Andreas Rebers

Andreas Rebers, born January 7, 1958, is a Kabarett artist, author and musician from Munich. His shows often incorporate performances on the accordion or the piano. He was born in Westerbrak in Lower Saxony, and by the age of 15 his band Los Promillos, which he founded with his brothers, was a success in his local area of Weserbergland and brought him a degree of financial independence.

After school, Rebers studied at the University of Hannover to become a teacher, and also earned a degree in pedagogy. It was at the university that he made his first contacts with independent theaters and the art of Kabarett. He taught himself the piano and learned the accordion from Thomas Assmus between 1984 and 1988, an instrument he calls "Strapsmaus" and has used in his shows ever since. From 1989 to 1997 he was director of plays at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, and from 1997 to 1999 he was a member of the Lach- und Schiessgesellschaft in Munich before starting a solo career.

Rebers often made guest appearances on various German Kabarett shows, such as Scheibenwischer, Neues aus der Anstalt and Ottfried Fischer's Ottis Schlachthof, which exposed him to a larger audience. His Kabarett is musical in nature and relies on songs to bring his message across, in a tradition he sees as connected to classical workers' songs like those composed by Bert Brecht. His style has been described as complicated and nasty satire, leading to comparisons with the Austrian Kabarett artist Josef Hader. Among his awards are the Salzburger Stier in 2006 and the Deutscher Kabarettpreis in 2008.