• Capital: € 10 million
• Age:       55
• Born:     12/09/1964
• Country of origin:             Germany
• Source of wealth:            actor
• Last updated:    2023

Short introduction

Hans-Peter Wilhelm Kerkeling or Hape Kerkeling is a German comic, actor, moderator and singer. He performed wonderful reputation together along with his artwork figures along with Horst Schlämmer and diverse appearances as a moderator and comic. Since 2014, the actor has in large part withdrawn from display business.

Early lifestyles

Hape Kerkeling turned into born on December 9, 1964 in Recklinghausen. His father turned into a wood worker via way of means of career and his mom a florist. Hape spent the primary six years of his lifestyles withinside the Bocholt district of Recklinghausen, which turned into greater of a rural location. The own circle of relatives then moved to the town withinside the early 1970s, wherein the younger Hape spent maximum of his youth in his grandmother`s mother and dad store withinside the suburb of Herten-Scherlebeck.

After his mom misplaced her experience of scent and flavor thru an operation, she dedicated suicide in 1973. Thereupon the paternal grandparents moved to Hape`s father and to his brother. Hape effectively graduated from excessive college on the Marie Curie High School in Recklinghausen and turned into lively as an altar boy throughout his college days there. Even then, he received his first musical reports collectively together along with his classmates. His band “Gesundfutter” even launched a record. The younger Hape Kerkeling had his first tv revel in on the age of 17. He seemed at the display “Talentschuppen” and participated in diverse expertise competitions. In 1983 Hape gained the Passau Cabaret Award for the executioner`s hatchet and turned into ultimately lively for diverse broadcasters.

Career

Hape acquired its first very own tv layout on December 17, 1984. The program “Kerkeling`s Children`s Hour”, co-produced via way of means of Radio-Bremen, treated the everyday college lifestyles of preschooler Hannilein and her own circle of relatives. All characters have been performed via way of means of Hape himself. With his tune and cartoon display “Kangaroo”, which turned into broadcast for the primary time in January 1985, Hape subsequently performed the commercially a hit breakthrough.

This turned into accompanied via way of means of similarly appearances in diverse display codecs, amongst others withinside the program “Extratour”. According to Hape Kerkeling`s very own statement, the well-known comic Otto Waalkes contributed a huge component to the begin of his profession due to the fact he added Hape to essential and influential human beings withinside the scene. Active from 1989 to 1991 at the ARD as moderator for the German initial choice for the Eurovision Song Contest.

In 1989 Kerkeling persisted to create the comedy layout “Total Normal” in collaboration with Achim Hagemann and Angelo Colagrossi. The layout turned into offered the Golden Camera and the Grimme Prize for its media-crucial stance. One component that turned into remembered as a part of the display turned into one event. In 1991, Hape dressed up as Queen Beatrix and drove up in the front of the camera, in the front of the actual Queen, in a vehicle at Belleveu Palace. In 1993 Kerkeling`s first movie turned into launched with the title “Kein Pardon”.

Hape himself labored as a director and actor and turned into additionally worried withinside the paintings at the screenplay. A few greater codecs and performing appearances accompanied, however have been now no longer in reality a hit. His media fulfillment handiest got here again with the Sat-1 program “The international laughs at it”. Kerkeling additionally moderated the yearly AIDS donation gala numerous instances for the TV station Sat-1. In June 2001 Kerkeling launched into a 630 km pilgrimage at the Spanish Way of St. James. He wrote down his reports in his ee-e book “Ich bin bin mal mal”, which he posted in 2006. The ee-e book turned into offered greater than three million instances and have become a bestseller.

After retiring from the tv international in 2014, Hape handiest seemed from time to time as a voice actor in lively films. His  autobiographical books “I`m going to go” and “The boy has to visit the clean air” have each been launched as characteristic films.

Career highlights

Hape`s media-crucial program “Total Normal” continues to be taken into consideration his nice paintings. The TV layout has gained numerous awards, along with the Grimme Prize, the Bavarian TV Prize, the Golden Camera and the Golden Gong. Kerkeling acquired the German Comedy Award in 2006 for his function as an artwork parent Horst Schlämmer. The putting of his ee-e book “The boy has to visit the clean air” turned into offered 3 instances with a gold record.

Famous quotes

• “I was once thin, quite funny, however maximum of all: gone!” – Hape Kerkeling
• “More touchy natures than I could have now possibly lay withinside the bath with the hair dryer. What the hell. Tomorrow they may pressure any other sow thru the village. ” -Hape Kerkeling

Amazing facts

Kerkeling`s astonishingly accurate capacity to mimic sound pix in one of a kind languages stems from the truth that he speaks a wonderful many languages. Among different things, Hape is fluent in Dutch, Italian, Spanish, English and French.