Jonas Ems

Jonas Maximilian Ems born December 30 1996 in Cologne is a German web video producer author actor and director Jonas Ems grew up in Cologne and received his Abitur high school diploma in 2015 from the HeinrichBöllGymnasium in Troisdorf In 2016 he moved to Berlin He operates several YouTube channels the Twitch channel jonasems as well as a TikTok account with over 34 million followers as of January 2026 In late 2021 he announced a shift in content strategy on his main channelmoving away from comedy and toward socially critical topics On his channel JONAS SHORTS he continues to publish shortform comedy videos Ems appeared in the feature film and web series Oberucken He also gained prominence through the web series Krass Klassenfahrt in which he played various roles such as Kenneth Mc Larry Cringe Timmy and TJ Additionally he cowrote the scripts and served as director alongside Jonas Wuttke Together they also founded the media company Moonvibe and produced the web series Villa der Liebe In 2021 a featurefilm adaptation of the series titled Krass Klassenfahrt Der Kinofilm was released Since 2022 Ems has voiced the character Mike in the mystery audio drama podcast Forever Club His novel Schattenseite was adapted into a sixpart mystery miniseries in 2025 for which he served as a cowriter and also played a supporting role Furthermore Ems is an advocate for animal welfare in 2024 in collaboration with the organization Aninova he released a video documenting conditions inside a pig barn