Dietrich Kittner

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Dietrich Kittner (2003)

Dietrich Kittner (born May 30, 1935 in Oels , Lower Silesia ; † February 15, 2013 in Bad Radkersburg , Austria ) was a German satirist , cabaret artist and songwriter .

Life

Dietrich Kittner (2008)

The son of a dentist and his wife attended the Humboldt School in Hanover . During his law studies, which he broke off later, he founded the "Göttingen student and amateur cabaret DIE LEID-ARTIKLER" in Göttingen in 1960 . In 1961 he registered a business for political satire at the Hanover regulatory office . He provoked offices and agencies whose programs and actions, it was for example in 1965 in the garden of the Café am Kröpcke with NS -Luftschutzhelm and gas mask arrested. The whole thing was intended as a protest against the so-called simple emergency laws, which were being discussed in the Bundestag at the time and which also dealt with legal regulations on civil defense.

In 1963, the "Leid-Artikler" appeared in the permanent house in Hanover, the cabaret Mehlstrasse . Since 1966 Dietrich Kittner has played exclusively solo programs, from 1968 in the Cabaret Club Voltaire , from 1975 in the Theater an der Bult and from 1987 to 2006 in the Theater am Küchengarten . Kittner named the "satirical worker poet and revolutionary political artist Erich Weinert " as one of his role models. In 1977 he produced an Erich Weinert Revue as his 15th program, which also appeared on a long-playing record and with which, according to Erhard Jöst, he "identified himself as a worthy heir to his great role model".

From 1966 to 1996, Kittner performed between 190 and 220 solo performances annually. As a co-founder of the Club Voltaire in Hanover in 1968 and co-initiator of the “Roter Punkt” campaign against price increases in local public transport, he gained popularity in his hometown of Hanover beyond his artistic work. Kittner, who was expelled from the SPD in the mid-1960s , represented a strongly left-wing cabaret, the aim of which he saw primarily in political education. In the 1970s, along with Franz Josef Degenhardt , Dieter Süverkrüp and the members of the Floh de Cologne group, he was one of those songwriters and cabaret artists who represented communist positions and supported the socialism that actually existed in Eastern Europe in principle. Between 1973 and 1989 he was one of the few western artists to complete several major GDR tours. In public service West German television he had been practically " television ban " (Süddeutsche Zeitung) since 1973 . In 1993, Kittner handed over the management of the Theater am Küchengarten (TAK), which had been sold out for six years, to a GmbH. In 2007 he terminated the cooperation with the TAK due to “irreconcilable artistic and organizational differences”.

In 1990/91 he moved to Dedenitz near Bad Radkersburg in Austria and started his tours in Germany from there.

The Lower Saxony state parliament elected Kittner in its 33rd session on March 25, 2009 as a member of the 13th Federal Assembly . He therefore took part in the federal presidential election on May 23, 2009 in Berlin .

Kittner has been co-editor and author of the biweekly Ossietzky since 1998 . He was a member of the DFG-VK , the association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime , the Tucholsky Society, the Writers' Association (VS), the Erich Mühsam Society , the German Freethinkers Association and an honorary member of the Ernst Busch Circle of Friends . He was close to the DKP , wrote occasionally in the party newspaper Our Time and appeared regularly at cultural events of the party.

Günter Wallraff wrote in his foreword to Kittner's zoological garden in 1978 : “He is the lone fighter and partisan who dares to venture much further into hostile terrain than all established - formerly political cabarets together.” Erhard Jöst stated: “Kittner has a lot more untenable to unmask Conditions in our capitalist economic boom society contributed because he placed the political function of cabaret in the foreground without neglecting the other tasks ", and he certified the cabaret artist's credibility" because he not only unwinds his program on the podium, but also the dialogue seeks his audience, and because he constantly and actively intervenes in social debates. "

Gravestone with inscriptions under a red star for Konrad Kittner , Dietrich and Christel Kittner at the Engesohde city cemetery

Kittner died in his adopted home Austria.

family

Dietrich Kittner's wife Christel (* May 23, 1938; † March 5, 2014) belonged to the cabaret ensemble “Die Leid-Artikler” in the 1960s together with Dietrich Kittner and four other members. She took over the organizational, technical and economic management of the Theater am Küchengarten and organized and accompanied its tours. The musician Konrad Kittner , who died in front of his parents in May 2006, was the son of the couple and played with Falling carrier pigeons . The grave of the Kittner family with inscriptions under a red star on the tombstone is located in the Engesohde city cemetery .

Foundation, endowment

In her last will, Christel Kittner ordered the transfer of her assets to a foundation. The “Foundation for cultural promotion and preservation of the life's work of Dietrich and Christel Kittner” has existed since October 2016.

Programs

  • Compromise (s) ere
  • In higher crises
  • Cavalleria tristicana
  • Status, quo vadis?
  • A till for freedom!
  • Not faithful in the West
  • Golden failures
  • Poor but petty
  • Narrow-minded society
  • Concerted response
  • Siecher in the 70s
  • Your state - the known mischief
  • Do you want total stench?
  • Nice economy
  • Kittner's progressive nostalgia
  • The red firefighter
  • On the people's mouths
  • Maggots in Germany!
  • The Unruly Count
  • Shark Society
  • Drug Germany
  • Big, bigger, at the end or the fourth enough
  • Great fun I + II
  • 40 years among Germans
  • Citizen hears the scandals!
  • The war of the drops
  • Laughing officially prohibited according to Section 3, Paragraph 7 PassMustV
  • "Dear bastard"

Festivals (selection)

Publications

Records and CDs

  • Black-Brown-Red Songbook (EP, Philips 1967)
  • The Suffering Artisans (LP)
  • Staatstheater - Bornierte Gesellschaft (LP, Phonogram GmbH, Hamburg 1968)
  • Concerted reaction (LP, pläne GmbH, Dortmund, 1968)
  • Nice economy (LP)
  • Your state - the known mischief (LP, pläne GmbH, Dortmund)
  • Beware of biting mouth (2 LP, pläne GmbH, Dortmund 1981)
  • Heil the constitution (LP, plans GmbH, Dortmund 1977)
  • Dietrich Kittner, Political Cabaret from the FRG (LP, VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin GDR, LITERA 865236, Live Dresden 1976)
  • We'll do it (EP)
  • Maggots in Germany! (2 LP, plans GmbH, Dortmund 1984)
  • So that life conquers the bomb - a song about two consciences (EP, edition logischer garten, Hannover 2010)
  • The Red Fireman - An Erich Weinert Review (CD, pläne GmbH, Dortmund 1999; LP 1978)
  • On the people's mouths (2 LP, pläne GmbH, Dortmund 1979)
  • Hai-Society (2 CDs, Conträr Musik, Lübeck, edition logischer garten, Hanover, ISBN 978-3-932219-28-3 ; 2 LP, pläne GmbH, Dortmund)
  • Drug Germany, The Egg of Kohlumbus, Damned German Lacher, songs, suffering articles (2 CDs, Nebelhorn, Berlin, edition logical garden, Hanover, ISBN 978-3-924526-11-5 )
  • Kittner Live "Big, bigger, at the end or THE FOURTH ENOUGH!" (3 CDs, edition logischer garten, Hanover 2010, ISBN 978-3-924526-08-5 )
  • Kittner Live 2 from the programs "40 Years Among Germans" and "MORDs-GAUDI" (2 CDs, edition logischer garten, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-924526-09-2 )
  • Kittner Live 3 "War of the Trots" (2 CDs, edition logischer garten, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-924526-10-8 )
  • Soldiers (CD-Sampler Berenstark)
  • The man in the chimney (poem on sampler)
  • Kittner Live 4 “Dear bastard!” (2 CDs, edition logischer garten, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-924526-25-2 )
  • Progressive nostalgia - the early years (5 CDs, edition logischer garten, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-924526-28-3 )

MCs, DVD, films

Books

Translations

  • Когда-то был ЧЕЛОВЕКОМ ("Years ago still a person"). Progress Verlag, Moscow 1989, ISBN 5-01-001000-3 .

Awards and honors

literature

  • Rita Schoeneberg: Dietrich Kittner, in this: 13 out of 500,000 people from Hanover. Hamburg: Urban-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-924562-04-0 , pp. 32-38.
  • Sylvia Remé: Dietrich Kittner. Portrait of the cabaret legend . zu Klampen Verlag, Springe 2020. ISBN 9783866746176 .

Web links

Commons : Dietrich Kittner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.taz.de/Urgestein-des-linken-Kabarrets-/!111112/ Dietrich Kittner is dead
  2. ↑ Which school for my child? , Supplement to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 12, 2011, p. 3.
  3. ↑ Hanover: Danger in the garden. In: Der Spiegel . December 1, 1965.
  4. ↑ Erhard Jöst: The red firefighter currently. Dietrich Kittner updates Weinert's poems. In: Pumpkin Seed. 2/1978, pp. 99-110.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Student Protests. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 611 f.
  6. ^ Conrad von Meding and Bernd Haase: The red point was an expression of citizens' protest , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 6, 2012
  7. ↑ Erhard Jöst: A proletarian cabaret artist. In: Pumpkin Seed. 2/1985, pp. 128-143.
  8. ^ Obituary notice of May 17, 2014 in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung ; Digitized version last accessed on May 26, 2014
  9. ^ Klaus Budzinski, Das Kabarett: 100 years of literary criticism of the times - spoken - sung - played , 1985, ISBN 3-612-10037-8 , p. 149
  10. ↑ Frauke Deißner-Jenssen (ed.), Die Zehnte Muse: Cabaret artists tell , 1982, p. 460
  11. ^ Biography , website Dietrich Kittner
  12. ↑ On the flyer Graves of Honor and Graves of Important Personalities at the Engesohde City Cemetery , ed. from the Department of Environment and Urban Greenery of the state capital Hanover, as of April 2012, the grave is not yet listed separately.
  13. ^ Foundation for cultural promotion and preservation of the life's work of Dietrich and Christel Kittner
  14. ↑ Dead in Lübeck , absolutely on demand
  15. ^ Dietrich-Kittner-Platz: City honors cabaret artists Hannoversche Allgemeine, March 13, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kittner, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Oels , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2013
Place of death Bad Radkersburg