Acting
Oliver Pocher
Born
1978-02-18 (48)
Place of birth
Hannover, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
57 titles
Oliver Pocher (born February 18, 1978, in Hanover) is a German comedian, television presenter, and actor. Oliver Pocher began his professional career following an apprenticeship as an insurance clerk and a period of alternative civilian service with the Workers' Samaritan Federation (Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund). Even during this time, he worked on the side as a DJ, radio host, and entertainer. He first garnered public attention through appearances in smaller comedy formats before establishing himself as a television presenter and comedian in the early 2000s. Pocher became particularly well-known for his provocative and satirical style in numerous TV shows and comedy formats. In addition to hi…
Known for
5.5TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
Markus Lanz
2008
7.4The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
No synopsis available yet.
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
9.0Political talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner.
maybrit illner
1999
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
2010s · 7 titles
6.3Hanni and Nanni are not only sisters, but also best friends. The twins are inseparable and always up to something. When they cause a wild chase through a department store, their wealthy parents have had it: They send the girls to the posh boarding school Lindenhof in order to teach them some manners. While sweet-tempered Nanni quickly makes new friends, the impulsive Hanni has a hard time accustoming herself.
Hanni & Nanni
2010
4.7Andrea, a childless single, humiliates herself on a date with ex‐crush Gregor, blacks out, and wakes in his bed. Determined to change, she meets ideal lawyer Chris. As she and friends imagine a future, Andrea discovers she’s pregnant - certain Chris is the father despite doubt about that night.
Frisch gepresst
2012
3.8Two brothers are having a concert but one of them falls in love with a girl, now it's going to be hard for the two to work together.
Bros Before Hoes
2015
4.8After a disastrous performance and a philandering producer leave her publicly humiliated, a faltering pop star takes up work as a cleaning woman.
Unter deutschen Betten
2017
NRThis portrait for the comedian's 70th birthday also shows the artist from his sensitive side. He talks about his failed marriages, his religious upbringing and how he actually wanted to be a serious musician, but that comedy was ultimately more popular with audiences. In addition, many companions from Otto's early youth as well as later prominent companions have their say.
Otto - Die Doku
2018
No synopsis available yet.
VIVA Forever - Die Show
2018
4.5The Wieland and Aschenbach families urgently need daycare places. Fortunately, the director of the municipal daycare center, Johannes Herder, is moving in right next door to them. However, there is only one free daycare place left. That's why every family is now trying to impress Herder. He uses the parents' eagerness to his advantage until the situation gets out of hand just before Christmas.
Der Weihnachtskrieg
2013
2000s · 7 titles
5.9On a magical tropical island, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people discover a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times. When a king from a faraway country vows to capture the loveable baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants must join together to save their new friend.
Impy's Island
2006
5.8After 500 years, castle ghost Hui Buh finally has some royal residents to haunt, but he soon loses his license to scare and must get recertified.
Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost
2006
6.4A winged baby dinosaur inhabits an island in the middle of the ocean with a group of loveable animal friends. Everything changes when a dimwitted dinosaur hunter turns up and lures the creature back to captivity with rather sinister plans for his discovery.
Impy's Wonderland
2008
5.5Snow White asks the seven dwarfs for help, because if they don't manage to find out the name of a little boy (Rumpelstiltskin) within two days, her newborn child will be taken away from her. The journey takes the dwarves to a depressive, rhyming Pinocchio and the omniscient wizard Helge, among others, and all the way to the world of humans.
7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough
2006
4.6Based on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ago. While his Croatian cleaner tries to procure him, his efforts to chat up women in clubs also fail. However, he finds the woman of his dreams (and mother of their future children) in his most hated coffee shop, although not having a clue how to win her heart...
Vollidiot
2007
No synopsis available yet.
Best of Oliver Pocher - Aufstieg und Fall eines B-Promis
2005
More than 180 appearances, 170,000 spectators and almost 40,000 kilometers driven in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With his program "It's my life - from the life of a B-list celebrity", Oliver Pocher played his way into the premier league of German comedians and, above all, into the hearts of his audience. "It's my life" is more than just 2 hours of the finest comedy. It is the ultimate life advice for everyone: Why can't you bring nail scissors on an airplane? What do Pinocchio and Rammstein have in common? And how do you get Oliver Pocher into bed? In his program, the former secondary school student, Jehovah's Witness and insurance salesman not only provides answers to these questions, but also inspires with unique dance interludes, bizarre parodies and unforgettable anecdotes from his life.
Oliver Pocher - It's My Life
2007
Series credits
5.5TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
Markus Lanz
2008
7.4The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
No synopsis available yet.
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
9.0Political talk show on current topics presented by Maybrit Illner.
maybrit illner
1999
7.4No synopsis available yet.
Wer weiß denn sowas?
2015
5.0The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
Das Traumschiff
1981
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Zimmer frei!
1996
No synopsis available yet.
3 nach 9
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
5.6A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Wetten, dass..?
1981
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Genial daneben
2003
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Hart aber fair
2001
9.3No synopsis available yet.
Dalli Dalli
1971
7.0Tigerenten Club is a German children's television programme. The programme involves a mix of games, quizzes, cartoons and outside reports from the presenters and children, with the aim to educate and entertain. It is produced by SWR in co-operation with other regional broadcasters, and is broadcast on ARD and KiKa. The logo and the name of the programme is based upon the Tigerente or 'Tigerduck', created by German cartoonist Janosch.
Tigerenten Club
1996
5.4German version of Dancing with the Stars, the reality competition in which celebrities perform choreographed dance routines which are judged by a panel of renowned ballroom experts and voted on by viewers.
Let's Dance
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Quizduell-Olymp
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Aeschbacher
2001
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Genial daneben - Das Quiz
2018
No synopsis available yet.
G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
2005
7.8A late-night show featuring Northern German cabaret artist, singer and presenter Ina Müller - done "Müller-style": talk, comedy and lots and lots of music.
Inas Nacht
2007
7.6Pastewka is a German television sitcom that began airing on German TV channel Sat.1 in 2005. The series, currently in its sixth season, is set in Cologne, with German actor Bastian Pastewka starring as a fictionalized version of himself. It has been compared to Seinfeld and Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm. The series was awarded, among others, the Rose d'Or and the German Television Prize. Series was directed by Joseph Orr and Jan Markus Linhof.
Pastewka
2005
6.2Current studio guests, exciting backgrounds, moving stories, spectacular studio events and captivating reports - presenters pull all this and much more live from the grab bag of German television every week.
Stern TV
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Die Pyramide
1979
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show was a German television talk show that ran on VIVA and was then transferred to MTV under the title Kuttner. in mid-2005. It ran from August 2, 2004 to August 3, 2006. Hosted by Sarah Kuttner, it was a more youthful variation on the traditional late show concept with a sidekick, Sven Schuhmacher, and various national as well as international celebrity guests. The show also featured humorous reports by Michael Wigge and Caroline Korneli, its own band and musical guests performing live on stage. When MTV took over other German music channel VIVA in 2004, it was suggested, the show would be cancelled, which drew massive protests from fans. It was then cut from four shows per week to just two shows and later transferred to MTV and renamed Kuttner. Production was relocated from Cologne to Berlin. MTV cancelled Kuttner. in summer 2006 due to low ratings and high production costs.
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
2004
No synopsis available yet.
Die ultimative Chartshow
2003
5.3Deutschland sucht den Superstar is a German reality talent show, also commonly known by its initials DSDS. Part of the Idol franchise, it was created by English media mogul Simon Fuller as a spin-off from the British show Pop Idol, of which two series were broadcast between the years of 2001 and 2003. Debuting to mediocre ratings in October 2002 on the RTL network, the show has since become one of the most successful shows on German television. The program aims to discover the best singer in the country through a series of nationwide auditions in which viewer voting determines the winner. Voting is done through telephone and SMS text voting.
Deutschland sucht den Superstar
2002
7.9Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany. The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit. Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.
Through the Night with...
2002
6.2A late night talk show, hosted by Joko and Klaas.
Circus Halligalli
2013
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Quizduell
2014
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Grill den Henssler
2013
8.1Schillerstraße was a German improvisational comedy show that aired weekly on Sat.1. It was recorded without a script and broadcast unedited to a large extent.
Schillerstraße
2004
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause
2020
No synopsis available yet.
Doppelpass
2004
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Stars in der Manege
1959
No synopsis available yet.
Dinner Party - Der Late-Night-Talk
2017
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
1999
No synopsis available yet.
ECHO-Verleihung
1992