Hazel Brugger

Allison Hazel Brugger (born 9 December 1993) is a Swiss-American slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist and television presenter.

Hazel Brugger
Born
Allison Hazel Brugger

(1993-12-09) 9 December 1993
San Diego, California, U.S.
NationalitySwiss, American, German
Occupation(s)Slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, television presenter
SpouseThomas Spitzer
Children1
Websitehazelbrugger.com

Life and career

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]

Career

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.

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?

Hazel Brugger has been living in Cologne since 2016.[16][17]

Guest appearances

Books
  • Ich bin so hübsch (I'm so pretty). Kein & Aber, Zürich 2016, ISBN 978-3-0369-5936-8.
  • Hazel Brugger, Thomas Spitzer (Authors), Jannes Weber (Illustrations): Deutschland Was Geht – Das Wimmelbuch. Diogenes, Zürich 2021, ISBN 978-3-257-01294-1.

Audiobooks
  • Hazel Brugger passiert* : live im Café Kairo Bern. Audio-CD, Der gesunde Menschenversand, Luzern 2016, ISBN 978-3-03853-029-9.

Awards
  • 2013: «Swiss Master» of Poetry-Slam
  • 2015: «Young Journalist of the Year» by the magazine Schweizer Journalist
  • 2016: «Swiss Columnist of the Year» voted by a survey conducted by Schweizer Journalist among 1400 journalists.[19]
  • 2017: German prize for cabaret by the city of Mainz
  • 2017: Salzburger Stier[20]
  • 2017: Bavarian cabaret prize for emerging artist
  • 2017: Swiss Comedy Award
  • 2017: German Comedy Award for emerging artist

References
  1. "Versuchen Sie mal, sich selbst zu kitzeln". TagesWoche. From the original article on 22 May 2014.
  2. Grossrieder, Beat. "Hazel Brugger ist unser fieses Alter Ego. Als Slam-Poetin macht sie alles und jeden nieder, und gerade darum lieben wir sie." NZZ. From the original on 22 October 2016.
  3. Graber, Michael. "Hazel Brugger: 'Mit Humor macht man sich verletzlicher'". Luzerner Zeitung. from the original on February 2019. Retrieved on 24 April 2019.
  4. "Hazel Brugger". Website Das Magazin. Retrieved on 24 April 2019.
  5. Brugger, Hazel. "Out und Erbaut". Hochparterre. Retrieved on 22 November 2015.
  6. "Hazel Brugger". Website Tageswoche. Retrieved on 24 April 2019.
  7. "Hazel Brugger Show and Tell". Theater Naumarkt. Internet Archive. Retrieved on 22 November 2015.
  8. "The Flying Stoll und eine unschlagbare Brugger". Saiten-Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin. From the original on 20 October 2013.
  9. Stephan, Julia. "Ich habe eine kindliche Seite". Zentralschweiz am Sonntag. From the original on 22 November 2015.
  10. "". Spiegel online. retrieved on the second of October 2020.
  11. "Good Vibes Only".
  12. ""Wir wollten nicht ironisch heiraten"". Zeit Campus. Retrieved on 11 November 2021.
  13. IMDb-entry of Heute Show., Retrieved on 12 April 2016.
  14. ""Die Gäste der ZDF Satiresendung 'Die Anstalt'". Kabarett News. Retrieved on April 20, 2016". www.kabarett-news.de. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019.
  15. ""Hazel and Thomas". Youtube. Retrieved on February 19, 2020". YouTube.
  16. Möller, Christian. "Hazel Brugger Durch die Gegend", Episode 25. From the original in 2017.
  17. "Hugendick, David. "Komik als Kampftechnik". Die Zeit. From the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved on October 30, 2018". Die Zeit.
  18. "Ditsche – HSV-Astieg – Räuber Hotzenplotz und die Mondlandung – Gast: Hazel Brugger". Website WDR. Retrieved on 15 May 2018.
  19. "Daniel Ryser wird 'Journalist des Jahres'". persoenlich.com. From the original on 29 November 2016.
  20. "Hosea Ratschiller erhält Salzburger Stier". orf.at. From the original on 1 December 2016. Retrieved on 1 December 2016.
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