Manfred Uhlig (2 September 1927 - 24 July 2019) was a German
actor,
cabaret artist
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,
entertainer and also
television and
radio presenter.
Life
Born 1927 in
Leipzig, Uhlig studied drama at the end of the 1940s and after finishing accepted acting jobs at theatres and cabarets in
Naumburg,
Wittenberg and
Schwerin. Since 1956 he was member of the
Leipziger Pfeffermühle cabaret ensemble, which was founded two years before. On 30 June 1962 he left, together with
Helga Hahnemann, and the two of them switched their focus to
television and radio work. In 1965 Uhlig teamed up with Günter Hansel, presenting over the next 24 years 289 episodes of the programme ''
Alte Liebe rostet nicht'' at
Radio DDR 1, which with that was among the most long-lived German radio broadcasts. He became known i.a. with the programmes ''Leipziger Allerlei'' and ''Kollege kommt gleich''. In the
GDR television he appeared as satirist f.e. in ''
Da lacht der Bär'' and ''
Da liegt Musike drin''. Moreover, together with
Horst Köbbert
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and
Lutz Stückrath
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as cabaret trio ''
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'', he presented 28 episodes of the Saturday evening show ''
Ein Kessel Buntes''. In 1978 he was awarded with the
Art Prize of the GDR.
Following the German reunification (
Wende) he occasionally worked for the
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Uhlig died in 2019.
Filmography
External links
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References
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1927 births
2019 deaths
Actors from Leipzig
German cabaret performers
German radio presenters