Wigald Boning

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Wigald Andreas Boning (born January 20, 1967 in Wildeshausen near Oldenburg ) is a German comedian , voice actor , musician and television presenter . He is also active as a composer and author .

He became known to a wide audience through the comedy show RTL Saturday Night , in which he was a permanent member of the ensemble from 1993 to 1998. He gained popularity there primarily through the collaboration with Olli Dittrich in the interview - Persiflage Zwei Stühle - an opinion , which was awarded the 1995 Adolf Grimme Prize, and as a musical duo Die Doofen , which started with the single Mief and the album Lieder, die die World not need reached the top of the charts in 1995 and received all the major German music and media awards.

In the 2000s, Boning first presented his own program WIB-Schaukel before joining Clever! - The show that creates knowledge from 2004 to 2008 appeared alongside Barbara Eligmann as a presenter. From June 2012 to September 2013 he and Bernhard Hoëcker presented the satirical knowledge magazine Don't copy! for the ZDF .

From 2014 to 2015 he also moderated the political improv Vier sind das Volk in the same channel, and from 2015 to 2016 the music report series Rock the Classic for 3sat . Since March 2017, along with Hella von Sinnen and Hugo Egon Balder, he has been part of the regular cast of the comedy advice show Genial besides and its offshoot Genial besides - The Quiz (since July 2018).

Live and act

Youth and career start

Wigald Boning is the first of two children of a bank clerk and a bank clerk. Even as a student he played in the punk jazz - band KIXX , which also Willehad Grafenhorst, Jim Meneses and the later actor Lars Rudolph belonged. They gave their concert premiere on January 14, 1983 at the Papenburg Youth Center. 1985 followed the release of their debut album Hidden Lover as well as tours and international festival appearances, including as opening act for the jazz musician Ornette Coleman . After graduating from the Cäcilienschule in Oldenburg in 1985, Boning initially did community service, but did not complete any professional training afterwards. In 1988 he released the album Bremen with Willehad Grafenhorst (Willy Hart), Susanne Rau and Ulrik Spies as the band Bremen . Shortly after the album was released, Wigald Boning left the band to start a solo career. The solo publications Kapitale Burschen (1989) and Wildeshausen (1991) were commercially unsuccessful.

Directed by Horst Königstein , Boning made his film debut in 1989 in the movie Hard Days Hard Nights . In 1990, the documentary concluded Horny East, a journey through the last days of the GDR by Ulrich Waller on. From 1991 to 1993 Boning was presenter and the daily column Bonings Bonbons for the music magazine Airplay at Premiere , at the same time he appeared from 1992 to 1993 as a reporter in the political satirical magazine Extra 3 on NDR television and later in the media magazine Canale Grande on the VOX station .

Career boost in the 1990s

Wigald Boning gained nationwide fame as a permanent member of the comedy show RTL Saturday Night , of which he was a member from 1993 to 1998. In his category Wigalds Welt he reported in the role of an investigative reporter on fictitious studies and findings with grotesque content or questioned passers-by on the street about self-made absurdities. He gained popularity primarily through the pastiche Zwei Stühle - an opinion that was an integral part of the program with numerous issues. As a questioning moderator, Boning parodied roundtables with celebrities and fictional personalities who were embodied in almost deceptively real masks and costumes by Olli Dittrich . The duo received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1995 for their performance .

Boning also stood out on the show because of his bizarre clothes. Optical trademarks were suits made of flashy fabrics, colors and materials such as artificial turf , glasses with a till frame and bizarre fashion combinations that were characterized by completely opposite styles.

Wigald Boning (l.) And Olli Dittrich (r.) As Die Doofen , 1996

Also at the side of Olli Dittrich, Boning recorded success with the music project Die Doofen from 1995 after he had already published the album long-playing record and two singles with low sales in 1992 under the name Wigald Boning and die Doofen . Musical appearances with mockery texts on RTL Saturday Night were followed by the release of the single Mief and the album Songs that the World Doesn't Need , with which the duo reached the top of the charts in the summer of 1995. In the same year they appeared in the opening act for Bon Jovi's stadium tour . On the occasion of their success, Die Doofen were awarded the most important German music and media prizes, including the Echo , the Golden Tuning Fork and the Bambi .

2000s

After the end of RTL Saturday Night , Boning first guided through several issues of the ProSieben MorningShow in 1999 , before presenting his 38-episode program WIB-Schaukel from 2001 to 2004 , in which he accompanied mostly prominent interviewees to their hometown. For the issue with Jürgen Drews on June 28, 2003, he was again honored with the Adolf Grimme Prize. Together with Barbara Eligmann , Boning hosted the Sat.1 show Clever! From 2004 to 2008 . - The show that creates knowledge , in which he took over the execution and explanation of scientific experiments and everyday phenomena. In 2005 the show received the German Television Prize . In addition, Boning presented the short-lived action and quiz show FamilyShowdown on Sat.1 in 2007 and appeared repeatedly as a candidate and guest on television programs such as Die Hit-Giganten , Extreme Activity , Genial besides and Schillerstraße .

In collaboration with pianist Roberto Di Gioia , Boning released the critically acclaimed instrumental album Jet Set Jazz in 2008 , on which he himself recorded eleven different wind instruments. In 2013, Boning founded the music label “Hobby Music” together with Di Gioia.

2010s

Wigald Boning after a reading in May 2010

In 2010 Boning's fourth book In Rio stands a Hofbräuhaus , which he also set to music as an audio book. With excerpts from his travel reports from different continents, he appeared at several readings in large parts of Germany. In September 2011 Wigald Boning published the book The History of the Skirting Board and its Significance for the Occident - and other scientific studies .

Since June 2014 Boning has been the patron of the non-profit association Dravet-Syndrom eV

In April 2016, filming began on a new documentary format for the TV station History , which Boning and Urban Explorer Friedrich Meinecke are sending to abandoned places in order to research the history and special features of these historical sites. Boning also traveled to Chernobyl with Meinecke for the program entitled “Wigald & Fritz - The History Hunters” . Other places were the former National Political Educational Institution in Ballenstedt , the former health resort of the Sophienheilstätte in Bad Berka , the former prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , the Peenemünde Army Research Institute and the Schorfheide in Brandenburg . In 2018, History broadcast the series Germany - Your Football Soul, for which Boning travels through Germany and meets people who are closely connected to the sport of football.

Boning is a regular guest of the online live talk series Long Distance Talk by Tommy Krappweis , in which current political issues are taken up and discussed.

Since 2018 he has been on tour with Bernhard Hoëcker with the improv comedy show Gutefrage .

Private life

Wigald Boning, 2006

Wigald Boning has been with the opera singer Teresa Boning , b. Tièschky, who he met in summer 2015 while filming the TV show Rock the Classic ( 3sat ). At the premiere of the Bayreuth Festival in 2017 , they appeared together in public for the first time. Their son Theodor was born in July 2018. The second child, daughter Mathilda, was born on November 11, 2019. The family lives in Munich. Boning resigned from the Roman Catholic Church at the age of 18. In the summer of 2020, he said that he "was pregnant with the idea of ​​changing things again. I am also talking to people in the Catholic Church about it."

Boning has grown twin sons from a previous marriage. He collects shopping lists and nose hair trimmers .

Boning is also a CSR ambassador for “Lifelong Active”, an initiative by Werder Bremen .

politics

Boning was a member of the Young Democrats (predecessor organization of the Young Liberals ) when he was at school and later a member of the FDP for many years . Among other things, for the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016, he publicly campaigned intensively for the Free Democrats. In 2019 he left the party.

Sports

Boning ran his first marathon in Winterthur ( Winterthur Marathon ) on May 20, 2001 in 3:30:11 h. On October 16, 2002, the endurance athlete completed his first ultramarathon at the 2nd Ems-Jade run over 72 km from Emden to Wilhelmshaven. In the 24-hour mountain bike race in the Munich Olympic Park in 2006, he started as a single starter and covered a total of 345 km (51 laps) on the 6.75 km long circuit. In addition, he and Birgit Fischer took part as a celebrity team in the 7th Fulda Challenge 2007 in Canada. There they took 5th place, ahead of the second celebrity team with the two competitive athletes Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann and Frank Busemann , who achieved 7th place. On July 7, 2007, he rode a racing bike 600 km from Füssen to Venice in 24 hours . He completed the King Ludwig Marathon on July 22, 2007 in Füssen in 4:03:45 hours. In his former home town of Bernbeuren , he headed the Nordic skiing department of the local club there. You can read some of his sporting experiences in his book Confessions of a Night Sportsman (2007). At the 53rd Biel Running Days on June 17, 2011, he started the 100 km run for the first time. After 11:43:04 hours he reached the finish line as 77th in his age group (345th in the overall standings).

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Gimme More Chicken (with grouse )
  DE 21st 04/24/2000 (10 weeks)
  AT 16 May 28, 2000 (10 weeks)
  CH 39 05/07/2000 (5 weeks)
Solo projects
  • 1988/1995: Album Bremen (produced by Klaus Voormann )
  • 1989: Album Kapitale Burschen
  • 1989: Single mom
  • 1989: Single don't cry
  • 1991: Album Wildeshausen
  • 1991: Single Come Back / 100%
  • 1996: Album Bought Is Bought - The Mist of Wigald Boning
  • 1997: Single A friend, a good friend / The brakeman's song
  • 1998: Album Our country should become more beautiful
  • 2000: Single Gimme more Huhn ( Moorhuhn feat. Wigald Boning)
  • 2008: Album Jet Set Jazz with Roberto Di Gioia
  • 2013: 8-CD-Box Hobby with Roberto Di Gioia
  • 2016: Album The confused life of the miracle violinist Alain Rien with Roberto Di Gioia
KIXX
  • 1985: Album Hidden Lover (ITM)
The stupid ones
  • 1995: Album songs the world doesn't need
  • 1996: Album Melodies for Melons
  • 1998: Album Two Chairs - One Opinion

Works

Selma Üsük (left) interviewed Wigald Boning (right) at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2016.

Books

  • Fly swatter in aspic. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-462-02511-2 .
  • Our country should become more beautiful. The program for Germany. Lappan Verlag, Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-89082-835-3 .
  • Confessions of a Night Sportsman. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 3-499-62192-4 .
  • There is a Hofbräuhaus in Rio: Travel to almost every continent. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-62580-0 .
  • The history of the baseboard and its importance for the West. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-62772-9 .
  • Butter, bread and lice spray: what shopping lists reveal about us. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-63013-2 .
  • In the tent. One who moved out to sleep outside. Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-63194-8

Audio books

Filmography (selection)

Movies
watch TV
Dubbing voice
  • 1998: The Magic Sword - The Legend of Camelot
  • 1999: South Park (episode 1x04) ... as reporter Frank and (episode 1x11) ... as cosmetic surgeon Tom
  • 2000: Titan AE ... as a gun
  • 2006: Urmel from the ice ... as Professor Tibatong
  • 2008: Urmel in full swing ... as Professor Tibatong
  • 2009: G-Force - Agents with Bite ... as Hurley
  • 2014: Tarzan 3D ... as Jim Porter

Awards

For RTL Saturday night

For the group Die Doofen with Olli Dittrich

Other awards

  • 2004: Adolf Grimme Prize for his interview show WIB-Schaukel: Wigald Boning meets Jürgen Drews on Mallorca
  • 2005: German television award for Clever!
  • 2005/2006: Eyeglass wearer of the year of the Board of Trustees for Good Vision
  • 2012: Most bicycle-friendly personality of the year

Web links

Commons : Wigald Boning  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wigald Boning can also be silent WZ online from December 7, 2008
  2. ↑ Do you want to see my pedal boat? Interview with Wigald Boning Süddeutsche from January 10, 2004
  3. ^ Welt online from April 30, 2008
  4. ^ Adolf Grimme Prize Winner 2004 ( Memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Adolf Grimme online
  5. ↑ Wigald Boning makes Jet Set Jazz Star on December 10, 2008
  6. ↑ Musikkritik Jet Set Jazz http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/Musikkritik-Jazz-Blues-Jet-Set-Jazz-3772055.html ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Computer picture from December 2008
  7. ↑ facebook.com: Patron Dravet Syndrome
  8. ^ "History hunter" Boning travels in Harz and Ukraine. In: Schwäbische.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 .
  9. ^ "History hunter " From the Nazi elite boarding school to the SED party school: The Napola in Ballenstedt. In: history.de. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  10. ^ "History hunter " The Sophienheilstätte in Bad Berka. In: history.de. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  11. ^ "History hunter " The former Stasi prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. In: history.de. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  12. ^ "History hunter " The Army Research Institute in Peenemünde. In: history.de. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  13. ↑ "Geschichtsjäger" The Schorfheide: Hunting Area of ​​the Mighty. In: history.de. Retrieved April 30, 2017 .
  14. ↑ a b c Wigald Boning just married. In: Kreiszeitung.de. January 14, 2017, accessed January 14, 2018 .
  15. ↑ [1]
  16. ↑ FOCUS Online: Wigald Boning shows the new woman at his side at the Bayreuth Festival . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on August 1, 2017]).
  17. ^ Wigald Boning: Freshly in love with opera singer Teresa Tièschky . In: GALA . July 27, 2017 ( gala.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Wigald Boning: He became a father again - and there is a first baby photo . In: BUNTE.de . ( Bunte.de [accessed on July 24, 2018]).
  19. ↑ WDR.de: Do we still need the church, December 2019
  20. ↑ pro - Christian media magazine: "I am enthusiastic praying", issue 3/2020, p. 40ff.
  21. ↑ Hella von Sinnen , Cornelia Scheel : Des Wahnsinns fat booty. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-62763-7 , p. 418 ff.
  22. ↑ http://www.werder.de/de/profis/news/50366.php ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ Brigitte von Imhof: Wigald Boning: "I wore a stop-ostrich button". In: magazin-schule.de. November 26, 2018, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  24. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wigald-boning-ueber-seine-habenschaft-in-der-fdp-und-die-neue-sendung-im-zdf-marktfuehrer-bei-nachtschwestern-16756600
  25. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/landtagswahl_mv_2016/Der-Kampf-um-die-Stimmen-im-Netz,landtagswahl1146.html
  26. ↑ Tweet from Wigald Boning on February 6, 2020
  27. ↑ FOCUS Online: "I'm addicted to endurance sports" . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on October 10, 2017]).
  28. ↑ 24-hour mountain bike race Munich, September 23 - 24, 2006, list of final results ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (as PDF; 173 kB)
  29. ^ Report by Birgit Fischer about the joint participation in the 7th Fulda Challenge 2007
  30. ↑ Pupils shoot corporate film with a lot of flair . In: Merkur.de , April 2, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017.
  31. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
  32. ^ Germany: Wigald Boning is the most bicycle-friendly personality of 2012 , February 4, 2012, accessed on October 3, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Boning, Wigald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boning, Wigald Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wildeshausen