Hape Kerkeling
Actor
- Born
- December 9, 1964 (age 61) · Recklinghausen, Germany
Hans-Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling (* 9. December 1964 in Recklinghausen) is a German comedian, author, television presenter, actor, director, singer, radio play speaker, audiobook and voice actor.
Hape Kerkeling became a popular television and stage comedian from the mid-1980s. In 1985, at the age of 20, he received his first regular television program Kangaroo. This was followed by other comedy formats such as Total Normal or Darüber lacht die Welt as well as the moderation of major television shows such as the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest or the awarding of the Golden Camera.
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Kerkeling directed several cinema and television films as an author, director and actor. His art figures such as Hannilein, Horst Schlämmer, Siegfried Schwäbli, Uschi Blum and Evje van Dampen also became known to a wide audience. As a voice actor, he lent his voice to the panda Po in several films in the series Kung Fu Panda and the snowman Olaf from the Frozen films.
As a book author, Kerkeling published one of the best-selling German non-fiction books in 2006 with Ich bin dann mal weg.
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- 2027Pfoten vom Tisch
- 202670 Jahre ESC - More than Music as Self - Interviewee
- 2026Horst Schlämmer sucht das Glück as Horst Schlämmer
- 2026The Holy Grill as Heribert Bräsemann
- 2024Mein Name ist Otto as Self
- 2024Die Helene Fischer Show 2024 as Self
- 2024Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal as Self
- 2023Absolut Hape – Die Rollen seines Lebens as Self
- 2023Loriot 100 as Self
- 2022Hier kommt Kurt!
