Reaction To 37 Imitationen des Max Giermann

[@calise616]

He is a genius! I think Klaus Kinski is the most popular, due to the intense, erratic behavior of Kinski. But Max Giermann is extremely versatile.

[@eltiburon1983]

yes - you should react to a full klaus kinski impression as well as to an actual Klaus Kinski video :D

[@spartan7123]

The Word that describes Klaus Kinski the best is insane. You should really watch his Temper Tantrum on the Set of the Movie Fitzcarraldo. It's LEGENDARY. Nearly every impression from Giermann is based on this.

[@spartan7123]

You forgot insane, crasy and an absolute Madman.🤪 But yes, he also was a Genius.

[@calise616]

@@spartan7123 I know that video 😊

[@thomasmargis9808]

Finde Stefan Raab more iconic!

[@NoldorianElf]

Torsten Sträter was actually present when Max Giermann impersonated him during "Der Deutsche Comedypreis 2020" He sat at a table in the front, happily smiling and shaking his head in disbelief. Max Giermann is being held in high regard for his art. And you are absolutely right, the make-up team should deserve a great round of applause. Then again Giermann once just put on the black beanie und "transformed" into Torsten Sträter just like that with out any latex prosthetic makeup. He sure is a rare talent.

[@_jpg]

Do you mean the fantastic impression on "Last One Laughing"? :D

[@MeritSeto]

I died laughing, when he did a whole Markus Lanz Show on his own out of nowhere

[@NoldorianElf]

@@_jpg Yepp, that was the second time. Then again I saw that on KZbin.

[@deanneshorty]

I wanted to write that too. ❤

[@lokis_erbemumpitz6432]

Thorsten also Said: max Giermann imitated me.....what can i achieve more in my Life 😊

[@JonnyRobels]

The best thing about the Thorsten Sträter Imitation was, he did it at an event, where Sträter got an award. And while he was speaking on stage, the camera switched to Sträter nearly peeing his pants in the audience! Priceless! Later, when he went on stage to get his award, he turned around and bowed to the backstage area, saluting to Giermann...

[@l.erweises3750]

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[@HG_Budde]

He already knew the impression from Last One Laughing.. 😂 I would even say that Mert is finally ready to watch it, no? 👀

[@bjorkbrennt]

@@HG_Budde Thorsten Sträter would definetely be a go to to watch for Mert. But I doubt Sträter is understable with poorly generated translation since he plays around with different meanings of terms a lot. But Sträter is deffo hilarious especially when his descriptions are getting slightly surrealistic. Plus, according to the German version of the LOL show I wonder if that's hard to get, too. Maybe it is. For me personally I don't understand too much of what's going on on LOL shows from other countries, but maybe that's just me.

[@GameCracker96]

@@HG_Budde Yeeeeeeees had to think of it so many times while watching this video. hard agree

[@GameCracker96]

@@bjorkbrennt honestly, you're probably right. It's something I thought many times while watching mert's videos that he is missing out on the best part of most comedians work because of in depth play with language (which is honestly impressingly good possible in german). Also in LOL when they invited John Cleese as a guest I loved it, but also felt like he himself felt out of place and only getting half of anything because most of the nuances of the others humor got lost in translation. hopefully one day mert will have good german knowledge to understand that extra level of jokes :D would love to see him watch lol

[@oliversawe1988]

The Honecker scene is from Sketch History a German TV series that was making a parody out of historical events. The guy, who was shot by Honecker is the west german rock musician Lindenberg, who performed a concert in East-Berlin in 1983. This was turned into a musical by Lindenberg called "Hinterm Horizont" and into a movie in 2010 "Die Akte Udo Lindenberg" In this Sketch he is asking for the GDR permit to have his festival and is in response shot and then they put in a dummy for him.

[@tomate3391]

Exactly, in in the early eighties Lindenberg wanted to perform so badly in the GDR. His song "Sonderzug nach Pankow" was all about that. And the look of Lindenberg in Sketch-History was from that period.

[@brinkiTOgo]

Thorsten Sträter is a legend himself. And Max Giermann impersonating him is just top notch 😂

[@Lorlen88]

Max Giermann is a legend of german comedy and his imitations are always on point. Great man!

[@Helmovic]

Switch and switch reloaded hands down best comedy shows xD

[@boerbenlp8659]

Thorsten Sträter and Klaus Kinski, as well as Stefan Raab are probably his best roles. Gestures, verbal and facial expression and appearance are on point. Sometime a bit exaggerated but only slightly.There is a german sketch show called "sketch history" where he sometimes appears as Klaus Kinski but is supposed to be a historical person as caesar or one of the thre holy kings.

[@deniskramer3562]

For me it's that Cuban dancing teacher Jorge Gonzales.

[@DerSim688]

Calling them Three Holy Kings in English is very uncommon, they are usually called Three Wise Men or Three Magi.

[@D4l4m4r]

Straeter was eerily on point i think that was extremely impressive.

[@Ogopogo313]

Nearly all of his impressions are better than the Raab one

[@HittesMittes]

@@deniskramer3562y he even imitates his tongue… and Markus Lanz is also very good.

[@Yendor1224]

In "sketch history" he also performed as Karl Dall with the real Karl Dall. But the impressions he does without any makeup are my favorite ones. His entire body changes and he is simply becomes a different human.

[@nonconfundar]

can i just say how much i appreciate your level of curiosity? It´s so wholesome to watch you discovering the weird world of us germans. And whenever it comes to politics and stuff you are showing so much knowlegde and such a nice and well reflected way of thinking! Keep it up mate, i love your content!

[@bjorkbrennt]

Agreed. Very witty. Mert, you're a delight to watch. Especially in comparism to similar reaction videos from US people (no offense, just different culture). Like how curious you are, how deep you like to dive into topics and how accurate you analyse things even without understanding everything that was said in the videos.

[@JustdifferentKr]

The two award ceremonies with Max as Klaus Kinski are worth watching in their entirety.

[@R4ZORLIGHT]

Max Giermann is by far the best german comedian we currently have. Especially when he is imitating Klaus Kinski, brilliant.

[@PiterburgCowboy]

The absolute state of German comedy......

[@nicschu456]

No brainer, his imitations of Klaus Kinski are 🔥

[@arnodobler1096]

Max is the better Klaus Kinski, crazy

[@simonsays2774]

Helmut Schmidt was Germany's best chancellor and one of the most impressive personalities of the last 100 years.

[@Johannes_Piotr]

Debatable, but he defenitly was one of the best. Helmut Schmidt, Willy Brandt, Ludwig Erhardt and probably Bismarck all compete for the top spot imo.

[@guccipucci3941]

Euer bester Kanzler ist ein Nazi? Just Wessi things 💀 Helmut Schmidt war in der Hitlerjugend, ist freiwillig 1937 in die Wehrmacht eingetreten und wurde während seiner 8 Jährigen Militärlaufbahn von seinen Nazi-Vorgesetzten wie folgt beschrieben: er „Steht auf dem Boden der national sozialistischen Weltanschauung und versteht es, dieses Gedankengut weiterzugeben.“ des weiteren akkreditierte man ihm eine „einwandfreie nationalsozialistische Haltung“ (10. September 1943) bzw. „Nationalsozialistische Haltung tadelfrei“ (18. September 1944). Naja in der BRD gab’s ja kaum einen Politiker, Juristen, Polizisten oder Leutnant der nicht in der SS, NSDAP war oder sonstige NS-Zugehörigkeit hatte. Ob man darauf jetzt stolz seien sollte..?

[@guccipucci3941]

@@Johannes_Piotrdass der 40k fan den Nazi Kanzler feiert hätte keiner kommen sehen 🥸

[@sabinemuller6490]

Best chancellor? ... naja... aber impressive: ja.

[@reinerfunden3205]

Willy Brandt was easiely the Most immpressive chancellor of germany: -Encourage ourselfs for More democracy. -lets have a Vision (Helmut Schmidt replied: with Vision you should Visitenkarte the doc.) Nowadays, they call it T.I.N.A.

[@Gulliva73]

Torsten Sträter imitation and Klaus Kinski imitation are the best ones.

[@sq2678]

Max Giermann is a legend! Every German get all his characters instantly cause he inpersonates them so perfectly on point!

[@biancarichling789]

The Erich Honecker thing is about the western german singer Udo Lindenberg, who wanted to perform in GDR for his eastern german fans, but Honecker always said no. Lindenberg even wrote a song about it, 'Sonderzug nach Pankow'. Btw Udo is 77 years old and still an active musician.

[@ithonya87]

Max Giermann is a perfectionist and method actor. A friend who worked as camera assistent at a regular show with him said that there is always a big mirror next to the camera so that he can check his performance at any time.

[@ZRick696]

Thank you for looking up the real life people. Thumbs up!

[@R3V4N]

I am really happy to see you react to Max Giermann. But it seems, you really have to know the people he imitates otherwise a lot is lost. He portrays every little aspect... movement, vocal color, appearence, gestures and facial expressions. And everything is on point, maybe a little exaggerated.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Max is a legend ... he captures the original and acts so amazing! It's always great joy to watch him perform! ♥ I liked his role as Hugo Egon Balder - which he performed in front of Hugo Egon Balder - and ... his Klaus Kinski is far beyond epic!

[@arthur_p_dent]

My favourite imitation of Max Giermann is his all-time classic: Klaus Kinski, whom he imitated in many instances.

[@hhbased]

Helmut Schmidt is definitely the most interesting among them. Without question. Up until his dead and beyond that he has a very high raputation among germans. Very unusual for a politician. And he is from my home city Hamburg.

[@vHindenburg]

Stefan Raab is also an interesting charackter, though Helmut Schmidt is historical more important.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@vHindenburg Thanks, Herr Generalfeldmarschall...

[@vHindenburg]

Gern geschenen Herr Ungern Sternberg.@@melchiorvonsternberg844

[@alicemilne1444]

​​​@@vHindenburgStefan Raab certainly is interesting but he is not an internationally recognised statesman and intellectual.

[@mabus4910]

@@alicemilne1444 The most interesting thing about Raab is how many different things he does: singing, producing, sports, comedy, hosting a show...

[@deejay5908]

The last one - that was really Max Giermann. He is a genius - his impressions of Klaus Kinski, Stefan Raab, Helmut Schmidt and of course Thorsten Sträter are my absolute favorites. He is by far the best impressionist in germany.

[@nathalierodde5218]

Max Gierman is absolutely talented. He participated a few times at the German version of LOL. Although he didn't wear masks the impersonations were always spot on.

[@schattigerKeks]

I love that in LOL when he imitates three people in a single sketch and he doesn't need any make-up or costumes, you recognize the characters immediately just by his gestures and facial expressions. He is so stunningly talented.

[@michaelthomas8592]

What's not so easy for you to recognize is the way of speaking of the "Originals", which he implements and masters perfectly! PLUS the SOUND of the voice! In some rare times I used to look twice until I realized whether it was the original or Max Giermann. Awesome... Genius...

[@Nightara]

Something you probably missed about the Robert Habeck imitation: Robert Habeck is (in)famous for his completely out-of-the-world analogies - for example, he talks about his plans for renewable energies, and then suddenly starts drawing analogies to bycicles running up on a ladder to reach for the clouds beneath the ocean or sth like that, and the clip you saw (Which is from the satire news shows Extra 3) is from a mock interview with "Robert Habeck", and the way he imitates his analogies is just PERFECT.

[@heckyeahhd145]

His Klaus Kinski is a damn legend. But his Sträter and Habeck are also incredibly funny while being so on point^^

[@Celisar1]

I would call him a damned legend.

[@r0s3nr0t4]

Klaus Kinski impersonation is LEGEND. Watched it so many times and I am astonished....and laughing my head of every time 😂

[@JustdifferentKr]

Torsten Sträter was in the audience while Max was on stage as him, same with Hugo Egon Balder. Both times it was the first time he impersonated them in public.

[@Noll19691]

Max Giermann is a genius. His Impression of Thorsten Sträter is mindblowing. And so is the rest. He is just amazing

[@JullisPieks]

He is such a unique funny person. I like his face, it's so expressive. He was in every season of "Last one laughing" because he destroys everything 😄

[@dalucke8907]

Thorsten Sträter and Max Germann are both fans of each other. Thorsten was so touched by his performance, that he nearly cried as Giermann portraited him.

[@spunk88888]

Max is the best impersonator I have ever seen. Internationally, only Jim Carrey comes to mind with that amount of talent. His version of Torsten Sträter is almost eerie, he completely absorbs his look and personality. By the way, Torsten Sträter might be someone for your channel, he is most certainly one of the very best in Germany in the fields of comedy and poetry slam.

[@Celisar1]

He is much better than Jim Carrey who only always plays himself with his typical bizarrely exaggerated mimic.

[@HarveyHirdHarmonics]

Maybe not really an impersonator of celebrities, but to me, Billy West comes to my mind with his extremely versatile voice. He spoke Stimpy on Ren & Stimpy and when John Kricfalusi, the voice of Ren was fired, Billy West took over his role. And at least to me, one can hear no difference. He also speaks multiple characters on Futurama with completely different voices. In one early episode he spoke an alien with a weird sound effect overlayed on their voice. Or so it seemed. In the DVD commentary he told it's no sound effect. It's just pure Billy West. In the commentary he once also perfectly imitated Stephen Hawking's speech synthesis.

[@gedeuchnixan3830]

Helmut Schmidt= best politician Germany ever had and a tremandous personality, at current times I wish he was still around. Everyone listened to Helmut Schmidt when he told them "you should do this" even after he retired many politicians still asked for his consultation and wisdom.

[@nulle1968]

What always fascinates me about Max Giermann is that you forget that it's him and not the person he's parodying your watching.

[@Jogi-e5u]

When I watch Giermanns imitation videos, I often can't laugh at first because my mouth is wide open in amazement. He doesn't need make-up for Thorsten Sträter, the cap is enough and when I close my eyes, I can hear Sträter talking. Thank you for the overview, I didn't know all of the people he imitates

[@andreamuller9009]

About Erich Honicker... the guy he shoots is Udo Lindenberg... Udo had a huge fan base in the GDR, but for whatever reason he was never allowed to perform there, so he wrote a song "Sonderzug nach Pankow " With this song he personally addressed Erich Honicker to ask why every stupid schlagerfutzi is invited and he isn't... a catchy song and totally funny. One line of the song says "Oh, Erich, you like to put on your leather jacket and lock yourself in the toilet and listen to West Radio." The song became very popular in both the West and the East. And then Udo Lindenberg actually got an invitation and he was allowed to perform at the Friedrich Stadtpalast and he sent Erich Honiker a leather jacket... in reference to his song... and yes,... simply because it was funny....😂 Erich Honicker By the way, Udo also gave something as a gift, namely a shalmei, so a multi-tone horn (you can also interpret a lot into this gift ;)).

[@Yosh001]

The Kinski imitation is my favorite from Giermann, followed by Hugo Egon Balder at the birthday party of Hella von Sinnen - so on the point! Sträter is also extremely well mimicked, but Sträter is a genius who plays so much with German Language and words that no machine translation or even professional dubbing would cover his comedy and satire in any other languge.

[@Palalalamedis]

I liked the impressions of Markus Lanz and Thorsten Sträter the most. I also had to look twice on Thorsten, Max is awesome!

[@sane0matic]

I highly recommend the format "scetch history" with him and Michael Kessler, who is also a great impressionist. My favourite is "Götz von Berlichingen". it has strong Monty Phyton vibes :D Edit* And I wanna say, I appreciate that you looked up all the characters.

[@gabortoth3706]

Sketch History is one of best shows ever made in Germany!

[@EllieD.Violet]

The Götz sketch is legendary. 😂

[@EllieD.Violet]

​@@gabortoth3706Carsten Strauch of Sketch History has a YT channel - highly recommended!

[@punxsu]

He's comedy gold!

[@Attirbful]

Your gesture when you described Brigitte Nielsen as a „big personality“ (lifting both curved hands to your bosom as Nielsen was in Giermann’s clip earlier) was priceless…

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Ja... Hab' ich auch gleich gedacht...

[@bookishmamaa]

His Jan Josef Liefers Impression is so spot on you have to watch a clip from Tatort Münster where he plays the mortician in that character he talks different than normal and he was imitating the character Börne more than the actor itself ♥️

[@niemandschuldet]

Max is the absolut best in this art and a legend!

[@kentabenno]

He is actually trained in clowning and considers himself a professional clown! truly amazing actor and comedian.

[@ferdirunge4510]

the problem is, you have to know the originals to confirm how genius he is. he is the german jim carrey!

[@Attirbful]

Max Giermann‘s Klaus Kinski is first class. Cracks me up every time!!!! But Giermann‘s impressions are all pure genius and on the point. Johann Lafer and Cuban Jorge Gonzales - pure gold!

[@bennysciulzze3174]

Jens Spahn imitation was insane

[@oskarprotzer3000]

Thank you so much for making the effort to google the people you don't know first! Makes such a huge difference!

[@hansdampf2005]

Definetly Helmut Schmidt is the most interesting person. His Interviews are so intelligent and he predicted political everything... Definetly worth to look at it. Maybe the most intelligent and reflected politician of all time

[@michamcv.1846]

My favourite impersonation is definitiv "klaus kinski" 😂❤ You should watch the fullvideo of that 8min show

[@cecilj4129]

the scene with Erich Hoenecker and Udo Lindenberg was in reference to a song by Udo called 'Sonderzug nach Pankow' where he complains that he wasn't allowed to play a concert in the ddr. If you find one with good subtitles that's also a great song to react to, it's really clever and very 'of the time' so to say

[@masterjack85]

On the German Edition of last one laughing he had a guest appearance as Stephan Raab. He performed so well that the other celebrities couldn't tell if it was Max or in fact Raab parodying himself in extra makeup.. All of the celebrities on that show know both max and Raab quite well

[@zentiremusic123]

You are actually just a guy who is presenting and talking about videos i allready know. I don`t know why, but your videos bring me pure joy. your personality and interest in all the german things are just fascinating. Thank you for doing this Videos. You seem like a great guy and you`ll be surely successfull with what you do! keep it up👌

[@hsyeswellitsme]

Max Giermann, is a genius concerning playing and speaking, and his appearance, the make-up, this is brillant too ... yes, he has great support. ;) The thing that is astonishing, is the political appearance of Germany. You don't know Helmut Schmidt but Oliver Kahn and Jürgen Löw. Helmut Schmidt is one of the most considered chancellors. Similar to Helmut Kohl or Margaret Thatcher. Seems that sports combines the different nations most.

[@CherryCreative]

Greetings from Germany. I love when he does Klaus Kinski. Love his comedy.

[@LipoAkku]

Thank you for putting that much effort in the Video. It made it very watchable. Great work :)

[@schmitzpeter1]

Love how you enjoyed one of the best German comedians. And love to listen to your accent. Tìoraidh an-dràsda from Germany-

[@Chrisss3]

And you are doing a great impression of the young Liam Neeson😂😂

[@newnyu7763]

You are absolutly right in what you mentioned with the look, the phrases and the style of behaviour he imitates on point. But for obvious reasons you sadly couldn't mention some maybe even more brilliant aspects of his performances that complete his perfection. On one hand he is doing jokes about these persons and the context they got public attention for (like scandals or personality they show in interviews or television shows etc.) AND on the other hand he perfectly matches the wording and language style of those persons. So he is using sentences that those person could have said themselves (by the feel of the language). In rap context you'd say he is biting them. So even given the fact that the visual imitation is brilliant you could close your eyes and recognize only by the sound imitation of the voices which person he is making fun of. (I checked ;) ) So an absolutly incredibly talented comedian.

[@Lancor84]

Klaus Kinski is most likely his most iconic role. He basically made Kinski come back from the dead and played Kinski even in some TV shows, not just stand up comedy. On interesting characters for you to reserach there are quite a few in this video: For politics I say that Helmut Schmidt and Honecker are interesting persons you could read up a bit on. They had international importance. But also lots of the people Gierman portrays are minor VIPs, mostly the TV hosts and comedy artists here.

[@gknucklez]

I didn't know some of the persons he imitated, like the shopping tv moderators, but for the rest I knew immediately who he portrayed just listening to him. He truly is a genius in this regard

[@sandmehlig]

Max Giermanns imitations are so detailed that he replicated how the originals would act accordingly to the setting. If it was in a talk-show, a speech, as a presenter, in an interview setting, he spoke like the originals articulated themselves as talk-show guest/host, giving a speech, as a presenter, during an interview.

[@emiliajojo5703]

Helmut Schmidt called the special relationship (UK-US)so special,only one side knows about it😂

[@lionmori]

His Performance of Klaus Kinski is the best and just Superb.

[@benjaminblumchen3112]

you can definetly watch more of klaus kinski :D A very "special" personality

[@katrincarstens5125]

He is very popular as Klaus Kinski but I love him as Helmut Schmidt. I met this politician and his wife Loki so many times when I was a child and I loved them so much. So friendly and lovely people. ❤ To see these scenes make me laughing. Awesome! Max could not commit a crime as Thorsten because Thorsten is quite short and Max a lot taller.

[@bacchuslg8027]

It is just so wholesome to see your curiosity for all this german culture stuff. Keep it up! Really good idea to look up the original people to the impression! I think Klaus Kinski is by far his most famous impression.

[@floriankuntke698]

His Jan Josef Liefers and Jens Spahn parodies are also really strong! Watching him during last one laughing (germany) was such a pleassure.

[@wangeroogerque]

Max Giermann and Torsten Sträter were together in Amazon Primes first season of German Last One Laughing. And Giermann imitated Sträter in the first five minutes. Sträter was honored and impressed.

[@katjaseidel990]

There are so many good imitations but I think I like Jorge González most - it's just brilliantly done and sooo funny! Apart from that often it's either the way he looks or he speaks so similarly (btw he also imitates all the German dialects so well - Helmuth Schmidt who was from Hamburg, for example...) - love it! Thanks for sharing your views on the videos cause it shows your interest in German comedy and satire 🙂

[@karstenz.251]

My most favorite impersonation is Max Giermann as Klaus Kinski, who plays King Philip II of Spain in Sketch History. Fantastically performed. 😂😂😂

[@flamedealership]

Max Giermann is one of the most gifted impressionists we have in Germany. And you're spot on: he not only concentrates on the different voices and typical pronounciations he's also able to perfeectly capture the mannerisms of his "victims". His most famous one is maybe his impression of Klaus Kinski. I guess you have a little disadvantage because you don't always know the people he does his impressions on. But let me assure you: you're witnessing a master of his craft! Have a nice week.

[@Nekomancer1983]

To be honest, when he was on LOL (show on Amazon) and he impersonated Thorsten Sträter in front of him himself, he was absolutely spot on. If i wouldn't have look but only heard, i would have thought it was Sträter talking.

[@flamedealership]

@@Nekomancer1983I've seen that as well. And you could see the torture he endured in Sträters face as he so desperately tried not to crack up...

[@Celisar1]

You meant impersonator.

[@flamedealership]

@@Celisar1 Yes and no. According to the "Oxford English Dictionary" _one_ definition of the word *impressionist* is "an entertainer who does imitations of famous people".

[@ClarksonVomDach]

Helmut Schmidt was the most popular politician in Germany during his lifetime and remains so after his death. He is very important for the history of Germany and Europe. A true man of honour! He onec was asked „what do you need to do all this, passion?“ he answerd „No passion, just willpower and cigarettes“

[@nickbeiersdorf1233]

I really really enjoy watching Max Giermann and my absolute favourite is when he playes Klaus Kinski

[@nickbeiersdorf1233]

little note from a German I think it's intresting and also in my opinion to lern about Helmut Smith , Erich Honecker to lern more about German History and to understand the German History of the 70's and 80's and this polotike still kinda effects us till now

[@blondkatze3547]

Max Giermann is simply a great as an actor in his comedy programs. I find him super funny as Klaus Kinski, Hugo Egon Balder and Karl Dall.😅😂👍

[@Himolino]

Wow. The Thorsten Sträter imitation is insane. Seems like a whole new level.

[@antares4975]

the imitation and mask/make-up-art of jens spahn is incredible. between this and the most other switch reloaded clip must be a gap of about 20 years.

[@underbuxe7997]

Claudia Schiffer: "Der Apfel hängt noch am Baum, aber es ist schon ende Oktober" ...HAHAhaaaaa🤣🤣🤣

[@philipweber780]

Really Kudos for researching them all! Great Reaction !

[@Justforvisit]

Max Giermann is a german Comedy and Impersonation Legend!

[@lobotomiepraktikant1128]

The one with hugo egon balder, you should probably try watching an episode of well known show he moderated in the past - if you listen to him there, you understand how perfect the imitation really is :D

[@nextwaterhole8451]

I've known Max Giermann for years now. I first saw him on switch reloaded. His Kinski is legendary. Everytime I see it I always feel quite uncomfortable and at the same time I am immensely impressed by it. And his Sträter is just fantastic. The voice, the look. He absolutely nails it!

[@ryba5353]

Your research is superb! I really love that you not only "react" but you are educating yourself and you can give a good opinion to everything :)

[@Kunibert_Knatter]

Max Giermann is the best! No, he is the BEST!

[@pallao3500]

Robert Habeck, currently our Vice Chancellor, held a bombastic speech of approximately 10 minutes against antisemitism that went viral around the world. So if you are interested in these people Max Giermann imitated there, I'd highly recommend watching that speech. Videos with English subtitles already exist.

[@KaiGermann]

I think you can watch the whole video in english

[@chrisrudolf9839]

24:00 The impression and the mask is shockingly accurate, but yes, it is Max Giermann. If you were familiar with Torsten Sträter, you could tell that the sound of the voice is slightly off - Giermann imitates his manner of speaking perfectly, but his voice has that slightly "compressed" tone that you just can't avoid when you imitate a voice that is much lower than your own. Also, Giermann is younger and has less wrinkles, but the trademark hood covers that up quite well.

[@-dubios-]

he might be the best imitator worldwide, I rly doubt there is someone better out there

[@Klaus_Kinski179]

Giermann is a genius. Met him in 2009 in a bar....nice guy, took a picture with me and we had a little talk.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Mensch Klaus... Du bist einfach nicht totzukriegen, wa?

[@tins369]

I love his Hugo Egon Balder, his Klaus Kinski and his Thorsten Sträter 😂 he's a genius

[@happyungerin]

Max is sooooo funny! We didnt have good comedians for a while but he rocks the whole genre! He won on LOL Germany and it was awesome!

[@dasspielmobil6161]

His Stefan Raab impression is what made him a household name, but Klaus Kinski is legendary.

[@Celisar1]

Most people don’t know Max Giermann.

[@dasspielmobil6161]

@@Celisar1 they might not know his name, but chances are high they have seen some of his work.

[@Cocachin123]

Udo Lindenberg (the guy shot by Honecker in the sketch) was is a very famous singer who back in the days wasn't allowed to perform in East Germany and even made a successful song about that fact. The sketch shows Honecker rather shooting Lindenberg than granting him a visa to East Germany. Jens Spahn was considered a very ambitious young politician and for a brief time even considered a potential next chancellor (thus the joke about him accidentally calling himself chancellor) but handled the pandemic in a less than optimal manner and has since sort of sunk into oblivion.

[@michaelkohl6463]

The voice, the behavier, he is analysing the characters so well, without any doubt he is a genius! Especialy for Germans, because we know the real characters so well and have to laugh about the accuracy of the parody. And congenial is of course the makeup artist (Janine Hohmann at al.)

[@RogueSwansong]

I like how he has such a diverse and talented range of people he can impersonate. And Jens Spahn.

[@suedhoern]

Yes, anyone who reacts to max giermann must have seen "Sketch History", a comedy about German history over 2000 years! Many clips can be found on KZbin. Unfortunately, most of them have no English translation at all.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

Wirklich sehr schade! Ich hab' mich auch schon drüber geärgert. Besonders, wegen der 1a Hitler- Parodien...

[@maremartini4230]

Max Giermann is iconic. He imitates everyone just perfectly including the very special accent of the person. The bavarian accent for example (Johann Lafer) is totally different from the saxon one (Erich Honecker) and Logi Löw spreaks a very pronounced swabian accent... He's just hilarious and incredible talented.

[@alexakalennon]

Gosh, I like all of them The one with Hugo egon balder was a present for him self in a television show. The real one didn't know about, but one of his guests knew. The Helmut Schmidt impression Was New. Didn't know that one ❤

[@Dreaded-Flower]

another great piece of acting skills from max giermann is in the music video of *Alligatoah - I Need A Face* he delivers the lyrics only with his gestic

[@wyvernhattori1811]

The first season of the german LoL - Last one laughing had Thorsten Sträter and Max Gierman in it with Max Gierman impersonating Thorsten Sträter. It was surreal and absolutely amazing! You should def watch it!