The lottery winner

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Movie
Original title The lottery winner
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1976
length 3:23 minutes
Rod
Director Loriot
script Loriot
production Radio Bremen
occupation
  • Heinz Meier: Erwin Lindemann
  • Claus Dieter Clausnitzer: Bernd Baumann (director)
  • also various extras as a television team

The lottery winner is a sketch by the German humorist Loriot . It was first broadcast in 1976 in the television series Loriot with Heinz Meier and Claus Dieter Clausnitzer in the leading roles.

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Props from Der Lottogewinner in the exhibition Loriot - The Hommage at the Berlin Film Museum

The main character of the sketch is the 66-year-old pensioner Erwin Lindemann, who has just won 500,000  DM in the lottery and is now being questioned in his living room by a television team about his further plans for the culture report of a fictional news magazine . Lindemann, sitting in an armchair and visibly nervous about the hustle and bustle caused by the TV people around him, should only make the following brief, previously rehearsed explanation:

“My name is Erwin Lindemann, I am a pensioner and 66 years old. With my lottery win of 500,000 marks, I first go on a trip to Iceland, then I go to Rome with my daughter and attend an audience of the Pope. And in autumn I'll open a men's boutique in Wuppertal. "

Due to various technical difficulties and multiple corrections by the increasingly unnerved occurring director Lindemann were interrupted again and again and will have its text repeated several times, he him with excitement of setting messes on hiring more and more. When the cameraman finally warned from the background that the film material was becoming scarce , the director was finally satisfied with a lecture by Lindemann that was halfway fluid, but ultimately completely distorted:

“My name is Erwin and I am retired. And in 66 years I'll go to Iceland and I'll make a profit of 500,000 marks. And in autumn the Pope will open a men's boutique in Wuppertal with my daughter. "

Appearance and reception

The lottery winner was the last of fifteen sketches in the first episode of the six-part television series Loriot, broadcast on March 8, 1976 on ARD , and is now one of the most famous in German television history. With the sketch Loriot satirizes the genre of documentary literature , which was developed in the Federal Republic of Germany primarily by Erika Runge . Your film "My name is Erwin and I am 17 years old" (1970) can be seen as a source of ideas.

According to Loriot's original plan, the figure Erwin Lindemann should speak its text with a slight Lower Saxon coloration . Heinz Meier, who came from near Königsberg and had a perfect command of the East Prussian dialect , then convinced Loriot to let Lindemann act in a light East Prussian idiom.

“With the figure of the confused Erwin Lindemann,” wrote the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , “Loriot succeeds in creating a moving portrait of the modern individual who lets himself be urged by his fellow men (here: a director) to deny himself and out of sheer ambitions (Men's boutique in Wuppertal etc.) loses orientation - until it forgets its own name. ”With regard to the level of awareness of the character, Loriot, who usually played the main roles in his sketches, later said to actor Heinz Meier:“ Two big ones I made mistakes: I didn't put a cellar under my house and I let you play Lindemann. ”For Meier, the lottery winner was one of his most famous roles.

In an audio version of the sketch recorded in 1988 for the audio carrier “Heile Welt” , Loriot spoke to both the lottery winner Lindemann and the director who interviewed him himself.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of episodes on fernsehserien.de (last accessed on 23 August 2020).
  2. Lukschy, p. 54 f.
  3. ^ Jörg Thomann: The great Loriot Lexicon. In: FAZ.net , November 12, 2003, accessed on August 23, 2020.
  4. Eva Mayer-Wolk: Loriot was tough. Actor Heinz Meier about his experiences with Vicco von Bülow and other television experiences. In: Der Spiegel , September 1, 2003, p. 88 f. (Archived on Spiegel Online ; accessed August 23, 2020).
  5. Loriot's "Lotto Winner". Actor Heinz Meier is dead. In: stern.de , July 22, 2013, accessed on August 23, 2020.
  6. ^ Marc Reichwein: Heinz Meier †: "My name is Erwin Lottemann, er Lindemann" . July 22, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed on August 23, 2020]).