Biography
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 nörgeln!
For his program Nuhr weiter so he received the German Cabaret Award in 1998. In 2003, he received the German Comedy Award for the best live performance. After 22 years, he gave up in 2022 the moderation of the cabaret festival in the Wühlmäusen in favor of his fine art and still received a special prize, which he had often handed over. Numerous television appearances also made him known beyond the cabaret scene, for example in Scheibenwischer, Hüsch und Co., Die Harald Schmidt Show, Quatsch Comedy Club, Genial daneben, Schillerstraße or 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe.His program Ich bin's Nuhr was seen by about half a million people. After his first appearance on Sat.1 in 2004in 2004, he has been on ZDF since 2006 with a similar program at the end of the year. In mid-2007, ZDF broadcast two episodes of Nuhr - Wer's glaubt, wird selig, in which Nuhr dealt with questions about faith and religion. On October 24, 2008, Nuhr took over the moderation of the German Comedy Award for the first time. From November 3, 2009, he was live on ZDF with the four-part comedy series Nuhr so on four Tuesday evenings.
In 2009, he participated in A Tribute to Die Fantastischen Vier for the twentieth anniversary of the hip-hop group.On the compilation, artists from different directions cover songs by the Stuttgart-based group.Nuhr played all the instruments himself on Buenos Dias Messias and recorded the song in his study with the technology otherwise used for radio broadcasts. Since January 2011, he has hosted the ARD program Satire Gipfel and replaced Mathias Richling, whose contract ended in December 2010. In October 2014, the show was renamed nuhr im Ersten.In 2010, he produced a two-part special for RTL on the 2010 World Cup, in which he commented ironically on the subject of soccer.He also produces weekly cabaret features for the radio station WDR 2. From July 2012 to March 2013, he co-hosted the quiz show Null gewinnt with Ralph Caspers on ARD's early evening program. Since 2012, he has regularly participated in the ARD theme week with contributions appropriate to the respective theme, most recently in 2022. In 2013, Nuhr hosted the Comedy Award for the sixth time. In October 2014, Carolin Kebekus followed him as host after six years; in 2015 and 2016 he was chairman of the jury.In 2014, Nuhr was a regular guest on the RTL show Mario Barth deckt auf! and presented several cases of tax waste together with Barth.In 2015, the ARD format Nuhr ab 18 started with him as host.In the 30-minute show, he presented four young comedians at a time.] In 2022, he is on tour in Germany and Switzerland with his program Kein Scherz!
He is married and has a daughter (* 1996). Since 2014, he has played tennis for the age group 50 team of TC Bovert in the Niederrheinliga. Nuhr also devotes himself to conceptual photography and exhibits his photos, some of which are post-processed on the computer, in galleries and museums; first in 2008 in Hamburg, 2010 and again in 2015 in the Museum Ratingen, in the City Museum of Siegburg and in the Gallery Küper in Beijing.In 2017, his work was shown at Villa Stahmer in Georgsmarienhütte. Since 2017, Nuhr has also exhibited his work across Europe and in Asia, such as at Gallery Pékin Fine Arts in Beijing, in Shanghai at Photo Fair, at Luxehills Art Museum in Chengdu, at Galerie Reiners Contemporary Art in Marbella, at the 15th.Shanghai Photography Art Exhibition, at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice, and at the Musée Théodore-Monod d'Art Africain in Dakar. He had some of his pictures auctioned off for charitable purposes.
