Percy Hoven (born 20 February 1965 in Munich) is a former German broadcast and television show host and actor.
After completing high school diploma at the College of St. Blasien, Hoven finished a banker apprenticeship at Bayerische Hypotheken und Wechselbank, then studied philosophy and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich as well as media marketing at the Bavarian Academy of Advertising in Munich and journalistic training at the Bavarian public radio (BR).
According to the opinion of the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine, in this role he represented "right-wing extremist positions" in allegedly satirical forms, the show host disc jockey Matthias Matuschik assigns his utterances to the "brown swamp".
The identity behind Dr. Alfons Proebstl was a secret until early October 2015, the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine published an article about Percy Hoven, who had become unrecognizable behind a rubber mask.
According to n-tv, Hoven showed that the character of Dr. Alfons Proebstl was a collaborative project with Munich-based producer Alfred Schropp and his editorial team.