Mike Hager

Michael "Mike" Hager (born December 9, 1974 in Passau ) is a German radio presenter , author , speaker and comedian . He gained fame primarily through the figure of studio technician Josef Nullinger at the radio station Antenne Bayern .

job

First he worked during his studies of communication science at the LMU Munich in the call center of Arabella on Pro7 and tour guide of the Bavaria-Filmtour . He also did an internship at Live aus dem Schlachthof in Bayerischer Rundfunk , which was followed by an editorial position at one of the supplying production companies.

He began his actual career at the station M94.5 , in which he also appeared as "Studio technician Josef Nullinger" on the program Die Hour der Abrechnung . Subsequently, Hager worked from 1997 to 1998 as a comedy writer and sidekick for morning show host Jochen Bendel on the Munich local radio station Energy 93.3. Hager also moderated the children's and youth magazine Null-Acht-13 on the TV station ARD from 2001 to 2003 . His cult figure Josef Nullinger was largely known through the Antenne Bayern shows Guten Morgen Bayern , Servus Bayern and Highlife . He toured with Stefan Meixner on the joke tour across Bavaria.

Hager has been with Antenne Bayern since 1999 as a comedy writer and with his comedy figure studio technician Nullinger since 2001 with the same station on air. The daily radio sitcom Die Nullingers , which he writes and accompanies as a speaker director, has been running there since autumn 2011 . It runs four times a day, at around 5:10 a.m., 6:40 a.m., 11:15 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. This approximately 3-minute series, which now has over 1400 episodes (as of September 2019) , is about the more or less everyday experiences of the fictional Bavarian family Nullinger, consisting of the head of the family Josef Nullinger with his wife Maria and their children, the pubescent daughter Jacqueline and the younger son "Buale", whose real name has not yet been revealed to the listeners.

In addition, Hager regularly works as a comedian, speaker, actor in YouTube videos and stage presenter for various companies or the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. His parodies included u. a. A cover of Human ( Rag 'n' Bone Man ) in early 2017 . He worked as a rhetoric lecturer at the LMU Munich and the University of Passau.

Mike Hager was together with u. a. Hermann Scherer and Tobias Beck jury member at the international speaker slam competition and world record in New York.

He has been on tour with his first solo stage program "Hack your life" since September 2019.

literature

• Mike Hager, Birgit Stock, Rainer Stock: The beer comic. Bavarian edition: Josef Nullinger verzait de Gschicht from the Hofbräuhaus. ISBN 978-3-9810530-0-5
• Hermann Scherer: The online marketing concept of the top entrepreneurs: Successful personalities and their secret business strategies. With Mike Hager. ISBN 1-69796-855-4

Web links

• Mike Hager's website
• Profile of studio technician Josef Nullinger alias Mike Hager