- Thomas Hermanns
TV-moderator, director, TV-author and comedian. He is known for his comedy-show "Quatsch Comedy Club".
Hermanns was born in
Bochum . During his childhood he lived inNuremberg . After school he studied theatre. In 1992, Hermanns started the comedy show "Quatsch Comedy Club". The show has been on German channelProSieben since 1996. In 2003 the show moved to the TheatreFriedrichstadtpalast inBerlin .Hermanns has written and produced different comedy shows on TV, including "Zapped" (1998), "Back to Life" (2000) and "Paranoid" (2004) for
Michael Mittermeier ,Gayle Tufts andCora 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) withMariele Millowitsch and DorisKunstmann and for "Sing, wenn du kannst!" (2002) at the theatreSchmidts 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 withSky du Mont andBettina Zimmermann as moderators of the Bambi award on German channel ARD. He was also the moderator of the "Vorentscheidung"Eurovision Song Contest , and he is spokesperson for this event since 2005.Hermanns is openly gay and has been in a relationship for 14 years with "Wolfgang Macht". On 6. September 2008 Hermanns and Macht married. [ [http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/gesellschaft/leute/609948/Thomas-Hermanns-heiratet-Freund.html RP:Hermanns marries his friend] ]
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 inLGBT citation |url=http://www.queer.de/szene_politik_deutschland_detail.php?article_id=6774 |title=Homo-Preis für Thomas Hermanns and Rainer Jarchow |periodical=Queer.de |date=2007-04-18 |accessdate=2007-09-20 (German)]Notes
External links
* [http://pool.position.de/Kuenstler/Thomas_Hermanns/index.html Biography of Hermanns]
* [http://german.imdb.com/name/nm0379303/ Literature on Hermanns]
* [http://www.prosieben.de/show_comedy/qcc/thomas_hermanns/biografie/ Biography on channel ProSieben]
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