Bruno Jonas is a German Kabarett

Kabarett

Kabarett is a form of cabaret which developed in Germany from 1901, with the creation of the Überbrettl venue, and that by the Weimar era in the mid 1920s was characterized by political satire and gallows humor...

 artist and actor.

Education

Many people predicted he would become a priest

Priest

A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

, but he prefers to pray from the Kabarett

Kabarett

Kabarett is a form of cabaret which developed in Germany from 1901, with the creation of the Überbrettl venue, and that by the Weimar era in the mid 1920s was characterized by political satire and gallows humor...

 stage. Between 1975 and 1982, he studied German

Germany

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, political science

Political science

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, and philosophy

Philosophy

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 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After several years he began to study theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

.

Career

In 1975, Jonas played with Sigi Zimmerschied in the Kabarett Scharfrichterhaus

Scharfrichterhaus

The Scharfrichterhaus in Passau, Germany, is designated as a national historical treasure and was built circa 1200. Located on “Milk Street”, it was the official residence for the Scharfrichter of the city of Passau...

. After an engagement as a writer and actor at the national theater in Munich he started his first soloprogram in 1979. He reached Germany through his first own radio show Jonas and regular appearances with Dieter Hildebrandt

Dieter Hildebrandt

Dieter Hildebrandt is a German Kabarett artist.Born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Hildebrandt attended school until he became an assistant for the German Air Force in World War II...

 as member of the Kabarett theatre Münchener Lach- und Schiessgesellschaft and later until today in the political Kabarett TV series Scheibenwischer

Scheibenwischer

Scheibenwischer 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...

(together with Mathias Richling

Mathias Richling

Mathias Richling is a German actor, author, comedian and cabaret artist.Richling studied literature, music and theatre. From 1989 to 1996 he had a program called Jetzt schlägt's Richling' on the German TV channel ARD'. Since 1999 he produced the program Zwerch trifft Fell on the German TV channel...

). He also appeared as monk Bruder Barnabas at "Starkbieranstich" on the "Nockherberg" in Munich, a traditional ceremony usually in March, in which Bruder Barnabas is giving a ticking-off to the present high-ranked politicians.

Publications

• 1987 - Der Morgen davor
• 1990 - Wirklich wahr
• 1993 - Wirklich wahr (CD)
• 1995 - Hin und zurück
• 1996 - Es soll nie wieder vorkommen
• 1996 - Red ned (CD)
• 1998 - Ich alter Ego (CD)
• 1998 - Ich alter Ego
• 2000 - Bin ich noch zu retten?
• 2002 - Gebrauchsanweisung für Bayern

External links

• Bruno Jonas
• Literature over and by Bruno Jonas in German National Library
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• Bruno Jonas in Internet Movie Database
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