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Böhmermann at the 2021 German Television Awards
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Jan Böhmermann (German pronunciation: [jan ˈbøːmɐˌman]) (born 23 February 1981) is a German satirist, journalist, podcast and television host. He also worked as a writer, producer, radio host, and is best known for his activism through publicity stunts.
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Early life and education
Böhmermann was born and raised in Bremen. His mother had immigrated to Germany in the early 1970s, and was part of the German minority in Poland. His father died from leukemia when Böhmermann was 17 years old. Even though he remains silent about his private life, it is known that he has at least one child. He served as a lay judge at the local court of Cologne.
Career
In 1997, Böhmermann gained his first journalistic experience at Die Norddeutsche, a local edition of Bremen's daily newspapers. In 1999, he began working as a moderator and reporter at Radio Bremen. He applied to three drama schools, was rejected every time, and a fourth time successfully at the Hanover Drama School, where he did not compete. He also dropped out of his studies at the University of Cologne in history, sociology, and theater, film, and television studies.
In 2004, he moved to 1Live on WDR as a presenter and comedian. There he invented the column "Lukas' Tagebuch" (Lukas' Diary), a parody of the Cologne professional soccer player Lukas Podolski. Podolski sued against it without success and refused interview requests from ARD during the 2006 World Cup. For the 2008 European Soccer-Championship, Böhmermann launched the podcast "Pod-Olski – Der EM-Podcast von Lukas", which made it to the top of the iTunes podcast charts. In the follow-up series Lukas' WG, Böhmermann moved his main character into a shared apartment with the mascot of 1. FC Köln, billy goat Hennes.
In 2007, WDR television broadcast Böhmermann's six-part comedy show Echt Böhmermann. In January 2009, Böhmermann founded the First Turkish Carnival Club of Germany (1st TKVD) as part of a satirical action for the RTL program TV-Helden. This action inspired a group of Turkish carnivalists from Dortmund to found a real first Turkish carnival club. The program TV-Helden was awarded the 2009 German Television Prize in the category "Best Comedy Program". The program was also awarded the German Television Award. In the same year, Böhmermann published his first book Alles, alles über Deutschland – Halbwissen kompakt. From 2009, Böhmermann was a member of the ensemble of Harald Schmidt's program on ARD. Until 2011, the radio station 1Live ran the monthly satire and entertainment program " Die ganz große Jan Böhmermann Radioschau.
In 2010, Böhmermann joined Lateline and wrote the column Gott fragt, Böhmermann antwortet (God asks, Böhmermann answers) for the youth edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Until April 2011, he hosted Beeck & Böhmermann on 1Live together with Simon Beeck.
Starting in January 2011, Böhmermann toured Germany for several weeks with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf with the satirical improv cabaret show Zwei alte Hasen erzählen von früher. With Heufer-Umlauf, Böhmermann hosted a bi-weekly show on Radio Eins from November 2011 to September 2012 under the same title. Since Heufer-Umlauf's departure, he has hosted the show with singer-songwriter Olli Schulz. Initially under the new title "Joko und Klaas mit Olli und Jan", then under the title Sanft & Sorgfältig. From March 2013, Schulz and Böhmermann weekly went on air. Since May 2014, Sanft & Sorgfältig was broadcast on Sundays by five other radio stations (Bremen Vier, Dasding, N-Joy, Puls and You FM) in addition to Radio Eins. In April 2016, Böhmermann announced that he would not continue the show. He rejected a connection with the Böhmermann-Erdoğan affair.
From September 2011 until the cancellation of the show, Böhmermann was on the team of the Harald Schmidt Show on Sat.1. In 2019, Schmidt said of Böhmermann: "I knew early on that Böhmermann would never make it as a moderator. But that he would make it very far as a riot act, I also knew."
The talk show Roche & Böhmermann (co-hosted with Charlotte Roche) was the first broadcast on ZDFkultur on 4 March 2012. After two seasons, the last edition was shown in October 2012. In January 2013, ZDF announced that there would be no continuation of the show due to disagreements between those involved.
In November and December 2012, he went on tour with Lateline through the cities of Bremen, Frankfurt, Baden-Baden, Magdeburg, and Hanover. The shows were broadcast live on EinsPlus. Starting in April 2013, a second season with seven shows ran live from the Weserhaus in Bremen. The third season with five more shows was broadcast starting in November 2013.
Together with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, Böhmermann recorded the radio play Förderschulklassenfahrt, which was continued in 2014 with the title Förderschulklassenfahrt 2 – Fünf Feinde und der Proletenhund.
In October 2013, Das Erste broadcast the program 16 × Germany, in which each German state was covered in 15-minute features. The focus was left to the authors. Böhmermann devoted himself to his hometown of Bremen. With his documentary-like satire, "audience and contributors were taken for a ride," as the media service Kressreport criticized. A museum expert interviewed by Böhmermann was deceived about the satirical intentions, and the film team put an invective into the mouth of a city hall doorman without consultation. Böhmermann completely invented two police officers who allegedly obstructed the filming and an alleged professor, without this being recognizable to the viewers. The responsible broadcaster, Radio Bremen, defended Böhmermann's film as a mockumentary that "mercilessly uses and exaggerates the means of the documentary."
From October 2013 to December 2019, he hosted the political-satirical late-night show Neo Magazin on ZDFneo. It was, like Roche & Böhmermann, produced by bildundtonfabrik. ZDF has shown a repeat of the show on Friday nights since February 2015, since then named "addition Royale.
Starting in March 2014, Böhmermann went on tour in Germany with his stage program "Schlimmer als Jan Böhmermann", in which he preserves jokes and one-liners from his previous shows and publications.
In February 2014, the television station RTL announced that it would be testing Was wäre wenn?, a new comedy program with Böhmermann, Palina Rojinski, Katrin Bauerfeind and Jan Köppen. A pilot had been made back in 2012, and the first four episodes were recorded in March 2014 at the nobeo studios in Hürth. The first episode was broadcast on 28 August 2014 on RTL. The series was nominated in the category Comedy for the German Television Award 2014.
Böhmermann was the author of the show Die unwahrscheinlichen Ereignisse im Leben von ... ("The unlikely events in the life of..."), which, like his own show, was produced by bildundtonfabrik. The show features a celebrity guest with sketches and live performances. On 20 July 2014, the first episode aired on WDR with guest Frank Elstner.
In August 2015, Böhmermann and Olli Schulz announced in Neo Magazin Royale that they would produce a new edition of Roche & Böhmermann called Schulz & Böhmermann broadcast on ZDFneo starting on 10 January 2016. The texts introducing the invited guests were written and spoken by Sibylle Berg. Ten more episodes followed in 2017, but at the end of the year, Schulz & Böhmermann was discontinued due to too low viewer numbers.
Since 15 May 2016, Schulz and Böhmermann have jointly hosted the podcast Fest & Flauschig as a successor to their former show Sanft & Sorgfältig on Radio Eins. It is produced for Spotify and appeared weekly until early 2020. After 2020, when the podcast was expanded to twice weekly, Böhmermann and Schulz announced in the 18 March 2020 episode that due to the COVID-19 pandemic they would indefinitely release a shorter Fest und Flauschig: Zuhause podcast daily, i.e. from Tuesday to Friday and in addition to their regular Sunday podcast. These special shows aired in a weekday format from 26 March to 24 April. In 2018, it was the most-streamed Spotify podcast worldwide.
On 24 April 2017, Böhmermann became the first German comedian to guest on the U.S. talk show Late Night.
Böhmermann advocated for the welfare of refugees in quite a few shows and repeatedly criticized European refugee policies. He particularly dislikes the bans, criminalization attempts, and threatened prosecution of private sea rescue services. In the case of the arrest of German captain Claus-Peter Reisch and the seizure of the Lifeline sea rescue ship in Malta in July 2018, Böhmermann launched a fundraising campaign and collected around 200,000 euros in favor of a legal aid fund. Also on the occasion of the arrest of German sea rescue captain Carola Rackete in Italy at the end of June 2019, Böhmermann, together with the presenter Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, called for donations for her and the Sea-Watch association. Within a few days, almost one million euros was collected.
On 29 August 2019, Böhmermann announced in a satirical broadcast that he wanted to become SPD party chairman. A month later, he joined the party.
Works
Radio
- 1999–2004: Radio Bremen
- 2009–2011: Die ganz große Jan Böhmermann Radioschau
- 2010–2013: Lateline
- 2011–2012: Zwei alte Hasen erzählen von früher, with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
- 2012: Joko und Klaas mit Olli und Jan, with Olli Schulz
- 2012–2016: Sanft & Sorgfältig, with Olli Schulz
Podcast
- 2012 – 2016 Sanft & Sorgfältig, with Olli Schulz
- since 2016: Fest & Flauschig (Spotify), with Olli Schulz
Television
- 2007: Echt Böhmermann (WDR Fernsehen)
- 2009: TV Helden (RTL)
- 2012: Roche & Böhmermann (ZDFkultur), with Charlotte Roche
- 2012–2013: Lateline (EinsPlus)
- 2013–2014: Neo Magazin (ZDFneo)
- 2014: Was wäre, wenn? (RTL), with Palina Rojinski, Katrin Bauerfeind and Jan Köppen
- 2015–2019: Neo Magazin Royale (ZDFneo, ZDF)
- 2016–2017: Schulz & Böhmermann (ZDFneo), with Olli Schulz
- Since 2018: Lass dich überwachen! (ZDF)
- Since 2020: ZDF Magazin Royale (ZDF)
Books
- 2016: Alles, alles über Deutschland. Halbwissen kompakt. (Everything, everything about Germany. Superficial knowledge compact.) (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
- 2020: Gefolgt von niemandem, dem du folgst: Twitter-Tagebuch. 2009–2020. (Not Followed by Anyone You Follow. Twitter Diary 2009–2020.) (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)
- 2005: Da Original Shaggä – Biddebaba. (G+H Hamburg)
- 2009: Lukas' Tagebuch live (Roof Music)
- 2009: Jan Böhmermann liest Alles, alles über Deutschland (Roof Music)
- 2013: Förderschulklassenfahrt (Roof Music), along with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
- 2014: Förderschulklassenfahrt 2: Fünf Feinde und der Proletenhund (Roof Music), along with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
Albums
- 2016: Neo Magazin Royale: Live in Concert
Singles
- 2015: V for Varoufakis
- 2015: Mit wem war Mutti im Bett? ("Who was mummy in bed with?")
- 2015: Baby Got Laugengebäck
- 2015: Ich hab Polizei ("I have police"), as POL1Z1STENS0HN a.k.a. Jan Böhmermann
- 2016: Be Deutsch! ("Be German!")
- 2016: Blasserdünnerjunge macht sein Job ("Pale-skinny-boy does his job"), as POL1Z1STENS0HN a.k.a. Jan Böhmermann
- 2017: Menschen Leben Tanzen Welt ("Humans Life Dancing World"), as Jim Pandzko feat. Jan Böhmermann
- 2019: Herz und Faust und Zwinker Zwinker ("Heart and Fist and Winker Winker") as POL1Z1STENS0HN
- 2020: Bürgermeister ("Mayor"), as POL1Z1STENS0HN
- 2021: Ischgl-Fieber (Husti Husti Heh!) ("Ischgl fever (cough cough heh!)"), as Tommy Tellerlift feat. the Fangzauner Schneebrunzer
- 2021: Warum hört der Fahrradweg einfach hier auf? ("Why is the bike path just ending here?")
- 2022: Micha (Was hast Du mir nur angetan?) ("Micah (What Have You Done to Me?)"), as Jürgen Michaels
- 2022: Right Time to Thiel
- 2022: Lass das Gürteltier in Ruhe! ("Leave the Armadillo Alone!"), as Jan Zookowski
Stage programs
- 2005: Boombastic Fantastic – ein Schmuseabend mit Da Original Shaggä, Comedy
- 2007: Lukas' Auswärtsspiel, Reading
- 2008: Lukas' Auswärtsspiel – Saison 2008/2009, Reading
- 2009: Lukas' Rückspiel – Saison 2008/2009, Reading
- 2009: Alles, alles über Deutschland, Lecture tour
- 2009: Die ganz große Jan Böhmermann Radio-Show, Comedy
- 2011: Zwei alte Hasen erzählen von früher, Comedy, along with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
- 2014: Schlimmer als Jan Böhmermann, Cabaret/Comedy
Executive producer
- 2014–2016: Die unwahrscheinlichen Ereignisse im Leben von …
Awards
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- 2009: Deutscher Fernsehpreis in the category Best Comedy for TV Helden
- 2013: Entertainment Journalist of the Year 2012 (Medium Magazin)
- 2013: Grimme-Preis nomination in the category Entertainment for Roche & Böhmermann
- 2014: Grimme-Preis in the category Entertainment for Neo Magazin
- 2014: Journalist of the Year in the category Entertainment/Culture
- 2016: Deutscher Fernsehpreis in the category Best Late Night Entertainment for Neo Magazin Royale
- 2016: Grimme-Preis in the category Entertainment/Special/Innovation for #Varoufake in the program Neo Magazin Royale
- 2016: Grimme Honor Award
- 2017: Goldene Kamera Digital Award in the category viral clip for BE DEUTSCH
- 2017: Deutscher Fernsehpreis in the category Best Late Night Entertainment for Neo Magazin Royale
- 2017: Grimme-Preis in the category Entertainment/Special/Innovation for #verafake / Einspielerschleife in the program Neo Magazin Royale
- 2017: Award of the German Academy of Television in the category Entertainment for Schulz & Böhmermann
- 2018: Grimme-Preis in the category Entertainment for Eier aus Stahl – Max Giesinger und die deutsche Industriemusik in the program Neo Magazin Royale
- 2023: Karl-Eduard-von-Schnitzler-Preis, a satirical prize named after Karl Eduard von Schnitzler, who was a leading journalist (and as such responsible for disinformation and propaganda in the interest of the communist regime) in the state broadcasting corporation of the German Democratic Republic
