Oliver Pocher
Oliver Pocher (born February 18, 1978 in Hanover ) is a German comedian , entertainer , television presenter and actor .
biography
The son of a financial accountant and an insurance clerk grew up in Isernhagen near Hanover and completed an apprenticeship as an insurance clerk after completing secondary school and doing community service . During his apprenticeship he worked part-time for several radio stations and as a DJ in discos and at family celebrations. He also appeared in the comedy group Holla-Bolla and in a television show hosted by Birte Karalus .
His parents are Jehovah's Witnesses . Pocher himself was with the Jehovah's Witnesses until he was 18 and also did missionary work on house and apartment doors, but was never excluded from the religious community. He is now critical of this, but does not find all approaches bad.
Career on television
Pocher had his first television appearance on October 28, 1998 in the afternoon talk show by Bärbel Schäfer . With a five-minute number, Pocher tried to make the audience laugh and convince them that he had the talent to be an entertainer or a comedian. Although the audience whistled him, he continued his performance. He then explained to the presenter that he was definitely funny and that he was aiming for a successful television career.
On September 29, 1999, during a television program by Hans Meiser from the music broadcaster VIVA , Pocher was selected for a week-long guest moderation of the television program Interaktiv and was later employed on a permanent basis. There he moderated the programs Chart Surfer , Trash Top 100 , Was geht ab , Planet VIVA and most recently in 2002 his own program Alles Pocher, ... or what? . From May 25, 2002 he also played Fred in the ARD television series Sternenfänger .
From January 2003 to April 13, 2006 he presented Rent a Pocher on ProSieben . In September 2003, founded Pocher together with brainpool the Pocher TV GmbH , which was responsible for its marketing since then and where he next to the Raab TV Produktions GmbH held a third of the shares. The company was dissolved in 2008.
On October 6, 2005, Pocher won the Comet Music Prize in the Live Comedy category . In the same year he was appointed national coach of the national soccer team of Zanzibar as part of Rent a Pocher . Among other things, he looked after the team at a game against German celebrities and at the 2006 FIFI Wild Cup . Pocher was the official World Cup ambassador for the city of Hanover and became known to a wider audience in the same year through his commercials for MediaMarkt . He also appeared in the Quatsch Comedy Club .
From April 3, 2006 until the start of the soccer world championship, Pocher hosted the program Pochers WM-Countdown on ProSieben. On April 28th, his first single was released with the title Black and White - the official DFB fan anthem. On July 26th, Pocher received a role in the film adaptation of the radio play Hui Buh . There he played the young, simple-minded spirit of an elevator operator from the early 20th century. In 2007 he played his first leading role in the film Vollidiot (based on the novel of the same name by Tommy Jaud ) with the character of Simon Peters .
In the same year he switched from his original house broadcaster ProSieben to ARD . There he presented from October 25, 2007 with Harald Schmidt the joint late night show Schmidt & Pocher in the first . In December 2008, ARD announced the end of the joint show for April 2009. In autumn 2009 Pocher left the ARD.
21 February 2009 moderated Pocher together with Barbara Schöneberger in the event hall O2 World Berlin , the 2009 Echo Awards . At RTL , Pocher appeared in a guest role in several episodes of the action series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei between 2009 and 2012 . In the episode of September 6, 2012, Pocher took part for the last time because the serial character Oliver Sturm portrayed by him was murdered in it.
On April 18, 2009 Pocher had a guest appearance in the sixth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar and sang Through the Monsun by the band Tokio Hotel . One month later, on May 29th, he hosted the live broadcasted VIVA Comet 2009 award in the König-Pilsener-Arena . His first own broadcast on Sat.1 ran in July 2009 and was entitled Sportfreunde Pocher - All against Bayern . In the show, Pocher was supposed to bring together various amateur soccer players and celebrities into a team that competed against FC Bayern Munich on July 25, 2009 in the Veltins-Arena .
From October 2009 to March 2011 Oliver Pocher could be seen with his own late night show every Friday on Sat.1 . In The Oliver Pocher Show , there were already known dramaturgical elements from both late night as well as by Rent a Pocher . From 2009 to 2017 and again from June 2019, Pocher 5 moderates against Jauch on RTL. From January 2013 to May 2014 he also competed on RTL in his own show Alle auf den Kleinen , moderated by Sonja Zietlow, in a game show lasting several hours against a group of candidates in the fight for up to 100,000 euros. From August 2011, he took along with Jessica Kastrop every two weeks at the Pay TV transmitter Sky Germany moderating the sports broadcast Saturday LIVE! and has allegedly hosted the morning show on radio station bigFM since January 2013 . In fact, only recorded contributions by Pocher were played in the morning show.
In 2013, he hosted the TV show Mein Mann kann as well as Das Duell - Alle gegen den BVB on Sat.1 . In September 2013 he hosted the Celebrity Big Brother format together with Cindy from Marzahn and was with her at the presentation of the German Television Prize 2013 at the beginning of October. Since 2014 he has been a member of the jury for the casting show Die Große Chance and the spin-offs Die Große Comedy Chance and Die Große Chance der Chöre , which are broadcast on ORF eins in Austria .
In November 2016, Pocher took part in the dance show Deutschland tanzt ( ProSieben ) and achieved second place. In 2017 he won Global Gladiators . In the same year, Pocher hosted the football program Fantalk on Sport1 together with Oliver Schwesinger , which the station canceled after an issue. In 2019, Pocher danced in the 12th season of the RTL dance show Let's Dance with the professional Christina Luft in seventh place.
In December 2019 RTL announced that it had bound Oliver Pocher to itself with an exclusive contract for an initial two years.
At the end of January 2020 , Pocher and his wife parodied an Instagram story by Laura Müller in which she surprised her partner Michael Wendler with a car. Pocher's fans did the same and published their own parodies of the 90-second video under the hashtag Wendlerchallenge . In the weeks that followed, Pocher repeatedly parodied photos and videos of the singer that he uploaded to Instagram, as well as his song Egal . As a result , the song Egal , published by Michael Wendler in 2017 , entered the German single charts at number 50 at the end of February 2020 and reached new streaming records on Spotify and YouTube. On March 1, 2020, RTL broadcast the live show Pocher vs. Wendler - No more fun! , at which Müller and Pocher's wife Amira also performed.
During the COVID-19 pandemic , Oliver Pocher was part of the short-term TV format “The Quarantine WG - Welcome Home!” From March 23, 2020 . He discussed the current situation with Günther Jauch and Thomas Gottschalk via livestream on the Internet and spoke to other guests. After three days, RTL stopped the program again due to the drop in viewership.
Since mid-May 2020, Pocher has hosted the late-night show Pocher - dangerously honest! His wife Amira acts as a sidekick .
Since June 19, 2020, RTL has been broadcasting the program Pocher und Papa auf Reisen , in which Oliver Pocher visits different places with his father.
Private life
From 2002 to 2004 Pocher was in a relationship with Annemarie Warnkross and from 2005 to 2009 with Monica Ivancan . After the separation in mid-2009, he soon entered into a relationship with Sandy Meyer-Wölden . They lived together in Cologne and had a daughter in February 2010. They married in September 2010. In September 2011, the couple's twin sons were born. In April 2013, the couple announced their previous separation.
In November 2013, the media reported that he was in a relationship with tennis player Sabine Lisicki . A month later, the two officially appeared as a couple. In March 2016, the separation of Pocher and Lisicki became known.
In 2016 he met the Austrian Amira Aly , who worked as a make-up artist . The liaison resulted in marriage in October 2019 and the birth of a son the month after. The couple lives in Cologne - Hahnwald . In June 2020, Oliver and Amira Pocher announced another pregnancy Amira.
On May 30, 2008, Pocher answered Wer wird Millionär? as the first candidate in the celebrity special, with the help of the audience joker, corrected the one million euro question after he had agreed to donate 100,000 euros out of his own pocket in case he should answer the million question incorrectly. He donated the million to the “ Per-Mertesacker-Stiftung ” and “ McDonald's Kinderhilfe ”. In 2009 he received the Kind Award from Kinderlachen for his voluntary work for children - for example at the “Per-Mertesacker-Stiftung” .
Pocher was assistant coach of the European team at the 2009 DEL All-Star Game and received a ten-minute disciplinary penalty shortly after being substituted on .
On July 20, 2014, Pocher opened his YouTube channel. He currently has around 50,000 subscribers and nearly twelve million video views. His last video was dated October 2016.
From August 2019 to March 2020, Pocher ran the football podcast Messi & Ronaldo together with Matze Knop .
Since April 3, 2020, Pocher and his wife Amira Pocher have been running the podcast Die Pochers hier!
Controversy
- After Pocher during the show Wetten, dass ..? On January 22, 2005, a viewer had recommended plastic surgery, he was sued by this for payment of compensation for pain and suffering in the amount of 25,000 euros. Despite an apology over the phone, which he later repeated publicly in one of his broadcasts, he was unable to settle the conflict out of court. On January 11, 2006, Pocher was sentenced by the Hanover Regional Court to pay compensation for pain and suffering in the amount of 6,000 euros. The judge responsible described Pocher's statement (“You look pretty old for your age”) as a “considerably disparaging statement”. Pocher continued the public insult in January 2008 on the television program Johannes B. Kerner by again gossiping about the woman's appearance and making fun of the verdict. Another lawsuit was filed against him for this. The victim's lawyer said the woman felt humiliated and that she was repeatedly asked about it in her role as a sales representative. The final settlement included an additional payment for pain and suffering.
- In October 2007, Schmidt & Pocher performed a sketch about a device called the "Nazometer", which was supposed to sound the alarm if there were problematic words relating to German history from 1933 to 1945. Schmidt and Pocher then made fun of saying that you have a gas stove at home and shower in the morning. Clemens Heni rated this as secondary anti-Semitism .
- In April 2008, Pocher was criticized unusually harshly for his dealings with the Norwegian singer Maria Mena in the program Schmidt & Pocher in the course of the program by Harald Schmidt . This was preceded by the visit of the artist Lady Bitch Ray .
- In January 2009, Pocher parodied the Hitler assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , played by Tom Cruise in Operation Walküre , on the Schmidt & Pocher television program and met with a negative response, whereupon the Broadcasting Council dealt with the process on March 27th.
- In February 2014, he caused a scandal at the Vienna Opera Ball with an allegedly racist joke against Kanye West and Kim Kardashian .
- In May 2020, allegations were raised that Pocher had committed severely derogatory doxing because he had published excerpts from an almost 10-year-old revealing video by an influencer on social media channels . His publication of a website that was supposed to prove that a friend of the influencer had previously worked as a sex worker also received sharp criticism. In the course of this scandal, the Antilopen Gang around front man Koljah published a disstrack against Pocher. The media journalist Stefan Winterbauer commented that influencers, as public persons, would have to put up with criticism of their work, but Pocher went too far with doxing, which could also have happened because he did not have an editorial team to control it.
Discography
Studio albums
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| 2007 | It's My Life - From the Life of a B-Celebrity Fun Society! |
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CH45 (2 weeks) CH |
First publication: September 28, 2007
* see video album |
Singles
- 2020: I'm the Scatman
Filmography
cinemamovies
Television films
TV Shows
Television shows
Moderation
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Websites
Guest appearances
synchronization
radio
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Awards
2004
- Golden Bravo Otto in the "Comedy" category
2005
- Golden Bravo Otto in the "Comedy" category
- Comet in the "Best Live Comedy" category
- German Comedy Award for "Best Comedy Show"
- Jetix Kids Award in the "Coolest TV Star" category
2006
- Golden Bravo Otto in the "Comedy" category
- Radio Rainbow Comedy Award
2007
- Golden Bravo Otto in the "Comedy" category
2008
2009
- KIND Award from Kinderlachen
2019
- Honorary senator of the Linden fools (1st Carnival Society "Blau-Weiß Linden" from 1965 eV Hanover)
literature
- Tigo Zeyen: Oliver Pocher , in Tigo Zeyen, Anne Weber-Ploemacher (ed.), Joachim Giesel (photos): 100 Hanoverian Heads , Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3 -8271-9251-X , pp. 156f.
Web links
- Official website
- Oliver Pocher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview at focus.de, March 3, 2008
Individual evidence
- ^ Tigo Zeyen: Oliver Pocher , in Tigo Zeyen, Anne Weber-Ploemacher (ed.), Joachim Giesel (photos): 100 hannoversche Köpfe , Hameln: CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , pp. 156f.
- ↑ The loudest of the lutes. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Oliver Pocher at Domian (2004) on YouTube
- ↑ https://www.gmx.net/magazine/unterhaltung/tv-film/global-gladiators/global-gladiators-oliver-pocher-sprech-kindheit-zeugen-jehovas-32357394
- ↑ Football in Africa: Visiting Oliver Pocher's national team , accessed on March 9, 2020
- ^ "Harald Schmidt" becomes "Schmidt & Pocher" ( Memento from April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) DasErste.de; Archive version from April 29, 2009
- ↑ Schmidt jokes without Pocher in the future. At: Spiegel.de
- ↑ How did you like the ECHO moderators? bild.de from February 22, 2009, accessed on November 11, 2019
- ↑ Oliver Pocher on the set. Archived from the original on April 16, 2009 ; Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Pocher goes to Sat.1. At: stern.de
- ↑ Pocher's football show runs at 10:15 p.m. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Sonja Zietlow moderates the new Pocher show. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Tired marathon. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Saturday LIVE! with Oliver Pocher. Info.sky.de, accessed on March 27, 2020.
- ↑ Oliver Pocher replaces Hans Blomberg at bigFM - but only for a short time , radioszene.de, December 17, 2012.
- ^ "Morgenhans" Hans Blomberg: "BigFM gave notice!" , Radiowatcher, April 7, 2014
- ↑ Mario Köhne: private radio bigFM fakes SWR-Nachrichten , uebermedien.de, September 5, 2017.
- ↑ Cindy and Oliver Pocher host the television award. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Out for Pocher's league "Fantalk" after only one issue. DWDL.de, accessed on March 27, 2020.
- ↑ RTL concludes an exclusive contract with Oliver Pocher , RTL.de, accessed on March 7, 2020
- ↑ https://www.popschlager-aktuell.com/neue-streaming-rekorde-beim-wendler/
- ↑ Why the dispute between Oliver Pocher and Michael Wendler escalated so. rp-online.de, February 29, 2020, accessed on March 6, 2020.
- ↑ RTL closes "Quarantine WG". Der Spiegel , March 26, 2020.
- ↑ Oliver Pocher moderates the new late night show on RTL DWDL.de, accessed on April 29, 2020.
- ↑ Article on focus online , accessed on April 29, 2009
- ↑ Model and maker: Oliver Pocher and Sandy Meyer-Wölden are a couple. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Offspring: daughter for Oliver Pocher and Sandy Meyer-Wölden. Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Olli and Sandy: They married Bunte , September 25, 2010
- ↑ Sven Kuschel and Dora Varro: Oliver Pocher: The twins are here! Bild.de, September 26, 2011, accessed September 26, 2011 .
- ↑ marriage-off at Pochers. Berliner Kurier , April 11, 2013, accessed on April 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Message on www.oliverpocher.de (the full wording: We made the joint decision at the beginning of the year to end our partnership. Of course, we will continue to support each other and raise our three children together. Alessandra & Oliver Pocher )
- ↑ Sabine Lisicki and Oliver Pocher are a couple. In: Welt Online . November 20, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
- ↑ First joint appearance - Pocher and Lisicki make their love public. In: focus.de. December 8, 2013, accessed December 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Oliver Pocher and Sabine Lisicki have separated. In: focus.de. March 15, 2016, accessed March 16, 2016 .
- ↑ How he found great love. In: bild.de. May 12, 2019, accessed August 28, 2019 .
- ↑ RTL exclusive Oliver Pocher and Amira Aly got married in the Maldives. On: RTL , October 19, 2019
- ↑ Secret wedding in the Maldives: Oliver Pocher marries his model. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , October 19, 2019
- ↑ Tweet Oliver Pocher
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Oliver Pocher becomes a father again: "The next '5 against Jauch' Pocher children's special can come" - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Oliver Pocher is the first to crack the million dollar question in a "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? - Celebrity Special". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 1, 2008 ; Retrieved November 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Oliver Pocher on YouTube
- ↑ Oliver Pocher on socialblade.com
- ↑ Ms. Oliver Pocher is suing - for the second time , Spiegel Online, March 6, 2008.
- ↑ pain and suffering - Pocher blecht and blecht , sueddeutsche.de 28 May, 2008.
- ^ "Secondary" anti-Semitism - a barely researched part of post-Holocaust anti-Semitism (p. 136) (PDF; 54 kB) accessed on October 11, 2011
- ^ "Schmidt & Pocher" - "So ne small, lousy guy". FOCUS Online, April 25, 2008, accessed on May 11, 2016 .
- ↑ TV review: "Schmidt and Pocher" - We are still laughing. Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, May 17, 2010, accessed on May 11, 2016 .
- ^ ARD: Resistance to Oliver Pocher is growing , Hamburger Abendblatt, January 26, 2009.
- ↑ "Grosskotziger Racist": US media get excited about Pocher , FOCUS, March 1, 2014
- ↑ Pocher provokes Kim Kardashian in an ORF interview , February 28, 2014
- ↑ Vienna Ball: Kim Kardashian and a fist-fight ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 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. , The Eastern Tribune, March 1, 2014
- ↑ Matthias Schwarzer: Levelless and misogynistic: Who will stop Oliver Pocher? Editorial network Germany , May 4, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020 .
- ^ Theresia Enzensberger: Mobbing, Doxing - or Comedy. zeit.de , May 7, 2020, accessed on May 7, 2020 .
- ↑ The booming silence of Oliver Pocher: He can't stab the antelope gang. May 8, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Rappers do their calculations: "If an influencer kills herself, it's Oli Pocher's fault". May 8, 2020, accessed May 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefan Winterbauer: Who pays 833 euros a month for a Steingart subscription? ›Meedia. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pocher, Oliver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comedian, entertainer, presenter and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |