Flula Borg

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Flula Borg
Flula Borg (2014)
Flula Borg (2014)
YouTube channel ( entertainment )
language German
founding February 14, 2007
channels Flula (main channel)
Subscribers over 790,000
Calls over 95,000,000
Videos over 350
network Studio71
Contributors
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Flula Borg (* 1982 in Erlangen ) is a German web video producer , actor and DJ living in the United States .

Live and act

A native of Germany artist lives in the district of Los Feliz in Los Angeles , California . He studied the trumpet for 15 years . Since February 2007 he has been producing speech and music parodying videos for the net with a mix of DJ , entertainer , actor and one-man orchestra . From February 13, 2007 to December 31, 2015, his YouTube channel had over 740,000 subscribers; it had been viewed more than 80 million times by then. He has over 90,000 followers on Twitter (as of June 2018). As part of his video series “Auto-Tunes”, Flula Borg often sits in the car with prominent / non-prominent guests and sings improvising pop songs with them. In one of cheerleading pair of Dallas Mavericks controlled car he sang for. E.g. in a weird duet with Dirk Nowitzki the Stones song Satisfaction, which was viewed over a million times on YouTube by December 31, 2015 .

Since 2008 he has also appeared in film and television productions. He achieved greater fame in 2015 through his supporting role as Pieter Krämer in the musical comedy Pitch Perfect 2 . The American magazine The Hollywood Reporter named Borg one of the top 25 digital stars in 2015.

Borg has lived mainly in the USA since 2012.

In 2019 he landed a role in The Suicide Squad, which will be released in 2021 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2008: Resurgent (short film)
  • 2012: Blow Me (short film)
  • 2013–2014: Auction Hunters (TV series, four episodes)
  • 2013–2015: Rec X (TV series, six episodes)
  • 2015: Little Paradise
  • 2015: The Cutuzzle (short film)
  • 2015: Photobomb (TV series)
  • 2015: Pitch Perfect 2
  • 2015: Little Paradise
  • 2015: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
  • 2016: Buddymoon
  • 2016: Dirty 30
  • 2016: Younger (TV series, two episodes)
  • 2017: Silicon Valley (TV series, episode)
  • 2017: Ferdinand - Go bullish! ( Ferdinand , voice)
  • 2017: Workaholics (TV series, an episode)
  • 2018: The Boss Baby: Back In Business (Netflix series, Mega Fat CEO Baby , voice)
  • 2018: The Good Place (TV series, episode)
  • 2020: Trolls World Tour (voice)

Web links

Commons : Flula Borg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Stern, November 12, 2015, p. 122.
  2. Stern, November 12, 2015, p. 123.
  3. Mareike Nieberding The Crazy Foreigner . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from March 1, 2015, page 38
  4. YouTube statistics page , accessed December 31, 2015
  5. NORDKURIER from September 17, 2015, Flula Borg is Hollywood's “weird” German
  6. Kerstin Zilm, sueddeutsche.de of December 8, 2015: Youtube-Star, The famous Franke
  7. YouTube: Satisfaction - Rolling Stones (for Dirk Nowitzki & Mavs Dancers)
  8. FAZ net from March 1, 2015, Flula Borg and Dirk Nowitzki singing Rolling Stones ( memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.faz.net
  9. Film review in Spiegel online from May 18, 2015, “Mad Max” lets itself depend on an a cappella troupe
  10. Christiane Heil in FAZ.net from November 5, 2015 Monkey cool, this German, He proves to the Americans that Germans can also have fun. But hardly anyone in this country knows him. Visiting Youtube star Flula Borg
  11. Tommy Cummings, The Dallas Morning News of June 25, 2015, No Monta Ellis, but German techno DJ on roster for Nowitzki's celebrity baseball game
  12. THR's Top 25 Digital Stars ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Hollywood Reporter , July 10, 2015, see Deutsche Welle, Culture from July 17, 2015, Flula Borg one of the biggest digital stars @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hollywoodreporter.com
  13. Hannes Koenitzer: Suicide Squad 2: Flula Borg joins the cast. In: robots-and-dragons.de. August 20, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 .