Hazel Brugger

Hazel Brugger
Brugger in 2015
Born
Allison Hazel Brugger

(1993-12-09) 9 December 1993 (age 31)
San Diego, California, U.S.
NationalitySwiss, American, German
Occupation(s)Slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, television presenter
SpouseThomas Spitzer
Children1
Websitehazelbrugger.com

Allison Hazel Brugger (born 9 December 1993) is a Swiss-American slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, and television presenter.

Background

Hazel Brugger's father is the Swiss neuropsychologist Peter Brugger;[1] her mother is an English teacher who is originally from Cologne, Germany.[2] Since she was born in the United States, in addition to being Swiss and German she is an American citizen. She grew up in Dielsdorf near Zürich and has two older brothers. After graduating in Bülach, she began studying philosophy and literature at the University of Zurich, but she eventually quit.[3] When she was 17, she started her poetry slam career in Winterthur, Switzerland northeast of Zürich.

From 2014 and 2017, Brugger wrote a fortnightly (every two weeks) column for Das Magazin,[4] a Swiss daily newspaper. From 2013 to 2014, she was a columnist for "Hochparterre"[5] and the TagesWoche.[6] In 2015, she was the moderator of the live talk show "Hazel Brugger Show and Tell" in the Theater am Neumarkt[7] in Zürich which was held every two months. On 9 October 2013, she performed in the fourth Poetry Slam Championships in Bern, Switzerland.[8] In November 2015, she started her first cabaret programme "Hazel Brugger passiert".[9] In February 2019, she began to tour in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with her second solo programme "Tropical",[3] which debuted on Netflix on 2 December 2020.

In October 2020 Hazel Brugger announced that she was pregnant.[10] She and Thomas Spitzer[11] have been married since 2020.[12]

Career

Since 2016 she has been a correspondent on the German political satire show heute-show on ZDF.[13] On 26 April she had her first guest appearance on another ZDF satire-show, "Die Anstalt" (The Insane Asylum).[14] In 2017 she won the Salzburger Stier, a prize for cabaret artists. She is the youngest person to ever win this award.[citation needed]

In 2019 Hazel Brugger started a YouTube series which she hosts with Spitzer, a co-producer and an author. The show is called Deutschland Was Geht, which translates to What's up, Germany?. In the show Brugger and Spitzer explore interesting and at times bizarre places together with various German comedians.[15] In 2020 the show changed names to What's up, Europe?[citation needed]

Brugger has lived in Cologne since 2016.[16][17]

Guest appearances

Books

  • Ich bin so hübsch (I'm so pretty). Kein & Aber, Zürich 2016, ISBN 978-3-0369-5936-8.
  • Hazel Brugger, Thomas Spitzer (Authors), Jannes Weber (Illustrations): Deutschland Was Geht – Das Wimmelbuch. Diogenes, Zürich 2021, ISBN 978-3-257-01294-1.

Audiobooks

  • Hazel Brugger passiert* : live im Café Kairo Bern. Audio-CD, Der gesunde Menschenversand, Luzern 2016, ISBN 978-3-03853-029-9.

Awards

  • 2013: «Swiss Master» of Poetry-Slam
  • 2015: «Young Journalist of the Year» by the magazine Schweizer Journalist
  • 2016: «Swiss Columnist of the Year» voted by a survey conducted by Schweizer Journalist among 1400 journalists.[19]
  • 2017: German prize for cabaret by the city of Mainz
  • 2017: Salzburger Stier[20]
  • 2017: Bavarian cabaret prize for emerging artist
  • 2017: Swiss Comedy Award
  • 2017: German Comedy Award for emerging artist

References

  1. ^ "Versuchen Sie mal, sich selbst zu kitzeln". TagesWoche. From the original article on 22 May 2014.
  2. ^ Grossrieder, Beat. "Hazel Brugger ist unser fieses Alter Ego. Als Slam-Poetin macht sie alles und jeden nieder, und gerade darum lieben wir sie." NZZ. From the original on 22 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b Graber, Michael. "Hazel Brugger: 'Mit Humor macht man sich verletzlicher'". Luzerner Zeitung. from the original on February 2019. Retrieved on 24 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Hazel Brugger". Website Das Magazin. Retrieved on 24 April 2019.
  5. ^ Brugger, Hazel. "Out und Erbaut". Hochparterre. Retrieved on 22 November 2015.
  6. ^ "Hazel Brugger". Website Tageswoche. Retrieved on 24 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Hazel Brugger Show and Tell". Theater Naumarkt. Internet Archive. Retrieved on 22 November 2015.
  8. ^ "The Flying Stoll und eine unschlagbare Brugger". Saiten-Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin. From the original on 20 October 2013.
  9. ^ Stephan, Julia. "Ich habe eine kindliche Seite". Zentralschweiz am Sonntag. From the original on 22 November 2015.
  10. ^ "[1]". Spiegel online. retrieved on the second of October 2020.
  11. ^ "Good Vibes Only".[self-published source]
  12. ^ ""Wir wollten nicht ironisch heiraten"". Zeit Campus. Retrieved on 11 November 2021.
  13. ^ IMDb-entry of Heute Show., Retrieved on 12 April 2016. [unreliable source?]
  14. ^ ""Die Gäste der ZDF Satiresendung 'Die Anstalt'". Kabarett News. Retrieved on April 20, 2016". www.kabarett-news.de. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019.
  15. ^ ""Hazel and Thomas". Youtube. Retrieved on February 19, 2020". YouTube.
  16. ^ Möller, Christian. "Hazel Brugger Durch die Gegend Archived 15 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine", Episode 25. From the original in 2017.
  17. ^ "Hugendick, David. "Komik als Kampftechnik". Die Zeit. From the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved on October 30, 2018". Die Zeit.
  18. ^ "Ditsche – HSV-Astieg – Räuber Hotzenplotz und die Mondlandung – Gast: Hazel Brugger". Website WDR. Retrieved on 15 May 2018.
  19. ^ "Daniel Ryser wird 'Journalist des Jahres'". persoenlich.com. From the original on 29 November 2016.
  20. ^ "Hosea Ratschiller erhält Salzburger Stier". orf.at. From the original on 1 December 2016. Retrieved on 1 December 2016.