The Kom(m)ödchen is a
cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or drinking, ...
stage in
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...
.
The Kom(m)ödchen was created in 1947 as a political-literary cabaret by
Kay and
Lore Lorentz
Lore Lorentz (12 September 1920 – 22 February 1994) was a German Kabarett artist and standup comedian.
She was born in Mährisch-Ostrau, Czechoslovakia (today Ostrava in the Czech Republic), as Lore Schirmer. She studied history, German literatu ...
. Other participants in the initial program ''"Positiv dagegen"'', which had its premiere on March 29, 1947, were Werner Vielhaber, Bernd Nesselhut, Hans Walter Clasen, Eduard Marwitz, Iris Fanslau, and Ruth Henrichs.
Hanne Wieder
Hanne Wieder (May 8, 1925 – May 11, 1990) was a German television and film actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Rosemary'' (1958)
* '' Heiße Ware'' (1959)
* ''Labyrinth'' (1959)
* '' Marili'' (1959)
* '' The Haunted Castle'' (1960)
* ' (1961)
* ...
was also part of the ensemble in its first year. In 1959 the television transmission of the program was banned for a year.
The theater moved to its present location on April 27, 1967, and its stage and props were moved to the new location by guests during the intermission of a performance.
In 1983, Lore Lorentz decided to pursue solo appearances and left the Kom(m)ödchen ensemble. Kay Lorentz stayed and continued to build a new ensemble. With his death in 1993, Lore gave up her solo career and returned to lead the Kom(m)ödchen. She gave the leadership to her son Kay S. Lorentz, who has continued since Lore's death in 1994.
The public square in front of the theater was renamed the "Kay-und-Lore-Lorentz-Platz" in their honor, and there is also a city school named the "Lore Lorentz Schule".
Well-known members of the ensemble have included
Thomas Freitag,
Harald Schmidt
Harald Franz Schmidt (born 18 August 1957) is a German actor, comedian, television presenter and writer best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows.
Early and private life
A son of refugees who fled from Sudetenland (now Cz ...
,
Hugo Egon Balder
Hugo Egon Balder (born Egon Hugo Balder; 22 March 1950) is a German television presenter, producer, and comedian.
Early life
Balder was born in West Berlin to Egon Friedrich Balder (1904–1970) and Gerda Balder (née Schure; 1910–1997). Ger ...
, and
Volker Pispers. The journalist and poet
Thaddäus Troll
Hans Bayer, known by the pseudonym Thaddäus Troll, (18 March 1914 – 5 July 1980) was a German journalist and writer and one of the most prominent modern poets in the Swabian German dialect. In his later years, he was also an active campaigner ...
wrote scripts for the cabaret in the early 1950s.
[Lindenberg, Eleonore (2002)]
"Thaddäus Troll"
. Förderkreis deutscher Schriftsteller in Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
Releases
* ''Wenn es dem Kom(m)ödchen nicht gefällt ..., Ein Kabarett in Deutschland.'' Droste 2000,
* CD "Amok in Erkrath" Kom(m)ödchen-Ensemble,
References
External links
Home page of the Kom(m)ödchen
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Düsseldorf
Culture in Düsseldorf
Cabaret in Europe
Theatres in Düsseldorf