Hazel Brugger and her ESC performance: After the song contest, new fans worldwide

“The one who does not wear high heels and is named after a nut” – with this self -ironic description and other funny comments, Hazel Brugger (31) has numerous spectators and spectators at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Basel. Brugger, who started her career as a stand-up comedian and became known to a wider audience through her appearances in the Amazon Prime Show “Lol-Last One Laughing”, cracked the brand of one million follower on Instagram thanks to her ESC appearance.

thanked Brugger for the support: “Thanks for a million followers – 70,000 of them through the Eurovision Song Contest alone, many of them internationally,” she wrote to a collage on which the number is again highlighted. Afterwards she also thanked her thanks to her team-above all her husband Thomas Spitzer (36), who she thanked for “his brave social media strategies and out-of-the-box ideas”.

At the same time, Brugger announced in the post office to also publish more international content and tour dates in the future: “Since last week I have been asked continuously whether I will do more in English, whether I plan to perform my show internationally,” said Brugger. She revealed that it has long been her dream to appear in English.

The background: “I was born in the USA, spent a year in Australia as an exchange student and – which many do not know – almost ended up in Scotland because my father had a job offer there. My first contact with stand -up was not with US comedians, but with Eddie Izzard from Great Britain.”

You and Spitzer also consume almost exclusively English-language content-from films and series to podcasts to stand-up specials. “It is actually easier for me to make comedy in English,” said Brugger. “To be part of this world and get to know my idols, I couldn’t have imagined in my wildest dreams. And one thing is certain: there is still a lot to come!”