Stand-up comedians from Germany
289 comedians
Comedy in Germany had an establishment before stand-up turned up, and it was a theatre form. Kabarett is written, political and argued out on stage, closer to a satirical essay than to a club set, and it keeps its own houses with resident ensembles. The Kom(m)ödchen opened in Düsseldorf in 1947, the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft in 1956, and Die Distel in East Berlin in 1953, so satire had a permanent stage on both sides of the divided country.
The other older tradition belongs to carnival. A Büttenrede is delivered from a barrel-shaped lectern, usually rhymed and usually in the local dialect, and the carnival sessions from Mainz and from Franken go out on public television during Fastnacht. A speaker there works a seated hall in costume, to a metre and a set of customs that no microphone stand imposes.
Stand-up came into that crowded field in 1992, when Thomas Hermanns started the Quatsch Comedy Club in the canteen of a Hamburg theatre and later turned it into a television format. NightWash has run since 2000 out of a launderette in Cologne, giving newcomers seven to ten minutes in front of a room. German stand-up therefore grew up in broadcast slots as much as in rooms of its own.
Dialect stayed a genre rather than a flavour. Bavarian and Franconian Kabarett, Rhineland and Ruhrgebiet humour, Berliner Schnauze and the Mannheim slang of Bülent Ceylan are separate accents with separate audiences. Tedros Teclebrhan builds characters out of immigrant and small-town speech, Christian Ehring does political satire on television, Ralf Schmitz runs on improvisation and physical comedy, and Freshtorge and Phil Laude reach people through sketch and web video rather than through clubs. Chris Tall and Maria Clara Groppler do the club work. Almost all of it happens in German, with Turkish, English, Dutch, French and Hebrew turning up in individual acts.
🇩🇪Freshtorge
🇩🇪Christian Ehring
political satire · kabarett
🇩🇪Markus Maria Profitlich
sketch comedy · character comedy
Mariano Vivenzio
Mario Adrion
🇩🇪Chris Tall
urban · provocative
🇩🇪Phil Laude
social media satire · influencer parody
🇩🇪Ralf Schmitz
physical comedy · improv
🇩🇪Tedros Teclebrhan
Teddy
character comedy · sketch comedy
🇩🇪Alain Frei
Stand-up · Observational
🇩🇪Hans-Jürgen Hubert Dohrenkamp
Jürgen von der Lippe
entertainment · stand-up
🇩🇪Bülent Ceylan
character comedy · dialect
🇩🇪Maria Clara Groppler
MCG
Stand-up · Observational
🇩🇪Joyce Ilg
🇩🇪Mario Barth
relationship humor · observational
🇩🇪Mirella Precek
Johannes Schröder (Komiker)
Lukas Staier
🇩🇪Marti Tom Fischer
Marti Fischer
Musical comedy · Voice impressions
🇩🇪Salim Samatou
Stand-up · Crowd work
🇩🇪Carolin Kebekus
feminist · political satire
Nikita Miller
🇩🇪Özcan Coşar
autobiographical · immigrant experience
Dominic Jozwiak
Kaya Yanar
🇩🇪Eure Mütter (Andreas Kraus, Donato Svezia, Matthias Weinmann)
Eure Mütter
Sketch comedy · Musical comedy
🇩🇪Sven Bensmann
musical comedy · stand-up
🇩🇪Markus Krebs
Hocker Rocker
one-liner · working-class humor
🇩🇪Otto Gerhard Waalkes
Otto
absurdist · musical comedy
🇩🇪Oliver Kalkofe
🇩🇪Michael Mittermeier
observational · storytelling
🇩🇪Christoph Sieber
political Kabarett · satire
🇩🇪Matze Knop
parody · impressions
🇩🇪Dieter Tappert
Paul Panzer
character comedy · Rhenish comedy
Samuel Sibilski
🇩🇪Ingmar Horst Heinz Stadelmann
Stand-up · Political satire
🇩🇪Markus Henrik
Dr. Pop
Musik-Kabarett · stand-up
Nikolai Binner
🇩🇪Marc-Uwe Kling
Kabarett · Political comedy
🇩🇪Till Reiners
political · satirical
🇩🇪Vincent Pfäfflin
Stand-up · Observational comedy
🇩🇪Serdar Somuncu
🇩🇪Felix Lobrecht
observational · dark humor
Moritz Hohl
🇩🇪Holger Müller (Komiker)
Florian Schroeder
🇩🇪Moritz Neumeier
dark humor · political
🇩🇪Martin Frank
Kabarett · Bavarian Kabarett
🇩🇪Helge Schneider
absurdist · anti-comedy
Florentine Osche
🇩🇪Thomas To Truong Tran
Tutty Tran
Stand-up · Observational
Liza Kos
Oliver Pocher
🇩🇪Eckart von Hirschhausen
science comedy · medical humor
🇩🇪Mirja Regensburg
Stand-up · Musical comedy
🇩🇪Khalid Bounouar
stand-up · crowd work
🇩🇪Maxi Gstettenbauer
observational · nerd humor
🇩🇪René Marik
🇩🇪Erika Ratcliffe
Stand-up · Kabarett
🇩🇪Benaissa Lamroubal
Benaissa
observational · autobiographical