Dieter Hildebrandt
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Kabarett
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artist
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Born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia
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, Hildebrandt attended school until he became an assistant for the German Air Force in World War II
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. After four months as an assistant Hildebrandt was ordered to the frontlines to support the German Wehrmacht
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According to documents released in June 2007, Hildebrandt may have joined the Nazi Party on 20 April 1944.
On 8 May 1945, Hildebrandt was taken captive by the United States Army
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, but was released a few months later.
In the years after the war, Hildebrandt finished his schooling and moved to Windischeschenbach
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in Bavaria
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. In 1948 he started studying theatre sciences in Munich
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. During that time he founded a student-performed cabaret
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show,“Die Namenlosen”, in Schwabing
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. After finishing his studies Hildebrandt worked with Sammy Drechsel
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to found and develop the “Münchner Lach und Schießgesellschaft”, a successful cabaret venue where he worked alongside cabaret artists such as Klaus Havenstein
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and Bruno Jonas
Bruno Jonas
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. He stopped working with Drechsel in 1972, to work for radio and TV stations.
From 1973 until 1979 Hildebrandt was the presenter and author of the cabaret show “Notizen aus der Provinz
Notizen aus der Provinz
Notizen aus der Provinz was a political cabaret program hosted by Dieter Hildebrandt and broadcast by ZDF from 1973 to 1979...
” (Notes From The Province), which was broadcast by ZDF
ZDF
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. Hildebrandt also worked with Werner Schneyder, with whom he founded the so called “Autorenkabarett”. The SFB
Sender Freies Berlin
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show 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...
, which he created in 1980, ran till 2009.
Hildebrandt was married to Irene Mendler from 1956 until her death. They had two daughters, Ursula and Jutta. He remarried, to German actress Renate Küster, in 1992.
Awards
- Grimme-award in bronze, silver and gold
- German cabaret-award
- Schiller-award
- Högner-award
- Knoeringen-award