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Hazel Brugger
Brugger in 2018
Born
Allison Hazel Brugger

(1993-12-09) 9 December 1993 (age 31)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, television presenter
Spouse
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(m. 2020)​
Children2
Websitehazelbrugger.com

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

Background

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Allison Hazel Brugger was born on 9 December 1993 in San Diego, California. Her father is Swiss neuropsychologist Peter Brugger[1] and her mother is an English teacher who is originally from Cologne, Germany.[2]

She grew up in Dielsdorf, near Zürich and has two older brothers. After graduating in Bülach, she began studying philosophy and literature at the University of Zurich, but she eventually quit.[3] When she was 17, she started her poetry slam career in Winterthur, Switzerland northeast of Zürich.

From 2014 and 2017, Brugger wrote a fortnightly column for Das Magazin,[4] a Swiss daily newspaper. From 2013 to 2014, she was a columnist for "Hochparterre"[5] and the TagesWoche.[6] In 2015, she was the moderator of the live talk show "Hazel Brugger Show and Tell" in the Theater am Neumarkt[7] in Zürich which was held every two months. On 9 October 2013, she performed in the fourth Poetry Slam Championships in Bern, Switzerland.[8] In November 2015, she started her first cabaret programme "Hazel Brugger passiert".[9] In February 2019, she began to tour in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with her second solo programme "Tropical",[3] which debuted on Netflix on 2 December 2020.

In October 2020, Brugger announced that she was pregnant.[9] She and Thomas Spitzer have been married since 2020.[10] They have two daughters.

Career

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Since 2016, she has been a correspondent on the German political satire show heute-show on ZDF.[11][12] On 26 April she had her first guest appearance on another ZDF satire-show, "Die Anstalt" (The Insane Asylum).[13] In 2017 she won the Salzburger Stier, a prize for cabaret artists.[14] She is the youngest person to ever win this award.[15]

In 2019, Brugger started a YouTube series which she hosts with Spitzer, a co-producer and an author. The show is called Deutschland Was Geht, which translates to What's up, Germany?.[16] In the show Brugger and Spitzer explore interesting and at times bizarre places together with various German comedians.[17] In 2020 the show changed names to What's up, Europe?.[16]

Brugger has lived in Cologne since 2016.[18][12]

In May 2025, Brugger co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 which was held in Basel, Switzerland.[19]

Guest appearances

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Books

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  • 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

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

Awards

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  • 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.[21]
  • 2017: German prize for cabaret by the city of Mainz
  • 2017: Salzburger Stier[22]
  • 2017: Bavarian cabaret prize for emerging artist
  • 2017: Swiss Comedy Award
  • 2017: German Comedy Award for emerging artist

References

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  1. ^ "«Versuchen Sie mal, sich selbst zu kitzeln»" ["Try tickling yourself"]. TagesWoche (in Swiss High German). 26 April 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  2. ^ Grossrieder, Beat (21 October 2016). "Porträt Hazel Brugger: Unser fieses Alter Ego" [Portrait of Hazel Brugger: Our nasty alter ego]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  3. ^ a b Graber, Michael (3 February 2019). "Interview - Hazel Brugger: «Mit Humor macht man sich verletzlicher»" [Interview - Hazel Brugger:"With Humour, one becomes more vulnerable"]. Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  4. ^ "Hazel Brugger". Das Magazin (in German). 9 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  5. ^ Brugge, Hazel. "Out und Erbaut" [Out and Built]. Hochparterre (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  6. ^ "Hazel Brugger". TagesWoche (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  7. ^ "Hazel Brugger Show and Tell". TheaterNeumarkt.ch (in German). Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  8. ^ "The Flying Stoll und eine unschlagbare Brugger" [The Flying Stoll and an unbeatable Brugger]. Saiten.ch (in Swiss High German). 20 October 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  9. ^ a b Stepan, Julia (1 October 2020). "ZDF-Comedian: Hazel Brugger ist schwanger" [ZDF-Comedian: Hazel Brugger is pregnant]. Spiegel Online (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  10. ^ Tomšić, Sara (15 February 2021). "Hazel Brugger und Thomas Spitzer: "Wir wollten nicht ironisch heiraten"" [Hazel Brugger and Thomas Spitzer:We didn't want to get married ironically]. Zeit.de (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  11. ^ "Heute Moderatorin beim ESC 2025 im Livestream: So tickt Hazel Brugger als Ehefrau und Mutter" [Today Show presenter at the ESC 2025 in the live stream: This is what Hazel Brugger is like as a wife and mother]. Joyn.de (in German). 17 May 2025. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  12. ^ a b Hugendick, David (14 September 2017). "Komik als Kampftechnik" [Comedy as a fighting technique]. Zeit.de (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  13. ^ "Die Gäste der ZDF Satiresendung "Die Anstalt" vom 26.04" [The guests of the ZDF satirical show "Die Anstalt" from April 26th.]. Kabarett-News.de. Archived from the original on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  14. ^ "Salzburger Stier 2017: Hazel Brugger". Srf.ch (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  15. ^ "Salzburger Stier 2017 - Hazel Brugger gewinnt die Lacher mit todernster Miene" [Hazel Brugger wins the laughs with a deadly serious expression]. Srf.ch (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  16. ^ a b Guyoncourt, Sally. "Who are Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer? Meet the Eurovision 2025 presenters". MSN.com. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  17. ^ Hazel and Thomas. YouTube. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  18. ^ Möller, Christian. "Durch die Gegend | Episode 25 | Hazel Brugger". VierTausendHertz.de (in German). Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  19. ^ "Meet your hosts for Basel 2025". Eurovision.tv. 20 January 2025. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
  20. ^ Dittrich, Olli (13 May 2018). "Dittsche - HSV-Abstieg - Räuber Hotzenplotz und die Mondlandung - Gast: Hazel Brugger (236)" [Dittsche - HSV relegation - Robber Hotzenplotz and the moon landing - Guest: Hazel Brugger (236)]. Wdr.de (in German). Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  21. ^ "Daniel Ryser wird «Journalist des Jahres»" [Daniel Ryser named "Journalist of the Year"]. Persoenlich.com (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
  22. ^ "Hosea Ratschiller erhält Salzburger Stier" [Hosea Ratschiller receives Salzburg Bull]. Orf.at (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2025.
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