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Hape Kerkeling
Recklinghausen, Germany
Hans-Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling (* 9. December 1964 in Recklinghausen) is a German comedian, author, television presenter, actor, director, singer, radio play speaker, audiobo…
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Hans-Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling (* 9. December 1964 in Recklinghausen) is a German comedian, author, television presenter, actor, director, singer, radio play speaker, audiobook and voice actor. Hape Kerkeling became a popular television and stage comedian from the mid-1980s. In 1985, at the age of 20, he received his first regular television program Kangaroo. This was followed by other comedy formats such as Total Normal or Darüber lacht die Welt as well as the moderation of major television shows such as the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest or the awarding of the Golden Camera. Kerkeling directed several cinema and television films as an author, director and actor. His art figures such as Hannilein, Horst Schlämmer, Siegfried Schwäbli, Uschi Blum and Evje van Dampen also became known to a wide audience. As a voice actor, he lent his voice to the panda Po in several films in the series Kung Fu Panda and the snowman Olaf from the Frozen films. As a book author, Kerkeling published one of the best-selling German non-fiction books in 2006 with Ich bin dann mal weg.
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2027
Gebt mir noch etwas Zeit
Movie Novel
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2027
Pfoten vom Tisch
Movie
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2026
70 Jahre ESC - More than Music
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2026
Horst Schlämmer sucht das Glück
Movie Horst Schlämmer
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2026
The Holy Grill
Movie Heribert Bräsemann
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2024
Mein Name ist Otto
Movie Self
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2024
Die Helene Fischer Show 2024
Movie Self
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2024
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
Movie Self
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2024
Comedy Allstars – Meilensteine des Humors
TV show Self
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2023
Absolut Hape – Die Rollen seines Lebens
Movie Self
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2023
Loriot 100
Movie Self
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2023
Club Las Piranjas
TV show Edwin Öttel
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2022
Hier kommt Kurt!
Movie Self
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2021
Ein Abend mit Hape Kerkeling
Movie Self - Host
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2021
Hape und die 7 Zwergstaaten
TV show Self
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2021
Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe
Movie Devil
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2021
LOL: Last One Laughing
TV show Horst Schlämmer - Host
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2019
Bestbesetzung
TV show Self
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2019
Maischberger
TV show Self
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2018
All About Me
Movie Novel
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2015
I'm Off Then
Movie Book
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2014
Der Meisterfälscher
TV show Self
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2014
Hape Kerkeling - Keine Geburtstagsshow!
Movie Himself / Various
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2014
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Movie Self
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2014
Musikgeschichten
TV show Self
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2014
MDR um 4
TV show Self
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2013
Hape Kerkeling: Das Beste aus "Darüber lacht die Welt"
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Stöckl
TV show Self
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2011
Unterwegs in der Weltgeschichte
TV show Moderator
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2009
Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere!
Movie Horst Schlämmer / Uschi Blum / Gisela / Angela Merkel / Ronald Profalla / Ulla Schmidt
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2009
A man, a fjord!
Movie Horst Schlämmer
- 2008
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2008
Markus Lanz
TV show Self
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2008
Hallo Taxi
TV show
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2007
Inas Nacht
TV show Self
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2007
Hape Kerkeling - Wieder auf Tour Live
Movie Self
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2007
Horst Schlämmer: Weisse Bescheid?
Movie Horst Schlämmer
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2007
Best of Hape Kerkeling
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2006
Let's Dance
TV show Self - Host
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2005
Die Besten im Westen
TV show self
