| Capital: | € 13 million |
| Age: | 42 |
| Born: | February 18, 1978 |
| Country of origin: | Germany |
| Source of wealth: | actor |
| Last updated: | 2022 |
Short introduction
Oliver Pocher is a German actor, stand-up comic and tv presenter.
Early lifestyles
Pocher is the son of Gerhard and Jutta Pocher; He turned into born and grew up in Hanover. His mother and father are Jehovah’s Witnesses and he too turned into raised as one. In 2007, Pocher said that in contrast to his mother and father, he turned into not in touch with the enterprise due to the fact he claimed to “disagree with their rules.” Reports that Pocher had attended a Waldorf faculty had been denied through his management. Pocher has efficaciously finished his education as an coverage dealer at Signal Iduna Bauspar AG.
During his apprenticeship, he had a few part-time jobs at diverse radio stations and as a DJ in golf equipment and at own circle of relatives celebrations. He additionally regarded withinside the comic organization Holla-Bolla and as an entertainer for Birte Karalus, a German chat display. After finishing his education, he labored for the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Agency (today: SwissLife) and HDI Lebensversicherung AG.
Career
Pocher’s first tv look turned into on October 28, 1998 in Bärbel Schäfer’s afternoon chat display. Pocher turned into given five mins to make the target target market laugh. This turned into sufficient time for the artist to make the target target market laugh. On September 29, 1999 he supplied the Show Chart Surfer Trash Top 100, What’s up, Planet Viva and in the end in 2002 his personal display Alles Pocher,… oder turned into?.
From January 2003 to April 14, 2006, he supplied the Rent a Pocher display on ProSieben. In 2006 he recorded the single “Schwarz und Weiss”, a music committed to the 2006 World Cup. A tune video turned into made wherein Oliver regarded as a spokesman for numerous press topics and executed the music in the front of fanatics in Team Germany clothing. From October 2007 to April 2009, Pocher regarded at the display through Harald Schmidt, a longtime past due-night time presenter at the tv station Das Erste, below the name Schmidt and Pocher.
In 2008 his 0.33 single “Bring him home” turned into released. It is a music for the European Football Championship 2008. The unique model is Baschi’s number one hit (Switzerland) “Bring en hei”. In 2009 he turned into assistant teach of the European group on the DEL All Star Game.
Pocher’s agreement turned into now no longer renewed after April 2009, that is why he turned into employed through Sat.1 to offer his personal past due night time display, The Oliver Pocher Show. The rankings of this system had been usually beneathneath the common of the broadcaster and slipped even in addition over the years till the display turned into absolutely canceled in March 2011.
Career highlights
Oliver Pocher is regularly criticized for his jokes on the price of others. After recommending plastic surgical operation to a lady from the “Wetten, dass… Broadcast” target target market, he turned into sued on January 22, 2005 for damages of EUR 25,000. Although he apologized to her at the telecellsmartphone and repeated this apology publicly all through one in all his shows, he turned into not able to remedy this struggle out of court. On January 11, Pocher turned into sentenced through the Hanover District Court to a nice of 6,000 euros. The decide accountable referred to as Pocher’s statement (“You appearance pretty vintage on your age”) a “very offensive comment”. The public insult persevered in January 2008 all through the TV display “Johannes B. Kerner” while Pocher made a laugh of the lady’s look once more and mocked the verdict. As a result, every other lawsuit turned into filed towards the entertainer. The victim’s legal professional said that the lady turned into insulted and that the subject is time and again raised through humans she encounters all through her work. Pocher did now no longer touch upon this. Statements like Pocher’s can be prison withinside the future, because the Council of Europe advises decriminalizing insults.
Pocher brought about a scandal all through the ZDF program “Gottschalk & Friends” in July 2005 while he insulted Mariah Carey for the primary time and later by chance spewed water on her. He turned into criticized sharply through a few newspapers and the accountable broadcaster for this action. Gottschalk himself remained calm and commented at the incident as follows: “Of direction I don’t need to have any jokes on the price of others all through my display and I don’t need corpses to be eliminated from the battlefield afterwards. If you invite Pocher in your display, however, you need to anticipate a exclusive environment than, for example, Alfred Biolek. ”
When Pocher made a laugh of the non-public lifestyles of singer Sarah Connor and her fact display, Connor sued Pocher. While the precise final results of the lawsuit isn’t always known, Pocher apologized to Connor. In January 2009, Pocher featured the Hitler murderer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg at the TV program “Schmidt & Pocher”, who’s portrayed through Tom Cruise in “Operation Walküre”. For this he needed to address terrible feedback, after which the broadcasting fee investigated this incident.
In February 2014 Oliver Pocher turned into interviewed on the Vienna Ball through Mirjam Wechselbraun with Kim Kardashian. He joked that he might most effective dance if “N ****** in Vienna” turned into played.
