Alfons is the stage name of Emmanuel Peterfalvi (born March 17, 1967, in Paris), a French comedian in Germany.
[1] Peterfalvi came to Germany for his military service in the French Army.
[2] He learned the German language and decided to stay in Hamburg, after he "fell in love with Germany and the Germans".
[2] In 1994 he began his career in the television show Kalkofes Mattscheibe on German pay TV network Premiere.
[3] On 3 November 2017, Peterfalvi became a German citizen while maintaining his native French citizenship.