Frank-Markus BarwasserW
Frank-Markus Barwasser

Frank-Markus Barwasser is a German political satirist and journalist. On stage, he almost always acts as the character of Erwin Pelzig, wearing a corduroy hat.

Jürgen BeckerW
Jürgen Becker

Jürgen Becker is a German comedian, kabarett artist, and actor.

Biermösl BlosnW
Biermösl Blosn

Biermösl Blosn was a Bavarian musical and cabaret band known for combining satirical texts with traditional folk music. It was founded in 1976 by three brothers - Hans, Christoph and Michael Well - and often works with political cabaret artist Gerhard Polt. The name derives from "Beerenmoos", a part of the Haspelmoor in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck that was planned to be transformed in a large airport and a waste dump, and "Blosn", a Bavarian word for "group".

Da Huawa, da Meier und IW
Da Huawa, da Meier und I

Da Huawa, da Meier und I is a Bavarian musical and cabaret band known for combining different musicstyles with traditional folk music. All the texts are in Bavarian language.

Werner FinckW
Werner Finck

Werner Finck was a German Kabarett comedian, actor and author. Not politically motivated by his own admission but just a "convinced individualist", he became one of Germany's leading cabaret artists under the conditions of the Nazi suppression after 1933.

Monika GruberW
Monika Gruber

Monika Gruber is a German cabaret artist and actress.

Helga HahnemannW
Helga Hahnemann

Helga "Big Helga" Hahnemann was an East German multi-faceted stage performer and entertainer. She came to wider prominence through her television and radio appearances after 1962. By the time reunification arrived in 1990 she had become a leading star of the small screen in East Germany. She fell terminally ill and then died shortly afterwards, possibly because of the extent of her addiction to cigarettes: she was 54. Her death left unanswered the question of how successfully her performances might have captivated pan-German television audiences post unification.

Jürgen B. HausmannW
Jürgen B. Hausmann

Jürgen B. Hausmann is the stage name of Jürgen Beckers, a prominent German cabaret performer and comedian.

Dieter HildebrandtW
Dieter Hildebrandt

Dieter Hildebrandt was a German Kabarett artist.

Bruno JonasW
Bruno Jonas

Bruno Jonas is a German Kabarett artist and actor.

Luise KinseherW
Luise Kinseher

Luise Kinseher is a German cabaret artist and actress.

Lore LorentzW
Lore Lorentz

Lore Lorentz was a German Kabarett artist and standup comedian.

Albrecht MetzgerW
Albrecht Metzger

Albrecht Metzger is a German journalist, actor, television presenter, film director and cabaretist.

Bill MockridgeW
Bill Mockridge

William Mockridge is a Canadian-German actor and Kabarett performer. He is the founder of the Springmaus Theatre in Bonn. He became known to a broad public through his portrayal of Erich Schiller in the WDR series Lindenstraße.

Gisela OechelhaeuserW
Gisela Oechelhaeuser

Gisela Oechelhaeuser is a German cabaret performer and impresario with a doctorate in modern languages. Her career was adversely affected in 1999 when it was disclosed that twenty years earlier, while at university, she actively operated as a paid informer for the Ministry for State Security under the one-party German dictatorship of that time.

Volker PispersW
Volker Pispers

Volker Pispers is a German kabarett artist, who is well known for his political satire. His comic style includes drastic and sometimes sarcastic commentary on current events, especially about the political situation in Germany but also about the politics of the United States since 9/11 and during the Iraq War.

Gerhard PoltW
Gerhard Polt

Gerhard Polt is a German writer, filmmaker, actor and satirical cabaret artist from Bavaria.

Urban PriolW
Urban Priol

Urban Priol is a German Kabarett artist and comedian.

Andreas RebersW
Andreas Rebers

Andreas Rebers is a Kabarett artist, author and musician from Munich. His shows often incorporate performances on the accordion or the piano.

Hagen RetherW
Hagen Rether

Hagen Rether is a Romanian-born German political cabaret artist and musician. The most remarkable features in his performance are usually the presence and use of a grand piano. He was a frequent contributor to the German Kabarett TV show Scheibenwischer.

Mathias RichlingW
Mathias Richling

Mathias Richling is a German actor, author, comedian and Kabarett artist.

Hannes RinglstetterW
Hannes Ringlstetter

Johannes "Hannes" Ringlstetter is a German kabarettist, comedian, musician, actor, TV presenter and writer of his book "Bekenntnisse" (2005) and of several short stories.

Ilse RodenbergW
Ilse Rodenberg

Ilse Rodenberg was a Hamburg typist who became an actress and, later, an influential East German theatre director. She combined this with a political career, sitting as a member of the East German parliament ("Volkskammer") for four decades between 1950 and 1990. She was a member not of the ruling SED (party) but of the National Democratic Party of Germany , one of the smaller Block Parties which contributed a semblance of pluralism to the country's political structure.

Richard RoglerW
Richard Rogler

Richard Rogler is a German Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

Wilfried SchmicklerW
Wilfried Schmickler

Wilfried Schmickler is a German comedian and cabaret artist.

Georg SchrammW
Georg Schramm

Georg Schramm is a German Kabarett artist. He was a host of the Kabarett shows Scheibenwischer and Neues aus der Anstalt.

Nico SemsrottW
Nico Semsrott

Nico Semsrott is a German Kabarett artist, politician and slam poet who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.

Volker StrübingW
Volker Strübing

Volker Strübing is a German book author and songwriter.

Wolfgang StumphW
Wolfgang Stumph

Wolfgang Stumph is a German actor and cabaret artist.

Karl ValentinW
Karl Valentin

Karl Valentin was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin starred in many silent films in the 1920s, and was sometimes called the "Charlie Chaplin of Germany". His work has an essential influence on artists like Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Loriot and Helge Schneider.

Rosa ValettiW
Rosa Valetti

Rosa Valetti, born Rosa Alice Vallentin, was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer.

Claus von WagnerW
Claus von Wagner

Claus von Wagner is a German Kabarett artist, a stand-up observational comic and political satirist.