The time reporters

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Die Zeitberichter , founded on April 19, 1952 , was a neo-Nazi travel cabaret which, in addition to appearing at NPD rallies and SS former meetings, also organized bathing tours. The ensemble performed until the late 1970s and gave a total of over 8,000 performances.

The founder was the former first lieutenant of the Waffen-SS Gerd Knabe together with his wife Peppi Kausch. You appeared as the main actor, Knabe also acted as an author. Klaus Weinhardt, Arnold Fritzsche and Manfred Potratz also belonged to the ensemble. The program also included musical interludes.

The most successful programs of the time reporters included performances like People without a Dream or ... 's sad but true .

Considered by the professional world as “artistically modest to unimportant”, some newspapers initially reviewed the appearances of the time reporters in some cases quite exuberantly as “masterpieces of cabaret” and “on the basis of an impartial and independent approach”. The Spiegel , on the other hand, saw in 1970 the ensemble's numbers a “cabaret ride across a bottomless sea of ​​resentment in the evergreen heath of Nazi subculture”, but also reported “tremendous applause”. In the 1960s, Die Zeit had already written “an alarming amount of applause” for the group and Rheinische Merkur even called on the protection of the Constitution to finally “take notice of the goings-on”.

Gerd Knabe's texts for the time reporting programs were self -published as books and on a total of ten records .

literature

  • Klaus Budzinski and Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Cabaret Lexicon . Stuttgart / Weimar 1996. ISBN 3-476-01448-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Budzinski: The cabaret: 100 years of literary criticism of the times - spoken - sung - played. ECON 1985. ISBN 3-6121-0037-8 . P. 7, 282 f.
  2. ↑ Heinz Greul: Boards that mean time: the cultural history of cabaret. Volume 1, dtv 1971. ISBN 3-4230-0743-5 . P. 396.
  3. ↑ Cabaret guest performance ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ For fun in the brown underground . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1970 ( online ).