The 3 tornadoes
The three tornadoes was an anarchist West Berlin cabaret - Trio , which officially existed from 1977 to 1990. It had its last appearance in 1989. The group was founded in 1977 by Arnulf Rating and Günter Thews , and Hans-Jochen Krank joined them in the same year . In 1981, Krank was replaced by Holger Klotzbach .
history
Together with Günter Thews, Arnulf Rating initially founded a group that described itself as the “Berlin fun guerrilla theater”. The aim was, in a self-promotion, "that people come out above with expanded awareness and below with wet pants."
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With the musician and philosophy student Hans-Jochen Krank, Thews and Rating made their first appearances as “The 3 Tornados” at numerous public events and at some private parties of the left-wing alternative scene during the student strikes in West Berlin in 1976/77 - for example with a satire about the exposure of the Christmas holiday strike . The name of the trio satirized the name of the then-popular party songs trio The 3 Besoffskis .
The 3 tornadoes were soon an indispensable part of the alternative scene at larger West Berlin events. Their radius of action expanded inexorably and the first pub appearance followed on April 25, 1977 in the West Berlin pub "Godot".
Later, the trio also appeared in demonstrations by the anti-nuclear movement, such as against the construction of the Brokdorf nuclear power plant, and regularly on streets, squares, in theaters, autonomous youth centers and pubs in German-speaking countries.
Appearances took place as part of the Third International Russell Tribunal on the Human Rights Situation in the Federal Republic and at the meeting in Tunix in Berlin in January 1978. The latter resulted in a nationwide advertising campaign for subscribers for the alternative left newspaper project Die Tageszeitung (TAZ), founded in the same year as a result of the meeting .
The three tornadoes played an active role in founding the Berlin Tempodrom . Appearances to occupy the UFA site in Berlin and a number of cultural centers in the state further increased the trio's popularity. Joint programs were held with other artists for elections and actions by various citizens' initiatives as part of the new social movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
The group could only perform once in East Berlin , privately in Prenzlauer Berg. The GDR leadership had previously withdrawn an official invitation after reviewing the program.
In 1981 Hans-Jochen Krank left the group. He was replaced by the circus teacher and musician Holger Klotzbach. The particular closeness of the three tornadoes to the population could a. at their private appearances. Her smallest performance location was in the kitchen of an occupied miner's cottage in the Auguststrasse colliery in Gelsenkirchen.
The first and only longer television recording took place live from the Berlin radio exhibition in August 1979 as part of the children's program.
The 3 tornadoes were confronted with numerous lawsuits and performance bans during their season. The cabaret lexicon was able to list some striking highlights: In May 1979, for example, a film about 30 years of the Basic Law was not broadcast by the SDR . The sketch Nativity Scene at the WDR youth magazine Radiothek on December 30, 1980 brought about a Catholic citizens' initiative in Soest and triggered criminal proceedings for "insulting religious or ideological beliefs or the church" (Section 166 StGB). The acquittal took place after four instances in 1983.
In March 1980 a planned live broadcast in the SWF3 program failed , in March WDR III canceled an invitation to the talk show , and in September 1983 the SFB canceled its contributions to the program Rock Nacht . An appearance in November 1986 on Radio Bremen's Extratour program was canceled because of a number that was directed against instructions not to broadcast political cabaret six weeks before the election.
When the 3 tornadoes decided to buy TV presence via commercials, the SFB refused to broadcast them in 1986 (police spot) and in 1988 ( Barschel - honor). The tornadoes fought for broadcast in court.
In 1986 they made an appearance in the AIDS satire A Virus knows no morals from Rosa von Praunheim .
The group's last appearance took place a few days after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 12, 1989 as part of the concert for Berlin with artists from all over the world for the unification in Berlin's Deutschlandhalle.
After the trio split up, Holger Klotzbach and Lutz Deisinger founded the Berlin Bar Every Reason and now heads the Berlin tent theater Tipi at the Chancellery , while Arnulf Rating is a solo cabaret artist. Günther Thews succumbed to AIDS on January 30, 1993 at the age of 47 . Hans-Jochen Krank was a grammar school teacher for Latin in Bad Freienwalde from 1991 to 2013.
Awards
In 1979 they were awarded the German Cabaret Prize of the City of Mainz .
Discography
- Pinball Show (1977)
- Daily newspaper (1978)
- A gogo (1979)
- Rundschlag (1979)
- West bypass (1980)
- Radio Radical (1982)
- Total write-off (1985)
- Die 3 Tornados 1977 - 1988 (EAN 4015698025729, 4-CD box, label: Trikont , with excerpts from the individual CDs plus live recordings)
literature
- Martin Bayer: Hey, what's going on? The 3 Tornados: Left History as Brute Cabaret . In: ak - analyze & kritik, newspaper for left-wing debate and practice, No. 430, 23 September 1999 [1]
- Klaus Budzinski and Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Cabaret Lexicon . Stuttgart / Weimar 1996 ISBN 3-476-01448-7
- Bernd Drücke: How did the virgin have a child? The 3 tornadoes, Mary, Josef, Jesses and the nativity play . In: Graswurzelrevolution, monthly newspaper for a non-violent, domineering society, No. 274, December 2002, [2]
- Andreas Häcker: Rebellion, laugh and change the world: to the libertarian cabaret trio Die 3 Tornados aus Westberlin, with two interviews with rating and sick hover. In: Cahiers d'Etudes Germaniques, Contre-Cultures à Berlin de 1960 à nos jours , edited by Charlotte Bomy, André Combes, Hilda Inderwildi, Toulouse 2013, pp. 147–158, 297–321 (Université d'Aix-Marseille) [3 ]
- Arnulf Rating: Traveling theater on a new path: The Three Tornados. In: Michael Baumgarten and Wilfried Schulz (eds.): Freedom does not grow on any tree ... Berlin: Medusa, 1979, pp. 190–221 [4]
- Dietmar Roberg: "Hey, what's going on there? Those are the 3 tornados" Berlin front city cabaret in the Holledau. In: Dietmar Roberg, Theater must be like football , free theater groups - a journey across the country, Berlin 1981, pp. 115–123 (Rotbuch Verlag) [5]
- Angie Weihs: The 3 tornadoes. In: Free Theater . Reinbek near Hamburg, 1981, pp. 90–96 [6]
