Otto Waalkes

Person · Open Library

Works

8

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Film & TV

Acting · Emden, Germany

Otto Waalkes, born in Emden in 1948, ranks among the most successful German comedians of all time. He first gained widespread recognition in the mid-1970s through his comedy albums and his own television show. By the mid-1980s—culminating with the release of his first feature film, *Otto – Der Film*—he had risen to the status of an absolute superstar. With a box-office tally of over 14 million…

Known for

• Hallervorden - Didi gegen den Rest der Welt — Self2025
• Seiler und Speer: A schware Partie 25 — Otto Waalkes2025
• Mein Name ist Otto — Self2024
• Udo Lindenberg & Das Panikorchester - 50 Jahre Rock'n'Roll in der bunten Republik — Self2023
• Ottos Märchenshow — Self2022
• Otto Fröhliche - Advent, Advents mit Otto und Friends — Various2021
• Catweazle — Catweazle2021
• Help, I Shrunk My Friends — Otto Leonhard2021
• LOL: Last One Laughing — Self2021
• Help, I Shrunk My Parents — Otto Leonhard2018

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Germany

Active from

1948

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

91,569

Total plays

1,270,363

Otto Waalkes (born July 22, 1948 in Emden, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German comedian and actor. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. He shares a close friendship with tennis player Steffi Graf, who also makes an appearance in the movie Otto - Der Außerfriesische. He has one child with his first wife Manou. In 2000 he married award-winning filmmaker and actress Eva Hassmann. They seperated in Novem

via Last.fm · Otto Waalkes

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,947x

2. On the Origin of Cancer Cells

   · 1956 · cited 11,438x

3. Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report

   · 1982 · cited 11,172x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,992x

5. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,215x

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Official website

Ottifant - Die offizielle Homepage von Otto Waalkes Ottifanten – Ottifant.de

Ottifant - Hier sind Otto Waalkes Ottifanten zu Hause – und sie kommen auch gern zu dir! Entdecke viele kuriose Produkte und Fan-Artikel.

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