Lutz van der Horst

Lutz van der Horst
Van der Horst in 2017
Born (1975-08-20) 20 August 1975 (age 49)
Cologne, West Germany
Occupations
  • Television presenter
  • comedian
Years active2000–present

Lutz van der Horst (born 20 August 1975) is a German television presenter and comedian. He is most known for being a political satire reporter on the heute-show.

Biography

Born in Cologne, van der Horst studied English studies and German studies at University of Cologne.[1] He then initially worked as a speaker and author for radio, such as appearing on the "Bürgerfunk" show on Radio Cologne,[2] where he also worked on the youth magazine "Mehr von mehr".[3] Then he did an internship at 1LIVE radio station.[4]

Then from 2000 working on television, he worked as a gag writer for the Cologne-based production company 'Brainpool'[5][6] like Die Wochenshow, Rent a Pocher and TV total.[2] He then worked as a freelance writer for other comedy shows such as Switch Reloaded (versions of the Australian TV series Fast Forward), comedy sketch show Sechserpack and Harald Schmidt.[7]

From December 2001, Van der Horst also appeared for the first time in front of the camera. On the ProSieben network Show TV total,[5] he appeared in a pink rabbit costume as a bubble hare blowing a carrot.[6][2]

Together with Manuel Butt and Thomas Rogel, who later was also a writer for the heute-show (Today show) in 2008, they founded the office N2O Comedy in 2008.[8] Note N
2O is the chemical formula for nitrous oxide.

Van der Horst has also been cast member of the German late-night satirical television program Heute-show since 2009.[3][9] He is nicknamed the "Political Terror".[10]

Then from 2011 to 2012, he and Senna Gammour hosted the quiz show Iss oder quizz (based on the American show Deal with It) on the ZDF channel.[11]

In 2012, he worked as a reporter in Monika Grubers boulevard satire Leute, Leute! on German public broadcast ZDF. Since 2013 he with (memory trainer) Christiane Stenger have been hosting Wie werd' ich …? (or How will I ...?) on German broadcaster ZDFneo.[12] The show tries to explain scientific phenomena with humor.[13]

Van der Horst interviewing Cem Özdemir, 2014

On the radio 1LIVE and on stage, he has an unsuccessful stand-up comedian persona named 'Jimmy Breuer' Germany's worst comedian, who has deliberately wrong punch times at the wrong time, is the exact opposite of a skilled joke professional.[4][14] He has toured with 'Jimmy Breuer' such as 36 shows in 2011.[4]

Since September 2016, he plays the prison supervisor "Frosch" in Johann Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.[10][15]

In November 2016, the AfD in Bayern used his face for a campaign poster, for the cancellation of TV broadcasting fees, without his permission. He used his position as satire-external reporter on the "Heute Show" to criticize the political party. He tried to sue them for 5000 euros in damages, but eventually got seven euros and ten cents from members outside the party congress.[16]

In 2018, a new SAT.1 show was created, "Hotel Herzklopfen - Late in love!" (based on a Belgian show) presented by Van der Horst, Sarah Mangione and Daniel Boschmann.[7][17]

Personal life

He lives in Ehrenfeld, Cologne and is a member of the SPD in the context of a satirical heute-show contribution in 2016, which he has renounced since.[3] He supports equality of lesbians and gays.[18] He is a big fan of horror films and has a very extensive collection of zombie and cannibal films from the late 1970s.[5]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
1998 Dark Tim Fischer
2019 Goblin 2 Arabello (in post-production)

TV

Year Title Role Notes
2011 TV total Jimmy Breuer TV series, 1 episode
2014 Löwenzahn Millionär TV series, 1 episode

Awards

  • 2007: Deutscher Comedypreis as writer at Switch Reloaded (category best sketch-show)[19]
  • 2010: Adolf-Grimme-Preis as member and writer of heute-show (category entertainment)[20]
  • 2010: Deutscher Fernsehpreis as member and writer of heute-show (category best comedy)[20]
  • 2010: Deutscher Comedypreis as member and writer of heute-show (category best comedy-Show)[21]
  • 2011: Deutscher Comedypreis as member and writer of heute-show (category best comedy-Show)[22]
  • 2012: Deutscher Comedypreis as member and writer of heute-show (category best comedy-Show)[23]
  • 2014: Deutscher Fernsehpreis as member and writer of heute-show (category best Comedy)[24]
  • 2016: Goldene Henne as member and writer of heute-show (category politics)[25]
  • 2017: Goldene Kamera as member and writer by heute-show (category best satire-show)[26][27]

References

  1. ^ "Kölner Stadtanzeiger: Der Kölner Lenauplatz ist der friedlichste Platz der Welt" (in German). 27 April 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Arab, Adrian (30 October 2015). "Lutz van der Horst im GA-Interview - Horst aber fair". General-Anzeiger Bonn (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Stellmacher, Horst (10 September 2017). "Lutz van der Horst: "Mama findet mich manchmal peinlich"". Berliner-Kurier.de (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Weppner, Sophie (9 December 2011). "Das Ausbuhen gehört dazu". wp.de (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b c Witzke, Anja (11 December 2015). "Weglaufen ist keine Lösung, Herr Seehofer!". donaukurier.de. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  6. ^ a b Arab, Adrian (23 October 2015). "Lutz van der Horst: Die charmante Nervensäge von der "heute-show"". Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  7. ^ a b Leimann, Eric (4 November 2018). "Lutz van der Horst: "Die Zuschauer haben Lust, alte Menschen im Fernsehen zu sehen"". MSN (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  8. ^ "hFMA: Partner: Partnerseminare (deaktivierte Seite): Partner-Seminare: Filmhaus Köln: Comedy in Film und Fernsehen: Szenischer Humor". hfmakademie.de. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  9. ^ Zinser, Kathrin; Pavlic, Christian (8 September 2017). "ZDF-Politsatire: Zehn Gründe, warum wir uns auf die "Heute Show" freuen". stuttgarter-zeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Komiker Lutz van der Horst gibt Gastspiel auf Opernbühne". FOCUS Online (in German). 12 April 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Wieder da: ZDFneo-Quiz "iss oder quizz" mit Senna Gammour und Lutz van der Horst". presseportal.de (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  12. ^ "Wie werd' ich…?, DW". DW.COM (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  13. ^ Jürgs, Alexander (3 January 2013). "Neue Serie: "Wie werd' ich genialer?" – Nicht mit ZDFneo". welt.de. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  14. ^ "Echt witzig, der schlechteste Comedian". bild.de (in German). 20 October 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  15. ^ "Komiker Lutz van der Horst auf der Opernbühne". Westfälische Nachrichten (in German). 15 September 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  16. ^ Landes, Leonhard (26 November 2016). "Die AfD-Bayern benutzte sein Gesicht – "Heute Show"-Reporter van der Horst schlägt zurück". HuffPost Deutschland (in German). huffingtonpost. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  17. ^ Peters, Bernd (22 April 2018). "Klare Kante: "Heute Show"-Star lästert über "Bauer sucht Frau"". Express.de (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  18. ^ "Sie wollen die Ehe für alle, bücken sich aber für die CDU". queer.de (in German). Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  19. ^ "ProSieben lacht: "Switch reloaded" und Christoph Maria Herbst alias "Stromberg" gewinnen Deutsche Comedy Preis". presseportal.de (in German). 26 October 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  20. ^ a b "Lutz van der Horst: Frechheit als Selbsttherapie". MSN (in German). 13 April 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  21. ^ "Ausgezeichnet: Comedy-Preis für ZDF "heute-show" / Vier Preise in eineinhalb Jahren". presseportal.de (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  22. ^ Brandes, Michael (21 October 2011). ""Deutscher Comedypreis 2011" - Die Preisträger". TV Wunschliste (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  23. ^ "Auszeichnungen & Nominierungen". hajoheist.de. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  24. ^ "2014 Beste Comedy: heute-show". Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2019 (in German). Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  25. ^ "Golden Henne winners Lutz van der Horst and Oliver Welke with..." Getty Images. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  26. ^ "Lutz van der Horst with the award for 'heute-show' during the Goldene..." Getty Images. 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  27. ^ "Verleihung der Goldenen Kamera: Ein Hauch von Hollywood in Hamburg - Bild 11 von 11". faz.net (in German). 4 March 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2019.