Flula Borg was born on March 28, 1982, in Erlangen, Bavaria, which is a city whose primary export appears to be techno optimism and men who insist they are the third-sexiest DJ in northern Franconia. You know him as Pieter Krämer from Pitch Perfect 2, as the voice of DJ Herzogenaurach (yes, named like his hometown’s neighbor), and as the German man in your YouTube recommendations who turns a backseat interview with Tina Fey into a four-on-the-floor banger. For a DJ profile, forget the IMDb scroll. Follow the alias: DJ Flula—car-studio producer, Conan tour opener, and the only selector credible enough to mix Schlager, children’s songs, and genuine cat meows without losing the room.
Erlangen: Schuhplattler to sub-bass
Before Hollywood, Borg trained as a Bavarian Schuhplattler folk dancer—slap the leather, keep time, entertain tourists. He told Süddeutsche Zeitung his early DJ gigs were not respectable by Berghain standards: techno blended with Schlager, kids’ melodies, and field recordings of cats and poodles, looped until Franconia nodded. “For some reason people thought that was cool,” he said, which is the most honest artist statement in dance music.
His breakout clip Flula in Germany (2008) is a ninety-second techno travelogue through döner, grandfathers, and bread. It went viral when German virality still meant hundreds of thousands, not billions. He understood the DJ lesson immediately: upload on schedule or disappear. He moved to Los Angeles in 2011 because Bavaria had beer and America had scale. The booth followed in carry-on.
AutoTunes: the mobile DJ booth
The AutoTunes series is Borg’s signature DJ format disguised as comedy. He records covers inside moving cars—parents on accordion in snowy Erlangen, Chester See for No Diggity, Sir Mix-a-Lot rapping Baby Got Back over Flula’s preloaded beats and iPad dubstep garnish. The Streamy-nominated Blackstreet cover passed four million views because it obeys club logic: limited space, high stakes, drop when the engine idles.
Press junkets became sample packs. Interview Tina Fey and Amy Poehler; chop their words into techno. Sit Anna Kendrick and the Pitch Perfect 2 cast in a van; export a funky jam. Larry King, Michael Phelps, Vince Vaughn—each session a potential kick drum. He told Tubefilter the goal is always the same: make the celebrity audio usable. That is sampling ethics with better hair.
Where he actually played (and hosted)
Borg’s live DJ resumé is festival-host energy as much as turntable time. He MC’d College Battle of the Bands (2009–2012) and the Chegg back-to-school tour. He founded Bedrocktoberfest in Los Angeles (2013–2015), an Oktoberfest-adjacent music weekend he hyped via Google Hangouts like a man who learned promotion from both rave flyers and Bavarian church fests.
VidCon main-stage slots (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018) put him beside Pentatonix and Tyler Ward doing thrift-shop covers—open-format chaos for teens who think DJs only exist on TikTok. Comedy festivals (Just for Laughs, SF Sketchfest, Blue Whale in Oklahoma) treated him as musician-comedian, which is accurate: the punchline is often a bar change.
Club dates exist if you hunt: Largo in LA, Beauty Bar and Ne10 in Las Vegas (2017), Orpheum stops on tour legs. Songkick’s last tracked club night was March 2024 at Hollywood’s Whammy Analog Media—small room, big YouTube gravity. He is “off tour” in 2026, but off tour for Flula means podcasting with Conan and dropping albums, not retiring the USB.
Conan’s DJ: eighteen cities of investment tips and drops
In late 2018 Borg was Conan O’Brien’s DJ, opening act, and sidekick on the “Team Coco Presents Conan & Friends” stand-up tour—eighteen cities of jokes, horns, and whatever Conan calls financial advice. That is the professional DJ fantasy reduced to pure form: warm the room, stay in the pocket, do not upstage the headliner unless the bit requires nudity in Berlin (he has also served as Conan’s enthusiastic, partially clothed tour guide there).
Comedy Bang! Bang! still introduces him as a “former DJ,” which is like calling a chef a former line cook because he opened restaurants. The skill transferred: read the crowd, land the transition, keep talking over the outro until the laugh curve completes.
Pieter, Bumper, and playing a DJ on TV
Hollywood eventually cast him as antagonists who are the DJ pipeline. Pieter Krämer in Pitch Perfect 2 co-leads Das Sound Machine, Europe’s a cappella supervillains. In Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin (2022), Pieter is a disgraced manager who brokers Berlin fame for Adam Devine’s Bumper and leans on his DJ sister Thea to produce hits—fiction mirroring Flula’s real life of managing chaos with a metronome.
He literally played a character named DJ DJ in Dirty 30 and voiced DJ Herzogenaurach in Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, which is either typecasting or the universe winking. Even Allen, Texas claimed him as official hype-man after local TV segments—suburban DJ diplomacy.
Style: EDM, hip-hop, and idioms he does not understand
Wikipedia files him under EDM and hip-hop; his channel description promises “DJ Times” between vlogs and drama. Instruments listed include trombone, trumpet, accordion, melodica, stylophone—in other words, a one-man brass band that also owns Ableton. Santa Monica Recordings singles like “Self Care Sunday” (2019) show the cleaner studio side; AutoTunes shows the laboratory.
June 2025 brought the album Slippery When Peeled on streaming platforms—ten tracks of Flula being Flula with a release date that reads like a pun he refused to spellcheck. He remains the second most famous Aries DJ on his own website, behind only whoever is first and ahead of you.
Gossip, sports detours, and Bavarian sexiness rankings
Sidebar material is plentiful. He made a viral song with Dirk Nowitzki and Mavericks cheerleaders. ESPN and NBC Sports covered it because Texas loves a seven-footer singing Satisfaction. He ranks American baseball teams on podcasts like a man auditioning for stadium DJ. Variety named him a Comic to Watch; IMDb trivia insists he wrote four novels in one day without spellcheck.
On sexiness metrics he disputes his own PR: voted third North Bavarian male, but he claims fifth if father and uncle enter the bracket. That humility is rare in DJ bios. So is admitting your early sets included Pudelbellen samples.
2025–2026 keeps him on Conan’s podcast circuit and Comedy Bang! Bang! talking area codes and Hans Gruber prequels while Hollywood uses his voice in animation stacks. His podcast Flula Makes Five treats conversation like a long blend: guests arrive dry, leave soaked in bits and accidental hooks. None of it replaces the booth; it funds the next car session where a celebrity sneezes on mic and becomes a hi-hat.
The producer brain behind the joke
Borg lists beatboxing, keys, and brass on his credits because the DJ set and the score are the same spreadsheet. Lionsgate once signed him for feature development off the strength of digital music-comedy hybrids—proof labels see him as a packager, not a meme. When he collaborates with Santa Monica Recordings or drops Spotify albums, the through-line is still found sound plus discipline: take something inappropriate (a press junket, a pudel bark, a Maverick center’s singing), grid it, add sub, release before legal reads the clearance email.
That workflow is how modern festival DJs operate without admitting it. The difference is Flula leaves the camera on and narrates the build in broken English that somehow scans as charm. Northern Bavaria’s third-sexiest export does not need Berghain approval. He needed a car, a celebrity, and the confidence to call every session “DJ Times.”
What he says versus what purists hear
Borg calls himself a “German Man of Adventure and Music and Many Other Items of Dopeness.” Purists hear novelty EDM. Festival bookers hear a host who can DJ, MC, and interview the headliner in the same van. He does not claim underground credentials. He claims mobility—Erlangen to LA, backseat to arena tour, cat audio to Conan’s walk-on music.
If you need a silent selector in a black box, hire someone else. If you need the only DJ who can open for Conan, close Bedrocktoberfest, and turn a press line into a beat named after Amy Poehler’s laugh, DJ Flula has been logged in since 2007. DÄNCE, as his own description insists. The car is parked. The engine is still running.
Scoreboard
Born: 28 March 1982 (Erlangen, Bavaria).
Aliases: Flula, DJ Flula.
Origin set: Techno + Schlager + animal samples; Schuhplattler discipline.
Signature format: AutoTunes (in-car DJ/production).
Live hosting: College Battle of the Bands; Bedrocktoberfest; VidCon stages.
Tour DJ: Conan O’Brien 2018 comedy tour (18 cities).
Screen DJ lore: Pieter Krämer; DJ DJ; DJ Herzogenaurach.
Recent release: Slippery When Peeled (2025).
Self-rank: Third (official) / fifth (adjusted for family) sexiest North Bavarian male.