Kabarett (; from French ''cabaret'' =
tavern
A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. An inn is a tavern that h ...
) is satirical
revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own duri ...
, a form of
cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...
which developed in France by
Rodolphe Salis
Louis Rodolphe Salis (29 May 1851 – 20 March 1897) was the creator, host and owner of the Le Chat Noir ("The Black Cat") cabaret (known briefly in 1881 at its beginning as "Cabaret Artistique"). With this establishment Salis is remembered as the ...
in 1881 as the ''cabaret artistique''. It was named
Le Chat Noir
Le Chat Noir (; French for "The Black Cat") was a nineteenth-century entertainment establishment, in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. It was opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart by the impresario Rodolphe Salis ...
and was centered on political events and satire. It later inspired creation of Kabarett venues in Germany from 1901, with the creation of Berlin's
Ãœberbrettl
Ãœberbrettl ( ''super-cabaret'') was the first venue in Germany for literary cabaret, or Kabarett, founded 1901 in Berlin by Ernst von Wolzogen. The German Kabarett concept was imported from French venues like Le Chat Noir in Paris, from which it ...
venue and in Austria with the creation of the Jung-Wiener Theater zum lieben Augustin housed in the
Theater an der Wien
The is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district. Completed in 1801, the theatre has hosted the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music. Since 2006, it has served prima ...
. By the
Weimar era
The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is als ...
in the mid-1920s it was characterized by
political satire
Political satire is satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where Political discourse analysis, political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing ...
and
gallows humor
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...
.
It shared the characteristic atmosphere of intimacy with the
French cabaret from which it was imported, but the gallows humor was a distinct German aspect.
Difference from other forms
Kabarett is the German word for the French word ''
cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...
'' but has two different meanings. The first meaning is the same as in English, describing a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre (often the word "cabaret" is used in German for this as well to distinguish this form). The latter describes a kind of
political satire
Political satire is satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where Political discourse analysis, political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing ...
. Unlike comedians who make fun of all kind of things, Kabarett artists (german: link=no, Kabarettisten) pride themselves as dedicated almost completely to political and social topics of more serious nature which they criticize using techniques like
cynicism
Cynic or Cynicism may refer to:
Modes of thought
* Cynicism (philosophy), a school of ancient Greek philosophy
* Cynicism (contemporary), modern use of the word for distrust of others' motives
Books
* ''The Cynic'', James Gordon Stuart Grant 1 ...
,
sarcasm
Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, although it is not necessarily ironic. Most noticeable in spoken word, sarcasm is mainly distinguished by the inflection ...
and
irony
Irony (), in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected; it is an important rhetorical device and literary technique.
Irony can be categorized into ...
.
[(1997]
''The new encyclopaedia Britannica''
Volume 2, p.702 quote:
History
The first Kabarett venue was the
Le Chat Noir
Le Chat Noir (; French for "The Black Cat") was a nineteenth-century entertainment establishment, in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. It was opened on 18 November 1881 at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart by the impresario Rodolphe Salis ...
in France, founded in 1880 by
Rodolphe Salis
Louis Rodolphe Salis (29 May 1851 – 20 March 1897) was the creator, host and owner of the Le Chat Noir ("The Black Cat") cabaret (known briefly in 1881 at its beginning as "Cabaret Artistique"). With this establishment Salis is remembered as the ...
. It later inspired similar venues in Germany and Austria such as the "
Ãœberbrettl
Ãœberbrettl ( ''super-cabaret'') was the first venue in Germany for literary cabaret, or Kabarett, founded 1901 in Berlin by Ernst von Wolzogen. The German Kabarett concept was imported from French venues like Le Chat Noir in Paris, from which it ...
", the first Kabarett venue (Berlin, 1901) in Germany and the "Jung-Wiener Theater zum lieben Augustin" in
Vienna
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Ernst von Wolzogen
Ernst von Wolzogen (23 April 1855 – 30 August 1934) was a cultural critic, a writer and a founder of Cabaret in Germany.
Biography
Wolzogen came from a noble Austrian family; he studied Literature, Philosophy, and the history of art in Strasb ...
founded in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
the first German cabaret called ''Ãœberbrettl'' (literally ''Superstage'', a play of words on
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...
's ''
Ãœbermensch
The (; "Overhuman") is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. In his 1883 book ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'' (german: Also sprach Zarathustra), Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the as a goal for humanity to set for itse ...
'', ''Superman''), later known as ''Buntes Theater'' (colourful theatre), in January 1901. In the foundation of the ''Ãœberbrettl '', von Wolzogen was inspired by
Otto Julius Bierbaum
Otto Julius Bierbaum (28 June 1865 – 1 February 1910) was a German writer.
Bierbaum was born in Grünberg, Silesia. After studying in Leipzig, he became a journalist and editor for the journals ''Die freie Bühne'', ''Pan'' and '' Die Insel'' ...
's 1897 novel ''Stilpe''.
In
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, the ''Die Elf Scharfrichter'' was co-founded by
Otto Falckenberg
Otto Falckenberg (5 October 1873 in Koblenz25 December 1947 in Munich) was a German theatre director, manager and writer. In April 1901, he co-founded ''Die Elf Scharfrichter'', the first political ''kabarett'' (a form of cabaret which developed ...
and others, in April 1901. It is sometimes considered the first political ''kabarett''.
![Kabarett rohrstock](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Kabarett_rohrstock.jpg)
All forms of public criticism were banned by a censor on theatres in the
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
, however. This was lifted at the end of the
First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, allowing the kabarett artists to deal with social themes and political developments of the time. This meant that German kabarett really began to blossom in the 1920s and 1930s, bringing forth all kinds of new cabaret artists, such as
Werner Finck
Werner Finck (2 May 1902 – 31 July 1978) was a German ''Kabarett'' comedian, actor and author. Not politically motivated by his own admission but just a "convinced individualist", he became one of Germany's leading cabaret artists under the co ...
at the ''Katakombe'',
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin (born Valentin Ludwig Fey, 4 June 1882 in Munich – 9 February 1948 in Planegg) was a Bavarian comedian. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin starred in many silent films in the 1920s, and was sometimes c ...
(died 1948) at the ''Wien-München'',
Fritz Grünbaum
Franz Friedrich 'Fritz' Grünbaum (7 April 1880 in Brünn (Brno), Moravia – 14 January 1941 at the Dachau concentration camp, Germany) was an Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and popular song writer, actor, and master of ceremonies ...
and
Karl Farkas
Karl Farkas (28 October 1893 – 16 May 1971) was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.
Biography
In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he was to study law, but decided to follow the call of the stage. After attending the Academy of ...
at the Kabarett ''Simpl'' in Vienna, and
Claire Waldoff
Claire Waldoff (21 October 1884 – 22 January 1957), born Clara Wortmann, was a German singer. She was a famous kabarett singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s and 1920s, chiefly known for performing ironic songs in the Berlin dialect ...
. Some of their texts were written by great literary figures such as
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky (; 9 January 1890 – 21 December 1935) was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser (after the historical figure), Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
Tucholsky was on ...
,
Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner (; 23 February 1899 – 29 July 1974) was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including '' Emil and the Detectives''. He received ...
, and
Klaus Mann
Klaus Heinrich Thomas Mann (18 November 1906 – 21 May 1949) was a German writer and dissident. He was the son of Thomas Mann, a nephew of Heinrich Mann and brother of Erika Mann, with whom he maintained a lifelong close relationship, and Golo ...
.
When the
Nazi party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right politics, far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that crea ...
came to power in 1933, they started to repress this intellectual criticism of the times. Kabarett in Germany was hit badly. (
Kander and Ebb
Kander and Ebb were a highly successful American songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander (born March 18, 1927) and lyricist Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004). Known primarily for their stage musicals, which include ''Cab ...
's Broadway musical, ''
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ...
'', based on the
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ...
novel,
Goodbye to Berlin
''Goodbye to Berlin'' is a 1939 novel by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood set during the waning days of the Weimar Republic. The novel recounts Isherwood's 1929–1932 sojourn as a pleasure-seeking British expatriate on the eve of Ad ...
, deals with this period.) In 1935
Werner Finck
Werner Finck (2 May 1902 – 31 July 1978) was a German ''Kabarett'' comedian, actor and author. Not politically motivated by his own admission but just a "convinced individualist", he became one of Germany's leading cabaret artists under the co ...
was briefly imprisoned and sent to a
concentration camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...
; at the end of that year Kurt Tucholsky committed suicide; and nearly all German-speaking kabarett artists fled into exile in Switzerland, France, Scandinavia, or the United States.
When the war ended, the occupying powers ensured that the kabarett portrayed the horrors of the
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
regime. Soon, various kabarett shows were also dealing with the government, the
Cold War
The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...
and the ''
Wirtschaftswunder
The ''Wirtschaftswunder'' (, "economic miracle"), also known as the Miracle on the Rhine, was the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II (adopting an ordoliberalism-based social marke ...
'': Cabaret Ulenspiegel in
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
,
the university cabaret ''Tol(l)leranten'' in
Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
,
Hans Dieter Hüsch biography
hüsch.org Retrieved 24 January 2012 the ''Kom(m)ödchen The Kom(m)ödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf.
The Kom(m)ödchen was created in 1947 as a political-literary cabaret by Kay Lorentz, Kay and Lore Lorentz. Other participants in the initial program ''"Positiv dagegen"'', which had its premiere ...
'' in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...
and the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft
The Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft (; Munich laughing and shooting company) is a German political ''kabarett'' (satirical revue) that runs at its own theatre in Schwabing, Munich. It was founded in 1956 by journalist Sammy Drechsel and ...
in Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
. These were followed in the 1950s by television cabaret.
In the GDR
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
, the first state kabarett stage was opened in 1953, Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
's ''Die Distel''. It was censored and had to be very careful in criticizing the state (1954: ''Die Pfeffermühle'' in Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...
).
In the 1960s, West German kabarett was centred on Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...
, Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
, and Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
. At the end of the decade, the students' movement of May 1968 split opinion on the genre as some old kabarett artists were booed off the stage for being part of the old establishment. In the 1970s, new forms of kabarett developed, such as the television show ''Notizen aus der Provinz
''Notizen aus der Provinz'' (German for "news from the province") was a political cabaret program hosted by Dieter Hildebrandt and broadcast by ZDF from 1973 to 1979. After its cancellation, it would be the last such program on the channel until ' ...
''. At the end of the 1980s, kabarett was an important part of social criticism, with a minor boom at the time of German reunification
German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...
. In eastern Germany, kabarett artists had been growing more and more daring in their criticism of politicians in the time leading up to 1989. After reunification, new social problems, such as mass unemployment, the privatization of companies, and rapid changes in society, meant that cabarets rose in number. Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
, for example, gained two new cabarets alongside the popular ''Herkuleskeule''.
In the 1990s and at the start of the new millennium, the television and film comedy boom and a lessening of public interest in politics meant that television kabarett audiences in Germany dropped. In order to increase interest again the Walk of Fame of Cabaret
The Walk of Fame of Cabaret is a sidewalk between Proviant-Magazin and Schönborner Hof in Mainz, Germany, which is embedded with more than 40 seven-pointed irregularly shaped stars featuring the names of cabaret celebrities selected by a gro ...
in Mainz is honoring selected cabaret celebrities; many past cabaret celebrities are honored by stars and each year a star for a living one is added.
As of 1999, contemporary active political kabarettists and satirists in Germany include: Urban Priol
Urban Priol (born 14 May 1961) is a German people, German Kabarett artist and comedian.
Life
Urban Priol was born on 14 May 1961, in Aschaffenburg. He spent his childhood in Obernburg am Main. In 1980, he made his abitur at the Kronberg-Gymnasiu ...
, Thomas Reis, Arnulf Rating, Heinrich Pachl, 3 Gestirn Köln 1, Bruno Jonas
Bruno Jonas (born in Passau, Germany, on 3 December 1952) is a German Kabarett artist and actor.
Education
Many people predicted he would become a priest, but he prefers to pray from the Kabarett stage. Between 1975 and 1982, he studied German, ...
, Richard Rogler
Richard Rogler (born 19 September 1949, in Selb) is a German Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin.
Early life
Rogler studied French and sport at the University of Würzburg. From 1974 to 1978 he was a ...
, Mathias Richling
Mathias Richling (born 24 March 1953 in Waiblingen) is a German actor, author, comedian and Kabarett artist.
Richling studied literature, music and theatre. From 1989 to 1996 he had a program called ''Jetzt schlägt's Richling'' on the German TV ...
, Dieter Hildebrandt
Dieter Hildebrandt (23 May 1927 – 20 November 2013) was a German Kabarett artist.
Biography
Hildebrandt was born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Weimar Germany (now Boleslawiec, Poland) where he attended school. In World War II he became a Flakhe ...
(died 2013), Henning Venske, Matthias Beltz (died 2002), Matthias Deutschmann and Volker Pispers
Volker Pispers (born 18 January 1958) is a German kabarett artist who is well known for his political satire.Schnabel, Dieter (2003''Zuweilen muß einer da sein, der gedenkt: Blätter der Erinnerung an Komponisten, Schriftsteller und Theaterleute ...
.[Pisper, Volker (1999) ''Damit müssen Sie rechnen'', Teil 1, pp. 9-10, in ''Gefühlte Wirklichkeiten'' (2001)]
Other notable Kabarett artists
*Willy Astor
* Jürgen Becker
*Konrad Beikircher
*Martin Betz
*Gerhard Bronner
Gerhard Bronner (23 October 1922 in Favoriten, Vienna – 19 January 2007 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period.
Life
Born t ...
*Karl Dall
Karl Bernhard Dall (, 1 February 1941 – 23 November 2020) was a German comedian, singer, and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye was caused by a congenital ptosis.
Family
Karl Dall was born in Emden, Germany, the son of ...
*Alfred Dorfer
Alfred Dorfer (; 11 October 1961) is an Austrian comedian, writer, and actor. He is one of the most well-known cabaret artists and comedians in Austria, not least due to his commitment to numerous Austrian film productions. After initial success ...
*Gerd Dudenhöffer
Gerd Dudenhöffer (born 13 October 1949 in Bexbach, Saarland) is a German cabaret artist and writer.
Life
Dudenhöffer studied graphic and design in Munich. Since 1977, he works in Germany as a cabaret artist. His most famous role is ''Heinz ...
*Max Ehrlich
Max Michaelis Ehrlich (7 December 1892 – 1 October 1944) was a German actor, screenwriter, and director on the German theater, comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s.
Ehrlich began his career in the 1920s at various theatres, including leadin ...
, died 1944
*Karl Farkas
Karl Farkas (28 October 1893 – 16 May 1971) was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.
Biography
In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he was to study law, but decided to follow the call of the stage. After attending the Academy of ...
*Ottfried Fischer
Ottfried Fischer (; born 7 November 1953) is a retired German actor and Kabarett artist best known for his role as Benno Berghammer in the popular German TV series ''Der Bulle von Tölz''. He is a supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germ ...
*Lisa Fitz
*Egon Friedell
Egon Friedell (born ''Egon Friedmann''; 21 January 1878, in Vienna – 16 March 1938, in Vienna) was a prominent Austrian cultural historian, playwright, actor and Kabarett performer, journalist and theatre critic. Friedell has been described as ...
, died 1938
*Andreas Giebel
*Rainald Grebe
*Christoph Grissemann
Stermann & Grissemann are an Austrian German comedy duo comprising Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann.
Background
Dirk Stermann
Dirk Stermann (born 7 December 1965 in Duisburg) hails from Germany and is a German radio and television presen ...
*Fritz Grünbaum
Franz Friedrich 'Fritz' Grünbaum (7 April 1880 in Brünn (Brno), Moravia – 14 January 1941 at the Dachau concentration camp, Germany) was an Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and popular song writer, actor, and master of ceremonies ...
, died 1941
*Günter Grünwald
*Josef Hader Josef may refer to
*Josef (given name)
*Josef (surname) Josef is the surname of the following people:
* Jens Josef (born 1967), German composer of classical music, a flutist and academic teacher
* Michelle Josef (born 1954), Canadian musician and tr ...
*Dieter Hallervorden
Dieter "Didi" Hallervorden (born 5 September 1935) is a German comedian, actor, singer, and cabaret artist.
He achieved great popularity in German-speaking countries in the mid-1970s with the slapstick series Nonstop Nonsens and his character Did ...
*Peter Hammerschlag
Peter Hammerschlag (27 June 1902, Alsergrund, Vienna 1942, Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austrian writer, surrealist poet, actor, Kabarett artist and graphic artist. He was known for his cabarets, which continue to influence the arts i ...
, died 1942
*Eckart von Hirschhausen
Eckart von Hirschhausen (born 25 August 1967) is a German physician, talk show host and comedian.
Academic career
Born in Frankfurt, von Hirschhausen studied medicine, supported by a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes ( ...
*Franz Hohler
Franz Hohler (born 1 March 1943) is a Swiss author and cabaret performer based in Zürich.
Life
Hohler is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio. He has written theater pieces, children's books, storie ...
*Jörg Hube
Jörg Hube (22 November 1943 – 19 June 2009) was a German actor and director. He died of cancer.
Theatre
Some of Hube's roles:
*1973 in Plenzdorf's ''Die neuen Leiden des jungen W.'', München
*1974 in Brecht's ''Die heilige Johanna de ...
, died 2009
*Hanns Dieter Hüsch
Hanns Dieter Hüsch (6 May 1925, in Moers – 6 December 2005, in Windeck-Werfen) was a German people, German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator.
With a working life of more than 53 years on the German cabaret stage a ...
, died 2005
*Georg Kreisler
Georg Kreisler (18 July 1922 – 22 November 2011) was an Austrian–American Viennese-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author. He was particularly popular in the 1950s and 1960s. From 2007 he lived in Salzburg, Austria, with his fou ...
, died 2011
*Reiner Kröhnert
*Maren Kroymann
Maren Kroymann (; born 19 July 1949) is a German actress, comedian and singer.
Career
Kroymann was born in Walsrode. She studied English, Roman studies, and American studies at University of Tübingen. After spending time in Paris and the U ...
*Frank Lüdecke
* Uwe Lyko
*Rolf Miller
*Wolfgang Neuss
Wolfgang Neuss (3 December 1923 – 5 May 1989) was a German actor and Kabarett artist. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became famous for his political engagement, first for the SPD, then for the extra-parliamentary opposition, ''APO''. H ...
, died 1989
* Maria Ney
*Michael Niavarani
Michael Niavarani (born April 29, 1968 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-Persian stand-up comedian in the tradition of Austrian cabaret, an author, and a TV and movie actor. Niavarani, whose comedic work often draws on his inter-cultural upbringi ...
*Dieter Nuhr
Dieter Herbert Nuhr (born 29 October 1960) is a German kabarett artist, comedian, author and television presenter.
Nuhr's stage program ''nuhr in Berlin'' (the title is a pun; for explanation, see below) is the first German stand-up comedy whic ...
*Günther Paal
*Rainer Pause
* Erwin Pelzig
*Sissi Perlinger
*Gerhard Polt
Gerhard Polt (born 7 May 1942 in Munich) is a German writer, filmmaker, actor and satirical cabaret artist from Bavaria.
Gerhard Polt's main topics are Bavarian people, culture and politics. On stage he often plays the role of an ignorant Bava ...
*Andreas Rebers
Andreas Rebers (born 7 January 1958) is a Kabarett artist, author and musician from Munich. His shows often incorporate performances on the accordion or the piano.
Early life
Rebers was born in Westerbrak in Lower Saxony. By the age of 15, Rebe ...
*Lukas Resetarits
Lukas Resetarits (born 14 October 1947, in Stinatz) is an Austrian cabaret artist and actor, best known for playing police inspector Kottan in the Austrian TV series '' Kottan ermittelt''.
Resetarits was born in the Austrian state Burgenland, b ...
*Hagen Rether
Hagen Rether (born 8 October 1969 in Bucharest) is a Romanian-born German political cabaret artist and musician. The most remarkable features in his performance are usually the presence and use of a grand piano. He was a frequent contributor to ...
*Mathias Richling
Mathias Richling (born 24 March 1953 in Waiblingen) is a German actor, author, comedian and Kabarett artist.
Richling studied literature, music and theatre. From 1989 to 1996 he had a program called ''Jetzt schlägt's Richling'' on the German TV ...
*Helmut Schleich
*Wilfried Schmickler
Wilfried Schmickler (born 28 November 1954 in ) is a German comedian and cabaret artist.
Life
Schmickler works as a comedian in Germany on TV-shows, in radio and on theatre stages. His programme consist of political cabaret
Cabaret is a for ...
*Werner Schneyder
Werner Schneyder (25 January 1937 – 2 March 2019) was an Austrian kabarett performer, journalist, writer, actor, stage director, television presenter and sports reporter. He performed political kabarett with Dieter Hildebrandt from 1974 to 19 ...
*Georg Schramm
Georg Schramm (born 11 March 1949) is a German Kabarett artist. He was a host of the Kabarett shows '' Scheibenwischer'' and ''Neues aus der Anstalt''.
Biography
Schramm was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. His father was a member of the Soc ...
*Horst Schroth
*Serdar Somuncu
* Emil Steinberger
*Dirk Stermann
Stermann & Grissemann are an Austrian German comedy duo comprising Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann.
Background
Dirk Stermann
Dirk Stermann (born 7 December 1965 in Duisburg) hails from Germany and is a German radio and television presen ...
*Ludger Stratmann
*Mathias Tretter
*Max Uthoff
*Claus von Wagner
Claus von Wagner (born 28 November 1977) is a German Kabarett artist, a stand-up observational comic and political satirist.
Early life
Born in Munich, von Wagner grew up in Miesbach, south-east of Munich. His father, originally from Prussia, w ...
*Bodo Wartke
*Sigi Zimmerschied
Notable Kabarett shows and venues
*''Cabaret Ulenspiegel'' (Berlin
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*''Herkuleskeule'' (Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
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*''Kom(m)ödchen The Kom(m)ödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf.
The Kom(m)ödchen was created in 1947 as a political-literary cabaret by Kay Lorentz, Kay and Lore Lorentz. Other participants in the initial program ''"Positiv dagegen"'', which had its premiere ...
'' (Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...
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*''Mitternachtsspitzen'' (Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
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*''Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft'' (Munich
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*''Neues aus der Anstalt
(English: "News from the (mental) institute") was a political cabaret program on German television station ZDF, hosted by Urban Priol and Frank-Markus Barwasser, who replaced Georg Schramm. Broadcast monthly from 2007 to 2013, it usually featu ...
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*''Notizen aus der Provinz
''Notizen aus der Provinz'' (German for "news from the province") was a political cabaret program hosted by Dieter Hildebrandt and broadcast by ZDF from 1973 to 1979. After its cancellation, it would be the last such program on the channel until ' ...
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*'' Pantheon-Theater'' (Bonn
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*''Scheibenwischer
(German for ''windshield wipers'') was the name of a long-running German Kabarett show. It was founded in 1980 by Dieter Hildebrandt and produced by BR / RBB to be broadcast on Das Erste. The show ended in 2008 after 28 years on the air.
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*''Tol(l)leranten'' (Mainz
Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
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See also
*Walk of Fame of Cabaret
The Walk of Fame of Cabaret is a sidewalk between Proviant-Magazin and Schönborner Hof in Mainz, Germany, which is embedded with more than 40 seven-pointed irregularly shaped stars featuring the names of cabaret celebrities selected by a gro ...
References
Further reading
* Ambesser, Gwendolyn von: ''Schaubudenzauber - Geschichte und Geschichten eines legendären Kabaretts'', Verlag Edition AV, Lich/Hessen 2006,
* Arnbom, Marie-Theres, Wacks, Georg: ''Jüdisches Kabarett in Wien. 1889 - 2009'', Armin Berg Verlag, Wien 2009,
* Budzinski, Klaus: ''Pfeffer ins Getriebe – So ist und wurde das Kabarett'', Universitas Vlg., München 1982,
* Budzinski, Klaus/Hippen, Reinhard: ''Metzler Kabarett Lexikon'', Vlg. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 1996,
* Deißner-Jenssen, Frauke: ''Die zehnte Muse – Kabarettisten erzählen'', Henschel Verlag, Berlin (DDR) 1982
* Finck, Werner: ''Spaßvogel - Vogelfrei'', Berlin 1991,
* Fink, Iris: ''Von Travnicek bis Hinterholz 8 : Kabarett in Österreich ab 1945, von A bis Zugabe'', Verl. Styria, Graz; Wien; Köln, 2000,
* Glodek, Tobias/Haberecht, Christian/Ungern-Sternberg, Christoph: ''Politisches Kabarett und Satire. Mit Beiträgen von Volker Kühn, Henning Venske, Peter Ensikat, Eckart v. Hirschhausen u.a.'', Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2007.
* Greul, Heinz: ''Bretter, die die Zeit bedeuten – Die Kulturgeschichte des Kabaretts'', Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln-Berlin 1967
* Henningsen, Jürgen: Theorie des Kabaretts, Düsseldorf-Benrath 1967
* Hippen, Reinhard: ''Es liegt in der Luft. Kabarett im Dritten Reich'', Zürich 1988
* Jacobs, Dietmar: ''Untersuchungen zum DDR-Berufskabarett der Ära Honecker'', Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Wien, 1996. 309 S. Kölner Studien zur Literaturwissenschaft Vol. 8, Edited by Neuhaus Volker,
* Kühn, Volker: ''Deutschlands Erwachen. Kabarett unterm Hakenkreuz 1933-1945 (= Kleinkunststücke. Eine Kabarett-Bibliothek in fünf Bänden, Hrsg. Volker Kühn, Band3)'', Berlin 1989, S. 20.
* Otto, Rainer/Rösler, Walter: ''Kabarettgeschichte'', Henschelverlag, Berlin (DDR) 1977
* Doris Rosenstein: Fernseh(schwäbisches) Kabarett Mathias Richling In: Suevica 7 (1993). Stuttgart 1994 995
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Events
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* Siegordner, Martin: Politisches Kabarett- Definition, Geschichte und Stellung. GRIN Verlag, 2004.
* Schumann, Werner: ''Unsterbliches Kabarett'', Richard Beeck Vlg., Hannover 1948
* Vogel, Benedikt: ''Fiktionskulisse – Poetik und Geschichte des Kabaretts'', Mentis Vlg., Paderborn 1993,
* Wacks, Georg: ''Die Budapester Orpheumgesellschaft. Ein Varieté in Wien 1889-1919. Vorwort: Gerhard Bronner'', Holzhausen Verlag, Wien 2002,
* Zivier, Georg/Kotschenreuter, Hellmut/Ludwig, Volker: ''Kabarett mit K – Siebzig Jahre große Kleinkunst'', Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, Berlin 1989, {{ISBN, 3-87061-242-8
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