Hazel Brugger | |
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| 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. [2] Since she was born in the United States, Hazel does not only have the Swiss, but also American citizenship. She was raised in Dielsdorf near Zürich and has two older brothers. After having graduated in Bülach, she started studying philosophy and literature at the University of Zurich, but she eventually gave up her studies. [3] When she was 17, she started her poetry slam career in Winterthur.
Between 2014 and 2017, Brugger used to write a fortnightly column for Das Magazin, [4] a Swiss daily newspaper. From 2013 to 2014, she worked as a columnist for "Hochparterre" [5] and the TagesWoche. [6] In 2015, she was the moderator of the live-talk "Hazel Brugger Show and Tell" in the Theater Neumarkt [7] in Zürich which took place every two months.
On 9 October 2013, she won the Swiss champions' title of the fourth Poetry Slam Championships. [8] In November 2015, she started her first cabaret programme "Hazel Brugger passiert". [9] Since February 2019, she is on tour in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with her second solo programme "Tropical", [3] which appeared on Netflix beginning 2 December 2020.
In October 2020 Hazel Brugger announced that she is pregnant. [10] The father of her child is German comedian and author Thomas Spitzer. [11] They 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 in another ZDF satire-show called "Die Anstalt" – the insane asylum. [14] In 2017 she won the Salzburger Stier, a prize for cabaret artists. She was the youngest person to ever win this award.[ citation needed ]
In 2019 Hazel Brugger started the production of a YouTube-series which she hosts with co-producer and author Thomas Spitzer (author). The show is called Deutschland Was Geht, which translates to What's up, Germany?. In the show Hazel and Thomas explore interesting and at times bizarre places together with various German comedians. [15] In 2020 the show will be continued under the title What's up, Europe?[ citation needed ]
Hazel Brugger has been living in Cologne since 2016. [16] [17]
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