Mirja Regensburg

Mirja Regensburg (born 25. April 1975 in Bad Karlshafen) is a German actress and comedian. She grew up in Hümme, a district of Hofgeismar, and from 1993 to 1995 trained as a Groß- und Außenhandelskauffrau. She then studied Musical and completed her studies at the Stage School of Music, Dance & Drama in Hamburg with the Bühnenreifeprüfung. For many years she played lead roles in musicals such as Tommy, Cabaret, The Rocky Horror Show and Godspell at German municipal theatres. From the premiere in 2003 until 2014 she played the lead role of Helena in the musical version of Heinz Rudolf Kunze and Heiner Lürig's Ein Sommernachtstraum at the open-air baroque theatre of the Herrenhäuser Gärten in Hannover, where around 250,000 spectators saw her in this comedic role.

Her comedy career began as a guest with the comedy improvisation ensembles Instant Impro (Bremerhaven), the Improtronics at the Quatsch Comedy Club (Berlin) and the Springmäuse (Bonn), with whom she was also a permanent ensemble member from 2012 to 2014. She played the title role in the solo theatre piece Heikes Welt at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, an adaptation of Cavewoman, and performed stand-up nationwide in comedy clubs such as NightWash and the Quatsch Comedy Club. She had television engagements as an actress on programmes including Zack! Comedy nach Maß, Two Funny - Die Sketch Comedy, Cindy und die jungen Wilden (RTL) and Wiwaldi Show (WDR), and appeared as herself on shows such as Genial Daneben, NDR Comedy Contest and Comedy Tower (HR). As a presenter she appeared alongside Matthias Machwerk in the MDR show Kling Klang Klong and with Ingolf Lück in the WDR series 21 Dinge.

Since 2015 Regensburg toured nationwide with her first solo programme Mädelsabend - Jetzt auch für Männer. From the end of 2019 until 2023 she performed her second programme Im nächsten Leben werd' ich Mann!, and since 2023 she has been touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland with her current programme HAPPY. In 2022 she received the Stuttgarter Besen (Hölzerner Besen) and won the Kabarettpreis Böblinger Mechthild. In 2019 she published the book Im nächsten Leben werd' ich Mann!.