Duell um die Geld: All Guests of the New Season

The guest list for the new season of "Das Duell um die Geld" is out – and it is the most varied the format has ever had. From Wednesday, 30 September 2026, Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf bring famous friends back to the poker table, with Oliver Kalkofe asking the questions and revealing the answers without mercy. According to Joyn, eight new episodes are announced, airing on ProSieben and streaming for free.

Below are all the guests, episode by episode – and after that, how to play the show yourself on the same evening. Because the format transfers to your own table almost one to one: with QuizPoker in the browser or with the new Quizpoker app for iPhone.

Every Guest of the New Season

Episode 1: Bastian Pastewka, Taneshia Abt and Wincent Weiss

The opener is typical for the format: a comedy professional with perfect timing, a presenter with quiz experience and a musician with nothing to lose. Bastian Pastewka is one of those people who can deliver a wrong answer so convincingly that the whole table buys it – exactly the skill that wins chips here.

Episode 2: Pati Valpati, Michael Mittermeier, Max Giesinger

Content creator meets veteran comedian meets singer-songwriter. Michael Mittermeier brings decades of stage experience and with it the calm to simply let a raise stand. Pati Valpati speaks to the younger half of the audience, Max Giesinger to the group that turns out to be surprisingly good at guessing.

Episode 3: Leony, Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth

The episode with the heaviest acting credentials. Florian David Fitz and Karoline Herfurth make a living convincingly claiming things that are not true – no disadvantage at a bluffing table. Leony in between is the unknown quantity, and unknown quantities are the most dangerous opponents in poker.

Episode 4: Bruno Alexander, Kimisinamood, Wigald Boning

Wigald Boning is this season's walking fact archive. Sit at a table with him and you have to assume he does not estimate numbers but knows them. Bruno Alexander and Kimisinamood bring the social media generation to the table – fast, unbothered and hard to read.

Episode 5: Guildo Horn, Badmómzjay, Edin Hasanovic

Possibly the least predictable group of the season. Guildo Horn has been playing with audience expectations for decades, Badmómzjay is known for saying exactly what she thinks, and Edin Hasanovic for intensity. Three people who do not enjoy backing down – good for the pot, bad for everyone's nerves.

Episode 6: Katja Riemann, Matthias Weidenhöfer, Ralf Moeller

An episode with heavyweights in both senses. Ralf Moeller, the man from "Gladiator", at a quiz table – alongside Katja Riemann, who has shown often enough in interviews that she will not be rushed by a question. Matthias Weidenhöfer is the balance in between.

Episode 7: Pierre M. Krause, Mieze Katz, Johannes Oerding

Pierre M. Krause has hosted late night for years and knows every trick for steering a table. Mieze Katz of MIA and Johannes Oerding complete the season's musical contingent. Anyone assuming musicians are worse at estimating has not watched the previous seasons.

Episode 8: Anna Maria Mühe, Heinz Strunk, Janin Ullmann

The final line-up has the greatest chaos potential. Heinz Strunk is the man nobody can ever quite tell is being serious – the ideal starting position for a bluff. Anna Maria Mühe and Janin Ullmann are the two most likely to either buy it or call it.

What the Line-Ups Say About the Season

Three names per episode, and almost always built the same way: one who collects facts, one who performs, and one nobody can read. That is what the show runs on. A table of eight quiz professionals would be dull, because everyone guesses about equally well. It gets interesting when someone with no knowledge and plenty of confidence plays against someone who almost knows the answer – and still loses, because they fold too early.

It is also striking how broadly ProSieben has cast: comedy, acting, pop, rap, social media, sport. That is not an accident but the answer to the question of how you fill a late-night format in 2026 that is meant to reach more than one audience.

For you at home, that is the real lesson: you do not need quiz professionals for a good evening. You need a mix. Someone who knows everything makes a quiz predictable – someone who knows nothing but bluffs makes it exciting.

A Quick Look Back: Where the Format Comes From

If you only joined in the last couple of seasons: "Das Duell um die Geld" started as a segment inside Circus HalliGalli, was spun off into standalone seasons in 2016 and 2017, and then disappeared from the schedule for years. In autumn 2025 it returned with a fourth season – same structure as before, just with a wider field of guests.

The fact that there is now a fifth season with eight announced episodes says two things: the concept carries itself without a bigger show around it, and the poker table has become the actual star. The title still says duel, but the game has long been played in groups of several guests – closer to a game night than to a head-to-head.

Air Dates: When and Where to Watch

• Premiere: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
• Channel: ProSieben, right after "The Masked Singer"
• Streaming: Joyn, simulcast and on demand afterwards
• Hosts: Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
• Quizmaster: Oliver Kalkofe
• Scope: eight new episodes

How many episodes run back to back, and whether ProSieben moves the slot during the autumn, tends to be decided at short notice – when in doubt, set a reminder in the Joyn app. Everything about the premiere is in our post Duell um die Geld season 5 – premiere on 30 September.

How to Play the Show Yourself That Same Evening

The show's principle is surprisingly easy to rebuild, because it rests on a single idea: estimation questions plus poker rules. Instead of multiple choice you get questions nobody knows the exact answer to – populations, heights, weights, years, percentages. Everyone guesses, then everyone bets.

In QuizPoker every question runs over four betting rounds:

1. Before the question, small blind and big blind post their forced bets.
2. After the question, everyone writes their guess face down and bets: fold, call, raise.
3. After hint 1 and hint 2 there is another betting round each. Both hints narrow the range.
4. After the reveal, whoever is closest wins – or whoever bluffed everyone else out first.

What you need: two to eight people, chips or something comparable, paper and pens – and the app as your question master.

Two Ways to Play It

• At the table, with real chips: one phone lies in the middle and asks the questions. That is exactly what the new Quizpoker app for iPhone and iPad is for – or the singleplayer mode on quizpoker.app.
• Digitally, without any equipment: in multiplayer the site handles the entire poker logic. Everyone plays on their own phone, chips and pot are calculated for you.

Five Ideas for Your Own Duel Night

1. Cast Your Own Guest List

The show works because of the mix – do the same. Do not only invite the three people who always know everything. The evening gets better with someone who says "no idea" at every question and raises anyway.

2. Put Something Real on the Line

On the show it is real money, and that is why the guests hesitate. At home, less will do: five euros per person in the pot, the pizza bill, the next cinema ticket. The moment it stings, the game changes.

3. Play a Round Before the Broadcast

The slot is late. A round of QuizPoker as a warm-up turns a Wednesday into a full game night – and while watching you will know exactly how the situations the guests are in actually feel.

4. Practise the Poker Face

Admit you have no idea and you have lost. The whole appeal lies in selling a weak guess with a confident raise. Our bluffing tips are written for exactly that.

5. Turn the Season Into a Tournament

Eight announced episodes are eight possible game nights. Keep a table, add up the chips across the season and crown your own champion at the end. It also keeps the people engaged who miss an episode.

So Who Wins?

Honest answer: there is no predicting it, and that is the point. In previous seasons, guests have repeatedly won who contributed little in terms of knowledge but folded at the right moment. Betting on solid facts rarely pays off when the question is how many of something are in a particular box.

That is exactly why the format works at a kitchen table too: having no idea is not a disqualification, it is a playing style.

Conclusion

Eight episodes, 24 guests, one quizmaster who lets nothing slide: the new season of "Das Duell um die Geld" starts on 30 September on ProSieben and Joyn. And since watching is good but playing is better, the answer to the evening is close at hand: TV on, friends over, chips out.

More about the format is on our Duell um die Geld topic page. If you want to start right away, run a round of QuizPoker – over 430 estimation questions in 18 categories comfortably last a whole season.