Hape Kerkeling
Born: 1964-12-09 in Recklinghausen, Germany
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Extrawurst as Heribert Bräsemann
- Horst Schlämmer sucht das Glück as Horst Schlämmer
2024
- Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal as Self
- Die Helene Fischer Show 2024 as Self
- Mein Name ist Otto as Self
2023
- Club Las Piranjas as Edwin Öttel
- Loriot 100 as Self
- Absolut Hape – Die Rollen seines Lebens as Self
2022
- Hier kommt Kurt! as Self
2021
- Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe as Devil
- Ein Abend mit Hape Kerkeling as Self - Host
- Hape und die 7 Zwergstaaten as Self
2019
- Maischberger as Self
- Bestbesetzung as Self
2018
- All About Me ... (Novel)
2015
- I'm Off Then ... (Book)
2014
- MDR um 4 as Self
- Der Meisterfälscher as Self
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow as Self
- Hape Kerkeling - Keine Geburtstagsshow! as Himself / Various
2013
- Stöckl as Self
- Hape Kerkeling: Das Beste aus "Darüber lacht die Welt" as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Unterwegs in der Weltgeschichte as Moderator
2009
- A man, a fjord! as Horst Schlämmer
- Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere! as Horst Schlämmer / Uschi Blum / Gisela / Angela Merkel / Ronald Profalla / Ulla Schmidt
2007
- Inas Nacht as Self
- Horst Schlämmer: Weisse Bescheid? as Horst Schlämmer
- Hape Kerkeling - Wieder auf Tour Live as Self
- Best of Hape Kerkeling as Self (archive footage)
2006
- Let's Dance as Self - Host
2005
- Hape trifft! as Self - Host
- Die Besten im Westen as self
- Tour d'Eurovision as Self
2004
- Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel as Self
- Bahnhof für Bio - Alfred Biolek wird 70 as Self
- Samba in Mettmann as Olaf Kischewski
2003
- ZIBB as Self
- Menschen bei Maischberger as Self
- Our Best as Self
- Was liest du? as Self
- Lesen! Mit Elke Heidenreich as Self
2002
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- Die 80er Jahre Show as Self
2001
- Aeschbacher as Self
- Hapes halbe Stunde as Self
2000
- Abendschau as Self
1999
- Volle Kanne as Self
- Beckmann as Self
- German Television Award as Self - Host
- maybrit illner as Self
- Tobias Totz und sein Löwe as Paul Pommes
- Kuli & Co. as Self
- Gisbert as Gisbert
- Darüber lacht die Welt as Self - Host
1998
- Ein Herz für Kinder as Self
- Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show as Self
- Die Lotto-Show as Self
1997
- Leute heute as Self
- Tietjen und Bommes as Horst Schlämmer
- German Comedy Award as Self
- Die Oma ist tot as Lothar Brömmer
1996
- Zimmer frei! as Self
- Interaktiv as himself
- Willi und die Windzors as Willi Bettenberg
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- Goldene Henne as Self
- Club Las Piranjas as Edwin
1994
- alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio as Self
- Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin as self
- Sternstunden as Self
- Höchstpersönlich as self
- Prominenten Playback Show as Self
1993
- Kein Pardon as Peter Schlönzke
- RTL Samstag Nacht
1992
- ECHO-Verleihung as Self
1991
- DAS! as Self
- Boulevard Bio as Self
1990
- Romy Award as Self
- Vorwärts as Showmaster
1989
- Blauer Panther as Self
- Total Normal as Self
1988
- Alles Nichts Oder?! as Self
1986
- Großstadtrevier as Hein Merry
- Showgeschichten as Self
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
1982
- Menschen as Self
1981
- Das Traumschiff as Clemens Kohl
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
1980
- Heut' abend as Self
- Verstehen Sie Spaß? as Self
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
1976
- Kölner Treff as Self
1974
- 3 nach 9 as Self
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self
1965
- aspekte as Self
- Spiel ohne Grenzen as Self
1964
- Grimme Award as Self
1959
- Stars in the Ring as Self
1956
1948
- Bambi as Self