Monika Gruber

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Monika Gruber (2015)

Monika Gruber (born June 29, 1971 in Wartenberg , Erding district ) is a German cabaret artist and actress .

life and career

childhood and education

Gruber grew up on his parents' farm in Tittenkofen in Upper Bavaria with two younger brothers.

After graduating from high school, she worked for several years as a foreign language secretary and, at the age of 27, completed two and a half years of acting training at the Zerboni Drama School . She already had her first theater engagement during her training: From 2000 to 2005 she was a member of the Iberl-Bühne ensemble with Georg Maier in Munich- Solln .

TV career

Monika Gruber gained her first experiences as a cabaret artist in 2002 in the comedy series Kanal fatal , in which she played the waitress Monique , a Bavarian waitress who reports in a broad dialect of her experiences in the catering trade. From 2003 to 2009 she was a member of the sketch series Die Komiker des Bayerischen Fernssehen . From 2004 onwards she also reported live from the Munich Oktoberfest for Bayerischer Rundfunk . From January 2006 she commented in Grünwald Freitagscomedy current celebrity - gossip . In 2009 Gruber shot the four-part sketch show Normal is des ned together with Günter Grünwald . The collaboration with Grünwald and Bayerischer Rundfunk ended in September 2009.

In 2012 Gruber got her own TV show on ZDF : There she presented the boulevard satire People, People! . In order to have more freedom for live performances again, Gruber, contrary to the wishes of ZDF, extended her contract for people, people! Not. In the same year she won the Bavarian TV Prize in the “Comedian” category for Die Große Quatsch Variety Show ( Pro7 ), Monika Gruber live 2011 (BR) and Grünwald Freitagscomedy (BR) .

From January 2011 to the end of 2013, Gruber was a member of the team of Die Klugscheisser , a monthly satirical show on Bavarian TV, alongside Bruno Jonas and Rick Kavanian . With her departure in 2014, which she founded with her focus on her new stage program, the series was finally discontinued.

From 2008 to 2011 she played the main role of Hannelore Herbst in the BR series Der Kaiser von Schexing . From 2011 to 2013 she worked in the first thirty episodes of the ARD series Hubert and Staller as local reporter Barbara Hansen . From 2012 she played the role of Moni Riemerschmidt in Heiter-bis-födlich episodes of the Bavarian police series Munich 7 alongside Florian Karlheim , Andreas Giebel and Christine Neubauer . From 2017 she has a recurring role in Hubert and Staller as the operator of a café.

Cabaret stage programs

With her first solo program Waitress Monique: Doesn't it taste good? Gruber toured from 2004 through southern Germany and Austria. In 2005 the Hauptsach 'g'sund program followed . Her third stage program, Too True to Be Beautiful, premiered on September 13, 2008 in Munich and was performed at the 17th Arosa Humor Festival , among others . Since April 6th 2011 Gruber has been with her program If not now, then when! on tour.

At the turn of the year 2012/2013 Gruber made a guest appearance alongside Michael Niavarani in the Wiener Stadthalle, which was sold out several times, with the “patchwork program” Best of Both . It is about single life over 40, "people with a menstrual background", bad-humored Viennese and everyday lies. The stage performances in February 2013 in Bavaria were also very popular.

The fifth solo program Irgendwas is' immer followed in January 2014 . More followed in 2016 and 2017/18.

In 2019 she toured with her program "WAHNSINN!" From May to December.

social commitment

Gruber is involved in the Orienthelfer eV association of cabaret artist Christian Springer , who helps Syrian refugees on site in Lebanon.

Private

In a newspaper interview in 2011, Gruber revealed that he had suffered from anorexia for years as a teenager . She has been in a relationship with racing manager Thomas Überall since 2019.

Cabaret programs (selection)

  • 2004: Waitress Monique: Doesn't it taste good?
  • 2005: The main thing is' healthy
  • 2008: Too true to be beautiful
  • 2011: If not now, then when!
  • 2014: There is always something
  • 2016: Kiss the hand (with Viktor Gernot )
  • 2017: madness!

Acting (selection)

watch TV

Feature films (cinema)

  • 2020: Ausgrissn!

Cabaret appearances on television (selection)

Music video

  • 2017: DeSchoWieda & Monika Gruber - What happens? ( Despacito )

theatre

  • 2009: honey moon

Books

Awards

Web links

Commons : Monika Gruber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Vita. monika-gruber.de, archived from the original on December 8, 2012 ; accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  2. ↑ For almost all of her BR broadcasts: Quota queen Monika Gruber throws down! tz, September 1, 2009, accessed March 7, 2015 .
  3. ↑ “People, people!”: Monika Gruber gives up ZDF broadcast. Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 16, 2012, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Awarding of the Bavarian TV Prize 2012 on May 4th, 2012 in the Prinzregententheater. BAVARIAN TELEVISION AWARD 2012 to Monika Gruber as a comedian in the programs "Monika Gruber Live" (BR), "Grünwald Freitagscomedy" (BR) and "Die große Quatsch Variety Show" (Pro 7) endowed with 10,000 euros. In: Ganz-muenchen.de. Retrieved September 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Stefanie Thyssen: ARD satire broadcast is discontinued: Off for "Die Klugscheisser". tz, May 7, 2014, accessed March 7, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Rita Baedeker: Turning “The Emperor of Schexing”: Back in the provincial town hall. Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 14, 2011, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Benjamin Engel: Prime Time for Wolfratshausen. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 12, 2013, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Monika Gruber is local reporter Barbara Hansen. DasErste.de, July 12, 2013, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  9. ^ Ines Weißbach: The wild from the Viktualienmarkt. In: news.de. March 7, 2012, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Hannah Hilligardt: Erding: People with a menstrual background . Monika Gruber and Michael Niavarani presented the joint program “Best of Both” in the sold-out town hall. A fun evening. Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 22, 2013, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Broadcast 08/18/2015 • WDR • ARD-alpha • Refugee aid - A cabaret artist gets serious - broadcasts - Planet Wissen. Westdeutscher Rundfunk, accessed on February 20, 2016 (on the TV program Gruber spoke to refugee women in a Lebanese camp, at around 24:40).
  12. ↑ Michael Ruhland: "I wanted to be dead". Conversation with Monika Gruber. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 27, 2011, accessed on March 7, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Ulrike Schmidt: "Monika Gruber is freshly in love: This is the new man in her life". In: merkur.de. July 5, 2018, accessed August 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ DeSchoWieda: DeSchoWieda & Monika Gruber - What happens? (Despacito). July 14, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Heron Order awakens to a second life . In: https://www.merkur.de . January 2, 2017 ( merkur.de [accessed March 22, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Wartenberg , district of Erding