Comedian Fabio Landert is touring through the large canton
The Germans laugh at this Eastern Swiss
The corona pandemic forced him to take a career break. Now, thanks to social media, things are really getting going for Fabio Landert. He regularly makes Germans laugh with his stand-up comedy.
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Fabio Landert’s appointment calendar is currently jam-packed: the man from Eastern Switzerland is on many comedy stages in the German-speaking world.
Michael ImhofDesk Manager People
His budding comedy career was abruptly slowed down by the corona pandemic. Now Fabio Landert (33) is going full throttle again and making the Germans laugh on numerous stages. “Sometimes they don’t even notice that I have a Swiss accent,” says Landert. And jokes: “A viewer thought I was Poles.”
Landert is now a long way from the Corona period without performing: “In 2022 I played one to three shows a week in Germany. I had 24 dates with my own tour starting in October. And next year there will be even more », says the East Swiss resident in Berlin. After winning the young talent awards from the Swiss Comedy Award and the German cult comedy show “Nightwash”, he has continuously expanded his reputation with social media. «With videos of my performances. There were more and more fans, »he says. Around 40,000 people follow him on Instagram, and 27,000 people have subscribed to him on Tiktok.
Known at Olma as a sore thumb
His notoriety spills over from social media into real life. “I’m always amazed at how many people now approach me on the street in Germany,” says Landert. In Switzerland it is even more extreme, as his visit to the Olma this year, which was actually private, showed. “I couldn’t go 50 meters without taking a picture with someone.”
Landert does not have a role model. But one person who has been with him since childhood: “I once performed a sketch by Peach Weber in the ski camp. A flop that went completely haywire,” he recalls. Nevertheless, he continued to follow the Aargau comedian – and apparently later Weber also the St. Gallen. “After the Swiss Comedy Awards ceremony, I received an email from a Peach Weber who praised me for my performance,” says the man from Eastern Switzerland. “I couldn’t believe it and wrote back: Are you really Peach Weber?” He said yes.
Today he plays in Kaufleuten
Next spring, Landert will also appear in Switzerland with his “Unter die Haut” tour. He will also invite Peach Weber there. However, there are not many places left: four of the six previously announced dates in Switzerland are already sold out, including one in Zurich’s Kaufleuten. «It’s gratifying – in my early twenties I was denied entry there several times. Now the store for my first solo show there was sold out within a few days,” he says with a laugh.
Finally, in 2024, the dernière should take place in this country. Where exactly is still unclear. Landert: “It’s my big dream to play in front of a sold-out crowd at the Zurich Volkshaus.”
Tickets for Landert’s performance on March 21, 2023 in the Kofmel Solothurn are available on Tickettetcorner.