Thomas Hermanns
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Germany
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TV-presenter, director, TV-author and comedian. He is known for his comedy-show Quatsch Comedy Club.
Hermanns was born in Bochum
Bochum
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. During his childhood he lived in Nuremberg
Nuremberg
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. After school he studied theatre. In 1992, Hermanns started the comedy show Quatsch Comedy Club. The show has been on German channel ProSieben since 1996. In 2003 the show moved to the Theatre Friedrichstadtpalast
Friedrichstadt Palast
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in Berlin
Berlin
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Hermanns has written and produced different comedy shows on TV, including Zapped (1998), Back to Life (2000) and Paranoid (2004) for Michael Mittermeier
Michael Mittermeier
Michael Mittermeier is a German comedian.- Life :Michael Mittermeier was born in Dorfen, Upper Bavaria. During his childhood he lived in Bavaria. After school he learned theatre. In 1996, Mittermeier started the comedy program Zapped...
, Gayle Tufts and Cora Frost. Hermanns was a director for Grease and Es fährt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo. Hermanns wrote for the TV series Lukas (1997-1999), Meine beste Freundin (2000) with Mariele Millowitsch and Doris Kunstmann
Kunstmann
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and for Sing, wenn du kannst! (2002) at the theatre Schmidts Tivoli in Hamburg.
Hermanns was TV moderator of Red Nose Day and Popclub on channel ProSieben. In May 2005 and 2006 Hermanns was moderator of Countdown Eurovision. In December 2005 Hermanns worked with Sky du Mont
Sky du Mont
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and Bettina Zimmermann as moderators of the Bambi
Bambi (prize)
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award on German channel ARD
ARD (broadcaster)
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. He was also the moderator of the Vorentscheidung Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
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, and was spokesperson for this event from 2005 to 2008.
Hermanns is openly gay
Gay
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and has been in a relationship for 14 years with Wolfgang Macht. On 6 September 2008 Hermanns and Macht married.
Awards
- 1997: Deutscher Comedypreis Hauptpreis for Quatsch Comedy Club
- 2000: Deutscher Comedypreis Beste Comedy-Show for Quatsch Comedy Club
- 2006: Goldene Kamera Category Comedy
- 2006: LEA Live Entertainment Award in sector engagement for new artists for Quatsch Comedy Club
- 2007: Kompassnadel by Schwules Netzwerk NRW e.V. for special work in LGBTLGBTLGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...