Entrepreneur Tillman Schulz is dancing as a candidate on “Let’s Dance” 2024. The Dortmund native already gained TV experience as an investor in “The Lions’ Den”.
The 17th season of the popular dance show “Let’s Dance” is currently airing RTL. It started on February 23rd – in the traditional introductory show it was decided who would teach whom to dance. The jury members, professional dancers and celebrities had already been determined. The entrepreneur is also among the prominent dance students Tillman Schulzwho has already gained a lot of TV experience as an investor in “The Lions’ Den”.
Even before the start of the new season, the Dortmund native admitted that he had “great respect” for the dance floor. In the same breath, he also sent a pretty clear message to the competition: “I’m taking on the adventure of “Let’s Dance” with everything I have. Challenge accepted!” We have summarized the most important information about “Let’s Dance” participant Tillman Schulz for you here.
Tillman Schulz on “Let’s Dance” 2024: Place of residence, profession and TV formats
Tillman Schulz was born on September 10, 1989 into an entrepreneurial family in Dortmund. He still lives there today. He discovered his passion for his father’s traditional company very early on. Since he was enthusiastic about numbers, data and facts, he successfully completed training as a bank clerk after graduating from high school.
In 2012 he joined the family business “MDS Holding” Just three years later, in 2015, Tillman founded his first company called “Motido”. The traces of the food wholesaler “MDS Holding” go back to the early 20th century. Since then, the company has enjoyed continued success. Among other things, it supplies the two well-known food discounters Aldi and Lidl with food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.
In 2020, Tillman Schulz took over the management of the family group of companies. Since then, the 34-year-old has been the owner and managing director of “MDS Holding”. He is continuing the company in the third generation. His brother Moritz is now taking on the role of co-owner. Since the 13th season of “The Lion’s Den” Tillman has been one of the investors in the founding show and in this way became known to a wider audience.
- Name: Tillman Schulz
- Profession: Entrepreneur, founder and investor
- Birth date: 10. September 1989
- Place of birth: Dortmund (NRW)
- Place of residence: Dortmund
- Zodiac sign: Virgo
“Let’s Dance” candidate Tillman Schulz: From TV lion to dance professional?
In “The Lions’ Den” he replaced the manager and entrepreneur Dr. Georg Kofler. Since former racing driver Nico Rosberg has no longer been part of the show since 2023, Tillman should also take part in the next two seasons of the founders’ show and thus remain with it in the long term.
The TV “Lion” is married and has two children. In an interview, he once revealed that he first ran into his now-wife Cosima in a restaurant – then he looked for her on Facebook and wrote her a message. Back then there was “even more Facebook than Instagram “used,” says the father of the family. The rest is history. The prospective dance student describes himself as a “direct, honest Dortmund boy.” He is closely connected to his homeland and is an avowed fan of BVB. He is also involved in voluntary work in the social sector.
His future dance partner has to be prepared for the fact that they will start training very early: Tillman is an early riser and always starts the day promptly at 4:30 a.m. “Let’s Dance” 2024 is no reason for him to stop – after all, he wants to “continue working normally” after the dance lessons, as he reveals. According to his own statements, he has no previous dancing experience.