Carolin Kebekus (born 9 May 1980) is a German comedian and television personality. The content of her comedy is highly feminist and satirical.

Biography

Born in

Bergisch Gladbach Bergisch Gladbach () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in the Cologne/Bonn Region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and capital of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (district). Geography Bergisch Gladbach is east of the Rhine and abo ...

, Kebekus grew up as daughter of a social education worker and a banker in

Köln Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...

-Ostheim. Her younger brother David Kebekus is also a comedian. She started her career as an intern at ''Freitag Nacht News'', a weekly comedy show. One of the co-producers of the show,

Hugo Egon Balder Hugo Egon Balder (born Egon Hugo Balder; 22 March 1950) is a German television presenter, producer, and comedian. Early life Balder was born in West Berlin to Egon Friedrich Balder (1904–1970) and Gerda Balder (née Schure; 1910–1997). Ger ...

, saw her talent in acting and arranged for her to take acting classes parallel to her internship. In 2002, she did an internship at 1 Live. Her parodies of the lead singer

Bill Kaulitz Bill Kaulitz (; born 1 September 1989), also known as Billy for his solo project, is a German singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Tokio Hotel. Early life Kaulitz was born on 1 Septem ...

of the band

Tokio Hotel Tokio Hotel is a German music band formed in 2001 by singer Bill Kaulitz, guitarist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing, and drummer Gustav Schäfer. Starting from the foundation, the band's music genres were pop rock and alternative rock; sin ...

in the ''Freitag Nacht News'' were the catalysts of her breakthrough. However, in 2006 she also faced big backlash from the fan-community of Tokio Hotel and received hateful messages and threats. From September 2006 until the show was canceled in December 2006, Kebekus was one of the hosts of ''Freitag Nacht News'' together with Ingo Appelt and others. In an interview with the

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger The ''Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger'' (KStA) is a German daily newspaper published in Cologne, and has the largest circulation in the Cologne–Bonn Metropolitan Region. ''Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger'' has a base of over 100 contributing editors and a wide ...

on 9 March 2022, Kebekus said that she had left the

Roman Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

, but continued to consider herself Catholic. "As a

baptized Baptism (from ) is a Christian sacrament of initiation almost invariably with the use of water. It may be performed by sprinkling or pouring water on the head, or by immersing in water either partially or completely, traditionally three ...

person, no-one can take that away from me or deny it. I have problems with the institution, its structures and balance of power. That's why I left the Church. But I feel that I belong to the community of believers."

Filmography

* 2005: ''Schillerstraße'' * 2006: ''Freitag Nacht News'' * 2006: '' Pastewka - Der Gutschein'' * 2007: ''

Vollidiot ''Vollidiot'' is a 2007 German comedy film based on the eponymous novel by Tommy Jaud. Cast * Oliver Pocher – Simon Peters * Oliver Fleischer – Flik * Tanja Wenzel – Paula * Tomas Spencer – Steve * Anke Engelke – Eule * Adriana Al ...

'' * 2007: '' Kinder, Kinder'' * 2007: ''Sag es mit Pantoffeln'' * 2008: ' * 2008: ''Die einzig wahren Hochzeitscrasher'' * 2008: ''WunderBar'' * 2009-2011: ''Broken Comedy'' * 2011: '' Die Wochenshow'' * 2012: ' * 2012: ''Agent Ranjid rettet die Welt'' * 2012: '' Die ProSieben Märchenstunde'' * 2013: ''Knight Rusty'' * 2013: '' TV total Prunksitzung'' * since 2013: ''

heute-show The ''heute-show'' ("(the) today show"; stylized in its logo as ''heute SHOW'') is a German late-night satirical television program airing every Friday evening on public broadcasting channel ZDF. A conceptual adaptation of ''The Daily Show'' wi ...

'' * 2013: ''Kebekus!'' * 2013: ''Durchgedreht!'' * 2013: ''Eye TV - Der durchgeknallte Puppensender'' * 2014: ''Therapy Crashers'' * 2014: '' Mario Barth deckt auf!'' * 2015-2019: ''PussyTerror TV'' * 2020: ''Die Carolin Kebekus Show'' * 2021: '' LOL: Last One Laughing''

Awards

* 2013: Deutscher Comedypreis as Best Comedian * 2014: Deutscher Comedypreis as Best Comedian

References

External links

Official website

interview with Carolin Kebekus on hiphop.tv
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