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Kurt Krömer at the Grimme Prize , 2011

Kurt Krömer , real name Alexander Bojcan (pronounced: Boizan) (born November 20, 1974 in West Berlin ), is a German comedian and actor .

Live and act

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Alexander Bojcan was born in the West Berlin district of Neukölln . He grew up in the Wedding district and dropped out of comprehensive school after the 10th grade . He began training as a men's outfitter, which he broke off at the age of seventeen and a half. Bojcan also broke off an apprenticeship as a retail salesman and then worked for two years as a temporary worker at a Berlin cleaning company; He also worked as an unskilled worker on the construction site, where he made his first appearances at Scheinbar in Berlin-Schöneberg from 1993 under the pseudonym Kurt Krömer . He took his stage name from a German teacher whom he liked very much. From October 1996 to December 1997 he attended the "TuT - School for Dance, Clown and Theater" in Hanover . He cites Louis de Funès , Klaus Kinski , Andy Kaufman and Leo Bassi as inspiration for his role .

watch TV

From 2003 he moderated the television program Die Kurt Krömer Show on rbb television , the 15th and last episode of which was recorded at the end of April 2005. The program consisted of solo elements, clips and interviews with celebrities such as Gunter Gabriel , Johann König , Hellmuth Karasek and Gregor Gysi . As a Krömer, he always wore outdated suits with suspenders and glasses in a retro design. The garage band minibeatclub provided the background music , directed by Matthias Kitter.

In November 2005 his show started at Bei Krömers . This broadcast was a talk show with prominent guests, with the Krömer family in addition to Kurt Krömer - represented by actors: Grandpa Gerd ( Achim Wolff ), Mama Ingrid ( Marie Gruber ) and sister Anja ( Anne Helm , later Maxine Schulze ) - Sitting a little apart, influenced the interviews. Matthias Kitter again directed. Another six episodes of the program were broadcast from September 4, 2006 on. Bojcan was awarded the 2006 German Television Prize in the “Comedy” category.

Kurt Krömer in Room Service at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (2007)

On August 27, 2007, the program Krömer - The international show began in the night program of ARD . After five nominations, he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize for Krömer - Die Internationale Show in 2011 . At the same time, Bojcan ended this TV show and justified this step in relation to the Kölner Stadtanzeiger by saying that he was looking forward to doing something new.

On August 21, 2010, a Saturday evening show entitled May I ask ...! broadcast with him as a presenter.

In October 2010 he hosted the German Television Prize in Cologne with Sandra Maischberger .

In 2011 he played his first leading role in an island called Udo .

On August 18, 2012, the first of eight episodes of his new show Krömer - Late Night Show , recorded in the Berliner Ensemble , ran on ARD . In July 2013 (broadcast on August 10, 2013) Matthias Matussek was a guest while recording a new episode. Matussek was attacked by Krömer "to put it cautiously, hard"; by applying for an injunction at the Hamburg regional court , he tried to prevent the broadcast. He justified his application with the "violation of his personal rights", which the Hamburg district court rejected and the program was broadcast as planned.

On December 12, 2014, Bojcan announced that it would completely say goodbye to the television business from 2015. The reason he gave was that he wanted to shift his artistic focus to the theater stage.

In May 2018, Krömer acted as a program announcer on rbb television for five days. The occasion was the television broadcaster's 15th birthday. Four episodes of his talk show Chez Krömer were broadcast as the first season in September 2019. From February 2020, another six episodes of the second season followed.

Since September 27, 2019, Seriös - Das Serienquartett has been broadcasting a monthly talk show on series on the broadcaster One, with Krömer acting as the moderator. Guests are Ralf Husmann and Annette Hess, with Annie Hoffmann as co-moderator.

On the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic , Krömer is with Annie Hoffmann and the talk format Und nu? seen on rbb television. Both are out and about in Berlin and talk to members of systemically relevant professions about current topics and their everyday lives in times of the coronavirus.

theatre

Kurt Krömer “Today everything is right”, 2017

Since October 31, 2007, Bojcan can be seen as the sleazy producer Gordon Miller in the Broadway comedy Room Service at the Berlin Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz , directed by Thomas Ostermeier .

Since June 22nd, 2010 Bojcan can be seen in the play Johnny Chicago at the Volksbühne Berlin .

Krömer can be seen in the music video for From the same star by the duo Ich + Ich .

With the benefit gala “Pimp my Ghetto”, which he organized on October 18, 2009 in the Admiralspalast with artist colleagues, he supported several social projects in the Neukölln “Körnerkiez” around the Körnerpark .

social commitment

In 2012 he visited soldiers in Afghanistan at the invitation of the Bundeswehr and made several appearances there. An ARD camera team accompanied him on the trip . He published his experiences of this and a later private stay in the book “An excursion to where nobody wants. Visiting Afghanistan. "

As part of the “iCHANCE” campaign, which is organized by the Federal Association for Literacy and Basic Education , Bojcan supports learning to read and write.

radio

Since January 12, 2018 operates Kurt Kroemer, in addition to his stage shows, with psychiatrist and writer Jakob Hein the Radio One - Podcast "Kroemer and Friends". The first guests were Margarete Stokowski , Gabriele Völsch , Claudia Schur and Sarah Bosetti.

Private

Bojcan has three children.

Cabaret programs

  • 2005/2006: Well, you old poop
  • 2008: Kröm de la Kröm
  • 2011: sheer madness
  • 2013/2014: Farewell!
  • 2016/2017: Everything is right today
  • 2018/2020: Stressful situation (tour according to website until December 6, 2020)

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Well, you old shit!
  DE 34 10/27/2006 (9 weeks)
  • Well, you old shit! (CD: 2005, DVD: 2006) - Platinum for over 50,000 copies sold
  • Best Of Die Kurt Krömer Show (3-DVD, 2005) - Gold for almost 40,000 copies sold
  • Krömer - The International Show , Season 1 (3-DVD, 2007)
  • Krömer - The International Show , Season 2 (4 DVD, 2008)
  • Krömer - The International Show , Season 3 (4-DVD, 2009)
  • Krömer - The International Show , Season 4 (3-DVD, 2010)
  • Sido feat. Kurt Krömer - "Hey You" ( MTV Unplugged - Live from the MV , 2010)
  • Kröm de la Kröm (CD / DVD, 2010)
  • Best of Krömer - Late Night Show , Season 1 (DVD, 2012)
  • Today everything is right (CD / DvD / BD: 2018)

Filmography

Books

  • Kurt Krömer, Tankred Lerch: A trip to where nobody really wants to go. Visiting Afghanistan. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04536-9 .

Awards

Krömer at the award ceremony of the Grimme Prize, 2011

Nominations

  • 2005 - Adolf Grimme Prize
    • Category TV play / TV movie / entertainment (for Die Kurt Krömer Show from October 10, 2004)
  • 2006 - Adolf Grimme Prize
    • Category TV play / TV movie / entertainment (for his show Bei Krömers )
    • Category special (quote: "As an author for the idea, the television production, conception and presentation of the Krömer show ")
  • 2007 - Adolf Grimme Prize
    • Entertainment / Special category (for "outstanding presentation and talk services" in his show at Bei Krömers )
  • 2008 - Adolf Grimme Prize
    • Category "entertainment"
  • 2010 - Adolf Grimme Prize
    • Category "Entertainment - series and multi-part"
  • 2013 - German Comedy Award - Best Comedy Show for Krömer - Late Night
  • 2020 - Grimme Prize
    • Category - entertainment for Chez Krömer

Web links

Commons : Kurt Krömer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He describes himself as a "neo- clown "
  2. ↑ For me, people laugh even without a punchline. In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 4, 2006, interview
  3. ↑ Kurt Krömer, the neurotic from Neukölln, has a new show. Now he's coming with his family. In: Berliner Zeitung , November 5, 2005.
  4. ↑ I'm not a fictional character. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger. March 31, 2011, accessed November 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Alexander Krei: Krömer: "I just quit the RBB". DWDL.de , August 19, 2010, accessed on August 19, 2010 .
  6. ↑ TrailerLounge ( Memento from June 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ The master of stylish deconstruction
  8. ^ Faz.net : Kurt Krömer Show: You say thank you for ; accessed on October 20, 2019
  9. ↑ Cult comedian Kurt Krömer says goodbye to television. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 13, 2014.
  10. ^ DWDL de GmbH: The RBB makes Kurt Krömer the program announcer. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Elizabeth Schwiontek: "Chez Kroemer". The new show with Kurt Krömer on rbb television. In: rbb press. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), August 26, 2019, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Tom Böttcher: Program tip Chez Krömer. Cheeky questions, terrible guests, bad joke. In: radio eins. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  13. ↑ DWDL de GmbH: "Chez Krömer" reports back to the RBB in February. Retrieved January 14, 2020 .
  14. ↑ And now? 04/05/2020 04:45. Retrieved April 12, 2020 .
  15. ↑ https://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4492:johnny-chicago-jakob-hein-und-kurt-kroemer-versuchens-an-der-volksbuehne-mit-comediantischer-medienschelte&catid=42&Itemid = 90
  16. ↑ Kurt Krömer as "Johnny Chicago". In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . February 27, 2018, accessed August 6, 2010 .
  17. ↑ From the same star. Universal Music Group , accessed December 10, 2015 .
  18. ↑ G. Bartels: A clown is serious . In: Der Tagesspiegel. October 12, 2009, with photo gallery
  19. ↑ Peter Kümmel: For shooting! In: Die Zeit , No. 34/2012
  20. ↑ Kurt Krömer in Afghanistan: The joke character goes to war. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved June 21, 2013 .
  21. ↑ iCHANCE Profi Portal: Celebrities. Retrieved August 2, 2011 .
  22. ↑ YouTube: Kurt Krömer seriously. September 5, 2008, accessed August 2, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Hey Kurt, I see all of your programs. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved April 27, 2011 .
  24. ↑ Kurt Krömer: “Today everything is right!” Kulturnews , accessed on April 15, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Chart sources: Kurt Krömer in the charts.Retrieved on February 5, 2020
  26. ^ Oskar Piegsa: Kurt Krömer in Afghanistan. Review. Spiegel Online , June 21, 2013.
  27. ↑ Peter Kümmel: For shooting! In: Die Zeit , No. 34/2012 (The TV comedian Kurt Krömer visits German soldiers in Afghanistan. We accompanied him)
personal data
SURNAME Krömer, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bojcan, Alexander (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin