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Dominik Kuhn (pseudonym: ''Dodokay''; born September 16, 1969) is a German producer, language artist, comedian, director and musician. He is the owner of the production company STARPATROL Entertainment. He got famous in Germany with Swabian
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videos, synchronising, among others, the
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in Swabian German dialect.


Biography

Dominik Kuhn was raised in
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. He did his Abitur in 1989. While in school, he started a rental company for event technology and worked simultaneously at a local radio station as music editor, DJ and sound technician. Later, he also worked as an independent audio engineer and started producing radio commercials and music, before he began to producing films. He produced some commercials and low-budget films and worked as an actor, especially in regional productions. He translated a couple of
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novels for Dino Verlag in Stuttgart, among others for the '' Star Wars'' series and the German version of ''
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''. Dominik Kuhn speaks Dutch and English.Interview on StarWars-Union.de
/ref> Using a pseudonym, ''Dodokay'', Kuhn got famous with Swabian
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videos, which have been published on various video sites such as
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, Clipfish and MyVideo. In 2007, a '' Star Wars'' parody about
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in Stuttgart found hundreds of thousands of fans. Despite some copyright conflicts, he gained fame in the mainstream media and quickly received offers to do such spots professionally. In the case of the Star Wars video, Kuhn also made a version in "Swabian English". In 2008 he started to produce a fandub news parody, called ''Die Welt auf Schwäbisch'' (The World in Swabian), for one of Germany's public broadcaster SWR's TV channel SWR Fernsehen. The original text is not translated but completely changed. Among the news report clips featured were
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'Swabian edition' with former French president Nicolas Sarkozy explaining software features and
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doing the weather report. Kuhn found new tasks coaching various celebrities and actors in Swabian and was asked to work and lecture on viral marketing campaigns.Kuhn's website biography
/ref> A B2B video for IBM, about the "LAN-Ball", an allegedly remote-controlled football, is among his professional campaigns. Dodokay also created fandubs of Barack Obama's 2009 and 2013 Berlin speeches; in both version he placed Obama in front of an assembly of home owners in a Stuttgart mansion. Similarly, rather Swabian problems with neighbors cleaning the car at 5:30 in the morning were used for a fandub of the
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. German public broadcaster ZDF used Kuhn's fandub of a Romney-Obama TV discussion to start reporting about the outcome of the
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. Another German public broadcaster ARD had a Silvio Berlusconi phone call leading to embarrassment during a NATO summit 2009 fandubbed by dodokay. Kuhn is a jury member for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for German science fiction.


Awards

He received the Friedrich-E. Vogt Medal for his work promoting the Swabian dialect.Mundartgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg e.V.
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References


External links


STARPATROL Entertainment

dodokay.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kuhn, Dominik Living people 1969 births German male musicians German male actors German male artists German translators German comedians People from Reutlingen