Bülent Ceylan


Bülent Ceylan is a German comedian and Kabarett artist. He plays several comic roles with frequent themes being the quirks of Germans from Turkish family backgrounds and people from Mannheim, told in the dialect of Mannheim.

Early life and education

Bülent Ceylan was born in Mannheim. His mother Hilde is a Hungarian born German, his father Ahmet Ceylan was a Turkish enterpreneur in the construction industry. He has three older siblings.
Ceylan attended Friedrich-Ebert-Grundschule and Ludwig-Frank-Gymnasium in Mannheim. In his eleventh year he had a performance parodying Boris Becker, which was very well received by teachers and students.
After the Abitur in 1995 he did an internship with the music station VIVA and the Rhineland-Palatinate radio station RPR1. In the beginning he performed on small stages, afterwards he studied philosophy and political science but quit university in favor of his stage career.

Career

In November 2002 he started the successful program Döner for one, with which he achieved the national breakthrough.
In July 2006, the premiere of his programme halb getürkt was broadcast on ZDF. In 2007 he followed up with the program "Kebabbel net" which was later recorded and broadcast by RTL in 2009. This brought him the "Deutschen Comedypreis" in the category Newcomer and the "CIVIS-Medienpreis" for integration in May 2010. At the same time Ceylan celebrated the premiere of his program "Ganz schön turbülent" for which he was awarded the "Deutschen Comedypreis" as best comedian in 2010. Ceylan started his program "Wilde Kreatürken" in 2011, which RTL broadcast in 2012. His next program "HAARDROCK" premiered in January 2014. In 2016 he started the program Kronk.
Bülent Ceylan has appeared in numerous German TV shows like Quatsch Comedy Club. He develops his programs mainly together with Roland Junghans. As an actor, he played Mustafa in several episodes of the series Hausmeister Krause and as Jonny, a main character in the sitcom Bewegte Männer. On 6 June 2008, he joined Stefan Raabs "Autoball-EM" playing for Turkey. His stage show Bülent Ceylan – live was broadcast on RTL Television on Saturday, 26 September 2009. On 21 August 2010 Ceylan appeared at the 'Summer Breeze' metal festival.
In February 2011 started on RTL Television with the first season consisting of six episodes.
In August 2011 he appeared on the Wacken Open Air.

Personal life

Bülent Ceylan is married and has a daughter.
Ceylan has mentioned in several interviews that he has a foot fetish.

Programs