Baumann and Clausen

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Baumann and Clausen is a radio comedy series about the two imaginary bureaucrats Hans Werner Baumann and Alfred Clausen. With a running time of almost 27 years and over 7,500 episodes broadcast, Baumann und Clausen is one of the most successful radio series and can be heard on 19 radio stations across Germany.

Emergence

The radio comedy was originally developed in 1993 by Jens Lehrich and Frank Bremser for Radio Schleswig-Holstein (R.SH). Brakeman and Lehrich were employed as volunteers at R.SH at the time. The idea of ​​a bureaucratic comedy arose from her own experiences with official structures and representatives of authorities. The first episodes ran under the title "The officials from the Ratzhaus". Since very few could do anything with the "Ratzhaus", the series was soon renamed "Baumann and Clausen". The authors and producers Lehrich and Bremser are also the speakers.

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The protagonists are two bureaucrats from the fictional town of Neddelhastedtfeld. This place is particularly characterized by its many bowling pubs, as senior councilor Clausen has a downright fanatical weakness for this sport.

Alfred Clausen (born May 26, 1965) sits in the building department of Neddelhastedtfeld. A favorite subject of Alfred, who tends to be rude, is his wife Ella. He loves her cooking skills and especially the meatloaf with brown sauce, about which there is now a song of its own as part of the theater show “In Heaven is the Devil's Going”. However, he doesn't leave good hair on her appearance and figure, he likes to refer to her as his "better three-quarters". Alfred is a macho and takes it for granted that his wife is responsible for the household, tarring the driveway and raising their son Timmy.

Hans Werner (HaWe) Baumann (born April 12, 1970) works in the passport office and always fulfills his job as a civil servant to the complete satisfaction of his superior. He is addicted to harmony and therefore able to be friends with Alfred. He has a loving relationship with his wife Gertrud. They have a son named Uli-Emmanuel.

The two bureaucrats talk about the problems in their everyday work over the phone.

Every episode of Baumann & Clausen begins with HaWe's question: "In the morning, Alfred, how do you eat?" And ends with his suggestion: "Käffchen?" To which Alfred replies: "Bingo!"

Radio station and airtime

The current episode of the day is available on the Baumann and Clausen website. There you can also get the series as a podcast .

Theater show programs

Since 2004 Jens Lehrich and Frank Bremser have been touring Germany regularly as Baumann & Clausen with various theater programs. With around 1,300 guest performances, Lehrich and Bremser performed 9 different stage programs in front of around 650,000 spectators. You not only appear there as an actor, but also write the pieces yourself.

Publications

  • Baumann & Clausen - The Official Comedy (CD, 1994)
  • The last by Baumann & Clausen (The CD was released exclusively by Radio SAW, 1994)
  • Baumann & Clausen - Life after office, comic paperback
  • Baumann & Clausen - The 2nd (CD, 1995)
  • Baumann & Clausen - Please do not disturb! (CD, 1998)
  • Baumann & Clausen - The last 99, the first 2000 (CD, 2000)
  • Baumann & Clausen - Das Schlaraffenamt (CD, 2001)
  • Baumann & Clausen - What you can get today, postpone it to tomorrow (Live-CD, 2005)
  • Clausen's little smart ass (CD, 2006)
  • The great Baumann & Clausen book (2007)
  • Baumann & Clausen - After-Work Live (CD, 2008)
  • Baumann & Clausen - Master Waltz (CD, 2008)
  • Baumann & Clausen - The Dead from the Filing Cabinet - Live from Schmidts Tivoli in Hamburg (CD, 2009)
  • Baumann & Clausen - The turning point in 90 minutes (DVD, 2010)
  • Baumann & Clausen - Das Käffchenwerk Vol. 1 (CD, 2011)
  • Baumann & Clausen - The devil is loose in heaven (DVD, 2012)
  • Baumann & Clausen - Alfred alone at home (radio play on CD, 2013)
  • Baumann & Clausen - Alfred at home alone - Live from the TriBühne Norderstedt (DVD, 2014)
  • Baumann & Clausen - The Town Hall Amigos (CD, 2015)
  • Baumann & Clausen - The Town Hall Amigos (DVD, 2016)

Awards

In 2012 the duo received the Order of Faust of the Craftsmen Carnival Association Weimar

In 2013 Baumann & Clausen were nominated for the German Radio Prize

Trivia

The then Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, Torsten Albig , said about the program in 2013: "It is thanks to Baumann & Clausen that we now have more citizen-friendly authorities because you held up the mirror to us."

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  1. ↑ Speech by Hans Scherer, former head of programming at RSH, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Baumann & Clausen on April 23, 2013 in the Metro-Kino, Kiel.
  2. ↑ Baumann & Clausen - The devil is loose in heaven (DVD, 2012)
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved June 4, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baumannundclausen.de
  4. ↑ http://www.baumannundclausen.de/podcast , accessed on June 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Speech by Prime Minister Torsten Albig on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Baumann & Clausen on April 23, 2013 in the Metro-Kino, Kiel.

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