Emmi & Mr. Willnowsky

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Emmi & Willnowsky are a comedian duo consisting of Christian Willner (alias Valentin Willnowsky) and Christoph Dompke (alias Emmi), who are known in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for their stage and TV appearances.

background

Christoph Dompke (born 1965) completed his training as an assistant at public libraries, as well as studying musicology and German in Hamburg and Vienna. In 2009 he was awarded a Dr. phil with a thesis on "Popular Music and Nazi Persecution". He also writes film reviews and has published various books on film (including "Old Women in Bad Films"). Before he got together with Christian Willner as the duo "Emmi & Willnowsky", he was part of the music comedy duo "Emmi & Bertie" for many years.

Christian Willner (born 1967) learned to play the trumpet, piano and organ and conducted his first entertainment orchestra in 1987. In Hamburg he studied musicology, philosophy and Scandinavian studies. In addition to his studies, he led numerous choirs in Hamburg, a. a. the Hamburg Lotsenchor, the Blankeneser Volkschor and the DamenLikörChor. He is also the musical director of the Alster Quartet and the St. Pauli Kurorchester, with whom he accompanied the preliminary decision for the German contribution to the Grand Prix d‛Eurovision de la Chanson on ARD from 2006 to 2008.

Christoph Dompke and Christian Willner got to know each other during their studies in Hamburg, and since 1996 they have been working together as the duo "Emmi & Willnowsky". They received significant initial help from Thomas Hermanns , who also wrote and staged the duo's first programs, as well as the ensemble piece “Sing, if you can” (title for the revival “Emmi, the Salome from Spielbudenplatz”). They have been writing and directing themselves since 2005, and they also use third-party texts and compositions. a. by Edith Jeske , Thomas Zaufke , Rainer Bielfeldt . "Emmi & Willnowsky" are regular guests on all major comedy, cabaret and variety stages and were regularly seen in TV formats.

Emmi is an unsuccessful, aging chamber singer who has retained her conservative attitude from the post-war period and likes to take refuge in daydreams about a late career boost. Willnowsky is a penniless pianist from the former Soviet Union who was discovered by Ms. Emmi and initially used as an accompanist for her performances. Later the two married and prefer to vent their frustrations on each other and make no secret of their mutual disdain, but still cannot leave each other.

Programs

  • 1996 Emmi Hempel-Bertie sings Andrew Lloyd-Webber (written and directed by Thomas Hermanns)
  • 1997 Songs for Freedom (written and directed by Thomas Hermanns)
  • 1997 Simply Emmi (written and directed by Thomas Hermanns)
  • 1999 Movie Madness (written and directed by Thomas Hermanns, with Ole Lehmann)
  • 1999 All About Emmi (written and directed by Thomas Hermanns)
  • 2002 Sing, if you can (script and direction: Thomas Hermanns)
  • 2003 Emmi on the Rocks (written and directed by Thomas Hermanns)
  • 2004 Sing-Along "Grease" (written and directed by Christoph Dompke, Christian Willner)
  • 2005 With Emmy Göring for tea (book: Mirko Bott, director: Marcus Lachmann)
  • 2005 Alive in Concert (Script and Direction: Christoph Dompke, Christian Willner)
  • 2006–2008 Emmi, the Salome vom Spielbudenplatz (written and directed by Thomas Hermanns)
  • 2007 Staying Alive in Concert (written and directed: Christoph Dompke and Christian Willner)
  • 2009 Forever Alive (written and directed: Christoph Dompke and Christian Willner)
  • 2011 The Funny Emmi & Willnowsky Show - Gogo á Gaga (written and directed by Christoph Dompke and Christian Willner)
  • 2013 The Funny Emmi & Willnowsky Show - More is More (written and directed by Christoph Dompke and Christian Willner)
  • 2015 The Funny Emmi & Willnowsky Show - Nobody Will Win (written and directed: Christoph Dompke and Christian Willner)
  • 2017 Emmi & Willnowsky Tour 17 (script and direction: Christoph Dompke and Christian Willner)
  • Tour 2018 (written and directed: Christoph Dompke & Christian Willner)

Tour 2019 in preparation

Publications

DVD publications

  • 2008 Schmidt Comedy Show Vol. 1
  • 2012 20 years of Quatsch Comedy Club - the big anniversary gala
  • 2015 In the end the truth. Script and direction: Fabian Klatura. Production: Comedy & Mähs

Book publications with contributions by Emmi & Willnowsky

  • Break time. In: Käthe Lachmann (Ed.) We thank you for your understanding: Das Bahn-Comedy-Buch. Carlsen, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-551-68167-6 , pp. 62-63.
  • Knuckle of pork with pea puree In: Thomas Lardon (Ed.): The Comedy Cookbook: For creative cooks and good-humored guests. Bastei Lübbe, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7857-2451-4 , pp. 124–127.
  • Christmas at Willnowskys In: Christmas Life ! Celebrities and their Christmas stories. Support group in favor of accident-damaged children eV (Ed.) A & c Druck, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817533-0-1 , pp. 16-19.

Book publications by Christoph Dompke

  • Because what remained: old women in bad films. Swarm of Men Script, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 978-3-928983-57-0 .
  • Innocence and calamity. The spoiled child in the film. MännerschwarmSkript, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-928983-74-7 .
  • The magic word “camp” + television operetta to help you come out? In: Glitter and be Gay. The authentic operetta and its gay admirers. Kevin Clarke (ed.) Männerschwarm, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939542-13-1 , pp. 74-84, 204-211.
  • Operetta, musical and cabaret in exile. In: Peter Petersen (among others) (Ed.): Music theater in exile during the Nazi era. Von Bockel, Neumünster 2007, ISBN 978-3-932696-68-8 , pp. 371–382. (Music in the "Third Reich" and in exile; Vol. 12)
  • Popular music and Nazi persecution. Von Bockel, Neumünster 2011 (Music in the “Third Reich” and in Exile; Vol. 15) ISBN 978-3-932696-80-0 . (also dissertation)
  • with Thomas Hermanns: Das große Quatsch Comedy Book: Everything about Germany's first comedy club. Henschel, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-89487-690-6 .
  • Old women in bad movies. From the end of great film careers. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86300-114-8 .
  • Popular music in the “Third Reich”. In: Wolfgang Benz (among others) (Ed.): Art in the Nazi state. Ideology, aesthetics, protagonists. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86331-264-0 , pp. 409-428.

Awards

  • 2011 Flögelner Comedy Prize
  • 2011 Radio Bremen 4 Comedy Prize

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emmi - Emmi and Willnowsky ( Memento of the original dated November 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Emmi and Willnowsky , accessed on November 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emmi-und-willnowsky.de
  2. ↑ Willnowsky - Emmi and Willnowsky ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2017 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. In: Emmi and Willnowsky , accessed on November 14, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emmi-und-willnowsky.de
  3. ↑ Irene Bazinger: Christoph Dompke from Emmi & Willnowksy: "The Germans have become funnier" In: Berliner Zeitung , June 12, 2015, accessed on November 14, 2017.

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