The ironing board
The ironing board was a German political cabaret that was particularly active in the 1960s .
It was founded in 1959 by students from Heidelberg University . Initially only known to students, the group gained increasing importance in the German cabaret scene after Hannelore Kaub took over artistic direction in 1961 and developed into professional cabaret.
Voted the best student cabaret at the 1st Berlin Cabaret Days at the FU Berlin in 1961/62, they left the university rooms and played in a cinema from then on. In this phase, Kaub also acted as a writer, director and leading actress. The first public attention aroused in 1962 the program Mourning Europe must bear .
In 1964 the stage moved to Berlin, where the group first played in Hardenbergstrasse and later moved into the old porcupine residence on Rankestrasse . The first Berlin program had the title of millions of BILD readers .
In 1969 there was the program anyway ... Rot is the hope a temporary end to the cabaret, until 1981 again Kaub reactivated the group for a period. In 1982 they started again in Heidelberg with Don't worry ... we're coming! . The last program ran in spring 1991, together we are unbearable .
swell
- Heinz Greul: Boards that mean time - The cultural history of cabaret , Cologne / Berlin / Hamburg 1968, p. 12
- Manfred Brauneck , Gérard Schneilin (ed.): Theaterlexikon 1 , 5th edition 2007, rowohlts enzyklopädie, Reinbek near Hamburg, ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9
literature
- Ellen Meyer: Hope was red. Cabaret in the Federal Republic of the 1960s with the focus on the "ironing board" cabaret , Scientist-Vlg Siegen, 1988, ISBN 3-89153-014-5 and ISBN 978-3-89153-014-6