Piet Klocke

Piet Klocke is a German musician, cabaret artist, author, and actor. He studied philosophy and German language but quit his studies to dedicate himself to free music theater, and has played in various blues, punk, and Neue Deutsche Welle bands. He received the Bavarian Stand-up Comedian Award.

From 1980 onward, Klocke has appeared in various TV productions and shows, including the thriller In den Todeskrallen des Dr. Do for ARD and a Saturday-night show called Flitterabend, also on ARD. He has made various appearances on RTL Samstag Nacht and 7 Tage, 7 Kopfe. He acted as "Wachtmeister Dimpfelmoser" in the 2006 film The Robber Hotzenplotz, alongside Armin Rohde, and appeared in The Flying Classroom in 2003. In an interview, Klocke named the German cabaret artist Werner Finck as one of his role models.

Klocke's trademark role is Professor Schmitt-Hindemith in his show "Musikstilarten im auslaufenden Jahrtausend" (Music styles of the Ending Millennium), where he is accompanied by saxophonist Simone Sonnenschein as Fraulein Angelika Kleinknecht. As Professor Schmitt-Hindemith, Klocke dresses eccentrically and uses his scrubby red hair and lean figure to create the image of a helplessly nervous person who speaks in a very distracted way, leaving most of his sentences unfinished. His discography includes HipHop fur Angestellte (1995), Das geht alles von Ihrer Zeit ab (1997), Abenteuer im Dioptrinanzug (2000), and Puffy Egborn 2 oder Scheitern als Weg! (2006).