Oliver Pocher German Comedian Born 1978 in Hanover

Early life

Oliver Pocher was born in Hanover on 18 February 1978 and grew up in the city. His first professional training was not in entertainment. He completed an apprenticeship as an insurance broker at Signal Iduna Bauspar and later worked for two life insurers, SwissLife and HDI. During those years he took part-time jobs at radio stations, worked as a DJ in clubs and at family celebrations, performed with a small comedy group called Holla-Bolla and appeared as an entertainer on the chat show hosted by Birte Karalus.

Career

His first television appearance came on 28 October 1998 on the afternoon talk show of Bärbel Schäfer, where he was given five minutes to make the audience laugh. From 1999 he presented programmes on music television, among them Chart Surfer Trash Top 100 and Was geht ab, Planet Viva. In 2002 he had his own show, Alles Pocher, ... oder was?.

His breakthrough as a host was Rent a Pocher on ProSieben, which he presented from January 2003 until 14 April 2006. In October 2007 he joined the established late-night host Harald Schmidt on Das Erste for Schmidt & Pocher, a collaboration that ran until April 2009. After the contract was not renewed, he moved to Sat.1 with his own late-night programme, Die Oliver Pocher Show, which was taken off the air in March 2011 after ratings stayed below the channel average.

Later television work included Pocher – gefährlich ehrlich! on RTL, in which he appeared with his then wife Amira in 2020 and 2021. From 2022 he hosted the follow-up format to 5 gegen Jauch. In April 2023 he took part in the ProSieben show Die Unschlagbaren – Wer besiegt die Stars?, and in February 2024 RTLzwei announced that he would host two new programmes, Ein Haus voller Geld and Dinge gibt's.

Pocher has also made music. His 2006 single "Schwarz und Weiß" was written for the football World Cup that year. A 2007 collaboration with Nena and Stephan Remmler, "Ich kann nix dafür", was followed in 2008 by "Bringt ihn heim", a cover of a Swiss hit by Baschi made for the European Football Championship; it ranked 68th among the best-selling singles in Germany that year. In 2009 he featured on the single "Kennst du die Stars" by Bushido. His album It's My Life – Aus dem Leben eines B-Promis appeared in 2007, and several of his live and television shows were issued on DVD.

On screen he has appeared in comedies and family films. His credits include 7 Zwerge – Der Wald ist nicht genug and Hui Buh: The Goofy Ghost, both from 2006, and Vollidiot in 2007, in which he played Simon Peters. In 2009 he guest starred in the action series Alarm für Cobra 11 as Oliver Sturm, and in 2010 he played Rüdiger Hack in Hanni & Nanni. Later films include Frisch gepresst (2012), Bruder vor Luder (2015) and Unter deutschen Betten (2017). The listing used for this profile counts nine screen credits in all.

Recognition

In the mid-2000s Pocher collected several comedy and youth awards. He won the Golden Bravo Otto in the comedy category in 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2005 he also received a Comet for best live comedy, the Deutscher Comedypreis for best comedy show and a Jetix Kids Award as the coolest TV star. In 2006 he was given a Radio Regenbogen Comedy Award and two gold records, one for more than 45,000 DVDs sold and one for more than 220,000 copies of "Schwarz und Weiß".

Personal life

Pocher was married to Alessandra Meyer-Wölden from 2010 to 2014. He married Amira Pocher in 2019, and the marriage ended in 2024.

He has a large online following, with about 1.6 million followers on Instagram as of October 2026.