Lore Lorentz (12 September 1920 – 22 February 1994) was a German

Kabarett Kabarett (; from French ''cabaret'' = tavern) is satirical revue, a form of cabaret which developed in France by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 as the ''cabaret artistique''. It was named Le Chat Noir and was centered on political events and satire. It ...

artist and standup comedian. She was born in Mährisch-Ostrau,

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

(today

Ostrava Ostrava (; pl, Ostrawa; german: Ostrau ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic, and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 280,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four riv ...

in the

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) as Lore Schirmer. She studied history, German literature and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna. In Berlin she met , who became her husband in 1944. Together they founded the Kabarett Kom(m)ödchen in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

in 1947. It was one of the first political

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 o ...

s in

Allied-occupied Germany Germany was already de facto occupied by the Allies from the real fall of Nazi Germany in World War II on 8 May 1945 to the establishment of the East Germany on 7 October 1949. The Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and Franc ...

after the Second World War. Until 1983 Lore and Kay Lorentz were directors of the Kommödchen and part of the ensemble. Starting in 1976, she taught

chanson A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic so ...

, song and musical at

Folkwang Hochschule The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in E ...

. From 1983, she started with solo programs. One of her most famous programs consisted exclusively of texts written by Heinrich Heine; even though he had written them more than a century before Lorentz' program was performed, they all referred to current topics. She received several prizes: *1981: Honorary *1986: *1989: Großer *1989: Honorary Recognition by the (jointly with her husband) *2004: Start on 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 ...

(posthumous) Kay and Lore Lorentz rejected the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in 1976. A secondary school in Düsseldorf is named in her honour."Lore Lorentz"
Lore-Lorentz-Schule, Düsseldorf She died in 1994 in Düsseldorf of pneumonia. On audio CD: *''Denk ich an Deutschland'' (A cabaret evening with texts of Heinrich Heine). CD. *''Chansons''. CD. *''Frivolitäten – 10 Diseusen – 10 Chansons''. LP. Polydor J 73 555

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorentz, Lore Kabarettists German artists German cabaret performers People from Ostrava People from Düsseldorf 1920 births 1994 deaths Folkwang University of the Arts faculty Czechoslovak emigrants to Germany Czechoslovak expatriates in Austria Deaths from pneumonia in Germany