Kabarett
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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
. It shared the characteristic atmosphere of intimacy with the French cabaret from which it was imported, but the gallows humor was a distinct German aspect. Other differences were that it consisted only of sketches
, satire
and parodies
without any show elements.
word for "cabaret" but has two different meanings. The first meaning is the same as in English, describing a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre (often the word "Cabaret" is used in German for this as well to distinguish this form). The latter describes a kind of political satire
. Unlike comedian
s who make fun of all kind of things, Kabarett artists pride themselves as dedicated almost completely to political and social topics of more serious nature which they criticize using techniques like cynicism
, sarcasm
and irony
.
founded in Berlin
the first German
cabaret called Überbrettl (literally SuperBar, a play of words on Friedrich Nietzsche
's Übermensch
, Superman), later known as Buntes Theater (colourful theatre), in January 1901. In the foundation of the Überbrettl , von Wolzogen was inspired by Otto Julius Bierbaum
's 1897 novel Stilpe.
In Munich
, the Die Elf Scharfrichter was co-founded by Otto Falckenberg
and others, in April 1901. It is sometimes considered the first political kabarett.
All forms of public criticism were banned by a censor on theatres in the German Empire
, however. This was lifted at the end of the First World War, allowing the Kabarett artists to deal with social themes and political developments of the time. This meant that German Kabarett really began to blossom in the 1920s and 1930s, bringing forth all kinds of new cabaret artists, such as Werner Finck
at the Katakombe, Karl Valentin
at the Wien-München, Fritz Grünbaum
and Karl Farkas
at the Simpl in Vienna, and Claire Waldoff
. Some of their texts were written by great literary figures such as Kurt Tucholsky
, Erich Kästner
, and Klaus Mann
.
When the Nazi party
came to power in 1933, they started to repress this intellectual criticism of the times. Kabarett in Germany was hit badly. (Kander and Ebb
's Broadway musical, Cabaret
, based on the Christopher Isherwood
novel, Goodbye to Berlin
, deals with this period.) In 1935 Werner Finck
was briefly imprisoned and sent to a concentration camp; at the end of that year Kurt Tucholsky committed suicide; and nearly all German-speaking Kabarett artists fled into exile in Switzerland
, France
, Scandinavia
, or the USA.
When the war ended, the occupying powers ensured that the Kabarett portrayed the horrors of the Nazi
regime. Soon, various Kabarett shows were also dealing with the government, the Cold War
and the Wirtschaftswunder
: the Tol(l)leranten in Mainz
, the Kom(m)ödchen
in Düsseldorf
and the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft in Munich
. These were followed in the 1950s by television cabaret.
In the GDR
, the first state Kabarett stage was opened in 1953, Berlin
's Die Distel. It was censored and did not criticize the state (1954: Die Pfeffermühle in Leipzig
).
In the 1960s, West German Kabarett was centred around Düsseldorf
, Munich
, and Berlin
. At the end of the decade, the students' movement of May 1968 split opinion on the genre as some old Kabarett artists were booed off the stage for being part of the old establishment. In the 1970s, new forms of Kabarett developed, such as the television show Notizen aus der Provinz
. At the end of the 1980s, Kabarett was an important part of social criticism, with a minor boom at the time of German reunification. In eastern Germany, Kabarett artists had been growing more and more daring in their criticism of politicians in the time leading up to 1989. After reunification, new social problems, such as mass unemployment, the privatization of companies, and rapid changes in society, meant that cabarets rose in number. Dresden
, for example, gained two new cabarets alongside the popular Herkuleskeule.
In the 1990s and at the start of the new millennium, the television and film comedy boom and a lessening of public interest in politics meant that television Kabarett audiences in Germany dropped. In order to increase interest again the Walk of Fame of Cabaret
is honouring selected cabaret celebrities.
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
which developed in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
from 1901, with the creation of the Überbrettl
Überbrettl
Überbrettl , later known as Buntes Theater , was the first venue in Germany for literary cabaret, or Kabarett, founded in Berlin in January 1901 by Ernst von Wolzogen. The German Kabarett concept was imported from France, from which it kept the characteristic atmosphere of intimacy...
venue, and that by the Weimar era in the mid 1920s was characterized by political satire
Political satire
Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly...
and gallows humor
Gallows humor
Gallows humor , derives from gallows which is a platform with a noose used to execute people by hanging. Gallows humor is the type of humor that still manages to be funny in the face of, and in response to, a perfectly hopeless situation...
. It shared the characteristic atmosphere of intimacy with the French cabaret from which it was imported, but the gallows humor was a distinct German aspect. Other differences were that it consisted only of sketches
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
, satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
and parodies
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
without any show elements.
Difference from other forms
Kabarett is the GermanGerman language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
word for "cabaret" but has two different meanings. The first meaning is the same as in English, describing a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre (often the word "Cabaret" is used in German for this as well to distinguish this form). The latter describes a kind of political satire
Political satire
Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly...
. Unlike comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
s who make fun of all kind of things, Kabarett artists pride themselves as dedicated almost completely to political and social topics of more serious nature which they criticize using techniques like cynicism
Cynicism
Cynicism , in its original form, refers to the beliefs of an ancient school of Greek philosophers known as the Cynics . Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. This meant rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, health, and...
, sarcasm
Sarcasm
Sarcasm is “a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt.” Though irony and understatement is usually the immediate context, most authorities distinguish sarcasm from irony; however, others argue that sarcasm may or often does involve irony or employs...
and irony
Irony
Irony is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions...
.
History
Ernst von WolzogenErnst von Wolzogen
Ernst von Wolzogen Ernst von Wolzogen Ernst von Wolzogen (April 23, 1855 - August 30, 1934 was a cultural critic, a writer and a founder of Cabaret in Germany.-Biography:Wolzogen came from a noble Austrian family; he studied Literature, Philosophy, and the history of art in Strasbourg and Leipzig. ...
founded in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
the first German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
cabaret called Überbrettl (literally SuperBar, a play of words on Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
's Übermensch
Übermensch
The Übermensch is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra ....
, Superman), later known as Buntes Theater (colourful theatre), in January 1901. In the foundation of the Überbrettl , von Wolzogen was inspired by Otto Julius Bierbaum
Otto Julius Bierbaum
Otto Julius Bierbaum was a German writer.Bierbaum was born in Grünberg, Silesia. After studying in Leipzig, he became a journalist and editor for the journals Die freie Bühne, Pan and Die Insel. His literary work was varied...
's 1897 novel Stilpe.
In Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, the Die Elf Scharfrichter was co-founded by Otto Falckenberg
Otto Falckenberg
Otto Falckenberg was a German theatre director, manager and writer. In April 1901, he co-founded Die Elf Scharfrichter, the first political kabarett in Germany....
and others, in April 1901. It is sometimes considered the first political kabarett.
All forms of public criticism were banned by a censor on theatres in the German Empire
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
, however. This was lifted at the end of the First World War, allowing the Kabarett artists to deal with social themes and political developments of the time. This meant that German Kabarett really began to blossom in the 1920s and 1930s, bringing forth all kinds of new cabaret artists, such as Werner Finck
Werner Finck
Werner Finck was a German comedian, an actor with "comic bones". He could read the phone book and it would seem extremely funny.-Life:...
at the Katakombe, Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin
Karl Valentin was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture...
at the Wien-München, Fritz Grünbaum
Fritz Grünbaum
Fritz Grünbaum was an Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and pop song writer, director, actor and master of ceremonies....
and Karl Farkas
Karl Farkas
Karl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he was to study law, but decided to follow the call of the stage...
at the Simpl in Vienna, and Claire Waldoff
Claire Waldoff
Claire Waldoff was a German singer. She was a famous cabaret singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s and 1920s.- Biography :...
. Some of their texts were written by great literary figures such as Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky was a German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved to Paris in 1924 and then to Sweden in 1930.Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of...
, Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner
Emil Erich Kästner was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature.-Dresden 1899–1919:...
, and Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann
- Life and work :Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews. He began writing short stories in 1924 and the following year became drama critic for a...
.
When the Nazi party
National Socialist German Workers Party
The National Socialist German Workers' Party , commonly known in English as the Nazi Party, was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. Its predecessor, the German Workers' Party , existed from 1919 to 1920...
came to power in 1933, they started to repress this intellectual criticism of the times. Kabarett in Germany was hit badly. (Kander and Ebb
Kander and Ebb
Kander and Ebb were a highly successful songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb . Known primarily for their stage musicals, Kander and Ebb also scored several movies including their most famous song, the theme song from Martin Scorsese's New York, New York...
's Broadway musical, Cabaret
Cabaret (musical)
Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
, based on the Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English-American novelist.-Early life and work:Born at Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire in North West England, Isherwood spent his childhood in various towns where his father, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army, was stationed...
novel, Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin
Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 short novel by Christopher Isherwood set in pre-Nazi Germany. It is often published together with Mr Norris Changes Trains in a collection called The Berlin Stories.-Details:...
, deals with this period.) In 1935 Werner Finck
Werner Finck
Werner Finck was a German comedian, an actor with "comic bones". He could read the phone book and it would seem extremely funny.-Life:...
was briefly imprisoned and sent to a concentration camp; at the end of that year Kurt Tucholsky committed suicide; and nearly all German-speaking Kabarett artists fled into exile in Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Scandinavia
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
, or the USA.
When the war ended, the occupying powers ensured that the Kabarett portrayed the horrors of the Nazi
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
regime. Soon, various Kabarett shows were also dealing with the government, the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
and the Wirtschaftswunder
Wirtschaftswunder
The term describes the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II . The expression was used by The Times in 1950...
: the Tol(l)leranten in Mainz
Mainz
Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
, the Kom(m)ödchen
Kom(m)ödchen
The Komödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf.The Komödchen was created in 1947 as a political-literary cabaret by Kay and Lore Lorentz. Other participants in the initial program "Positiv dagegen", which had its premiere on March 29, 1947, were Werner Vielhaber, Bernd Nesselhut, Hans Walter...
in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
and the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft in Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
. These were followed in the 1950s by television cabaret.
In the GDR
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...
, the first state Kabarett stage was opened in 1953, Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
's Die Distel. It was censored and did not criticize the state (1954: Die Pfeffermühle in Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
).
In the 1960s, West German Kabarett was centred around Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
, Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, and Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
. At the end of the decade, the students' movement of May 1968 split opinion on the genre as some old Kabarett artists were booed off the stage for being part of the old establishment. In the 1970s, new forms of Kabarett developed, such as the television 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...
. At the end of the 1980s, Kabarett was an important part of social criticism, with a minor boom at the time of German reunification. In eastern Germany, Kabarett artists had been growing more and more daring in their criticism of politicians in the time leading up to 1989. After reunification, new social problems, such as mass unemployment, the privatization of companies, and rapid changes in society, meant that cabarets rose in number. Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
, for example, gained two new cabarets alongside the popular Herkuleskeule.
In the 1990s and at the start of the new millennium, the television and film comedy boom and a lessening of public interest in politics meant that television Kabarett audiences in Germany dropped. In order to increase interest again the Walk of Fame of Cabaret
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 group of experts and honored by several sponsors for their...
is honouring selected cabaret celebrities.
Notable Kabarett artists
- Willy Astor
- Jürgen BeckerJürgen BeckerJürgen Becker is a German comedian, kabarett artist, and actor.- Life :After school in Cologne, Becker became a graphic designer in German company 4711. Later Becker studied social science in Cologne....
- Konrad Beikircher
- Matthias Beltz, died 2002
- Martin Betz
- Gerhard BronnerGerhard BronnerGerhard Bronner was an Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period....
- Karl DallKarl DallKarl Bernhard Dall is a German comedian, singer and television presenter. His distinctive 'hanging' eye is caused by an inborn Ptosis.- Family :...
- Matthias Deutschmann
- Alfred DorferAlfred DorferAlfred Dorfer is an Austrian comedian, writer, and actor. He is one of the most well-known cabaret artists and comedians in Austria, not least due to his commitment to numerous Austrian film productions...
- Gerd DudenhöfferGerd DudenhöfferGerd Dudenhöffer is a German cabaret artist.- Life :Dudenhöffer studied graphic and design in Munich. He works in Germany as a cabaret artist...
- Max EhrlichMax EhrlichMax Michaelis Ehrlich was a German actor, screenwriter, and director on the German theater, comedy and cabaret scene of the 1930s.-Biography:...
, died 1944 - Karl FarkasKarl FarkasKarl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he was to study law, but decided to follow the call of the stage...
- Ottfried FischerOttfried FischerOttfried Fischer is a German actor and Kabarett artist best known for his role as Benno Berghammer in the popular German TV series Der Bulle von Tölz...
- Lisa Fitz
- Egon FriedellEgon FriedellEgon Friedell born Egon Friedmann, 21 January 1878, in Vienna, died 16 March 1938, in Vienna, was a prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer and theatre critic.- Early life :...
, died 1938 - Andreas Giebel
- Rainald Grebe
- Christoph Grissemann
- Fritz GrünbaumFritz GrünbaumFritz Grünbaum was an Austrian Jewish cabaret artist, operetta and pop song writer, director, actor and master of ceremonies....
, died 1941 - Günter Grünwald
- Josef HaderJosef HaderJosef Hader is an Austrian comedian, actor, writer and producer.-Life and work:...
- Dieter HallervordenDieter HallervordenDieter "Didi" Hallervorden is a German comedian, comic actor, singer and cabaret artist.-Biography:...
- Peter HammerschlagPeter HammerschlagPeter Hammerschlag was an Austrian writer, surrealist poet, actor, Kabarett artist and graphic artist. He was known for his cabarets, which continue to influence the arts in Austria today, and in 2007, but was honoured on the Walk of Fame of Cabaret...
, died 1942 - Dieter HildebrandtDieter HildebrandtDieter 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...
- Eckart von HirschhausenEckart von HirschhausenEckart von Hirschhausen is a German physician and comedian.-Academic career:Eckart von Hirschhausen studied medicine, supported by a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes , at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Heidelberg and the University of London...
- Franz HohlerFranz HohlerFranz Hohler was born on 1 March 1943 in Biel/Bienne. He lives as an author and cabaret performer in Zurich. He is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio. He has written theater pieces, children's books, stories and novels. In 2002 he received the Kassel...
- Jörg HubeJörg HubeJörg Hube was a German actor and director. He died of cancer.- Theatre :Some of Hube's roles:*1973 in Plenzdorf's Die neuen Leiden des jungen W., München*1974 in Brechts Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe...
, died 2009 - Hanns Dieter HüschHanns Dieter HüschHanns Dieter Hüsch was a German author, cabaret artist, actor, songwriter and radio commentator....
, died 2005 - Bruno JonasBruno JonasBruno Jonas is a German Kabarett artist and actor.-Education:Many people predicted he would become a priest, but he prefers to pray from the Kabarett stage. Between 1975 and 1982, he studied German, political science, and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich...
- Reiner Kröhnert
- Frank Lüdecke
- Uwe Lyko
- Rolf Miller
- Wolfgang Neuss, died 1989
- Michael NiavaraniMichael NiavaraniMichael Niavarani is an Austrian-Persian stand-up comedian in the tradition of Austrian cabaret, an author and a TV and movie actor. Niavarani, whose comedic work often draws on his inter-cultural upbringing, is a central figure of the Austrian cabaret scene...
- Dieter NuhrDieter NuhrDieter Nuhr is a German comedian. From 1981 to 1989, Nuhr studied art and history at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. From 1982 to 1987 he attended the University of Duisburg-Essen, where he studied to become a teacher...
- Rainer Pause
- Erwin PelzigErwin PelzigFrank-Markus Barwasser is a German political satirist and journalist. On stage, he almost always acts as the character of Erwin Pelzig, wearing a corduroy hat.Barwasser grew up in Würzburg, Upper Franconia, Bavaria...
- Sissi Perlinger
- Volker PispersVolker PispersVolker Pispers is a German Kabarett artist, who is well known for his drastic and sometimes sarcastic commentary on current events, especially about the political situation in Germany but also about the politics of the United States since 9/11 and during the Iraq War.- Biography :After his Abitur,...
- Gerhard PoltGerhard PoltGerhard Polt is a Bavarian writer, filmmaker, actor and satirical cabaret artist.Gerhard Polt often performs using Bavarian dialect. His main topics are Bavarian people, culture and politics. His performances in Munich theaters, which he started in 1976, are very popular...
- Urban PriolUrban PriolUrban Priol is an award-winning German cabaret artist and comedian. He is currently the host of the ZDF show Neues aus der Anstalt.-External links:* - Portrait of Priol in Der Tagesspiegel...
- Andreas RebersAndreas RebersAndreas Rebers is an award-winning Kabarett artist, author and musician from Munich. His shows often incorporate performances on the accordion or the piano.-Early life:Rebers was born in Westerbrak in Lower Saxony...
- Lukas ResetaritsLukas ResetaritsLukas Resetarits is an Austrian cabaret artist and actor, best known for playing police inspector Kottan in the Austrian TV series Kottan ermittelt....
- Hagen RetherHagen RetherHagen Rether is a German political cabaret artist. The most remarkable features in his performance are usually the presence and use of a grand piano and his carrying a baseball club while entering stage, then puts it on the piano before taking off his dinner jacket...
- Mathias RichlingMathias RichlingMathias 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...
- Richard RoglerRichard RoglerRichard Rogler is an award-winning German Kabarett artist and professor of Kabarett at the University of the Arts in Berlin.-Early life:...
- Helmut Schleich
- Wilfried Schmickler
- Werner Schneyder
- Georg SchrammGeorg SchrammGeorg Schramm is a German psychologist and Kabarett artist. He was a host of the Kabarett shows Scheibenwischer and Neues aus der Anstalt.-Biography:...
- Horst Schroth
- Serdar Somuncu
- Emil SteinbergerEmil SteinbergerEmil Steinberger is a Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor.He is well known as Emil in Switzerland and Germany for his acts on television in the 1970s and 1980s.- External links :* http://www.emil.ch...
- Dirk Stermann
- Ludger Stratmann
- Mathias Tretter
- Karl ValentinKarl ValentinKarl Valentin was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture...
, died 1948 - Claus von Wagner
- Bodo Wartke
- Sigi Zimmerschied
Notable Kabarett shows and venues
- ScheibenwischerScheibenwischerScheibenwischer 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...
- Neues aus der AnstaltNeues aus der AnstaltNeues aus der Anstalt is a political cabaret program on German television station ZDF, hosted by Urban Priol and Georg Schramm...
- Notizen aus der ProvinzNotizen aus der ProvinzNotizen aus der Provinz was a political cabaret program hosted by Dieter Hildebrandt and broadcast by ZDF from 1973 to 1979...
- Tol(l)leranten (MainzMainzMainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...
) - Kom(m)ödchenKom(m)ödchenThe Komödchen is a cabaret stage in Düsseldorf.The Komödchen was created in 1947 as a political-literary cabaret by Kay and Lore Lorentz. Other participants in the initial program "Positiv dagegen", which had its premiere on March 29, 1947, were Werner Vielhaber, Bernd Nesselhut, Hans Walter...
(DüsseldorfDüsseldorfDüsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
) - Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft (MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
) - Herkuleskeule (DresdenDresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
) - Mitternachtsspitzen (CologneCologneCologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
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