BERLIN NON STOP

Born in Bremen, studied at the UdK Berlin.

He composed music for musicals such as BABYTALK, GRIMM, ELTERNABEND, LETTERLAND, MEIN AVATAR & ICH, KEIN PARDON, KOPFKINO ("Best Musical" at the New York Independent Film Festival), DER HASE MIT DEN BERNSTEINAUGEN (German Musical Theater Award 2019 for "Best Music" and "Best Musical") and SHOOTING STAR (premiered in Los Angeles, 2019, New York Off Broadway, 2023).

He has composed for the Neuköllner Oper, the Berlin GRIPS Theater, the Leipzig Opera, the Graz Opera, the Düsseldorf Playhouse, the Landestheater Linz, and the Vienna Musikverein.

He writes songs and chansons for artists such as Ina Müller, Gayle Tufts, Tim Fischer, Irmgard Knef, and Daniela Ziegler.

Thomas Zaufke was awarded the Paul Abraham Prize by the GEMA Foundation in 2022 for his outstanding artistic achievements in the field of popular musical theater.

In 1984, at the age of 19, Thomas Hermanns created his first own live show – and has since then invented an average of one show per year in Germany. Hermanns' shows were always a mix of humor and music, sometimes campy/colorful, but always full of warmth and universally appealing.

Often, they were inspired by the current trends in New York, where Hermanns lived for some time. Perhaps logically, his greatest success became the introduction of the Anglo-Saxon form of "Stand Up Comedy" to Germany. For this, he founded the Quatsch Comedy Club in 1992 in Hamburg. This show (interestingly, his only one without music…) has now been running for over 30 years and not just nationally at the main house in Berlin under Hermanns' directorship, as well as branches in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich, and on tour, but also internationally in London, Zurich, or Hong Kong and of course on TV, where Hermanns became known to a wide audience as the host of this format from 2017 to 2022 on Pro7 and also on SKY One. As a TV host and creative producer, he also worked at the German ESC preliminary decision, as host of the Bambi Awards and the European Film Award, which he hosted in English. Moreover, from 2014-2018, he was the artistic director of the "Golden Camera" TV show. Less known than Hermanns' TV presence as a host is probably the number of artists/clients for whom he has created individual numbers or entire shows since 1984, including for Sasha and Barbara Schöneberger.

From his pen came BUSSI the Musical, Kein Pardon, and Boybands Forever, currently Berlin Non Stop and Hello!Again?, which will premiere in November 2024 at the Musikalische Komödie in Leipzig.

Born in 1971 in Berlin, studied acting from 1991 to 1995 and then performed on major stages in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig, and Hanover. Made his directing debut in 2010 at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden with "The Island" by Athol Fugard. This was followed by productions at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt, and Schauspielhaus Bochum.

Since 2016, he has regularly directed at the Neuköllner Oper, often his own works, such as "Monkey" featuring songs from Peter Fox's album "Stadtaffe". In 2022/23, "Capital of the World Club", a music theater project about the Berlin club scene, was staged at the Kit Kat Club. In addition, he has held several guest professorships in the departments of acting and scenic writing at the UdK Berlin, and since 2020, he has had a continuous role in the ZDF series "Nächste Ausfahrt Glück" (Next Exit Happiness).

Born and raised in Berlin, he studied piano, trombone, and arrangement at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre before beginning his career as a musical director and arranger for musicals.

Since 2011, he has led over 30 different musical productions, either on tour or at municipal and private theaters. He has conducted at venues such as the Theater des Westens, Admiralspalast, and the opera houses of Magdeburg and Dortmund. Additionally, he has arranged music for Max Raabe's Palast Orchester and the Berlin Philharmonic, among others.

Since 2023, he has been the Musical Director of the musical theatre program at the Berlin University of the Arts.