Comedians born in Hagen

At the southeastern edge of the Ruhr where it meets the Sauerland hills, Hagen is a North Rhine-Westphalian city known as the home of Germany's largest distance-learning university, the FernUniversität. Rivers and wooded valleys frame an industrial past in steel and paper, and the region's plain-spoken humour is well known. As live comedy spreads across Germany, Hagen's cultural venues increasingly welcome touring stand-up alongside the Kabarett tradition.