Christoph Süß (born December 17, 1967) is a German
cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining o ...
artist and
television presenter.
Life
A native of the
Sendling
Sendling is a borough of Munich. It is located south-west of the city centre and spans the city boroughs Sendling and Sendling-Westpark. Sendling is subdivided into Obersendling, Mittersendling and Untersendling. Untersendling and Mittersendl ...
area of
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
,
Süß gained his first experiences in
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
while in
secondary school, performing in school plays, in
amateur theatre
Amateur theatre, also known as amateur dramatics, is theatre performed by amateur actors and singers. Amateur theatre groups may stage plays, revues, musicals, light opera, pantomime or variety shows, and do so for the social activity as well as f ...
troupes, and as a singer in several
rock bands. After graduation, he enrolled in 1990 at the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to study
philosophy, but eventually dropped out to concentrate on his developing career as a cabaret artist.
In 1995, Süß began his first stint of solo performances, appearing in small art theatres in his native Munich and around
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
. In 1998 he was hired by
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...
to present the weekly politics and satire magazine "Quer".
He continued his solo performances, going on tour in 1999 with his new program "Kristofs kleiner Kosmos" ("Kristof's Small Cosmos"). For this program he won the
Obernburger Mühlstein prize given to independent artists for cabaret and comedy performance.
References
Further reading
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External links
Official site(in German)
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Living people
German entertainers
German television presenters
1967 births
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
Bayerischer Rundfunk people