Bastian Pastewka

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Bastian Pastewka at the German Comedy Prize 2013

Bastian Pastewka (born April 4, 1972 in Bochum ) is a German actor , comedian , screenwriter , voice actor and audio book interpreter . He became known to a wide audience at the end of the 1990s through the sketch show Die Wochenshow , in which he gave birth to fictional characters such as Brisko Schneider and Ottmar Zittlau , and in the new millennium through the Pastewka series .

A representative survey by the Forsa Institute in 1999 identified him as the most popular comedian in Germany. Pastewka has received numerous awards, including the German Comedy Prize , the Golden Camera and the Adolf Grimme Prize (2008).

biography

Pastewka with his wife Heidrun Buchmaier at the 2012 Golden Camera award ceremony

Bastian Pastewka was born in Bochum as the son of a primary school teacher and an agricultural engineer. He grew up in Bonn , where he left the Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium with the Abitur in 1991 . At the same time he attended the same grammar school as Bernhard Hoëcker , who was, however, two grades above him. After doing community service at the University Hospital in Bonn , he studied pedagogy , German and sociology . He finished his studies in 1993 without a degree.

Bastian Pastewka lives in Berlin and Cologne with his wife Heidrun Buchmaier, managing director of an artist agency with which he has been in a relationship since 2004. The couple is childless.

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Movie and TV

1990s

During his studies, Pastewka founded the Comedy Crocodiles with Bernhard Hoëcker , Oliver Bröker and Keirut Wenzel in 1992 , with three stage programs, most recently Who impregnated Maya the Bee? , mostly appeared in theaters around Bonn and Cologne. In 1997 the group disbanded. From the mid-1990s, Pastewka worked for radio and in front of the camera, including in the WDR youth programs U30 and Lollo Rosso . Here he had the opportunity to gain further media experience with today's author and director Alexander von Eisenhart-Rothe and the book author Mona Sharma . When he first appeared on television in 1994, he played a spinach in a broadcast by WDR .

Wide notoriety gained Pastewka by Sat.1 - Wochenshow whose ensemble he belonged from September 1996 to June 2001. In the context of this comedy show, Pastewka embodied various characters, including the presenter Brisko Schneider, who was distinguished by his funny behavior, black lacquer and leather clothing and a heavily gelled hairstyle with painted sideburns. As a parody of erotic magazines like Love Sin and Peep! he led the series Sex TV , in which he interviewed changing guests and opened each issue with the greeting "Hello, dear lovers". Due to the popularity of this character, Sat.1 aired several episodes of Brisko's Century Show in December 1999 , in which the presenter appeared as the protagonist. Pastewka's distinctive characters also included the figure of the philosophizing but confused-looking Ottmar Zittlau , whose optical features were a green jogging suit made of balloon silk and a tousled blonde hair wig. As an annoyed reporter who was a regular guest at the visionary pensioner Herbert Görgens , embodied by Ingolf Lück , as well as in the role of the rose Indian, who was considered a constant joke with the question “Want to buy rose?” , Pastewka represented two other main characters in the weekly show.

2000s

In 2003, RTL broadcast the program Without Words , nominated for the 2003 Adolf Grimme Prize , which was followed by a second season with six episodes in autumn 2004. Inspired by the British comedian Rowan Atkinson , Pastewka only played pantomime skits in this format and was awarded the Bavarian TV Prize in 2005 for this .

After the travel magazine Vox Tours sent him on an expedition to Tunisia in 2002 , Pastewka started a new travel comedy on RTL in 2004, during which he toured India , Japan , Russia , Fiji , Vanuatu and Mexico and provided information about the countries and people and combined cultures with comedic elements. The series was honored with a nomination for the German Television Prize, for the edition Pastewka in Russia , in which the comedian took part in a parabolic flight in a cosmonaut center and experienced the state of weightlessness , he also received another nomination in 2005 for the Adolf Grimme Prize.

Based on the American model Leave it, Larry! (Original title: Curb Your Enthusiasm ) Sat.1 began broadcasting the ten-season series Pastewka in September 2005 , in which the comedian plays himself and was nominated three times in a row for the Adolf Grimme Prize.

In 2004, Pastewka took on the leading role of Inspector Very Long alongside Oliver Kalkofe in the Edgar Wallace homage and film parody Der Wixxer and the 2007 sequel Neues vom Wixxer . In addition, he acted together with Kalkofe and Oliver Welke as a screenwriter in both films.

On December 19, 2007 Bastian Pastewka was with Anke Engelke in the Sat.1 production Merry Christmas! - to be seen with Wolfgang & Anneliese , a parody of various Christmas programs on German television. As part of this show, the two actors acted in a number of very different characters and were awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize, the Bavarian TV Prize and the German Comedy Prize 2008 for this. On December 5, 2009, Bastian Pastewka and Anke Engelke were on the ZDF show Wetten, dass ..? hosted by moderator Thomas Gottschalk in the roles of Wolfgang and Anneliese . For this appearance as well as for the moderation of the German Television Award (also in the role of Wolfgang ) Pastewka was nominated again for the Grimme Award.

2010s

Pastewka with Markus Lanz (2011)

Pastewka made guest appearances in 2011 with other colleagues such as Michael Kessler or Oliver Kalkofe for the TV club on various stages in Germany. The concept was to watch TV with the audience in a cozy atmosphere, with the celebrities involved showing selected film or series excerpts. There were some small bonuses for viewers, such as the preview of a program with Wolfgang and Anneliese that had not yet been broadcast at the time.

On May 13, 2011 the successful format was continued with the Sat.1 production Fröhlicher Frühling with Wolfgang and Anneliese , in which folk music programs were parodied.

Pastewka was until 2011 and since 2017 has been a regular guest on the Sat.1 show Genial besides .

In 2012, he starred alongside Judy Winter in the black comedy Mother Must Go , which received critical acclaim.

Beginning in 2016 to broadcast the mini-series newly produced started I'll stop tomorrow in ZDF . Pastewka plays the main role of the overwhelmed family man Jochen Lehmann, who becomes a counterfeiter due to financial hardship . Based on the American hit series Breaking Bad , the ZDF programming department called Pastewkas Lehmann the "German Walter White ". The series was awarded the “ Golden Camera ” in 2017 . Initially, a second season was planned, but in April 2018 these plans were discarded and the series ended.

In February 2017, Bastian Pastewka announced on social networks that the sitcom Pastewka would be continued. The new season was broadcast at the beginning of 2018 on the video-on-demand provider Prime Video .

On January 31, 2018, Pastewka announced on Facebook that there would be a ninth season of his series Pastewka .

On February 12, 2019 it was announced that the 10th season of the series Pastewka will be the last. The season has been available on Amazon Video since February 7, 2020.

theatre

After leaving the weekly show, Pastewka developed a stage program with comedian Olli Dittrich as well as musical singer Susie Frese and guitarist Ralf Hartmann , which took the quartet to large parts of Germany in 2002, 2003 and 2004. During their appearances they presented musical parodies as well as comedic duo and solo interludes, in which Pastewka also slipped into the role of Ottmar Zittlau.

Since 2005 he has appeared on a recurring basis alongside Christoph Maria Herbst , Michael Kessler and Jürgen Tonkel in the comedy Männerhort at the Berlin Theater on Kurfürstendamm . Due to its continued success, the ensemble made a nationwide tour in 2008, including the Winterhuder Fährhaus in Hamburg and the Ruhrfestspielhaus in Recklinghausen .

Audio book and radio play

In addition to his work as a television and theater actor, Bastian Pastewka is also employed as a dubbing and radio play speaker and as an audio book interpreter. Initiated by comedian Jürgen von der Lippe and initially broadcast on WDR radio and on WDR television's "Long Night", the sound carrier Ja uff first appeared ... - Winnetou among comedy vultures . In this production, a radio play adapted for radio in 1955 and encompassing 45 roles, based on the adventure writer Karl May , was cast with German comedians; alongside Bastian Pastewka, Rüdiger Hoffmann , Herbert Knebel , Dirk Bach , Hella von Sinnen and Mike Krüger were involved.

He twice took on a guest role in the radio play series Die Drei ??? : 2001 in the episode Das Hexenhandy and 2010 in Die Drei ??? and the three day . On September 5, 2019, Pastewka read the audio book Die drei ??? and the green spirit .

Pastewka made his debut as an audio book speaker in 2007 with The Laughing Pessimist by Wilhelm Busch and Edgar Wallace - Die Romanfabrik (2007), published by Lit.Cologne . In 2009 he was in Peter Schwindt's fantasy radio play Morland. To hear the return of Eskatay as well as in children's stories with the Bamberg Punch and Judy Special , a production for the benefit of the German Childhood Cancer Foundation . In addition, he read the debut novel New Appearance by the writer Michael Gantenberg (2009) and appeared with him on a reading tour in various venues in Germany. In 2011 the audio book Urlaub mit Esel (also by Michael Gantenberg) was created, which was spoken by Pastewka.

In November 2013, Bastian Pastewka and the director and author Leonhard Koppelmann created Paul Temple and the Gregory case after Francis Durbridge as a live radio play evening. His “accomplices” in the realization were first the actresses Inga Busch , Janina Sachau , the comedian Alexis Kara and the cabaret artist Kai Magnus Sting , later the voice actress Cathlen Gawlich joined them. In January 2014 they produced a radio play CD from the evening. From November 2014 to December 2015, Bastian Pastewka and his accomplices gave more than 70 performances with their live radio play on their tour through almost 50 German cities. Sometimes she was accompanied live by the WDR Funkhausorchester and the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra .

In December 2013 Bastian Pastewka not only directed the radio play for the first time for the WDR radio play Der Hund der Baskervilles , but also created the radio adaptation of the novel based on Arthur Conan Doyle . The 114-minute production was first broadcast on January 5, 2014 on the broadcaster WDR 5 .

synchronization

In the field of film dubbing , Pastewka, like most of his prominent colleagues, is cast mainly in roles in animated films, including in all three parts of the children's book adaptation Stuart Little as the main character of the same name (2001, 2003 and 2005), as the giraffe Melman in all parts of the DreamWorks SKG - production Madagascar (2005, 2008 and 2012), as a drone Barry B Benson in Bee Movie - the Honigkomplott (2007) as well as elephant Angie in Animals United (2010). He lends his voice to James Bachman on the British sketch comedy show The Mannohnekopf Show . In the two-part ARD television production Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey , which was broadcast at Christmas 2011 , Pastewka spoke the gander Martin.

Trivia

Bastian Pastewka is a fan of the French comedian Louis de Funès and the radio play series Die Drei ??? . As part of an appearance on Wetten, dass ..? on November 13, 1999, as a guest on the betting couch, he enumerated the first 40 episodes of the detective series by heart. He can also be heard in the episode Das Hexenhandy and in the 2010 Special .

In 2007 he also published the novel Der Wixxer for the film of the same name together with Oliver Kalkofe and Oliver Welke . Pastewka played alongside Kalkofe in the music videos of the Wixxer title melodies.

Filmography (selection)

Television entertainment

synchronization

Radio plays

  • 2001: The three ??? and the witch cell phone (as Giorgio Cade)
  • 2011: The three ??? and the three days (as Sebastian Dawson)

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Congratulations, Bastian Pastewka Presseportal Sat.1, accessed on June 22, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Note in an interview with Pastewka: "" I was the pipe from the Revier ", in: Westfalenpost from June 19, 2020, page: People
  3. ↑ WDR MonTalk ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ THAT'S FRIEND HEIDRUN BUCHMAIER ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Bastian Pastewka does not want to have children of his own. Morgenpost.de, December 21, 2015, accessed on January 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Tomorrow I will stop ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Zeit Campus Nr. 1, January / February 2011, p. 73.
  8. ↑ Fiction competition: two “Tatort” films nominated for the Grimme Prize. Die Welt , February 3, 2010, accessed October 18, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Blog text: “A lot going on, a lot going!” ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  10. ↑ Happy spring with Wolfgang and Anneliese. SAT. 1 , accessed June 22, 2011 .
  11. ↑ From time to time he likes to remove the old one in Frankfurter Allgemeine Online from October 18, 2012
  12. ↑ Rarely so funny on Süddeutsche.de from October 18, 2012 .
  13. ↑ a b zdf.de: Tomorrow I will stop ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Uwe Mantel: start date known - Pastewka miniseries will premiere in early 2016. DWDL.de, October 23, 2015, accessed on October 23, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Michael Hanfeld: ZDF program director Norbert Himmler: Netflix can only dream of our offer . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 25, 2016, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 3, 2016]).
  16. ↑ Manuel Weis: But no second season: ZDF does not pursue the Pastewka series. In : quotemeter.de . April 14, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Bastian Pastewka. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Möööööp !!! After the success of the eighth season on Prime Video: Amazon commissioned the ninth season of Pastewka. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  19. ↑ zeit.de: Bastian Pastewka announces the last season of his sitcom
  20. ^ Andreas Kurtz: Protest and amuse. Berliner Zeitung , October 9, 2006, accessed on October 18, 2010 .
  21. ↑ https://bastianpastewka.de/pastewkarium/auditorium/die-drei.html
  22. ↑ bastianpastewka.de
  23. ↑ Database query for gold and platinum awards musikindustrie.de, accessed on July 25, 2017
  24. ↑ Jupiter Award for Annette Frier, Bjarne Mädel, "Pastewka" and "Sherlock". presseportal.de, March 11, 2015, accessed on March 12, 2015 .
  25. ↑ German Comedy Award: Luke Mockridge honored as "best comedian" . In: Spiegel Online . October 3, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 3, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Pastewka, Bastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 4th 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum