
Acting
Born December 9, 1964 · Recklinghausen, Germany
Hans-Peter Wilhelm "Hape" Kerkeling (* 9. December 1964 in Recklinghausen) is a German comedian, author, television presenter, actor, director, singer, radio play speaker, audiobook and voice actor. Hape Kerkeling became a popular television and stage comedian from the mid-1980s. In 1985, at the age of 20, he received his first regular television program Kangaroo. This was followed by other comedy formats such as Total Normal or Darüber lacht die Welt as well as the moderation of major television shows such as the German preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest or the awarding of the Golden Camera. Kerkeling directed several cinema and television films as an author, director and actor. His art figures such as Hannilein, Horst Schlämmer, Siegfried Schwäbli, Uschi Blum and Evje van Dampen also became known to a wide audience. As a voice actor, he lent his voice to the panda Po in several films in the series Kung Fu Panda and the snowman Olaf from the Frozen films. As a book author, Kerkeling published one of the best-selling German non-fiction books in 2006 with Ich bin dann mal weg.

Horst Schlämmer sucht das Glück
2026

Extrawurst
2026

Mein Name ist Otto
2024

Die Helene Fischer Show 2024
2024

Hape Kerkeling – Total Normal
2024

Absolut Hape – Die Rollen seines Lebens
2023

Loriot 100
2023

Hier kommt Kurt!
2022

Ein Abend mit Hape Kerkeling
2021

Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe
2021

Hape Kerkeling - Keine Geburtstagsshow!
2014
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
2014

Hape Kerkeling: Das Beste aus "Darüber lacht die Welt"
2013

Horst Schlämmer - Isch kandidiere!
2009

A man, a fjord!
2009

Hape Kerkeling liest - Ich bin dann mal weg
2008

Hape Kerkeling - Wieder auf Tour Live
2007
Horst Schlämmer: Weisse Bescheid?
2007

Best of Hape Kerkeling
2007
Tour d'Eurovision
2005
Bahnhof für Bio - Alfred Biolek wird 70
2004

Samba in Mettmann
2004

Tobias Totz und sein Löwe
1999

Die Oma ist tot
1997

Willi und die Windzors
1996

Club Las Piranjas
1995

Kein Pardon
1993
Vorwärts
1990