Bernd Stelter

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Bernd Stelter 2013
Bernd Stelter 2013
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Bernd's best
  DE 64 03/03/2003 (2 weeks)
Singles
I have three hairs on my chest
  DE 39 02/12/2001 (9 weeks)
The song about the rabbit
  DE 47 02/04/2002 (5 weeks)
A beer in the cellar
  DE 76 01/27/2003 (3 weeks)
Mahatma
  DE 79 01/30/2005 (2 weeks)
Do you hear the earthworms coughing?
  DE 34 01/25/2008 (6 weeks)

Bernd Stelter (born April 19, 1961 in Unna ) is a German carnivalist , comedian , actor , singer and television presenter .

Career

Stelter first studied economics in Bonn . There he became a member of the Association of German Students , from which he later resigned.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Bernd Stelter released LPs ( We can't care less , 1982; Look at your face , 1984) with partly funny chansons and partly critical political songs. He was also a moderator for WDR 4 and RPR for a long time . He was also the “ Station Voice ” at Antenne Bayern for years .

Stelter had his first television appearance in 1990 as a candidate for the program " Wheel of Fortune" . He is known from television mainly through his broadcasts on RTL , especially as a member of the regular cast of the comedy show 7 Days, 7 Heads , which made him known throughout Germany. He also played the lead role in the sitcom Bernds Hexe . In 2007 Stelter switched to WDR , for which he presented the ARD show Germany laughs and until 2016 presented the regular quiz program Das NRW-Duell on WDR television. In 2007 he hosted the gala Thank You Rudi - A tribute to Rudi Carrell for the entertainer Rudi Carrell, who had died a year earlier .

With his comedy programs Stories from the Suburbs , Papa is a Knackwurst , Puberty is more than pimples and right in the middle of it all , he was on stage nationwide. From 2011 to 2014 he was on tour with his program Mundwinkel hoch . Since October 20, 2014, he has toured with his program Who marries, shares the worries he did not have before . Since autumn 2019 he has been performing with the program “Hurray! From Monday it's the weekend again! ”. The joys and dark sides of retirement are tapped from all sides.

Heinz Rudolf Kunze and Heiner Lürig wrote the song Das Gute for Stelter , which appeared in 2015 on his album Who sings songs, doesn't need a therapist .

carnival

Stelter has been active in the Cologne carnival since November 6, 1988 . The figure of the "advertising specialist" made him popular in the Cologne meeting carnival . His songs like Ober, Zack ein Helles (parody of the hit Living Next Door to Alice by the English pop group Smokie ), I've got three hairs on my chest, I'm a bear , In the next life I'd rather be a rabbit or Ma-hat-ma .

During the recording of the WDR television session in 2019, Stelter was verbally attacked by an indignant viewer while joking about Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and double names on stage. After a short break, the program was continued with applause. Meeting president Joachim Wüst criticized the fact that this woman wanted to "assert her taste against 1300 guests". He later re-enacted this scene in the satirical program " Neo Magazin Royale ", where he played a viewer himself who concerns the presenter Jan Böhmermann .

Private life and social engagement

On his father's side, Bernd Stelter comes from a displaced family from Wartheland in what is now Poland . He is married and lives with his wife Anke and their two children (a daughter and a son) in Bornheim-Hersel . Stelter spends around two months a year in a fixed caravan on the Walcheren peninsula on the Dutch North Sea coast.

In his numerous appearances in quiz shows, in which the aim is to earn money for a good cause, such as in the celebrity specials from Wer wird Millionär , he primarily plays for the Bornheimer Bürgerstiftung Our Children - Our Future, which he initiated . He is an honorary member of the development association Children's Hospital Amsterdam street Köln eV

Publications

  • Never again vacation home (2004)
  • Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine (2004)
  • Death Has a Trailer Hitch: A Camping Crime (2008)
  • Those who lose weight have more space in life . Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7857-2408-8
  • CD Who sings songs doesn't need a therapist (2015)
  • The killer comes on quiet clogs: Camping-Krimi (2017), ISBN 978-3785725900

Web links

Commons : Bernd Stelter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Chart sources: DE
  2. Jens Meifert: Scandal at TV meeting: Bernd Stelter has to interrupt the performance - woman thrown out. February 23, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2019 (German).
  3. Interview in the tourist magazine Zeeland , pages 36–37, here page 36, published by VVV Zeeland / Tourist Association of the Dutch Province of Zeeland