Clement de Wroblewsky

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Clement de Wroblewsky (actually Clément von Wroblewsky ; * 1943 in Aubusson ) is a German musician, pantomime and author of Jewish-French origin.

Life

Clement de Wroblewsky grew up in France and then moved to East Berlin in 1950 with his mother, a staunch communist, and his older brother Vincent von Wroblewsky .

After a discontinued training as a painter, he worked temporarily at the Berliner Ensemble and later made his way as a translator and composer. His daughter Pascal von Wroblewsky , born in 1962 and later a successful jazz singer, comes from his marriage to Barbara Freifrau von Wichmann-Eichhorn . Together with Bettina Wegner , he founded the "Chanson Club Pankow" in 1966; his wife Helga de Wroblewsky and he sang their own compositions as well as songs by Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Busch and toured the GDR , soon also in Austria, Switzerland, France and West Germany. In 1973 the mime actress Anke Gerber was added, and the chanson club developed into one of the few East German independent theater groups. The group also included the Bayon band, led by Christoph Theusner and Sonny Thet , with whom they went on tours, and jazz musicians such as Andreas Altenfelder , Hermann Anders and Georg Schwark.

The troupe was most successful at the end of the 1970s with their children's program Clemils Clowns Circus , in which Wroblewsky appeared as "Clown Clemil" and Gerber as "Ankeblümli". Soon the Clown Circus had a monthly television broadcast; the show had the second highest audience rating in the entire GDR television program.

In 1982 there was also a stage program for adults, the Clemils Clowns Circus for advanced students . However, the cabaret program met with displeasure from the GDR authorities, so that the opportunities to perform were restricted; Helga de Wroblewsky's LP Berliner Gassenhauer (1981) disappeared from stores, and the successful children's TV show was also canceled. On February 8, 1984, the entire troop applied for an exit visa . In August 1984 Clement de Wroblewsky and his third wife Catharina were allowed to leave the country; since then he has lived in West Berlin . First he opened a mime school there. Appearances as Clemils Clown Circus (and later Clemils Clown Cabarett ) took place until the 1990s.

His book Anatomie der Pantomime , written together with Anke Gerber in 1985, is considered the most comprehensive pantomime book in German. In 1986 he published a collection of jokes entitled Where We Are Is Front. The political joke in the GDR . With this he justified the written down of the (mostly political) GDR joke even before the fall of the Wall . In 1987 he took over the artist's café Jenseits on Heinrichplatz in Kreuzberg and ran it until the end of 2009. 

In an ARD television broadcast in March 2004, it was revealed that Wroblewsky had worked with the Stasi under the code name " IMB Ernst" and had delivered reports on Udo Lindenberg .

Filmography

Works

  • (with Anke Gerber) Clemil clowns for advanced . Rasch and Röhring , Hamburg 1985. ISBN 3-89136-029-0
  • (with Anke Gerber) Anatomy of pantomime. The book on silent art or the guide on which the pantomime hangs . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1985. ISBN 3-89136-041-X
  • "... the people are stupid, aba yerissen ..." Correspondence from the Café Jenseits on the smoking ban with the district office in this world . Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87956-341-8

as editor

  • "Where we are is ahead ..." The political joke in the GDR or the various subtleties or coarseness of real folk art . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1986. ISBN 3-89136-093-2 (2nd, expanded edition 1990, ISBN 3-89136-286-2 )
  • "One morning you woke up and had a Federal Chancellor" How GDR citizens think about their future . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990. ISBN 3-89136-308-7

as translator

  • Emmanuel Roblès : On the heights of the city . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1967

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d stories from Murkelei . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1984, pp. 100-104 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Pascal von Wroblewsky, German jazz / pop / rock singer , in Munzinger Online / Pop, accessed on July 6, 2020.
  3. ^ Occupation ban for GDR clowns . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1984, pp. 176 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Joachim Nawrocki: The stumbling block is called foundation . In: Die Zeit , 39/1985, p. 5 f.
  5. ↑ theaterakademie-graz.org ( Memento from May 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Existential threats aren't funny . In: taz , May 2, 2010
  7. ↑ No more fun . In: taz , December 31, 2009
  8. ↑ Marco: B: Kreuzberg: Free shop occupied since 2 p.m. In: indymedia.org. April 10, 2010, accessed May 15, 2018 .
  9. ^ Don't panic in the GDR - Udo Lindenberg and the Stasi ( Memento from May 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) of the MDR, March 28, 2004
  10. ↑ Udo rocks for world peace. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015 ; accessed on May 15, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Peter Grubbe : There uff grew . In: Die Zeit , 11/1990 (review)

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personal data
SURNAME Wroblewsky, Clement de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wroblewsky, Clément von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, mime artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Aubusson