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Egon Friedell
Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer (Kabarettist) and theatre critic (1878–1938)
Karl Valentin
Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer (1882–1948)
Helmut Qualtinger
Austrian actor (1928–1986)
Georg Kreisler
Austrian–American Viennese-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author
Fritz Muliar
Austrian actor (1919–2009)
Dieter Hildebrandt
German Kabarett artist, actor, and writer (1927-2013)
Max Ehrlich
German actor, director, screenwriter (1892–1944)
Karl Farkas
Austrian actor and writer (1893–1971)
Otto Wallburg
German film actor (1889–1944)
Fritz Löhner-Beda
Austrian writer, songwriter and librettist (1883-1942)
Jura Soyfer
Austrian writer (1912–1939)
Fritz Grünbaum
Austrian cabaret artist, art collector and Holocaust victim (1880–1941)
Ottfried Fischer
German actor and Kabarett artist
Gerhard Bronner
Austrian composer, writer, musician and cabaret artist (1922–2007)
Rudolf Nelson
German composer
Bruno Jonas
German broadcaster
Alfred Rasser
Swiss actor, 1907-1977 (1907-1977)
Kabarett
Kabarett (; from French cabaret = tavern) is satirical revue, a form of cabaret which was developed in France by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 as the cabaret artistique. It was named Le Chat Noir and was centered on political events and satire. It later inspired creation of Kabarett venues in Germany from 1901, with the creation of Berlin's Überbrettl venue and in Austria with the creation of the Jung-Wiener Theater zum lieben Augustin housed in the Theater an der Wien. By the Weimar era in the mid-1920s it was characterized by political satire and gallows humor. It shared the characteristic atmosphe
Emil Steinberger
Swiss comedian
Ines Torelli
Swiss comedian, stage, television, voice and film actress (1931-2019)
Margrit Rainer
Swiss actress (1914-1982)
Gardi Hutter
Swiss clown, comedian, writer and actress
Volker Pispers
German cabaret artist
Helmut Krauss
German actor (1941–2019)
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German entertainer (1959–)
Inigo Gallo
Swiss actor (1932-2000)
Paul Krassner
American writer and satirist (1932–2019)
Hermann Leopoldi
Austrian composer (1888-1959)
Eckart von Hirschhausen
German comedian (born 1967)
Überbrettl
thumb|300px|Überbrettl in 1901 on Alexanderstraße Überbrettl (; English: ) was the first venue in Germany for literary cabaret, or Kabarett, founded 1901 in Berlin by Ernst von Wolzogen. The German Kabarett concept was imported from French venues like Le Chat Noir in Paris, from which it kept the characteristic atmosphere of intimacy. But the German type developed its own peculiarities, most prominently its characteristic gallows humour.
Daniele Luttazzi
Italian actor
Ruedi Walter
Swiss actor and comedian (1916-1990)
César Keiser
Swiss actor (1925-2007)
Hagen Rether
German standup comedian and pianist
Lore Lorentz
German cabaret artist (1920–1994)
Vince Ebert
German author, news presenter and physicist
Margrit Läubli
Swiss dancer and actress
Rudolf Bernhard
Swiss actor (1901-1962)
Mathias Richling
German comedian
Bill Mockridge
Canadian actor
Hannes Ringlstetter
German actor
Torsten Sträter
German writer, satirist and stand-up comedian
Ursula Schaeppi
Swiss actress
Lukas Resetarits
Austrian actor
Nadja Sieger
Swiss publisher
Paul Bühlmann
Swiss actor (1927-2000)