Awards
German Television Award: Honorary Award for Bully Herbig
Michael “Bully” Herbig should be honored. photo
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The director, actor and comedian has another prize up his sleeve. The television awards secretariat describes him as an “entertainment genius”.
The director, actor and comedian Michael “Bully” Herbig (55) gets the German Television Award this year. The “entertainment genius” knows how to put a smile on the audience’s face like no other and has written film and television history with his works, the television award secretariat announced on Wednesday.
The prize will be awarded to Herbig at the gala on September 28th in Cologne. In the comedy sector, Herbig recently attracted attention with “LOL: Last One Laughing” on the Prime Video streaming service.
Herbig began his career in radio in the early 1990s. He became known to television viewers with the comedy show “Bullyparade” (ProSieben), in which he was an actor, author, director and producer. There, “Bully” invented and played characters such as “Abahachi” and “Mr. Spuck”, who later also starred in the films “The Shoe of Manitu” and “(T)Raumschiff Surprise”. The films are among the greatest audience successes of German films.
In addition to comedy productions, Herbig was also responsible for serious films, such as “Balloon”. The film tells the spectacular escape of a family from the GDR. With “A Thousand Lines” he filmed the press scandal surrounding the journalist Claas Relotius.
“Almost no other artist has been able to set standards in so many different genres,” said Sat.1/ProSieben station manager Daniel Rosemann in a statement from the television award. “Michael Bully Herbig loves the big screen and is one of the most creative, clever, versatile and successful television producers we have in Germany.”