Mike Krüger(I)

Krüger spent his childhood and school years in Hamburg. After finishing school with a high school diploma, he completed an apprenticeship as a concrete worker. Following his compulsory military service, he began studying architecture. From the mid-1970s, Krüger made the audience in Hamburg's "Danny's Pan" laugh with the solo program "Mein Gott, Walter". The record of the same name was released in 1975 and sold around 660,000 copies. Krüger received two gold records and delighted over 60,000 visitors on his tour of Germany. In 1980, Krüger stormed the charts with his song "You just have to pull the nipple through the tab," which earned him another gold record in Germany and even a platinum record in Austria. Krüger married his wife Birgit in 1976 and his daughter was born in 1979. The couple later lived in Quickborn.

Krüger also celebrated success on television. Around 12 million people saw his show "Oh, it's you, Mike" on ZDF and Krüger was also featured in the cinema. In the 1981 film "Pirate Station Powerplay," 2.1 million moviegoers saw Mike Krüger alongside Thomas Gottschalk. A year later, the two landed another box office hit with the film "The Supernoses", which was the most successful national production at the time with 2.9 million admissions. Shortly afterwards, Krüger had another mega hit with "Bodo with the Excavator". In 1984, the film "Zwei Naseentanken Super" followed and the duo Krüger/Gottschalk received the "Bambi" as "Funster of the Year". A year later, Krüger released his eleventh LP "Spiegelei" and also made a name for himself as a showmaster. He hosted the Saturday evening show "Four Against Willi" a total of 13 times. In 1991, Krüger moved to Sat.1, where he produced the "Mike Krüger Show" 30 times and 150 episodes of the game show "Punkt, Punkt, Punkt".

From January 6, 1995, Krüger hosted the "10 Million Mark Show" with 13 episodes, and from January 10, 1995, "Sonnenstich" with 12 episodes. From 1996 onwards, Krüger was part of the permanent team at RTL for "7 Days - 7 Heads", one of the most successful comedy shows in Europe; Together with the team around Jochen Busse and Rudi Carrell, he was honored with a "Golden Lion". The last episode was broadcast on December 30, 2005. In July 1997, Krüger's joke show "Do you know him?" started on RTL. and in the summer of 1999 the TV movie "Voll auf der Kippe" was broadcast - also on RTL - in which Krüger played the main role. In the summer of 2002, Krüger hosted the show "Krüger sees everything" and presented the "most curious television scenes from all over the world". After the end of the successful production "7 Days - 7 Heads", Krüger was seen on NDR in 2006 with his program "Klüger mit Krüger".

Since 2006, he has also had several guest appearances as a police officer in the improv comedy show "Schillerstraße" on Sat.1. In 2007 the program "Krügers Woche" started on ProSieben. In 2008 he appeared again as an actor in the television film "African Race - The Crazy Hunt for the Marakunda". In the same year he was honored with the Till Eulenspiegel Satire Prize from the city of Bremen. In 2009, Krüger received the honorary award of the German Comedy Prize. In 2010 he released the album "Is this art, or can it go away?", from his live stage program. In the same year, 2010, Mike Krüger celebrated his 35th stage anniversary. The following year, in 2011, he appeared in the TV series "Pastewka" in the episode "The Laudatio". In 2017 he played himself in the tragic comedy "A cold would have been enough". The film was based on the autobiography of the same name by German comedian Gaby Köster, who was paralyzed on one side after a stroke.