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| - Seine Witzichkeyt Hape Kerkeling (* 9. Dezember 1964 in Recklinghausen; eigentlich Hans-Peter Wilhelm Ferkeling) ist ein großer deutscher Kleinkünstler. Schauspieler, Moderator, Komiker, Buchautor, Synchronsprecher und Sänger, er macht eigentlich alles. Nicht unbedingt gut, aber er macht's.
- Hans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling (b. 1964) is a German comedian and actor. On February 4, 2012, he presented the 47th edition of the German film and television award show Verleihung der Goldenen Kamera, awarded by the television magazine HÖRZU and airing on ZDF. Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog appeared on screen (dubbed), and announced Kerkeling to also be the winner of the golden camera award in the category "HÖRZU Reader's Pick - Best Comedian."
- At secondary school in Recklinghausen, Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band ("Gesundfutter", meaning "health fodder") and brought out a record ("Hawaii"). Kerkeling started out his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German broadcasting companies such as WDR and BR. In 1992, Kerkeling's first film came out: "Kein Pardon", which he directed and starred in, as well as helping to write the script.
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| - Hans Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling (b. 1964) is a German comedian and actor. On February 4, 2012, he presented the 47th edition of the German film and television award show Verleihung der Goldenen Kamera, awarded by the television magazine HÖRZU and airing on ZDF. Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog appeared on screen (dubbed), and announced Kerkeling to also be the winner of the golden camera award in the category "HÖRZU Reader's Pick - Best Comedian." After Piggy karate-chopped Kermit, who was trying to discourage her from hogging the spotlight and singing a duet with Kerkeling, she came out on stage (performed by Eric Jacobson) and sang "Somethin' Stupid" with him. Also in attendance at the awards were Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Dionne Warwick, Michael Bolton, Nena, Xavier Naidoo, Joko Winterscheidt and Scarlett Johansson.
- Seine Witzichkeyt Hape Kerkeling (* 9. Dezember 1964 in Recklinghausen; eigentlich Hans-Peter Wilhelm Ferkeling) ist ein großer deutscher Kleinkünstler. Schauspieler, Moderator, Komiker, Buchautor, Synchronsprecher und Sänger, er macht eigentlich alles. Nicht unbedingt gut, aber er macht's.
- At secondary school in Recklinghausen, Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band ("Gesundfutter", meaning "health fodder") and brought out a record ("Hawaii"). Kerkeling started out his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German broadcasting companies such as WDR and BR. The real breakthrough came in 1984/85 when, still aged only 19, Kerkeling got a role in the "Känguru" television comedy show (the German word for "kangaroo" deliberately spelt without an "h" at the end although this broke the spelling rules at that time). The best-known character in this show was the little boy "Hannilein", played by Kerkeling, an irritating child with red hair in a pudding-basin style, dungarees and sitting on giant-sized chairs, who commented on the world of adults. Later came guest appearances and sketches on the Radio Bremen show "Extratour". Then in 1989 Kerkeling started up his own comedy TV show, "Total Normal" ("Totally Normal") along with pianist Achim Hagemann. This show, which criticised the media, had a totally new format and was awarded several television prizes such as the Goldene Kamera, the Adolf-Grimme-Preis and the Bayerischer Fernsehpreis. On the show, Kerkeling wrote television history on April 25 1991 when he dressed up as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on a state visit to Berlin and almost managed to get into Schloss Bellevue to meet the President of Germany for dinner. The satirical song from this show, "Das ganze Leben ist ein Quiz" ("All life is a quiz") made it into the German pop charts. On December 10 1991 in German television talkshow, the filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim revealed that Kerkeling, among others, was gay. Kerkeling's comment on the ensuing fuss (mostly in the gutter press) was that while anyone of a more sensitive nature than him would probably have climbed into the bath with a hairdryer, he could not see the point: they would be dragging another poor soul through the dirt the next day anyway. In 1992, Kerkeling's first film came out: "Kein Pardon", which he directed and starred in, as well as helping to write the script. In 1992, Kerkeling turned down an offer by the big public broadcasting company ZDF to work on the prime-time show "Wetten, dass..?" and instead, without his previous partner Hagemann, moved to the independent television sector with the show "Cheese". This was similar in concept to "Total Normal" and viewing figures were relatively high; still this is considered as his first flop. In the second half of the 90s, Kerkeling worked once more for ARD, presenting the show "Warmumsherz" ("Heartwarming"), and filmed several popular television films ("Willi und die Windzors", 1996; "Die Oma ist tot", 1997). "Club Las Piranjas" (1995), a send-up of club holidays, went on to become a cult film. In 1999 Kerkeling returned to success with his Sat.1 show "Darüber lacht die Welt" ("What makes the world laugh"). He also presented the yearly fundraising gala for the German AIDS fund Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe. In 2003 he was awarded the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Prize) in the category "Best Entertainment Presenter". In January 2004 Kerkeling made another film entitled "Samba in Mettmann", which is set in North Rhine Westphalia. In May 2004 and a year later in May 2005 he presented the "Großer Deutsch-Test" (a national test show for German grammar and spelling) and in October 2004 the "Großer Deutschlandtest" (a test about people's knowledge of Germany). In April and May 2006 he presented the live TV show "Let's Dance", a German version of "Celebrity Come Dancing"/"Dancing with the Stars", with Nazan Eckes. In a survey by the television station Kabel 1 in 2005, Kerkeling made it into the top ten favourite faces on German television; the only other two presenters were Günther Jauch and Thomas Gottschalk. In 2001 Kerkeling went on a pilgrimage, following the Way of St James for 650 kilometres (403 miles) to Santiago de Compostela. In June 2006 his book Ich bin dann mal weg ("I'm off for a bit, then"), his diary of this pilgrimage, was top of the Spiegel magazine non-fiction bestseller list. Hape Kerkeling lives with his life partner and co-author Angelo Colagrossi in Düsseldorf. Colagrossi wrote a large number of texts and sketches for "Total Normal" and other shows, and co-directed the films "Kein Pardon", "Willi und die Windzors", "Die Oma ist tot" and "Samba in Mettmann". Since Spring 2005, Kerkeling has presented the show "Hape trifft!" (which is ambiguous in the German language and may be translated as "Hape hits the spot!" or "Hape meets!") show, produced by Günther Jauch's production team i&u TV on RTL.
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