Dieter Nuhr

Until the age of four, Nuhr spent his childhood in Wesel and then moved with his family to Düsseldorf, where he later graduated from the Leibniz Gymnasium. He has one brother. Nuhr comes from a Catholic family and was an altar boy. From 1981 he studied fine arts and history at the University of Essen. In 1988 he passed the first state examination for this. He began his stage appearances in a school theater group. He drafted his first performance texts during a project of the theater group at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. In 1986 he founded the cabaret duo V.E.V.-K.Barett with Frank Küster. In 1987, they made their first joint appearances with the program Haben Sie sich Ihre Schranknummer gemerkt? In 1989 they created the program Pralle Pracht, and from 1990 they performed under the slightly changed name V.E.V.-Kabarett with the next program Schrille Stille. Zipfeltreffen was the name of the duo's last joint program. From 1994, Nuhr was on the road with his first solo program Nuhr am n