Max Giermann

Maximilian "Max" Giermann (born 24 October 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German comedian, impressionist, parodist, actor, voice actor, presenter and theatre director. He was born as the son of the art educators Peter Ulrich Giermann and Gisela Giermann. He has been married since July 2012, lived in Köln until January 2024, and since then in his birth city of Freiburg im Breisgau. After his Abitur in 1995 at the Berthold-Gymnasium in Freiburg and his civil service, he received a place to study media art at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. From 1997 he attended the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin, completing his studies there in 2001. During this time Georgo Peugot trained him as a clown.

Since 2004 Max Giermann has worked mainly as a comedian. He appeared regularly in the RTL show Frei Schnauze and from March 2007 belonged to the team of the ProSieben show Switch reloaded. In 2009 and 2010 he hosted Granaten wie wir. In 2009 he received the Deutscher Comedypreis as best actor and was honoured at the Romy with a special jury prize for Switch Reloaded. In 2011 and 2012 he toured nationwide with his first live program Wer denn sonst?!. From 2015 to 2019 he was seen with Matthias Matschke, Valerie Niehaus and Alexander Schubert in the series Sketch History on ZDF. In 2021 he won the second season of the comedy show LOL: Last One Laughing.

He is known above all for his imitations and parodies. Among his best known are, alongside Klaus Kinski, figures such as Stefan Raab, Dieter Bohlen, Karl Lagerfeld, Oliver Kahn, Robert Habeck, Sigmar Gabriel, Markus Lanz, Torsten Sträter and Donald Trump. Since 2014 he has appeared as Sigmar Gabriel, and since 2016 as Donald Trump, in the satire magazine Extra 3. In 2022 he took over the hosting of the new edition of Frei Schnauze on RTL. For several years he has also worked as a painter, exhibiting at the Kunstverein Ulm and at the Galerie Holger John in Dresden.