Hape Kerkeling
Actor
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 DarĂĽber 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.
Filmography
Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere!
as Horst Schlämmer / Uschi Blum / Gisela / Angela Merkel / Ronald Profalla / Ulla Schmidt 2009
Kein Pardon
as Peter Schlönzke 1993
Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe
as Devil 2021
Club Las Piranjas
as Edwin 1995
Samba in Mettmann
as Olaf Kischewski 2004
A man, a fjord!
as Horst Schlämmer 2009
Mein Name ist Otto
as Self 2024
Die Oma ist tot
as Lothar Brömmer 1997
Willi und die Windzors
as Willi Bettenberg 1996
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
as Self 2014
Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
as Self 2024
Loriot 100
as Self 2023
Hape Kerkeling - Wieder auf Tour Live
as Self 2007
Tobias Totz und sein Löwe
as Paul Pommes 1999
Extrawurst
as Heribert Bräsemann 2026
Horst Schlämmer: Weisse Bescheid?
as Horst Schlämmer 2007
Hape Kerkeling liest - Ich bin dann mal weg
2008