• 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