Hazel Brugger
Allison Hazel Brugger (born December 9, 1993 in San Diego , California ) is a Swiss - American slam poet , stand-up comedian , cabaret artist , presenter and author .
life and career
Hazel Brugger's father is the Swiss neuropsychologist Peter Brugger , her mother is an English teacher and comes from Cologne . Because she was born in the USA, she has not only Swiss citizenship but also US citizenship .
Brugger grew up in Dielsdorf near Zurich ; she has two older brothers. After finishing the canton school Zürcher Unterland in Bülach , she began to study philosophy and literature at the University of Zurich , which she dropped out. At the age of 17 she began her career on a poetry slam stage in Winterthur .
Brugger wrote a bi-weekly column for Das Magazin from 2014 to 2017 and was a columnist for Hochparterre and also for TagesWoche from 2013 to 2014 . In 2015, she hosted the live talk Hazel Brugger Show and Tell every two months at the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich .
On October 19, 2013, Brugger won the Swiss championship title at the fourth Poetry Slam championships. In November 2015 she started her first cabaret program Hazel Brugger happened . Since February 2019 she has been touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland with her second solo program Tropical .
Since 2016 she has been working as an outside reporter on the ZDF show today . On April 26, 2016 she appeared for the first time as a guest cabaret artist in the ZDF satirical program Die Anstalt . In 2017 she was the youngest ever winner of the Salzburger Stier Cabaret Prize for Switzerland.
In 2019, Brugger produced and moderated the YouTube series Deutschland Was Geht together with Thomas Spitzer , in which bizarre or special places and events in Germany are presented. Other comedians also appear, z. B. Lutz van der Horst or Nico Semsrott . In 2020 the series will be continued as Europa Was Geht , in which European metropolises and their peculiarities are presented.
At the end of February 2020, Brugger moderated the Swiss Music Awards in Lucerne.
Brugger has lived in Cologne since 2016.
Guest appearances
- On April 26, 2016, April 4, 2017 and May 22, 2018 in Die Anstalt (see episode list )
- On September 1st, 2016 in Neo Magazin Royale
- On 13 May 2018 the 236th episode of the comedy improvisation show Dittsche the WDR television .
- On December 2, 2019 in the 55th episode of the late night show Late Night Berlin by ProSieben .
Books
- I'm so pretty . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-0369-5936-8 .
Audio books
- Hazel Brugger happens *: live in Café Kairo Bern. Audio CD, The Healthy People Shipping , Lucerne 2016, ISBN 978-3-03853-029-9 .
Awards
- 2013: “Swiss Master” in the poetry slam
- 2015: “Young Journalist of the Year” by the industry magazine Schweizer Journalist
- 2016: “Swiss Columnist of the Year” in the online survey of 1,400 Swiss journalists by the industry magazine Schweizer Journalist .
- 2017: German Cabaret Award, sponsorship award from the city of Mainz
- 2017: Salzburg bull
- 2017: Bavarian cabaret award, high-flyer award
- 2017: Swiss Comedy Award , jury award
- 2017: German Comedy Award, Best Newcomer
literature
- Hazel Brugger in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Hazel Brugger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hazel Brugger's website
- Christian Möller: Hazel Brugger - Through the Area , Episode 25 (Interview Podcast, 2017)
Individual evidence
- ↑ New entry in the commercial register HRB 100816 of the Viel FUN GmbH at the Cologne District Court on February 17, 2020, accessed on February 19, 2020
- ↑ «Try tickling yourself» , article of the TagesWoche from May 22, 2014
- ↑ Beat Grossrieder: Hazel Brugger is our mean alter ego. As a slam poet, she puts everything and everyone down, and that's why we love her . In: NZZ , October 22, 2016
- ↑ a b Michael Graber: Hazel Brugger: "With humor you make yourself more vulnerable". In: Luzerner Zeitung of February 3, 2019, accessed on April 24, 2019.
- ↑ Hazel Brugger on Das Magazin website , accessed April 24, 2019.
- ↑ Out und Erbaut , column by Hazel Brugger in the magazine Hochparterre, accessed on November 22, 2015
- ↑ Hazel Brugger on the TagesWoche website, accessed on April 24, 2019.
- ↑ Hazel Brugger Show and Tell ( Memento from April 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Theater Neumarkt, accessed on November 22, 2015
- ^ The Flying Stoll and an unbeatable Brugger , Saiten - Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin, October 20, 2013
- ↑ Julia Stephan: “I have a childlike side” , interview in Central Switzerland on Sunday 22nd November 2015
- ^ IMDb entry for the Today Show , accessed April 12, 2016
- ↑ Cabaret News 04/2016: The guests of the ZDF satirical program “Die Anstalt” from April 26th. In: www.kabarett-news.de. Retrieved April 20, 2016 .
- ^ Youtube channel Hazel & Thomas . Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Hazel Brugger moderates the “Swiss Music Awards”. In: SRF.ch , January 8, 2020.
- ↑ Christian Möller: Hazel Brugger Through the Area, Volume 25 (Interview, 2017)
- ^ David Hugendick: Comedy as a fighting technique. In: The time. September 14, 2017, accessed October 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Dittsche - HSV descent - Räuber Hotzenplotz and the moon landing - guest: Hazel Brugger (236) , video 29:03 min. On the WDR website, accessed on May 15, 2018, available until May 13, 2019
- ↑ Daniel Ryser named “Journalist of the Year” on November 29, 2016
- ↑ orf.at - Hosea Ratschiller receives Salzburg bull . Article dated December 1, 2016, accessed December 1, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brugger, Hazel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brugger, Allison Hazel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-American slam poet, stand-up comedian, cabaret artist, presenter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California |