Mathias Richling is a German

Germany

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 actor

Actor

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, author

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, comedian

Comedian

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 and cabaret

Cabaret

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 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

ARD (broadcaster)

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'. Since 1999 he produced the program Zwerch trifft Fell on the German TV channel Südwestrundfunk

Südwestrundfunk

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. Together with Bruno Jonas

Bruno Jonas

Bruno 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...

 he was part of the popular German cabaret show Scheibenwischer

Scheibenwischer

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. He often presents in cabaret high-ranked German politicians.

Works by Richling

• 1974 Köpfe u. v. a.
• 1976 Riesenblödsinn?
• 1977 Ich bin’s gar nicht
• 1979 Zuerst mal die Zugaben
• 1980 Zu uns gesagt mit Günter Verdin
• 1981 Ich habe nie gesagt
• 1982 Ich wiederhol’s gerade mal
• 1983 Daß Fernseh bled macht?
• 1985 Reden Sie! Jetzt red’ich!
• 1987 Wieviel Demokratie ist es bitte?
• 1989 Was ich noch vergessen wollte...
• 1990 Jetzt schlägt’s Richling
• 1996 Ich muß noch was beRICHLINGen
• 1999 RICHLING- Das @ntWort
• 2004 Richling WAAS?!
• 2006 E=m·Richling²

Awards

• 1978: Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis, City Mainz
  Mainz
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• 1987: Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis
• 1988: Österreichischer Kleinkunstpreis
• 2000: Schweizer Kabarettpreis (Cornichon)
• 2007: Bayerischer Kabarettpreis

Literature about Richling

• Doris Rosenstein: Fernseh(schwäbisches) Kabarett [: Mathias Richling]. in: Suevica 7 (1993). Stuttgart 1994 [1995], Pages 153-192 ISBN 3-88099-311-4

External links

• Mathias Richling (german)
• SWR: Richling - Zwerch trifft Fell (german)
• Literature by and over Mathias Richling in catalog of German National Library
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