Fil is known for comics in the Berlin city newspaper “Zitty”. He is also a traveling comedian. A conversation about tax office controls, his habit of constantly watching “Breaking Bad” – and what idea he got from a book about getting rich.
The Berliner Fil, 57, whose real name is Philip Tägert, performs with his one-man stage show throughout Germany. In Berlin usually in the Mehringhof Theater with sometimes 1,500 spectators, on this summer evening in the tranquil Munich clubhouse in front of a few dozen. His self-written musical “Cringe” can be seen. In it, the comedian chats and sings about the Berlin gangs “Die Osts” and “Die Wests” and the missed opportunities of real estate buyers. Fil arrives at the meeting at Café Münchner Freiheit with two suitcases from Berlin and first orders a herbal tea. It arrives promptly – with two tea bags. “Where can you get something like that?” he asks and pockets one of them.