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Kokowääh 2

Kokowääh 2 is a 2013 German comedy and the sequel to Til Schweiger's box-office hit Kokowääh (2011). It was directed by Schweiger with Torsten Künstler as co-director, written by Schweiger and Béla Jarzyk, and released in German cinemas on 7 February 2013.¹ With more than 2.7 million admissions in Germany and a box office of almost 20 million euros, it ranked among the most successful German films of 2013.²

Key fact	Detail
Original title	Kokowääh 2 (Germany, 2013), comedy/romance in German¹
Direction	Til Schweiger, with Torsten Künstler as co-director¹
Screenplay	Til Schweiger and Béla Jarzyk¹
German release	7 February 2013; 122 minutes; FSK rated ab 6 (suitable from age 6)¹
Production	Barefoot Films GmbH (Berlin) with Béla Jarzyk Production and Warner Bros. Filmproduktion; filming 2 August to 1 October 2012 in Berlin and Brandenburg¹^•³
German admissions	2,749,139 as of December 2013 (FFA figure); ninth place in the annual German chart¹^•⁴
Box office	Almost 20,000,000 euros in Germany²

Spoilers

Story

The film picks up two years after the end of the first part. Henry (Til Schweiger), Katharina (Jasmin Gerat), Tristan (Samuel Finzi), and Magdalena (Emma Schweiger) now form a somewhat chaotic patchwork family in which every member is wrestling with private or professional problems.¹

Henry tries to establish himself as a film producer and, on his first project, has to deal with a temperamental young star, played by Matthias Schweighöfer as himself.¹ Katharina struggles to settle into her role as housewife and mother to the newborn baby Louis, and eventually moves into her own apartment to rediscover herself.⁵ Magdalena experiences her first love, while Tristan, recently divorced, tries to ride out a midlife crisis with a much younger girlfriend.¹ When Tristan moves in with Henry, the two men find themselves responsible for Louis and Magdalena and hire an attractive live-in nanny, which complicates Henry's hope of a second chance with Katharina.⁵

Cast and crew

Schweiger again combined the roles of director, lead actor, screenwriter, and producer, as he had on the first film.³ Thomas Zickler co-produced, and the film was supported by the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA).¹ Adrian Cranage was the cinematographer, Constantin von Seld and Schweiger edited, and Dirk Reichardt and Martin Todsharow wrote the music.¹

The main cast:¹

Til Schweiger as Henry
Emma Tiger Schweiger as Magdalena
Jasmin Gerat as Katharina
Samuel Finzi as Tristan
Matthias Schweighöfer as Matthias
Jytte-Merle Böhrnsen as Nora
Nico Liersch as Max
Julia Jentsch as Rosa
Gedeon Burkhard as Luc

Kokowääh 2 was the fifth film in which Schweiger appeared on screen with his daughter Emma, after Keinohrhasen, Männerherzen, Zweiohrküken, and Kokowääh.⁶

Production

Shooting began on 2 August 2012 in Berlin and ran over 38 shooting days until 1 October 2012, on locations in Berlin and Brandenburg.³ Warner Bros. Germany had confirmed the project in January 2012, with the release planned for February 2013, exactly two years after the first film's successful start.⁷ The German theatrical release took place on 7 February 2013, and the film passed FSK review on 31 January 2013 with a rating of ab 6.¹

The title refers to the French chicken dish coq au vin, which the phonetic German rendering "Kokowääh" imitates; in the story it is the only dish Henry can cook.⁶ The soundtrack was released one day after the film's premiere and includes the song "Hall of Fame" by The Script.⁸

Reception

Box office. The film drew 2,749,139 admissions in Germany by December 2013, according to the FFA.¹ Beta Cinema, the sales agent, puts the German box office at almost 20 million euros and calls it one of the most successful films of 2013.² More than two and a half million German admissions placed it ninth in the annual German chart, and nearly 200,000 Swiss spectators saw the film.⁴ Time Warner's 2013 annual report lists Kokowääh 2 among its local-language productions.⁹

Critics and audiences. As with Schweiger's other comedies, reviews and popular success diverged. The FILMSTARTS editorial review rated the film 3.0 ("solide"), noting that the central cuckoo-child conflict of the original had been resolved, so entirely new plot strands had to be invented for the returning characters, with mixed results; its users gave an average of 2.6 from about 950 ratings.⁶ On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.3 out of 10.¹⁰ On Rotten Tomatoes the Popcornmeter (audience score) stood at 46 percent.¹¹ The Swiss review site Cineman judged that the film compensates for its lack of originality with brisk storytelling and no dead spots, while conceding that it reuses proven gags.¹² The media-education site medienbewusst.de, although the film is rated FSK 0 by some listings, recommended it for children only from about age ten to twelve because of its coarse humor and puberty themes.¹³

Context in German cinema

The predecessor Kokowääh had drawn more than 4.3 million visitors and was the most successful German film of 2011, which made a sequel commercially predictable.⁶ A scholarly survey of German mainstream cinema groups Kokowääh 2 with Schweiger's romantic comedies such as Keinohrhasen and its sequels as films that guaranteed consistently high box-office takings for domestic productions.¹⁴ Runtime listings vary across databases: filmportal.de and Filmdienst give 122 minutes, while some cinema and television listings give 110 or 111 minutes.¹^•¹⁵^•⁴

References

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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