{ "id": "epbf7sqvem", "slug": "keinohrhasen", "title": "Keinohrhasen", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2007-to-2008", "label": "Comedies of 2007 to 2008", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2007-to-2008" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2007-to-2008.yr-2007", "label": "Released in 2007", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2007-to-2008.yr-2007" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Western Europe · 2001 to 2020: Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "path": [ { "id": "geo.weu", "label": "Western Europe", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001", "label": "Western Europe · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.weu.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Keinohrhasen (Rabbit Without Ears) is Til Schweiger's 2007 German romantic comedy, written with Anika Decker, in which gossip reporter Ludo serves 300 hours of kindergarten community service under Anna (Nora Tschirner); it drew over 6 million admissions and spawned Zweiohrküken.", "snippet": "Keinohrhasen (Rabbit Without Ears) is Til Schweiger's 2007 German romantic comedy, written with Anika Decker, in which gossip reporter Ludo serves 300 hours of kindergarten community service under Anna (Nora Tschirner); it drew over 6 million admissions and spawned Zweiohrküken.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2007-to-2008.yr-2007", "markdown": "# Keinohrhasen\n\n**Keinohrhasen** (English title *Rabbit Without Ears*) is a 2007 German romantic comedy written, directed, produced by, and starring [Til Schweiger](https://www.edgepedia.org/til-schweiger), about a tabloid gossip reporter sentenced to community service in a kindergarten run by a woman he had bullied as a child. Co-written with Anika Decker and produced by Schweiger's Barefoot Films with Warner Bros. Film and the broadcaster SAT.1, it became one of the most successful German cinema releases of its decade, drawing more than six million admissions.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) • [2](https://www.screendaily.com/warner-bros-to-co-produce-release-new-til-schweiger-project/4031684.article) • [3](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/generic-histories-of-german-cinema/the-romantic-comedy-and-its-other-representations-of-romance-in-german-cinema-since-1990/21F56D0FD5FBED770BEB7DE471312CBC)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title / English title | Keinohrhasen / Rabbit Without Ears[4](https://cineuropa.org/en/film/81455/en/interview/376858/) |\n| Release | German theatrical release 20 December 2007, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Germany; world premiere 10 December 2007 at the Cubix, Berlin[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) |\n| Director / writers | Til Schweiger (director, co-writer, producer, lead); co-writer Anika Decker; producer Thomas Zickler[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) |\n| Lead cast | Til Schweiger (Ludo), Nora Tschirner (Anna), Matthias Schweighöfer (Moritz), Alwara Höfels (Miriam), Jürgen Vogel (as himself)[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) |\n| Admissions | Over 6 million; by 2008, 6.3 million Germans had seen it, ahead of all other cinematic releases that year[3](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/generic-histories-of-german-cinema/the-romantic-comedy-and-its-other-representations-of-romance-in-german-cinema-since-1990/21F56D0FD5FBED770BEB7DE471312CBC) |\n| Box office | Over $74 million gross; described by a promotional dossier as Germany's top movie of 2007[5](https://irp.cdn-website.com/d148ecd8/files/uploaded/KeinOhrHasen_brochure.pdf) |\n| Awards | Bayerischer Filmpreis 2009 (audience award); Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis 2008; FBW rating \"wertvoll\" (valuable)[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) |\n| Sequel | *Zweiohrküken* (2009), followed by the animated *Keinohrhase und Zweiohrküken* (2013)[6](https://www.filmstiftung.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mag513_002.pdf) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot and title\n\nLudo Dekker (Til Schweiger) is a successful, self-satisfied yellow-press reporter who, together with his photographer Moritz ([Matthias Schweighöfer](https://www.edgepedia.org/matthias-schweighofer)), chases celebrities and one-night stands. After crashing through a hotel glass roof while illegally obtaining celebrity photographs, he is sentenced to 300 hours of community service in a Berlin day nursery. The nursery is run by Anna (Nora Tschirner), a former classmate who has not forgotten how Ludo taunted her as a bespectacled child, and she takes revenge by assigning him the most unpleasant tasks she can devise. The path to the inevitable couple formation runs through this antagonism.[7](https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/530285/keinohrhasen) • [8](https://www.critic.de/film/keinohrhasen-1167/)\n\nThe title refers to a plush rabbit without ears that Ludo makes in the kindergarten. The German Film Review Board (FBW) jury noted the pun: just as the earless rabbit is imperfect yet lovable, so is the film's hero, a gossip reporter who, like the rabbit, \"lacks so many things.\"[9](https://www.fbw-filmbewertung.com/film/keinohrhasen)\n\nThe film opens with a spoof on Hollywood stardom: the art-cinema actor Jürgen Vogel, playing himself, boasts of a ridiculous \"Americanization\" makeover and dismisses his earlier arthouse work, a parody later revealed as a prank on paparazzi journalists. Critics read this opening as a self-aware contrast between commercial German comedy and the arthouse cinema favored by critics.[3](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/generic-histories-of-german-cinema/the-romantic-comedy-and-its-other-representations-of-romance-in-german-cinema-since-1990/21F56D0FD5FBED770BEB7DE471312CBC)\n\n## Production\n\n[Principal photography](https://www.edgepedia.org/principal-photography) ran from 10 March to 23 May 2007 on location in Berlin and its surroundings, over 38 shooting days.[2](https://www.screendaily.com/warner-bros-to-co-produce-release-new-til-schweiger-project/4031684.article) • [1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) Warner Bros.' German office served as co-producer and distributor alongside SAT.1; the Medienboard Berlin-[Brandenburg](https://www.edgepedia.org/brandenburg) backed the film with 900,000 euros, and further funding came from Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW, the Filmförderungsanstalt, and the Deutscher Filmförderfonds.[2](https://www.screendaily.com/warner-bros-to-co-produce-release-new-til-schweiger-project/4031684.article) • [1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) Christof Wahl was the director of photography, Charles Ladmiral the editor, and the music was composed by Stefan Hansen, Dirk Reichardt, and Mirko Schaffer.[10](https://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/keinohrhasen)\n\nSchweiger filled the film with guest and cameo appearances from German show-business personalities, including the boxer [Wladimir Klitschko](https://www.edgepedia.org/wladimir-klitschko), the singer [Yvonne Catterfeld](https://www.edgepedia.org/yvonne-catterfeld), the comedian Rick Kavanian as the choleric editor-in-chief of a Berlin tabloid, and Wolfgang Stumph, Barbara Rudnik, Christian Tramitz, and Armin Rohde. His four children also appear, and Schweiger's daughter Emma plays a small role.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) • [11](https://www.merkur.de/leben/kino/schweiger-stellt-keinohrhasen-berlin-292054.html)\n\n## Box office and reception\n\nThe film was the leading German box-office draw of its release period. A promotional dossier reports that it was Germany's top movie of 2007, grossing over $74 million, and that it beat installments of both the *Harry Potter* and *Pirates of the Caribbean* series that year.[5](https://irp.cdn-website.com/d148ecd8/files/uploaded/KeinOhrHasen_brochure.pdf) The Filmförderungsanstalt recorded 4.7 million admissions by the middle of 2008, and by 2008 the total had reached 6.3 million, ahead of all other cinematic releases that year, including Hollywood blockbusters.[12](https://www.ffa.de/broschueren.html?cid=14481&file=files%2Fdokumentenverwaltung%2Fpublikationen+presse+%28bearbeitet+HS%29%2F2008%2FFFA_Halbjahresergebnisse_2008.pdf) • [3](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/generic-histories-of-german-cinema/the-romantic-comedy-and-its-other-representations-of-romance-in-german-cinema-since-1990/21F56D0FD5FBED770BEB7DE471312CBC) A Cannes festival note describes it as the most successful film in German theaters in 2008.[13](https://cdn-media.festival-cannes.com/film_film/0001/69/b1aa7602e18c8587f87c3bffcf339cde5828895d.pdf) On home video it became one of the top-selling DVDs of 2008, ranking first among buyers aged 10 to 49.[14](https://www.ard-media.de/fileadmin/user_upload/media-perspektiven/pdf/2009/05-2009_Turecek_Baerner.pdf) Its first free-TV broadcast on SAT.1 in April 2010 drew 6.8 million viewers, a 19.9 percent market share.[15](https://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/25469/keinohrhasen_triumphiert_ber_die_konkurrenz/)\n\nCritical response was mixed but generally favorable toward the comedy itself. FILMSTARTS rated it 4.0 (\"stark\", strong), praising its gag density and Nora Tschirner's performance while noting the predictable plot.[16](https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/131891/kritik.html) The FBW jury awarded the rating \"wertvoll\" and highlighted Tschirner's \"hugely credible\" portrayal of the gray mouse, though it judged the film too long.[9](https://www.fbw-filmbewertung.com/film/keinohrhasen) critic.de called it the German cinema hit of the year and credited much of its comedy to the story itself rather than stringing together jokes, while observing that the film never addresses the social gulf between the star reporter and the kindergarten teacher, presenting a flattering wish-image of a socially permeable \"Berlin Republic.\"[8](https://www.critic.de/film/keinohrhasen-1167/) The German Film and Media Rating (FSK) initially rated the film from age 6 in November 2007, but the rating was later raised to 12, a change widely discussed and linked to the film's explicit sex-education dialogue scenes.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) • [8](https://www.critic.de/film/keinohrhasen-1167/)\n\n## Awards and legacy\n\nThe film received the Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis from the Club of Berlin Film Journalists in 2008 and the audience award at the Bayerischer Filmpreis 2009, in addition to the FBW \"wertvoll\" rating.[1](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da) Nora Tschirner won Best Actress in a Comedy at the 2008 German Comedy Awards and Best German Actress at the 2009 Jupiter Award, and the film was named Best Feature Film Comedy at the 2008 German Comedy Awards.[17](https://cinemaworld.asia/films/rabbit-without-ears)\n\nDespite its popularity, Schweiger was not considered for the German Film Prize in 2008; he left the German Film Academy and announced he would establish his own award, an episode scholars have cited as an example of the tension between commercial and arthouse cinema in Germany.[3](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/generic-histories-of-german-cinema/the-romantic-comedy-and-its-other-representations-of-romance-in-german-cinema-since-1990/21F56D0FD5FBED770BEB7DE471312CBC)\n\nThe film spawned a franchise. Schweiger directed and starred in the sequel *[Zweiohrküken](https://www.edgepedia.org/zweiohrkuken)* (2009). The earless rabbit and the two-eared chick became the heroes of children's books written by Schweiger with the artist Klaus Baumgart, which in turn yielded the 70-minute 3D animated film *Keinohrhase und Zweiohrküken* (2013), with Schweiger voicing the rabbit and his daughter Emma the chick.[6](https://www.filmstiftung.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mag513_002.pdf) Scholars of German cinema place *Keinohrhasen* at the head of a commercially reliable line of Schweiger romantic comedies, alongside *Kokowääh* (2011) and their sequels, that guaranteed consistently high domestic box-office takings in a market otherwise dominated by foreign films.[18](https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2466/3/Revised_NC%2012.1%262_2_art_Eicken.pdf)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Keinohrhasen, filmportal.de](https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/keinohrhasen_3554b788d4ea1bb2e040007f010060da)\n2. [Warner Bros to co-produce release new Til Schweiger project, Screen Daily](https://www.screendaily.com/warner-bros-to-co-produce-release-new-til-schweiger-project/4031684.article)\n3. [The Romantic Comedy and Its Other: Representations of Romance in German Cinema since 1990, in Generic Histories of German Cinema (Boydell & Brewer, 2013)](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/generic-histories-of-german-cinema/the-romantic-comedy-and-its-other-representations-of-romance-in-german-cinema-since-1990/21F56D0FD5FBED770BEB7DE471312CBC)\n4. [Rabbit without ears (Keinohrhasen), Cineuropa](https://cineuropa.org/en/film/81455/en/interview/376858/)\n5. [KeinOhrHasen promotional dossier](https://irp.cdn-website.com/d148ecd8/files/uploaded/KeinOhrHasen_brochure.pdf)\n6. [Keinohrhasen und Zweiohrküken (3D), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW magazine 5/2013](https://www.filmstiftung.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mag513_002.pdf)\n7. [Keinohrhasen, Filmdienst](https://www.filmdienst.de/film/details/530285/keinohrhasen)\n8. [Keinohrhasen – Kritik, critic.de](https://www.critic.de/film/keinohrhasen-1167/)\n9. [Keinohrhasen, Deutsche Filmbewertung und Medienbewertung (FBW)](https://www.fbw-filmbewertung.com/film/keinohrhasen)\n10. [Kritik zu Keinohrhasen, epd Film](https://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/keinohrhasen)\n11. [Til Schweiger stellt «Keinohrhasen» in Berlin vor, Merkur](https://www.merkur.de/leben/kino/schweiger-stellt-keinohrhasen-berlin-292054.html)\n12. [FFA Halbjahresergebnisse 2008, Filmförderungsanstalt](https://www.ffa.de/broschueren.html?cid=14481&file=files%2Fdokumentenverwaltung%2Fpublikationen+presse+%28bearbeitet+HS%29%2F2008%2FFFA_Halbjahresergebnisse_2008.pdf)\n13. [Final Cannes Notes, Festival de Cannes](https://cdn-media.festival-cannes.com/film_film/0001/69/b1aa7602e18c8587f87c3bffcf339cde5828895d.pdf)\n14. [Media Perspektiven 5/2009, ARD Media](https://www.ard-media.de/fileadmin/user_upload/media-perspektiven/pdf/2009/05-2009_Turecek_Baerner.pdf)\n15. [\"Keinohrhasen\" triumphiert über die Konkurrenz, DWDL.de](https://www.dwdl.de/zahlenzentrale/25469/keinohrhasen_triumphiert_ber_die_konkurrenz/)\n16. [Keinohrhasen – Kritik, FILMSTARTS.de](https://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/131891/kritik.html)\n17. [Rabbit Without Ears, Cinemaworld](https://cinemaworld.asia/films/rabbit-without-ears)\n18. [Masculinity in Crisis? – What a Man (2011) and the German 'relationship comedy', New Cinemas 12](https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/2466/3/Revised_NC%2012.1%262_2_art_Eicken.pdf)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Comedy and romantic films (individual works) › Comedies of 2007 to 2008 › Released in 2007*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/keinohrhasen", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/keinohrhasen.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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