Hazel Brugger
A Swiss performer, Hazel Brugger works as a slam poet, comedian, cabaret artist, and television presenter. Born on December 9, 1993, in San Diego, California, she holds Swiss, German, and US citizenship. Her father, Peter Brugger, is a Swiss neuropsychologist, while her mother is an English teacher originally from Cologne, Germany. Having been raised in Dielsdorf, close to Zürich, she has two older brothers. Brugger began her performance career at age 17, starting with poetry slams in Winterthur, Switzerland, and eventually winning the Swiss Poetry Slam Championship in October 2013. From 2014 to 2017, she wrote a bi-weekly column for Das Magazin , and previously contributed to Hochparterre and TagesWoche from 2013 to 2014. She hosted the 'Hazel Brugger Show and Tell' in Zürich from 2015 to 2017, and debuted her first cabaret program, 'Hazel Brugger passiert,' in November 2015. Her second solo program, 'Tropical,' premiered in February 2019 and subsequently toured Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A recording of 'Tropical' was released on Netflix as a special in December 2020. From 2016 onwards, Brugger has served as a correspondent for the German program heute-show, which is a political satire show. She received the Salzburger Stier Kabarett Award for Switzerland in 2017, becoming the youngest recipient. She is married to Thomas Spitzer since 2020 and they co-host the YouTube series 'What's up, Europe?' and run the production company Viel Spaß GmbH. They previously hosted the podcast 'Nur verheiratet' from early 2021 until December 2022, and now host 'Hazel Thomas Hörerlebnis,' with new episodes released weekly. She has received numerous awards including a Bambi Award in Comedy in 2025 and the German Comedy Award in 2020. She is currently touring with her fifth stage program, 'Good Evening Europe,' which is expected to include around 60 shows through Germany, Austria and Switzerland until Spring 2027.
