Thomas Hermanns

Thomas Hermanns (born 5 March 1963) is a German TV presenter, comedian, screenwriter and director. He is the founder of the comedy show Quatsch Comedy Club. Hermanns was born in Bochum, lived in Nuremberg during his childhood, and studied theatre after school.

In 1992, Hermanns started the comedy show Quatsch Comedy Club, which has been on the German channel ProSieben since 1996 and moved to the Theatre Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin in 2003. He has written and produced different comedy shows on TV, including Zapped (1998), Back to Life (2000) and Paranoid (2004) for Michael Mittermeier, Gayle Tufts and Cora Frost. He was a director for Grease and Es fährt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo, and wrote for the TV series Lukas (1997-1999) and Meine beste Freundin (2000).

Hermanns was TV moderator of Red Nose Day and Popclub on ProSieben, and in May 2005 and 2006 moderated Countdown Eurovision. He worked as a moderator of the Bambi award on German channel ARD in December 2005, and was the moderator and spokesperson for the German Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection from 2005 to 2008. He is openly gay. His awards include the German Comedy Award (1997 and 2000) for Quatsch Comedy Club, the Goldene Kamera in the "Comedy" category (2006), and the Kompassnadel by Schwules Netzwerk NRW (2007) for special work in LGBT.