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31-465: Grevenbroich consists of the urban quarters and villages: Grevenbroich became widely known as home town of comedian Hape Kerkeling 's fictional persona Horst Schlämmer . Grevenbroich is twinned with: This Rhein-Kreis Neuss location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hape Kerkeling Hans Peter Wilhelm " Hape " Kerkeling ( German pronunciation: [ˈhaːpə ˈkɛʁkəlɪŋ] ; born 9 December 1964)

62-630: A BBC piece, Horst Schlämmer would receive 18% of the German vote due partly to his Obama inspired slogan, "Yes weekend". Kerkeling, in Kerkelings Kinderstunde (Kerkelings children's hour), as a cheeky child of preschool age named Hannilein , with red tousled hair and a bib overall , sits on oversized chairs and comments on the adult world. Is a female Dutch relationship counselor who meets various German celebrities (such as Günther Jauch or Udo Jürgens ). Siegfried (Siggi) Schwäbli

93-557: A German television talkshow, filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim revealed that Kerkeling, among others, was gay. Kerkeling's comment on the ensuing fuss (mostly in the gutter press ) was that while anyone of a more sensitive nature than him would probably have climbed into the bath with a hairdryer, he could not see the point: they would be dragging another poor soul through the dirt the next day anyway. Kerkeling lived with his life partner and co-author Angelo Colagrossi in Berlin. Colagrossi wrote

124-589: A bit, then ), his diary of this pilgrimage, was top of the Spiegel magazine non-fiction bestseller list. By May 2008, it had sold three million copies. It appeared in English in 2009 with the title I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino De Santiago . It has also been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Latvian, Spanish, and Chinese. Since early 2005, Kerkeling has presented

155-612: A large number of texts and sketches for Total Normal and other shows, and co-directed the films Kein Pardon , Willi und die Windzors , Die Oma ist tot , Samba in Mettmann and Ein Mann, ein Fjord! . In March 2011, Kerkeling announced that he and Colagrossi were getting a divorce. Horst Schlämmer is one of Kerkeling's current characters (and the most successful), the deputy editor of

186-618: A parody of an overweight, aging German Schlager music singer with streaky success and ridiculous lyrics in her songs. Mettmann Mettmann ( German: [ˈmɛtˌman] ) is a town in the northern part of the Bergisches Land , in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . It is the administrative centre of the district of Mettmann , Germany's most densely populated rural district. The town lies east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal . Located on

217-473: A real reporter, but with an alcohol problem, prompting a real response. The single Schätzelein came out at the start of 2006, including the songs Schätzelein and Meine letzte Zigarette ( My last cigarette ). In May 2006 Schlämmer appeared on Wer wird Millionär (the German Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ) as a celebrity candidate, and became the first person to persuade Günther Jauch ,

248-473: A role in the Känguru [ sic ] television comedy show (the German word for kangaroo deliberately spelt without an "h" at the end although this broke the spelling rules at that time). The best-known character in this show was the little boy Hannilein , played by Kerkeling, an irritating child with red hair in a pudding-basin style, dungarees and sitting on giant-sized chairs, who commented on

279-722: A vanguard of the US Ninth Army and then became a part of the British military administration under which the Northern Rhineland was redemocratised . Since 1946, Mettmann is a part of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1949 of West Germany . Since 1990 it belongs to the unified Federal Republic of Germany . In the years following Germany's loss of World War II in 1945, Mettmann saw significant population increases driven mostly by

310-453: Is a sex symbol , attempting to kiss female interviewees despite his loose false teeth. To impress women, he boasts that he earns three thousand ( euro ) net a month. On the ARD 's Harald Schmidt show, Kerkeling explained his methods. Before a Schlämmer interview, he said, he pours a few drops of strong liquor over his coat, to give the interviewee the impression he or she is being interviewed by

341-486: Is a German comedian, TV presenter, author, and actor. At secondary school in Recklinghausen , Hape Kerkeling and some fellow students formed a band ( Gesundfutter , meaning: health food) and published a record ( Hawaii ). Kerkeling started his career as a comedian in radio, working for various German broadcasting companies, such as WDR and BR . His breakthrough came in 1984/85 when, still aged only 19, he got

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372-713: Is a character who first appeared in 1990 in some episodes of Total Normal . Slow-witted, short-sighted and with glasses made of plastic blocks, Siggi constantly puts his foot in it and often has no idea what is going on. At the Cannstatter Volksfest festival in Stuttgart , for example, he went on the ghost train with Barbara Schöneberger , a TV host, and almost passed out with fear. Gisela has recently been discovered by Horst Schlaemmer to act in commercials for Krueger Coffee . She has been happily married to her husband, Wolfgang since 1983. Kerkeling performs as

403-791: The Bayerischer Fernsehpreis . On the show, Kerkeling made television history on 25 April 1991 when he dressed up as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on a state visit to Berlin and almost managed to get into Schloss Bellevue to meet the President of Germany for lunch. The satirical song from this show, Das ganze Leben ist ein Quiz ( All life is a quiz ), made it into the German pop charts. In 1992, Kerkeling's first film came out: Kein Pardon  [ de ] , which he directed and starred in, as well as helping to write

434-709: The Großer Deutschlandtest (a test about people's knowledge of Germany). In April and May 2006, he presented the live TV show Let's Dance , the German version of Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing with the Stars , with Nazan Eckes . German broadcaster ZDF started the production of Kerkeling's Ein Mann, ein Fjord! ( A Man, A Fjord ! ) in May 2008, directed by Angelo Colagrossi and written by Kerkeling, Angelo Colagrossi and Angelina Maccarone. Starring Jürgen Tarrach, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Matthias Brandt and Horst Krause

465-529: The Rhenish - Westphalian majority population and its traditions. Due to festivals and other events that took place in Mettmann to which many Brazilians were flown in, the town also became the host of a sizeable Brazilian community, this fact was also featured in the German movie Samba in Mettmann by the German/Italian filmmaker duo Hape Kerkeling and Angelo Colagrossi. Mettmann gave its name to

496-576: The District of Mettmann . Although the administrative centre of the District of Mettmann changed often over the years, in 1954 the parliament of the Land North Rhine-Westphalia eventually decided to make Mettmann the district's administrative centre. In 1974–75, with the administrative boundary reform, the district lost several councils to the neighbouring cities Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Essen , and Wuppertal . The district name also changed from Düsseldorf-Mettmann to Mettmann during this reform. However,

527-591: The ancient trade route " strata coloniensis " the Lotharingian hamlet of Medamana ( engl. between the streams , which bears an etymological similarity to the origins of the name for the Northern Italian city of Milan ( lat. Mediolanum )) first appeared in the charter of the last Carolingian King, Louis the Child , 904 AD, thus existing "officially" for more than 1100 years. In 1363 Mettmann

558-741: The early 1960s, and followed by Turkey later that decade. These communities soon thrived and established cultural markers such as the Pizza and kebab restaurants that are now ubiquitous throughout western Germany. Later events such as the Lebanese Civil War and the Balkan Wars were also reflected in the town's makeup, which now comprises communities of Turks , Kurds , Kashubians , Old Prussians , Silesians , Poles , Greeks , Croatians , Serbs , Albanians , Bosnians and Lebanese heritage, each distinct but generally well-integrated into

589-712: The ensuing political upheavals, which hit the district of Düsseldorf among the hardest, policing was done from Berlin, excluding local accountability. Thus, the Prussian government regarded the Rhinelands as more of a colony, furnishing the bureaucracy, which was based in Düsseldorf, with civil servants that were drafted in from other regions of Prussia. Mettmann was liberated from the National Socialist Dictatorship April 16, 1945, by

620-495: The fictitious newspaper Grevenbroicher Tagblatt . His motto is to "get up close and ask tough questions". Dressed in a grey trenchcoat and with a small black manbag on his arm, he holds interviews at real events such as the Bundestag elections. Schlämmer speaks to interviewees in an overfamiliar manner, using du for you rather than the polite Sie , and addressing them as Schätzelein ( sweetheart ). He seems to think he

651-574: The film portrays Kerkeling as Horst Schlämmer, Uschi Blum and Gisela. The movie premiered on 21 January 2009, on ZDF. In a survey by the television station Kabel 1 in 2005, Kerkeling made it into the top ten favourite faces on German television; the only other two presenters were Günther Jauch and Thomas Gottschalk . In 2001, Kerkeling went on a pilgrimage , following the Way of St James for 650 kilometres (400 mi) to Santiago de Compostela . In June 2006, his book Ich bin dann mal weg ( I'm off for

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682-510: The main character played by Julius Weckauf. The film biography by Oscar-winning director Caroline Link was well-received by film critics and the most successful German film of 2018 in German cinemas, selling over 3.8 tickets. In 2024, an article in Süddeutsche Zeitung described his efforts to research his ancestry, which led to the suggestion that he is a possible descendant of Edward VII of England. On 10 December 1991, in

713-550: The presenter of Wer wird Millionär , into the contestant's seat. The two made 500,000 euro for a good cause (German AIDS Foundation). In 2007 a computer game "Weisse Bescheid?!", based on Horst Schlämmer, was released. In 2009 Kerkeling announced a mockumentary about Horst Schlämmer running for German Chancellor. It was scheduled to be released to cinemas in Germany shortly before the German federal election of 2009 . According to

744-548: The resettlement of citizens previously living in the eastern territories that had been ceded to Poland . Having seen almost no war-time destruction and being situated in a traditionally strong economic region, the town soon prospered, in line with a general period of rapid economic growth that acquired the moniker Wirtschaftswunder ( economic miracle ). A shortage of industrial workers led to several recruitment campaigns in Mediterranean countries, starting with Italy in

775-415: The script. In 1992, Kerkeling turned down an offer by the big public broadcasting company ZDF to work on the popular prime-time show Wetten, dass..? and instead, without his previous partner Hagemann, moved to the independent television sector with the show Cheese . This was similar in concept to Total Normal and viewing figures were relatively high; still this is considered as his first flop. In

806-406: The second half of the 1990s, Kerkeling worked once more for ARD , presenting the show Warmumsherz ( Heartwarming ), and filmed several television films ( Club Las Piranjas  [ de ] (1995), Willi und die Windzors , 1996; Die Oma ist tot , 1997). In 1999, Kerkeling returned to success with his Sat.1 show Darüber lacht die Welt ( What makes the world laugh ). He also presented

837-435: The show Hape trifft! (which is ambiguous in the German language and may be translated as Hape hits the spot! or Hape meets! ) show, produced by Günther Jauch 's production team i&u TV on RTL . In 2013, Kerkeling spoke and sang the German version of Olaf, a snowman from the new Disney movie Frozen . A film about his childhood was released in 2018, titled All About Me , based on his semi-autographic book, with

868-607: The world of adults. Later came guest appearances and sketches on the Radio Bremen show Extratour . Then in 1989, Kerkeling started up his own comedy TV show, Total Normal ( Totally Normal ), along with pianist Achim Hagemann. This show, a satirical spoof on prime-time TV shows, had a totally new format and was awarded several television prizes such as the Goldene Kamera , the Adolf-Grimme-Preis and

899-878: The yearly fundraising gala for the German AIDS fund Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe . In 2003, he was awarded the Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German Television Prize) in the category Best Entertainment Presenter . In January 2004, Kerkeling made another film titled Samba in Mettmann , which is set in Mettmann in North Rhine Westphalia . In May 2004, and a year later in May 2005, he presented the Großer Deutsch-Test (a national test show for German grammar and spelling) and in October 2004

930-607: Was called " Monsieur le Maire ." Mettmann remained French for about 10 years and became a part of Prussia's Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg following Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. As the result of the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), in 1822 it was adsorbed into the Prussian Rhine Province . However, the Prussian rulers did not prove to be very popular, as during the bread-riots of 1848–49 and

961-628: Was one of eight administrative burghs in the Earldom of Berg and Jülich . Later the burgh became independent at the hand of Counsellor to the Earl of Cleves and was allowed to build a wall and choose a mayor. The ability to toll and tax allowed the burgh to develop in commerce and trade. In 1806 Mettmann became a part of the Grand Duchy of Berg under the rule of Napoleon 's brother-in-law, Joachim Murat . During this time, Mettmann's burgomaster

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