The singer, composer and comedian Hans Süper was born in 1936 and his music career is linked to Cologne’s popular carnival and carnival music. He started playing from a very young age, since he came from a family of experienced musicians, and began giving concerts with his brother as a duet. Later on, he met his music partner Hans Zimmerman, with whom he created the “Colonia Duett”, a celebrated duo that started in 1974 and in which he is best known for his role as a singer and Flitsch player (Flitsch is the Kölsch term for mandoline), and Zimmerman played the guitar and sang. They were —and still are—a successful and beloved duo in Cologne and Germany that got to play between 250 and 300 gigs a year, for which they prepared a whole stage set that included mimic and original compositions that made the audience laugh and enjoy.