Gerhard Polt

Gerhard Polt (born May 7, 1942 in Munich) is a Bavarian writer, filmmaker, actor and satirical cabaret artist. Gerhard Polt often performs using Bavarian dialect. His main topics are Bavarian people, culture and politics. His performances in Munich theaters, which he started in 1976, are very popular. 1979 he became known to a wider audience in Germany by his TV-comedy-series "Fast wie im richtigen Leben" (Almost like in real life).

Gerhard Polt often performs using Bavarian dialect. His main topics are Bavarian people, culture and politics. His performances in Munich theaters, which he started in 1976, are very popular. 1979 he became known to a wider audience in Germany by his TV-comedy-series "Fast wie im richtigen Leben" (Almost like in real life). In the following years, he was writer and actor in the movies "Kehraus" (1983), "Man spricht Deutsch" (1987), "Germanikus" (2004), and writer and director of "Herr Ober!" (1992).