Babak Ghassim

Babak Ghassim (born 7 June 1983 in Teheran) is a writer as well as co-founder, creative director and author of the stand-up comedy ensemble RebellComedy. The son of Iranian parents, he grew up in Aachen. After his Abitur he studied literature in Heidelberg and Köln.

Babak Ghassim worked on various art projects, wrote the screenplays of two feature films and directed. Together with Usama Elyas he founded "RebellComedy" in 2006, because they could not identify with any existing comedy format in Germany. He himself appears on stage with poetry slams and readings. In 2017 he founded the literature and culture platform www.keschmesch.de. The poem "Hinter uns mein Land" by Babak Ghassim and Usama Elyas is described as the most media-prominent German poem of recent years after Jan Böhmermann's Schmähgedicht about the Turkish president Erdoğan.

He is currently writing his first novel and gives workshops on the subject of creative writing. He has appeared on television in Pufpaffs Happy Hour and Freundliche Übernahme, and makes regular television appearances with RebellComedy. In 2016 he received the Hauptstadtpreis für Integration und Toleranz and has since been a jury member.