Dieter Thomas
Dieter Thomas (born March 18, 1947 in Limburg an der Lahn ; † April 8, 2016 there ) was a German cabaret artist and comedian .
Life
From 1953 to 1961 he attended elementary school in his hometown. According to his own statements, he stayed seated twice and therefore did not get the desired apprenticeship as an electrician, but became a factory worker at the age of 14. In 1963 he also failed to pass an examination for admission to the Wiesbaden Police School. He circumvented being drafted into the German Armed Forces in a tricky manner, whereby, according to his own statements, he discovered his talent for cabaret.
After two years of globetrotting, he moved to Frankfurt am Main at the end of the 1960s , where he experienced the student unrest and got involved himself. In 1975 he made up his Abitur at the Frankfurt Evening High School and in the same year began studying German and politics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , which he did not graduate. From 1976 onwards, Thomas and various partners developed into the stage type that he embodied unmistakably - above all with the "Provisional Frankfurter Fronttheater ".
On April 8, 2016 Dieter Thomas succumbed to a cancer diagnosed only a few months earlier.
Artistic creation
In the summer of 1976 Thomas founded the "Karl Napp's Chaos Theater" together with the cabaret artist Matthias Beltz and other Frankfurt scene cabaret artists, which performed in an old Frankfurt cinema until the summer of 1981 and its political and socially critical issues primarily from the Frankfurt Spontaneous scene developed. In January 1982, together with Matthias Beltz and Hendrike von Sydow, he launched the “Preliminary Frankfurter Fronttheater”, which was renamed “ Frankfurter Fronttheater ” a few years later .
The " Startbahn West ", the " Wackersdorf reprocessing plant " and especially the restrictive actions of the police at student demonstrations were targeted as major social issues at the time . In doing so, Thomas and von Sydow developed their own, previously unknown type of stage presentation. As a good juggler, Dieter Thomas was the first to juggle to his texts on a cabaret stage. Balls or fruit - anything that could fly - he whirled through the air. He juggled cleared fir trees against the runway west and recommended apples as camouflaged projectiles. In addition, there was his clown-like Hessian “babble”, with which he was one of the first artists to bring elements of comedy to the cabaret stage. In a special way he took on his own clientele, the spontaneous scene , and held the self-critical mirror in front of their nose.
In addition, he appeared with his partner and later partner von Sydow in a number of television programs and films, including in the windshield wiper , in their own ranks as a guest in the Fronttheater and Dieter & Hendrike or in the ZDF film The thing is over .
Web links
- Vita on the website of the Frankfurt Front Theater
- Dieter Thomas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Front theater cabaret artist Dieter Thomas is dead. In: Hessenschau.de, accessed on April 9, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ "Fronttheater" cabaret artist Dieter Thomas is dead. (No longer available online.) In: hessenschau.de. Hessenschau , April 9, 2016, archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; Retrieved April 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Thomas, Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cabaret artist and comedian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Limburg an der Lahn , Hesse , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 2016 |
| Place of death | Limburg an der Lahn , Hesse , Germany |