Christian Habekost

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Christian "Chako" Habekost (* 27. March 1962 in Mannheim ) is a German comedian , cabaret artist and Calypso - singer . He has been married to Britta Habekost since 2012 .

biography

Christian Habekost grew up in Mannheim. After high school and community service as a paramedic, he studied English, German and political science in Mannheim, London and Kingston , Jamaica . In 1991 he received his doctorate on Caribbean performance and music poetry and passed with summa cum laude . He wrote the books Dub Poetry, 19 Poets (including work analyzes by Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mutabaruka ) and Verbal Riddim .

Already active as a stage performer during his studies, Christian Habekost immersed himself artistically in Caribbean music, especially Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobagos, during his longer study stays in the Caribbean. As the first white European he finally appeared in January 1994 under the name “Chako” with his then wife Bettina (“Chako & Tina”) at the carnival in Trinidad and Tobago in front of more than 10,000 people in the National Stadium of Port of Spain. His Calypso Whitey became a surprise hit there and is also known in Germany. The heute-journal reported on the "Calypso-King from Mannheim".

This was followed by further appearances at Soca and Calypso shows in New York ("International Calypso / Soca Monarch Competition", 1994) and Toronto ("Soca Monarch of the World Competition", 1994, 3rd place) as well as further appearances at the Trinidad Carnival in 1995 and 1996. In 1994, Habekost received a recording contract with WEA Records , where he released his maxi single “Ragga Riddim is the Boss”, one of the first German-language reggae songs. In 1996, the ARD broadcast a half-hour documentary feature about Christian and Bettina Habekost in the Teleglobus series.

In the following years, Christian Habekost appeared as a comedian and cabaret artist, also under the pseudonym Chako. TV appearances in programs like Ottis Schlachthof , Wat is? ( WDR ), Whoever Laughs Last ...! ( SAT 1 ), Hüsch & Co. ( SR ) made him known nationwide. Together with Dieter Hallervorden , he worked from 1998 to 2003 as an author and actor in the ARD show “ Hallervordens Spott-Light ”. From 2004 onwards, Chako Habekost appeared on stage several times with the singer Xavier Naidoo , for example during the “Are you interested in life” tour in 2006 and the “O live lait” TV show. In the Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen Chako Habekost moderated From 2007 to 2008 the "Comedy Club Pfingstweide".

In 2005, Habekost founded his own eight-piece band and, with the Chako Music Show, implemented a long-planned project to combine comedy and German lyrics with Caribbean-Latin American rhythms. The first album PaLatinos appeared in the same year.

Since 1996 Chako Habekost has performed solo programs for the stage. In them, the comedian and cabaret artist deals intensively with his native (spa) Palatinate dialect . He also transfers the rhythmic forms of poetry from the Caribbean to his own dialect (“Dub Poetry in Palatinate”).

Chako Habekost's numerous rap and performance texts, in particular “Mei Sprooch” (appeared on the CD “Habekostbarkeiten” as well as in the books “Chako babbelt like printed” and “vun unne”), “De MundArtischt”, “MundArtacke” (published on CD of the same name), “De Bappe-Räpp” (appeared on the CD “rischdisch.falsch.gebabbelt”), “Ode to the Dubbeglas” (appeared on the CD “Der Palatinator”) and “Gebet” make him one today Representative of modern Palatine poetry.

Habekost became known to the German television audience as a performer in his role as "Casino-Klaus" in the TV multi-part series Pälzisch im Abgang, produced by SWR in 2015 .

Stage programs

program premiere
De MundArtisch 1996
Rishdish, falsely, babbled June 2002
The well-wetter 2003
Chako Music Show (with Los Rebeldes Orquestra) 2004
De local patri (di) ot April 2005
MundARTacke! October 2007
De AllerÄrgschd February 2010
Schäni embarrassment 2012
Chakos Habe, Precious items (S'Beschde vum Beschde) March 2012
The palatinator November 28, 2013
(F) Raw week night December 11, 2014
De Weeschwie'sch-MÄN October 13, 2016
De noble wilde October 31, 2018

Filmography

Discography

Records and CD releases in Germany

  • Ragga Riddim is the boss: WEA Records , 1994
  • Chako live & direct: Palatina Viva, 1998
  • Dialectically see: Palatina Viva, 2000, ISBN 3-935071-01-9
  • The final victory of capitalism: Palatina Viva, 2001, ISBN 3-935071-04-3
  • Rishdish, falsely, babbled. : Palatina Viva, 2002, ISBN 3-935071-09-4
  • The well-wetter: Palatina Viva, 2003, ISBN 3-935071-13-2
  • de Local Patri (di) ot: Palatina Viva, 2005, ISBN 3-935071-23-X
  • PaLatinos (Chako Music Show): Fizz Records, 2006
  • Beschd of Chako: Palatina Viva, 2006, ISBN 3-935071-29-9
  • MundARTacke! : Palatina Viva, 2007, ISBN 3-935071-30-2
  • Schäni B'scherung: Comedyanten, 2010
  • de {Aller} Ärgschd: Comedyanten, 2010
  • Goodies: Comedyanten, 2012
  • Schäni B'scherung II: Comedyanten, 2012
  • The Palatinator: Comedyanten 2013
  • 'S Allerbeschde vum Beschde: Comedyanten, 2017

Record and CD releases in Trinidad and Tobago

  • Whitey / Jump Up & Wine, 1994
  • Wild Meat / Message From The Underground, 1995
  • Jagabat / Fete Cya Done, 1996
  • Spinderella, 1998

bibliography

  • (as ed.): Dub Poetry. 19 Poets from England and Jamaica . Schwinn, Neustadt 1986, ISBN 3-925077-07-3 .
  • (as ed.): Dub poetry. 20 poets from Jamaica and England . Schwinn, Neustadt 1987, ISBN 3-925077-03-0 .
  • Liverpool Experience . Schwinn, Neustadt 1989, ISBN 3-925077-13-8 .
  • Vun unne. Dub poetry in Unardic dialect . cjm, Speyer 1992, ISBN 3-9801411-7-9 .
  • Verbal riddim. The Politics and Aesthetics of African-Caribbean Dub Poetry . Rodopi BV Editions, Amsterdam et al. 1993, ISBN 90-5183-549-3 ( Cross-cultures 10), (also: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 1991).
  • Dialectically gse . Palatina Viva Dyck, Mutterstadt 2000, ISBN 3-935071-00-0 .
  • Chako babbles like a print . Höma Verlag, Offenbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-937329-45-1 .
  • Palatinate treasures . Höma Verlag, Offenbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-937329-56-7 .
  • Electoral Palatinate treasures . Höma Verlag, Offenbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-937329-93-2 .
  • with Britta Habekost: Elwenfels . Höma Verlag, Offenbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-937329-97-0 .
  • with Britta Habekost: Elwenfels 2 : Spritzer for the sniper . Palatinate Publishing House, Ludwigshafen 2016, ISBN 978-3-876293-46-2 .
  • Instructions for use for the Palatinate . Piper, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3492276-98-6 .
  • with Britta Habekost: Elwenfels 3: Herbal tea in a dub glass . Palatinate Publishing House, Ludwigshafen 2018, ISBN 978-3-876293-62-2 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Christian Habekost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Press release about the anniversary of the University of Mannheim, accessed on October 15, 2016
  2. ↑ Kaiso with a German touch , accessed on September 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dr. CHAKO is in the house In: Showtime , accessed September 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ German steals show at Kisskidee opening In: Trinidad Guardian , accessed on September 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Dr. CHAKO is in the house In: Showtime , accessed September 13, 2016.
  6. ^ King without a kingdom , accessed September 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Habekost, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chako (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim , Germany