Ralf Kabelka

Ralf Kabelka (born 4. Dezember 1964 in Paderborn) is a German author and comedian. He became known to a broad audience from 16. März 2000 through his role as Dr. Udo Brömme in the Harald Schmidt Show. Kabelka took his Abitur in 1984 at the Reismann-Gymnasium Paderborn. Together with Rüdiger Hoffmann he was in a cabaret group called Die Pappnasen.

Kabelka was active until the end of the Harald Schmidt Show as an editorial member and gag writer at the Bonito TV Produktionsgesellschaft mbH. After the end of the show in December 2003 he first worked as an author for the programme Was guckst du? on Sat.1 and studied Publizistik, Informationswissenschaft and Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin. From summer 2005 he worked at Günther Jauch's production company, among other things as an author for the RTL show Hape trifft! with Hape Kerkeling. For the show Schmidt & Pocher he was again part of the team from 2007 and appeared as Udo Brömme and as Günter vom Wallrafplatz. From May 2009 to May 2012 he was Redaktionsleiter of the show Harald Schmidt. From 2013 to 2019 he worked as author, speaker and Jan-Böhmermann-sidekick for the Neo Magazin Royale.

As Dr. Udo Brömme he played a CDU politician and produced around 30 short films for the Harald-Schmidt-Show. The fictional politician from Bückel/Bückle near Pelzlau is a member of the CDU and a Landtagsabgeordneter of the Erftkreis in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Since 2005 Kabelka has used his figure of Dr. Udo Brömme for an advertising campaign of the Südtiroler Apfelbauern. In 2009 he published, under Dr. Udo Brömme, the book Zukunft ist gut für alle - Geheimrezepte eines Premium-Politikers.