins, an Opel Adam Rocks and prize money of 100,000 euros.

The model comes from the noble Taunus town of Bad Homburg in front of the height, where it was born in 1996. At the Humbold School there she graduated from her. A temporary liaison with model Alexander Keen was quickly history again. Hnizdos a year older sister has also been under contract with a model agency since 2014.

The winner of season 12 was born on July 4, 1998 in Koblenz. She left the high school there on the kart house without a high school diploma to compete at Modelmama Klum. It is under contract with the model agency Elite Model Management and ran on fashion shows by Balmain, Yohji Yamamoto and Agnès b.

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• 2018: Toni Dreher-Adenuga

The Stuttgart native was born in 1999 under the name Oluwatoniloba Dreher-Adenuga. Her parents had immigrated to Germany from Nigeria around two years before her birth. She graduated from the St. Agnes girls’ high school in the Württemberg metropolis. As the granddaughter of a Nigerian regional royal couple, she is a real princess, according to Adelswelt.de.

With a bourgeois name, « Simi », as it is also called, means Simone Margarethe Hartseil. The model born in 1997 lives in the Lower Saxony Hanseatic city of Stade near Hamburg. In her freestyle in the « GNTM » final, none other than Thomas Gottschalk was one of the star guests, which was at the time, among other things, honored on Twitter.

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• 2020: Jacqueline « Jacky » Wruck

The winner of season 15 comes from the Hessian Rheingau-Taunus district. Until her GNTM participation, she was in veterinary assistants in parental practice. It was only from the second episode of the show that she intervened as a successor. After her victory, her picture appeared on the magazine cover Harper’s Bazaar. She ended her contract with Oneins Fab Management in February 2021, as her lawyer announced.

The student for journalism and corporate communication was 23 years old when she took part in season 16 of « GNTM ». She was born in 1997 and lives in Cologne. Her mother comes from South Korea, her father from South Africa. At 21, she had her coming out as a transgender and then underwent a few sexual operations. Today she works as a model and influencer.

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• 2022: Lou-Anne Gleißenbner-Teskey

The finale of GNTM 2022 was particularly hard for Lou-Anne, because her mother had also made it to the point of the show. In the end, the daughter prevailed and so the Lou-Anne Gntm 2022 born in Monte Carlo won. Since then she has run over the runway at New York Fashion Week.

Vivien Germany’s Next Top Model was the first Curvy Model. The Koblenzer has a Brazilian mother and grew up bilingual. With her expressive expression, she prevailed against her competitors.

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• 2024: Lea Oude Engberink and Jermaine Kokoú Kothé

For the first time in the history of GNTM there were two people on the podium, more precisely a woman and a man. Lea Oude Engberink worked as a business development before her victory and also studied retail design. Jermaine Kokoú Kothé, on the other hand, is the first man who won GNTM. He worked as a model before participating and was part of a Europe-wide adidas campaign in 2022. As a model and influencer, Jermaine is successful and only recently ran at the Berlin Fashion Week.