Name
Hape Kerkeling
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1964-12-09 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Recklinghausen, Germany
Biography
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.
Known For
5.1
Horst Schlämmer is back—and he's fed up. People all over Germany are in a bad mood. So ...
6.6
At a tennis club in rural Germany, preparations for the summer party are led by Heribert. ...
7.4
Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians, Hape Kerk...
4.8
So far he has earned his living as deputy editor-in-chief at the Grevenbroicher Tagblatt, ...
6.2
Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his ...
5.5
A fast-paced comedy full of misunderstandings: Norbert Krabbe from pan, unemployed Büroka...
7.1
The film tells the fairytale story of a scrawny East Frisian who, despite minimal starting...
6.5
Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugsto...
4.9
Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store, while his dad is away on a fair. In ...
- 2021 Ein Abend mit Hape Kerkeling as Self - Host
- 2004 Samba in Mettmann as Olaf Kischewski
- 1993 Kein Pardon as Peter Schlönzke
- 2004 Bahnhof für Bio - Alfred Biolek wird 70 as Self
- 2005 Tour d'Eurovision as Self
- 2009 Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere! as Horst Schlämmer / Uschi Blum / Gisela / Angela Merkel / Ronald Profalla / Ulla Schmidt
- 2009 A man, a fjord! as Horst Schlämmer
- 1996 Willi und die Windzors as Willi Bettenberg
- 1995 Club Las Piranjas as Edwin
- 1997 Die Oma ist tot as Lothar Brömmer
- 2007 Horst Schlämmer: Weisse Bescheid? as Horst Schlämmer
- 2008 Hape Kerkeling liest - Ich bin dann mal weg
- 2023 Loriot 100 as Self
- 2023 Absolut Hape – Die Rollen seines Lebens as Self
- 2007 Hape Kerkeling - Wieder auf Tour Live as Self
- 2014 Hape Kerkeling - Keine Geburtstagsshow! as Himself / Various
- 1999 Tobias Totz und sein Löwe as Paul Pommes
- 2007 Best of Hape Kerkeling as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 Somewhere Over The Rainbow as Self
- 1990 Vorwärts as Showmaster
- 2021 Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe as Devil
- 2024 Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal as Self
- 2013 Hape Kerkeling: Das Beste aus "Darüber lacht die Welt" as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 Mein Name ist Otto as Self
- 2024 Die Helene Fischer Show 2024 as Self
- 2026 The Holy Grill as Heribert Bräsemann
- 2026 Horst Schlämmer sucht das Glück as Horst Schlämmer
- 2022 Hier kommt Kurt! as Self
- 2027 Pfoten vom Tisch
- 2026 70 Jahre ESC - More than Music as Self - Interviewee
- 1980 Heut' abend ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1983 Bei Bio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1994 Prominenten Playback Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Die Lotto-Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1986 Showgeschichten ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 Hape trifft! ( 8 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2002 Die 80er Jahre Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Lesen! Mit Elke Heidenreich ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Hallo Taxi ( 7 episodes )
- 2001 Hapes halbe Stunde ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1986 Großstadtrevier ( 1 episode ) as Hein Merry
- 2019 Maischberger ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1959 Stars in der Manege ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1999 Beckmann ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1981 Wetten, dass..? ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1999 Gisbert ( 6 episodes ) as Gisbert
- 1976 Kölner Treff ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1989 Total Normal ( 7 episodes ) as Self
- 1997 Tietjen und Bommes ( 1 episode ) as Horst Schlämmer
- 1991 DAS! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 Deutscher Fernsehpreis ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 1999 Deutscher Fernsehpreis ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2023 Club Las Piranjas ( 4 episodes ) as Edwin Öttel
- 1999 Kuli & Co. ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1997 Leute heute ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1999 Darüber lacht die Welt ( 15 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 1971 Dalli Dalli ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1980 Verstehen Sie Spaß? ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1989 Blauer Panther ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1984 Goldene Kamera ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1984 Goldene Kamera ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Presenter
- 1984 Goldene Kamera ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Moderator
- 1948 Bambi ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1990 Romy Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 Goldene Henne ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1964 Grimme Award ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1997 German Comedy Award ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1983 Telestar ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1992 ECHO-Verleihung ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 Volle Kanne ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 2004 Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1996 Zimmer frei! ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1965 Spiel ohne Grenzen ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Menschen bei Maischberger ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1994 alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Markus Lanz ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 Tietjen und Bommes ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1993 RTL Samstag Nacht ( 1 episode )
- 2021 Hape und die 7 Zwergstaaten ( 7 episodes ) as Self
- 2003 Was liest du? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 maybrit illner ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 MDR um 4 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 NDR Talk Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 2001 Aeschbacher ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Ein Herz für Kinder ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2011 Unterwegs in der Weltgeschichte ( 6 episodes ) as Moderator
- 2014 Der Meisterfälscher ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2013 Stöckl ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2002 Gero von Boehm begegnet... ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 Menschen ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 Menschen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2003 Our Best ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1994 Sternstunden ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 Interaktiv ( 1 episode ) as himself
- 1994 Höchstpersönlich ( 1 episode ) as self
- 1965 aspekte ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2000 Abendschau ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2006 Let's Dance ( 16 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2005 Die Besten im Westen ( 1 episode ) as self
- 1981 Das Traumschiff ( 1 episode ) as Clemens Kohl
- 1994 Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin ( 1 episode ) as self
- 2003 ZIBB ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1991 Boulevard Bio ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2007 Inas Nacht ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1974 3 nach 9 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Bestbesetzung ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2024 Comedy Allstars – Meilensteine des Humors ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1994 Cheese ( 12 episodes ) as Moderator
- 2021 LOL: Last One Laughing ( 6 episodes ) as Horst Schlämmer - Host
- 2014 Musikgeschichten ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1988 Alles Nichts Oder?! ( 1 episode ) as Self
