The porcupines

Wolfgang Gruner and Achim Strietzel in Düsseldorf 1956

Die Stachelschweine is the name of a Berlin cabaret that was founded in the autumn of 1949 as an actor collective in the artist and student bar bathtub not far from the Berlin Memorial Church . The name is based on a magazine from the 1920s - Das Stachelschwein , whose editor was the writer and cabaret artist Hans Reimann .

history

The beginnings

Inge Wolffberg and Rolf Ulrich in Düsseldorf 1956

The actors Rolf Ulrich , Alexander Welbat , Klaus Becker and Joachim Teege were among the founders of the cabaret . The first appearances took place under the umbrella of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Junger Künstler (AJK) during the winter blockade (1948/49) for the Berlin district offices. In August 1949 there were appearances in the bathtub. Then Alexander Welbat and Rolf Ulrich formed an extended ensemble, and on Saturday, October 29, 1949, the premiere of the first program took place there.

The texts came from Rolf Ulrich and Thierry (Dieter Koch), who also suggested the name The Porcupines . Traudel Dombach , Dorle Hintze , Ilse Marggraf , Horst Gabriel , Günter Pfitzmann , Rolf Ulrich and Alexander Welbat played under the direction of Alexander Welbat. The music was by Theo Goldberg , the stage design by Gerhard Rose and the technology by Ronald Rochow . The first program was started without a title of its own, it was only later called “Everything is insanely funny”. Weekly game days after the premiere were Tuesday and Friday, occasionally Wednesday was also added. The program was played until the end of 1949.

The transition to the second program "per-bacon-deep" was fluid. This concerned the texts and the contributors. In January 1950, Inge Wolffberg and Heinz Mey joined the ensemble. When there were differences in February 1950 with the "painter's cabaret", which was also playing in the bathtub, the management of the Femina companies that operated the bathtub offered the porcupines the Burgkeller restaurant on Kurfürstendamm as a venue, which, after extensive furnishings, was followed by the third program opened in late March 1950. In the fourth program, Jo Herbst joined the ensemble as an actor and copywriter and Christiane Maybach as an actress.

Due to differences in the staging of texts between Rolf Ulrich (text) and Alexander Welbat (direction), the ensemble broke up at the end of 1950 after the premiere of the seventh program. The group around Rolf Ulrich, which was joined by Klaus Becker, Joachim Teege, Inge Wolffberg, Jo Herbst and Ronald Rochow, continued to work in the castle cellar, while the group around Alexander Welbat returned to the bathtub and continued playing there for six months. A change of ownership of the bathtub ended the cabaret performances of this group in the summer of 1951, which then fell apart.

The eighth program created by Rolf Ulrich's group in the Burgkeller, “Das Brettl hoch”, premiered on April 7, 1951, was reinforced by the active participation of Klaus Becker (music) and Joachim Teege (director), both founders of the cabaret, and Wolfgang Gruner , who was engaged by the cabaret “ Die Fly Agarics ” , marked a new beginning in terms of both personnel and content. Soon after the premiere, however, the ruins of the castle cellar were surprisingly closed by the building police at the end of May 1951 due to the risk of collapse. The ensemble looked for and found, through director Christoph Groszer, a new domicile at Rankestrasse 9, the “Eternal Lamp”. Again it was necessary to set up the stage in the restaurant first. It opened on June 12, 1951 with the premiere of the ninth program "Biennialities". Achim Strietzel has also been part of the ensemble since October 1951 . Wolfgang Neuss directed the programs “Festland Berlin” and “Zwischen Nylon und Chemnitz” at the turn of the year 1952/1953 and also played in the ensemble in the latter. He changed the cast, but also, in collaboration with Jo Herbst, decisively changed the style of cabaret towards contemporary and social criticism. Edith Hancke joined the ensemble for three programs and was then replaced by Ingeborg Wellmann .

The extraordinary success of these programs prompted the organizer Kurt Tuntsch to offer the ensemble a change from the current program “Between Nylon and Chemnitz” to his cabaret “Nürnberger Trichter”. Kurt Tuntsch had great, also financial success with major film events in the Berlin Waldbühne ("The weather will be as desired, Director Tuntsch assures us"). This offer was accepted, and from February 1, 1953 the porcupines played in the Nuremberg funnel. On May 4, 1953, a new, 17th program “Are you already served” was premiered there under the direction of Wolfgang Spier . But on May 31st, this adventure ended due to Mr. Tuntsch's insolvency. After a quickly scheduled guest performance in Hamburg and Munich, the porcupines returned to their home Ewige Lampe. On August 18, 1953, the premiere of the 18th program “Oh, you love freedom” took place there on the occasion of the Berliner Festwochen. After that, the Ewige Lampe remained the permanent domicile of the cabaret for the next twelve years.

On June 12, 1955, the collective was converted into a GmbH. The nine shareholders included: the founders Rolf Ulrich and Klaus Becker, the actors Günter Pfitzmann, Inge Wolffberg, Jo Herbst, Wolfgang Gruner and Achim Strietzel, as well as the director Dietmar Behnke and the technical director Ronald Rochow. Rolf Ulrich and Dietmar Behnke were appointed managing directors. Behnke resigned from office in 1963. The company then appointed Ronald Rochow as managing director.

On March 18, 1957, the “Young Generation Prize - Jubilee Foundation 1848–1948” for the field of performing arts was awarded to the porcupine ensemble at the suggestion of the Academy of the Arts. At the instigation of the Academy members, however, this time the individual award was given to the current artistic ensemble. The award went to: Rolf Ulrich, Inge Wolffberg, Ingeborg Wellmann, Wolfgang Gruner, Günter Pfitzmann, Achim Strietzel, Jo Herbst and Klaus Becker.

Cabaret is establishing itself

Information sign in the Europa Center

The porcupine in the Europa Center

In 1965, the ensemble found a greater impact in the newly built Europa Center in the center of West Berlin . There, on April 17, 1965, the new cabaret building was opened with a festive event on Holy Saturday . The first premiere in the new house took place on June 9, 1965 under the title "... and twenty years ago it was all over". In this program, Günter Pfitzmann also played in the ensemble again after a long break. Directed by Rudolf Schündler, who is mainly responsible for the extraordinary success of the program and the change in the way of playing. The well-known cabaret forms “ black-out ” or “ sketch ” became satirical “ time theater ”, and “ Quodlibet ” became the “ musical revue ”.

“Die Stachelschweine” became known nationwide, as did their colleagues from the Munich laughing and shooting society , through numerous tours and television broadcasts in the 1960s. The joint live TV broadcast with the title: “Berlin is worth a free place - a place in the sun”, which was produced five times by the NDR in conjunction with the SFB , was particularly successful .

The members of the cabaret also made careers in radio, television and film. Wolfgang Gruner often appeared in the ZDF program “ The Great Price ”, Achim Strietzel became popular with his voice imitation of the then Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt , and Günter Pfitzmann and Joachim Teege had extensive acting careers.

It was a proven tradition of cabaret to change the composition of the ensemble and the artistic staff carefully but constantly. This made it possible to practice all varieties of cabaret and at the same time to adapt to the changing tastes of the audience. Those involved in the sixties included Edith Elsholtz , Beate Hasenau , Ingrid van Bergen , Sonja Wilken, Pia Trajun and Edeltraut Elsner , as well as Joachim Röcker , Jochen Schröder , Wilfried Herbst and Reinhold Brandes . Twenty years after it was founded, almost all of the previous members of the ensemble had left. Only Wolfgang Gruner and the artistic director and main writer Rolf Ulrich continued the work with changing actors.

These personnel changes also had an impact on "Die Stachelschweine GmbH". Seven of the original nine shareholders left. In addition to the remaining shares of Wolfgang Gruner and Rolf Ulrich, attorney Horst Sandner joined the company in 1968 as a new partner.

From cabaret to city cabaret

The consequences of the 1968 movement in Germany were only minimally reflected in the cabaret's programs. While Wolfgang Neuss completely turned away from cabaret, and the Lach- und Schießgesellschaft dissolved in 1972 at the suggestion of Dieter Hildebrandt , Rolf Ulrich and Wolfgang Gruner continued to work with new, young actors: Andrea Brix , Ursula Herwig , Axel Lutter and Sylvester Berger. Thematically, the focus was more and more on local “West” Berlin themes. This led to the critical public parting with cabaret. Regulars stayed away and the press was no longer invited to the premieres. Critics who had accompanied the cabaret for years accused the management of fraternizing with the political representatives of the parties, which could not necessarily be part of the tasks of the cabaret artists. So sympathy for the ensemble also waned, and the radio stations decided not to broadcast their programs on television.

When the wall came down in 1989 , this event was more of an "event". They met with the East Berlin cabaret “ Die Distel ” for joint appearances in both parts of the city. Since the younger generation of visitors was more enthusiastic about solo cabaret artists anyway, the audience was reduced to the Berlin tourists. This stream of constantly changing spectators ensured the cabaret's survival even after the deaths of Wolfgang Gruner and Rolf Ulrich. (2002 or 2005)

In the Stachelschweine GmbH, their shares were transferred to the widows Eva Gruner and Marie-Luise Ulrich (Andrea Brix). At the turn of the year 2003/2004, Charlotte Reeck, who had already been managing director since 1997, took over a share and was thus appointed managing partner of the GmbH. Eva Gruner, who has since passed away, returned her share of the business to the company in 2008.

On and after the 55th anniversary of cabaret in 2004, a new ensemble was formed under the direction of Herbert Olschok , in which Birgit Edenharter and Detlef Neuhaus take the leading positions. In the program for the 60th anniversary of the porcupines in 2009, both performed together with Kristin Wolf, Holger Güttersberger and Moritz Tittel. Matthias Kitter , who was artistic director of the porcupines from October 2012 up to and including December 2013, directed the cabaret theater in the Europa-Center six times.

In 2019, on the 70th anniversary, the cabaret artist Frank Lüdecke takes over the artistic direction and his wife and manager Caroline acts as managing director.

Special activities

Tingels, guest performances and tours

The economic miracle initiated by the currency reform in 1948 also resulted in an increased need for entertainment among the population. Companies and private individuals, political parties and city administrations offered matinees, afternoon and evening events in an increasing number during this time without television. The porcupines, who were hired individually or as an ensemble, also benefited from this. Especially on Sundays and public holidays, the appearances that were called "Tingeleien" increased. One went "tingling" and thus achieved the desired additional income.

Since the cabaret waived the entrance fee for the first eight programs and only asked for a symbolic button in the castle cellar, the temptation was great to generate additional income through tours. At the beginning of 1951, immediately after the ensembles split up, they were persuaded to tour West Germany, which, however, went wrong organizationally and financially. A three-month guest performance in September of the same year in the “Bonbonniere” in Hamburg (directed by Helmut Stoldt), which was carried out by part of the ensemble, was crowned with success. The part that remained in Berlin, supplemented by new members, continued to play there in parallel.

A guest tour in 1952 was also based on this concept. It led to the Hamburg and Stuttgart Mausefalle ( Werner Finck ), to " Kommödchen " in Düsseldorf ( Kay and Lore Lorentz ) and to " Die Kleine Freiheit " in Munich ( Trude Kolman ). After the “Nürnberger Trichter” (directorate Kurt Tuntsch) had to close due to bankruptcy in Berlin at the end of May 1953, the ensemble with the best cast went on a tour to Hamburg and Munich resulting from this situation. After that, the Kleine Freiheit in Munich repeatedly became the location of the annual summer guest performance. In the following years, tours through West Germany and German-speaking countries took place again, organized by a guest performance directorate (Düsseldorf concert and guest performance directorate Dieter Dickers). It was not until the move to the newly built Europa Center in 1965 that the ensemble was able to forego months of touring and to cope with the crowds that began after the construction of the Berlin Wall in its own domicile (300 seats).

In addition, there were also appearances for private interested parties (for the "Kaufhauskönig" Helmut Horten ), for political institutions (EEC Brussels) or special appearances on cruise ships (MS Bremen). The climax of this development was the almost three-week guest performance in Israel (Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and two kibbutzim) supported by the Berlin Senate (Governing Mayor Klaus Schütz ) in 1970. The porcupines were the first German artist ensemble to be allowed to perform there after diplomatic relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany were resumed. The ZDF produced a 45-minute television film about it. On the international level, he made a guest appearance in New York in 1985 and in Los Angeles in 1987 .

Anniversaries and anniversaries

The one-year existence of the cabaret was celebrated with the premiere of the fifth program "Hundstag-Reprisen" on August 4, 1950 in the Burgkeller. The three-year anniversary took place on December 18, 1952 on the occasion of the premiere of the program “Between Nylon and Chemnitz” in the Ewigen Lampe. The fifth anniversary developed, albeit a year late, on October 22, 1955, into a major event in the Berlin Sports Palace with 7,000 visitors. There the audience and the well-wishers met for the tenth anniversary of three sold-out events from October 30th to November 1st, 1959. For the last time, the Sports Palace was used as a venue on October 30th and 31st, 1964 for the 15th anniversary.

For the 20th anniversary, the porcupines invited a thousand guests to the congress hall on October 19, 1969 , and they celebrated the 25th anniversary on November 3, 1974 in the Palace Hotel in the Europa-Center as a reception by the Governing Mayor of Berlin Klaus Schütz . The 40th anniversary took place on October 8, 1989 as a steamboat trip with the Governing Mayor Walter Momper . “50 Years of Porcupines” was celebrated as a festive event in its own cabaret. Former members and friends celebrated with current colleagues and their families and supporters. A special program was produced for the 55th anniversary: It premiered on March 13, 2005 under the title “Occupied”. In this program, old, successful scenes were re-performed with a slightly different cast. On the 60th anniversary in 2009, the 67th program premiered with the title “Totally playful”.

Eternal lamp and to the pub

As early as autumn 1963, the neon advertising lettering “Ewige Lampe” was replaced by “The porcupines”. After moving to the Europa-Center in spring 1965 , the porcupines decided to continue the former domicile “Ewige Lampe” under the new name “ Rankestrasse 9 - small house of the porcupines”. The first premiere took place there on December 6, 1965 under the title "Bad is also the following ...". Edith Elsholtz, Herbert Baneth, Siegfried Dornbusch and Axel Scholz played under the direction of Dietmar Behnke. The criticism was cautious, and the audience only accepted the doubling of the porcupines to a limited extent. The experiment was canceled.

The house then served as a guest performance stage for Wolfgang Neuss, who on June 20, 1966, resumed his second cabaret program "Testament Opening - The Villon Show", this time in "strict form without music". In 1967, Hannelore Kaub followed with her cabaret “The Ironing Board” with the program: “The cabaret is dead - Long live the cabaret!”. Then it became the rehearsal stage for the last joint television broadcast with the laughing and shooting society "Ein Platz an der Sonne 1967". In the following years it served as a workshop for the increasingly complex stage sets for the porcupines in the Europa Center. Finally, in cooperation with the Berliner Kindl brewery, the house was set up again as a restaurant. Wolfgang Gruner noticed her name "to bar", and he also invented for the opening on May 5, 1970, a new version of the currency from 1872: It was in Fennich , six , dimes and dollars paid.

Overviews

The cabaret programs

No.	Surname	premiere	Director
1.	Everything is hilarious	October 29, 1949	Alexander Welbat
2.	per bacon deep	January 1, 1950	Alexander Welbat
3.	Everything new does the ...	March 31, 1950	Alexander Welbat
4th	Innocence goes swimming	May 31, 1950	Alexander Welbat
5.	Hundstag reprises	4th August 1950	Alexander Welbat
6th	It was so nice to be private	September 29, 1950	Alexander Welbat
7th	Meeting point: fatal center	December 15, 1950	Alexander Welbat
8th.	Up the board	April 7, 1951	Joachim Teege
9.	Biennialities	June 12, 1951	Christoph Groszer
10.	Hello, wrongly connected	August 11, 1951	Rolf von Sydow
11.	Freedom at affordable prices	17th October 1951	Christoph Groszer
12.	... there we have the salad	January 12, 1952	Rolf von Sydow
13.	Now everything, everything must change	March 16, 1952	Wolfgang Spier
14th	Yes, it will come to that	June 7, 1952	Christoph Groszer
15th	Mainland Berlin	September 7, 1952	Wolfgang Neuss
16.	Between nylon and Chemnitz	18th December 1952	Wolfgang Neuss
17th	Are you already served?	April 4th 1953	Wolfgang Spier
18th	Oh dear freedom!	August 28, 1953	Harald Philipp
19th	No or not no	18th December 1953	Rudolf Schündler
20th	Tolerate insufficiently	April 1, 1954	Werner Oehlschläger
21st	The big rain	17th September 1954	Horst Braun
22nd	Ten was her destiny	February 8, 1955	Harald Philipp
23.	1001 power	December 16, 1955	Egon Monk
24.	The force on the Rhine	December 19, 1956	Rudolf Schündler
25th	The fat from thing there	December 9, 1957	Dietmar Behnke
26th	... because they know what they are doing	February 9, 1959	Horst Braun
27.	Share the wreath	December 9, 1959	Dietmar Behnke
28.	Always on the mind	November 26, 1960	Ilo from Janko
29	Black - white - dead	November 1, 1961	Dietmar Behnke
30th	Seldom cried like that	November 10, 1962	Dietmar Behnke
31.	Our little state	March 23, 1964	Thomas Keck
32.	... and 20 years ago it was all over	June 9, 1965	Rudolf Schündler
33.	The eleventh commandment	June 29, 1966	Rudolf Schündler
34.	Germany Germany among others ...	November 11, 1967	Horst Braun
35.	The world in which we tremble	April 1st 1969	Lothar Kompatzki
36.	70/71	May 3, 1970	Horst Braun
37.	End of the line hope	2nd December 1971	Horst Braun
38.	The trained person	March 16, 1973	Horst Braun
39.	Remember song	April 16, 1974	Horst Braun
40.	30 years of peace	January 9, 1975	Horst Braun
41.	Not a fairy tale from ancient times	December 12, 1976	Rudolf Schündler
42.	District capital Berlin	4th November 1978	Wolfgang Gruner
43.	Entry: One button	December 12, 1980	Wolfgang Spier
44.	No more beautiful country than these two	October 18, 1982	Horst Köller
45.	War salvation	May 13, 1984	Klaus Everywhere
46.	Even the most liberated does something stupid	December 20, 1985	Horst Köller
47.	And when the whole Spree burns up	April 26, 1987	Wolfgang Gruner
48.	... in indifference, amen	December 11, 1988	Hermann Treusch
49.	Fate cracks	May 5th 1990	Wolfgang Gruner
50.	1 + 1 are one - what now?	April 28, 1991	Harald Philipp
51.	Hurray the bigwigs are coming	November 29, 1992	Lothar Kompatzki
52.	Off to the urn	April 5, 1994	Günter Schmidt
53.	Be embraced billions	May 2, 1995	Norbert Schultze jun.
54.	The republic written off	April 2, 1996	Norbert Schultze jun.
55.	Ready, done, unemployed	April 24, 1997	Wolfgang Gruner
56.	I still have a punch line in Berlin	October 11, 1998	Norbert Schultze jun.
57.	Bonn, your Berlin	November 14, 1999	Norbert Schultze jun.
58.	Donate well - all well	November 26, 2000	Lothar Kompatzki
59.	He has to come through this hollow register	December 2, 2001	Tatjana Rese
60.	Up to here and how on	October 13, 2002	Tatjana Rese
61.	The land of weakness	October 12, 2003	Andreas Strähnz
62.	In the heat of power	October 3, 2004	Herbert Olschok
63.	To split hair	September 25, 2005	Herbert Olschok
64.	Cash cramp	September 24, 2006	Klaus Stephan
65.	We are ParaDies	October 14, 2007	Herbert Olschok
66.	Counted ... otherwise cheerful	October 19, 2008	Anke Gregersen
67.	Completely playful	October 18, 2009	Matthias Kitter
68.	Nothing but the truth	October 24, 2010	Matthias Kitter
69.	All wrong	April 28, 2011	Matthias Kitter
70.	Planet paradox	4th December 2011	Dieter Nelle
71.	Razor sharp	November 18, 2012	Matthias Kitter
72.	That too ...!	March 24, 2013	Matthias Kitter
73.	Cabaret & Currywurst	29th September 2013	Matthias Kitter
74.	Everyone listen!	May 5, 2014	Norman Zechowski
75.	Germany says YES!	23 October 2014	Tatjana Rese
76.	Keep the way out!	April 24, 2015	Hans wooden mug
77.	Global stunning	November 9, 2015	Tatjana Rese
78.	Capital affairs	18th November 2016	Tatjana Rese
79.	The alternate truth	10th September 2017	Klaus-Peter Grap
80.	Heavenly prospects	May 13, 2018	Klaus-Peter Grap
81.	Can you go on vacation with men?	August 2018	Michael Frowin
82.	People, offices, disasters	October 18, 2018	Michael Frowin
83.	Lots of tunnel at the end of the light	August 31, 2019	Frank Lüdecke

Previous and special programs

No	Surname	premiere	Director	Venue	annotation
01.	Oops we're alive	February 13, 1949	Horst Gabriel	Star light plays Neukölln	Working group for young cultural workers
02.	Ballads - satires	August 9 and 23, 1949	Alexander Welbat	Bathtub Nürnberger Strasse 50–52
03.	Dipped in	February 16, 1951	Karl Anton Glaesel	The toadstools Burgkeller Kurfürstendamm 12
1.	Freckles	June 2, 1954	Horst Braun	The newborns Ewige Lampe Rankestrasse 9
2.	Don't inherit an uncle	October 15, 1963	Horst Braun	Tour program Federal Republic
3.	The following is also bad	December 6, 1965	Dietmar Behnke	Little house of the porcupines (formerly the eternal lamp)
4th	Election night - torment night	19th September 1968	Horst Braun	Europe Center
5.	Open your glove box	October 10, 1970	Horst Braun	Europe Center
6th	Like you, like me	5th October 1973	Wolfgang Gruner	Europe Center
7th	It rang at Michel's	October 21, 1979	Wolfgang Gruner	Europe Center
8th.	Busy	March 13, 2005	Tatjana Rese	Europe Center
9.	Busy (recast)	August 31, 2008	Tatjana Rese	Europe Center

The venues

1st and 2nd program	Bathtub, Nürnberger Strasse 50–52
3rd to 8th program	Castle cellar, Kurfürstendamm 12
9th to 16th program	Eternal lamp, Rankestrasse 9
16th and 17th program	Nürnberger funnel, Nürnberger Strasse 50–52
18th to 31st program	Eternal lamp, Rankestrasse 9
since the 31st program	Europe Center

The Artistic Director

1949-1950	Alexander Welbat
1951-2005	Rolf Ulrich
10/2012 - 12/2013	Matthias Kitter

The managing partners of the GmbH

1955-1998	Rolf Ulrich
1955-1963	Dietmar Behnke
1963-1971	Ronald Rochow
since 2003	Charlotte Reeck

media

bibliography

Rolf Ulrich, Jo Herbst: Do you still remember? (Texts from the years 1951–1954), with illustrations by Dieter Herbst. In-house production, Berlin 1954.
Ulrich, Herbst, Thierry: The porcupines. with caricatures by Hans Kossatz . Blanvalet, Berlin 1956. (Also as paperback by Blanvalet 1960)
Siegfried Kühl: German cabaret - Kom (m) ödchen, The Porcupines, Munich Laughing and Shooting Society, Die Schmiere. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1962.
Wolfgang Chechne: I still have my nose in Berlin. Fackelträger Verlag, Hanover 1967. (With many quotes from thirteen members of the cabaret, among others)
Everything insanely funny - The Porcupines 1949–1989. Own production, Berlin 1989.
Rolf Ulrich: Everything should be completely different. 40 years of cabaret “The Porcupines”. (Ullstein book 34688). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1990.
50 Years of The Porcupines - Almanac 1949–1999. Own production, Berlin 2000.
60 Years of The Porcupines - Almanac 1949–2009. In-house production, Berlin 2010.

Literature on the origin of the cabaret The Porcupines

Gerhard Ebert: Become an actor in Berlin. Berlin-Information, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-7442-0012-4 , pp. 99, 102.
70 years of the grandstand. (1919-1989). Tribune in-house production, Berlin 1989, OCLC 258087821 , pp. 45–49.
Günter Pfitzmann, Lilo Pfitzmann: Only the moment counts. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89487-479-1 , pp. 43-54.
Elisabeth Lenk (ed.): The bathtub. An artist cabaret from the early post-war period. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-926175-88-5 , pp. 28, 165-167, 181.
Free University of Berlin, Institute for Journalism (SS 1964), advanced seminar: Contemporary political cabaret in Germany. (Manuscript)

Literature on cabaret

Klaus Budzinski: As far as the sharp tongue can reach. The anthology of the German-speaking cabaret. Scherz Verlag, Munich / Bern / Vienna 1964.
Klaus Budzinski: The public jokers. (List Tb 301). List Verlag, Munich 1966.
Heinz Greul: Boards that mean time. The cultural history of cabaret. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1971. Volume 743/44.
Georg Zivier, Hellmut Kotschenreuther, Volker Ludwig: Cabaret with K. Berlin Verlag, 1974/1977/1989. (With drawings by Rainer Hachfeld)
Klaus Budzinski: Who's that laughing? Westermann, Braunschweig 1989.

Record directory

The Porcupines - Scenes from 1952–1957 , 1958, Decca LF 1575.
10 years of porcupines - part you the wreath , 27th program, 1960, Decca LF 1592.
Seldom cried like this , 30th program, 1963, Philips P 48029 L
Before it hit 13 , parts from the 30th program, 1963, Philips P 48043 L
Our Little State , 31st Program, 1964, Philips P 48093 L
... and twenty years ago it was all over , 32nd program, 1965, Philips 843752 PY
The eleventh commandment . 33rd program, 1966, Philips 843912 PY
Germany, Germany among others , 34th program, 1968, Philips 844316 PY
Election Night, Qualification Night (September 28, 1969), 4th Special Program, 1969, Philips 844369 PY
The world we quiver in , 35th program, 1969, Philips 844388 PY
Open your glove box , 5th special program, 1973, Kontra STG 1006.
Thirty Years of Peace , 40th Program, 1975, Contra STG 1015.
District capital Berlin , 42nd program, 1979, Contra STG 1017.
Open your glove box , 5th special program, 1994, Monopol Records 80936353, CD
The Porcupines , Bear Family Records, 2006, 8 CDs, BCD 16066 HD
Berlin is worth a free place , The Porcupines & Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft. Each as a kick-off program for the television lottery “ A place in the sun ”. A Jochen Richert production by Norddeutscher Rundfunk in collaboration with the Sender Freies Berlin and the Hugo Strasser Orchestra for the Berlin relief organization .