Hazel Brugger | |
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 Brugger in 2015 | |
| Born | Allison Hazel Brugger 9 December 1993 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Swiss, American, German |
| Occupation(s) | Slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, television presenter |
| Spouse | Thomas Spitzer |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | hazelbrugger |
Allison Hazel Brugger (born 9 December 1993) is a Swiss-American slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, and television presenter.
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]
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 ]
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