Claudia Schlenger-Meilhamer

Claudia Schlenger-Meilhamer (* 1947 in Bad Tölz ) is a Bavarian cabaret artist , screenwriter and actress .

Life

After training as a medical-technical assistant , Schlenger first studied political science . She then took acting lessons in Munich . Between 1975 and 1977 she lived in Berlin to catch up on her Abitur.

Since 1993 she has been on stage with her husband Hanns Meilhamer , whom she met in 1974 and married in 1979, as the cabaret artist and comedian couple Herbert and Schnipsi , but overall they had worked together for television and Bavarian radio since 1984 . Their son Simon (* 1986) has played in some television productions since 1994, also there as their own son Pauli . They have lived in Passau since 1989 , before that in Munich.

In 2000 Schlenger fell ill after a tick bite and had to interrupt her job for a year, but recovered and returned to the stage.

Claudia Schlenger-Meilhamer's brother Michael (* 1961) is also an actor.

Filmography (selection)

• since 1982: Herbert and Schnipsi
• 1991: wildfire
• 1993: A house in Tuscany
• 1991: Cafe perjury
• 1995: only over my corpse ; with Christoph M. Ohrt and Katja Riemann
• 1997: Mother's Day
• 1998: The strange behavior of sexually mature urbanites during the mating season ; with Cosma Shiva Hagen and Christoph Waltz
• 2007: To be twenty again
• Channel fatal
• The comedians
• Grünwald Friday Comedy

Stage programs (excerpt)

• Everything that is right
• You will stay with me!
• You and i and my mom
• Yes why no !?
• Juchhu, throw us back!

Awards

Claudia Schlenger received the awards together with Hanns Meilhamer:

• 1983 - German Cabaret Award (sponsorship award from the city of Mainz)
• 1983 - Salzburg bull
• 2004 - Bavarian Cabaret Prize (Music Prize)
• 2013 - Bavarian poet thaler

Web links

• Claudia Schlenger-Meilhamer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Claudia Schlenger-Meilhamer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Claudia Schlenger and Hanns Meilhamer's website