List of German language comedians
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This is a list of notable German-language comedians.
  • Dirk Bach
    Dirk Bach
    Dirk Bach is a German television comedy actor, best known as Pepe in the German version of Sesamstraße and as an actor in television series Lukas.-Life:...

  • Hugo Egon Balder
    Hugo Egon Balder
    Hugo Egon Balder is a German actor and comedian. He was born 22 March 1950 in Berlin to Egon Friedrich Balder and Gerda Balder, née Schure . Gerda Balder was a Jew who, together with her mother and her son from her first marriage, survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp.Balder was a...

  • Badesalz
    Badesalz
    Badesalz is a comedy duo from the German state of Hesse, founded in the early 1980s by Hendrik "Henni" Nachtsheim and Gerd Knebel as "Badesalz Theater"....

  • Jürgen Becker
    Jürgen Becker
    Jürgen Becker is a German comedian, kabarett artist, and actor.- Life :After school in Cologne, Becker became a graphic designer in German company 4711. Later Becker studied social science in Cologne....

  • Mirja Boes
  • Elmar Brandt
    Elmar Brandt
    Elmar Brandt is a German impressionist, best known for his imitations of politicians. He was born in Düsseldorf.His most famous series is The Gerd Show, in which actual events are lampooned using an imitation of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder...

  • Jochen Busse
    Jochen Busse
    Jochen Busse is a German television actor.He began work as a stage actor at the Kammerspiele in Munich in 1960 and made his TV debut the same year. He has made 80 appearances in television since 1960. In 1993 he appeared in the Austrian set comedy series Hochwürden erbt das Paradies‎...

  • Karl Dall
    Karl Dall
    Karl Bernhard Dall is a German comedian, singer and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye is caused by an inborn Ptosis.- Family :...

  • Alfred Dorfer
    Alfred Dorfer
    Alfred Dorfer is an Austrian comedian, writer, and actor. He is one of the most well-known cabaret artists and comedians in Austria, not least due to his commitment to numerous Austrian film productions...

  • Sammy Drechsel
    Sammy Drechsel
    Sammy Drechsel Sammy Drechsel Sammy Drechsel (25 April, 1925 (Berlin) – 19 January, 1986 (Munich), born Karl-Heinz Kamke, was a German political comedian, journalist and sports reporter...

  • Anke Engelke
    Anke Engelke
    Anke Christina Fischer is a German comedian, actress and voice-over actress born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.Engelke moved to Cologne in 1971 with her parents...

  • Elton
    Elton (comedian)
    Alexander Duszat, better known under the nickname Elton, is a German television host and comedian.He was born on 2 April 1971 in West Berlin, but grew up and went to the school in Hamburg. He finished his traineeship as a television and radio technician...

  • Heinz Erhardt
    Heinz Erhardt
    Heinz Erhardt was a German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, and poet.Heinz Erhardt was the son of Baltic German Kapellmeister Gustl Erhardt. He lived most of his childhood at his grandparents in Riga, where his grandfather, Paul Nelder, owned a music house...

  • Helga Feddersen
    Helga Feddersen
    Helga Feddersen was a popular German actress, comedienne, singer, author, and theater director....

  • Werner Finck
    Werner Finck
    Werner Finck was a German comedian, an actor with "comic bones". He could read the phone book and it would seem extremely funny.-Life:...

  • Peter Frankenfeld
    Peter Frankenfeld
    Peter Frankenfeld was a German comedian, radio and television personality....

     (1913–1979)
  • Annette Frier
    Annette Frier
    Annette Wünsche is a German actress and comedian.-Biography:After the Abitur she studied classical acting at the school of the German theater "Der Keller" for three years and worked as a theater actress in Cologne.-Actress career:In 1997 Frier was member of the cast of the RTL series Hinter...

  • Simon Gosejohann
    Simon Gosejohann
    Simon Gosejohann is a German comedian, TV presenter and actor.In 2008, Gosejohann won the Deutscher Comedypreis in the category "Best Comedy Show" for his role in Elton vs. Simon. A year later, he picked up the Best Hidden Camera Award for his show Comedystreet.- External links :*...

  • Dieter Hallervorden
    Dieter Hallervorden
    Dieter "Didi" Hallervorden is a German comedian, comic actor, singer and cabaret artist.-Biography:...

  • Evelyn Hamann
    Evelyn Hamann
    Evelyn Hamann was a German actress.- Life :Evelyn Hamann was born into a family of musicians in Hamburg, Germany: her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the NDR television company's symphony orchestra and founded the Hamann Quartet; her mother was a singer and music...

  • Michael "Bully" Herbig
  • Christoph Maria Herbst
    Christoph Maria Herbst
    Christoph Maria Herbst is a German actor and comedian.-Life and theatre career:After passing the Abitur, Herbst became a banker apprentice and was active at the free theatre scene in Wuppertal at the same time. In 1986, he was a founding member of the private Theater in Cronenberg and its acting...

  • Thomas Hermanns
    Thomas Hermanns
    Thomas Hermanns is a German TV-presenter, director, TV-author and comedian. He is known for his comedy-show Quatsch Comedy Club....

     (born 1963)
  • Hanns Dieter Hüsch
    Hanns Dieter Hüsch
    Hanns Dieter Hüsch was a German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator....

  • Gerburg Jahnke
    Gerburg Jahnke
    Gerburg Jahnke is a German comedian.- Life :After school in Oberhausen Jahnke studied arts and German studies in Münster and Düsseldorf. Jahnke ist best known in Germany for her work as a comedian. Together with Stephanie Überall she had a comedy group Missfits.- External links :*...

  • Harald Juhnke
    Harald Juhnke
    Harald Juhnke , actually Harry Heinz Herbert Juhnke, was a well-known German actor, comedian and entertainer.-Life:...

  • Oliver Kalkofe
    Oliver Kalkofe
    Oliver Kalkofe is a German satirist, columnist, book author and actor.- Career :Kalkofe grew up in Langenhagen-Engelbostel near Hanover and in Peine...

  • Hape Kerkeling
    Hape Kerkeling
    Hans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling is a well-known German actor, presenter and comedian.-Career:At secondary school in Recklinghausen, Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band and published a record .Kerkeling started his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German...

     (born 1964)
  • Piet Klocke
    Piet Klocke
    Piet Klocke is a German musician, cabaret artist, author and actor.Klocke studied Philosophy and German language, but quit his studies to dedicate himself to free music theater...

  • Diether Krebs
    Diether Krebs
    Diether Krebs was a German actor, cabaret artist and comedian.-Youth and initial success:...

  • Mike Krüger
    Mike Krüger
    Mike Krüger is a German comedian and singer....

  • Sarah Kuttner
    Sarah Kuttner
    Sarah Kuttner is a German presenter from East Berlin.Her father is famed radio host Jürgen Kuttner. She has regularly appeared on the music television channel VIVA since November 2001 after being selected out of 1500 other participants in a casting held in summer of that year...

  • Jürgen von der Lippe
    Jürgen von der Lippe
    Hans-Jürgen Dohrenkamp , better known by his stage name Jürgen von der Lippe, is a German television presenter, entertainer, actor and comedian...

     (born 1948)
  • Loriot
    Vicco von Bülow
    Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow , more commonly known under the pseudonym Loriot, was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.He is most well known for his cartoons, the sketches from his 1976 television series...

     (Vicco von Bülow) (1923–2011)
  • Ingolf Lück
    Ingolf Lück
    Ingolf Lück is a German actor, comedian and television host.He hosted several sketch comedy shows from which the most known is Die Wochenshow, aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2002.Lück had a little role in Das Boot....

  • Michael Mittermeier
    Michael Mittermeier
    Michael Mittermeier is a German comedian.- Life :Michael Mittermeier was born in Dorfen, Upper Bavaria. During his childhood he lived in Bavaria. After school he learned theatre. In 1996, Mittermeier started the comedy program Zapped...

  • Dieter Nuhr
    Dieter Nuhr
    Dieter Nuhr is a German comedian. From 1981 to 1989, Nuhr studied art and history at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. From 1982 to 1987 he attended the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he studied to become a teacher...

  • Hans Werner Olm
    Hans Werner Olm
    Hans Werner Olm is a German television and film comedian.His career began in 1975, when Olm travelled to Berlin to begin his comedy career in the city's clubs, striking a partnership in 1976 with Jürgen von der Lippe among others, known as the Gebrüder Blattschuss...

  • Anne Onken
    Anne Onken
    Anne Onken is a German radio presenter and comedian.Onken was born as the daughter of a priest in Oldenburg, and started to imitate voices from an early age...

  • Ingo Oschmann
    Ingo Oschmann
    Ingo Oschmann is a German comedian, entertainer and stage magician who also works as a television presenter and actor...

  • Bastian Pastewka
    Bastian Pastewka
    Bastian Pastewka is a German actor and comedian.He first became known to a wider audience in Germany around 1996 as a regular cast member of the comedy show Die Wochenshow , essentially a mock news program...

  • Oliver Pocher
    Oliver Pocher
    Oliver Pocher is a German actor, stand-up comedian and television host.- Early life and professional training :...

  • Alf Poier
    Alf Poier
    Alf Poier is an Austrian artist and stand-up comedian.Born in Judenburg in Styria, he started doing cabaret in 1995 in Graz, and has won several prizes for his work, including the Salzburger Stier in 1998, the Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis, Prix Phanteon and RTL Comedy Award in 2000 and the Austrian...

  • Stefan Raab
    Stefan Raab
    Stefan Konrad Raab is a German entertainer, television host, comedian and musician. Raab began his television career hosting the comedy show Vivasion in 1993 and has been hosting the late-night comedy show TV total since 1999. He became well-known in 1994 after composing a hit single spoofing...

  • Lukas Resetarits
    Lukas Resetarits
    Lukas Resetarits is an Austrian cabaret artist and actor, best known for playing police inspector Kottan in the Austrian TV series Kottan ermittelt....

  • Hagen Rether
    Hagen Rether
    Hagen Rether is a German political cabaret artist. The most remarkable features in his performance are usually the presence and use of a grand piano and his carrying a baseball club while entering stage, then puts it on the piano before taking off his dinner jacket...

  • Otto Reutter
    Otto Reutter
    Otto Reutter was a German comedian, coupletist, and singer....

  • Harald Schmidt
    Harald Schmidt
    Harald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, writer, comedian and television entertainer best known as host of two popular German late-night shows.- Early life :...

  • Helge Schneider
    Helge Schneider
    Helge Schneider is a German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor....

  • Martin Schneider
    Martin Schneider
    Martin Schneider , often just called "Maddin", is a German comedian, cabarettist and actor.- Biography :Martin Schneider grew up in Burgholzhausen, a district of Friedrichsdorf....

  • Atze Schröder
    Atze Schröder
    Atze Schröder is a German comedy character played by Hubertus Albers. He is best known as the main character in the RTL comedy show Alles Atze and for his appearances in the ProSieben stand-up comedy show Quatsch Comedy Club....

  • Christoph Sieber
    Christoph Sieber
    Christoph Sieber is an Austrian sailor who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.He won a gold medal in the Mistral class.-External links:*...

  • Hella von Sinnen
    Hella von Sinnen
    Hella Kemper known by her stage name Hella von Sinnen is a German entertainer. She had several TV shows on German private channels...

  • Hans Söllner
    Hans Söllner
    Johann Michael Söllner , better known as Hans Söllner, is a German singer-songwriter. Throughout German-speaking countries, especially in Germany and Austria, he is famous for publicly criticizing the German government and political systems in general to a vast extent...

  • Cordula Stratmann
    Cordula Stratmann
    Cordula Stratmann is a German comedian. After taking the Abitur school-leaving examination, she studied social work at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia, in Cologne. During her work at the family counselling section of the Pulheim youth welfare office she also...

  • Murat Topal
    Murat Topal
    Murat Topal is a Turkish-Austrian futsal player. He currently plays for Stella Rossa Vienna, and previously played amateur and professional level for Post SV, FavAC, Fenerbahçe, Admira Wacker, DSV Leoben, SC Kottingbrunn, Sturm Graz, SV Aspern, IC Favoriten, SC Ritzing, SV Aspern, SV Leobendorf,...

  • Nora Tschirner
    Nora Tschirner
    Nora Marie Tschirner is a German actress and television and radio presenter.-Early life:Nora Tschirner was born in East Berlin to the documentary film director Joachim Tschirner and the radio journalist Waltraud Tschirner. She grew up with her two older brothers in the East Berlin suburb Pankow...

  • Elisabeth Volkmann
    Elisabeth Volkmann
    Elisabeth Volkmann was a German actress and voice actor, best known for her part in the German absurd comedy series Klimbim , which was watched by millions of viewers in Germany and, later on, as the voice of Marge Simpson in the German dub of The Simpsons...

  • Otto Waalkes
    Otto Waalkes
    Otto Gerhard Waalkes is a Frisian comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' , elephant-like comic characters of his own design...

     (born 1948)
  • Kaya Yanar
    Kaya Yanar
    Kaya Yanar is a German comedian best known for his comedy show Was guckst du?! ....



See also

  • Cabaret
    Cabaret
    Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...

  • German humour
    German humour
    German humour refers collectively to the conventions of comedy and its cultural meaning within the country of Germany. Although comedy is a staple of German culture, with many Germans making light of situations in social conversation, and with a large amount of time allotted to comedy in German...

  • List of comedians
  • List of German people
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