Eberhard Cohrs

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Eberhard Cohrs (born January 4, 1921 in Dresden ; † August 17, 1999 in Diensdorf-Radlow ) was a German comedian and actor .

Life

The father was a hat manufacturer from Uelzen , his mother came from the Vogtland. Eberhard Cohrs actually wanted to be a confectioner. He had his first stage appearances in Dresden, Weißer Hirsch . After he passed his comedian examination on November 11, 1945 in front of the International Artist's Lodge in the Dresden “Skala”, he performed in the variety theaters of his hometown. However, Dresden quickly became too "small" for him; he had to see where to make a larger audience laugh. So he came to Leipzig in 1947 and quickly became a crowd favorite as “The Kleene with the Big Gush”. As a young talent, he also took part in the programs of the Berliner Kammerbrettl founded by Hans Joachim Heinrichs in 1948 . Ulli Busch opened the radio for him (broadcaster Dresden), Heinz Quermann arranged for him to appear on GDR television (" Da laughs the bear " 1959), Wolfgang E. Struck brought him to the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin in 1961 . He has toured with Roby Hanson , Horst Lehn , Horst Feuerstein and Bobby Bölke . As the director of his stage programs Hallo Eberhard! was the mentor of East German entertainment, Wolfgang Brandenstein . Eberhard Cohrs was a guest on radio and television, produced records and played small roles in films. In 1976 he played the frog in " Die Fledermaus " at the Rostock Volkstheater . He knew how to use “causal humor” to bring the differences between Berlin and Saxony , authorities and people, “high politics” and everyday problems and the “common man” to the public.

In 1977 he left the GDR after a railroader's jubilee appearance in the " RAW Grunewald " and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . Rudi Carrell tried to pave the media start for him in his series " Amlauf Band ", but the first attempt ended in a fiasco: The West German audience did not understand his Saxon pronunciation. From then on he appeared with Harald Juhnke in “ A Crazy Couple ”, in the cabaret “ Die Wühlmäuse ”, next to Dieter Hallervorden in Nonstop Nonsens or at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg. For Carrell he also acted as a gag and sketch writer for his television appearances.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to eastern Germany: when he first performed in Dresden in 1989, he realized that his audience had remained loyal to him, not just in Saxony, despite everything. As a partner of Leni Statz , Wolfgang Roeder and Winfried Krause, he appeared primarily in TV shows on the MDR .

In May 1998, his then 25-year-old son died in a diving accident. In the same year he learned that his wife Dagmar had had a lover for many years. A year later, in July 1999, Eberhard Cohrs hit the headlines when he fired at least seven rounds at his wife with a pistol and seriously wounded her: through a chest bullet, a forearm bullet, a bullet in the lungs and a liver bullet. As a result, her life was in danger, but could be saved. Cohrs said he had taken an overdose of morphine and other pain relievers before the crime , so that he was in a state of intoxication when the crime occurred. He hadn't had a gun license for the murder weapon . It was given to him by his own admission. An investigation followed against him for attempted manslaughter and another for illegal possession of weapons. In the first case, the investigating public prosecutor's office assumed Cohrs' incapacity . On August 17, 1999, Cohrs died at the age of 78 from severe cancer in his house on Scharmützelsee .

In 2000 he was voted one of the “100 Dresdeners of the 20th Century” in the daily newspaper “ Dresdner Latest News ”.

In 2004, the authority of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service submitted several documents, according to which Cohrs was a member of the Waffen SS in the Third Reich and from August 6, 1944 to February 16, 1945 belonged to the security team of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he was reached the rank of SS Rottenführer .

Filmography (selection)

Typical quotes

  • "Have a mark, there is quark in consumption"
  • "Have you got a mark, a slap?"
  • "Treat yourself to identification? - Oh, can you do that yourself now? "
  • Sketch partner: "... has an accent de gü!" - Cohrs: "? ... And that has that in the back ? "
  • "( To the audience:) You don't need to smile so stupidly, you don't know!"
  • "Our cigarettes? Do they send to de Gabidalisd countries ? Well maybe they want to wipe them out! "
  • "... you go to the doctor and get a prescription, the doctor wants to live anyway. You go to the pharmacist and get the medicine, the pharmacist wants to live anyway. Do you go home and throw away the medicine, you still want to live. "

Works

  • Great skits with sparkling punchlines. To replay. Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1983, ISBN 3-8068-0656-X ( Falken-Bücherei 656).
  • Skits and blackouts. To replay. Falken-Verlag, Niedernhausen 1988, ISBN 3-8068-0941-0 ( Falken-Bücherei 941).
  • The best from Eberhard Cohrs. The Kleene with the great Gush. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-359-02277-0 .

literature

  • Dagmar Cohrs: Man Cohrs! Life has no plan, it happens. Berlin: Documentary media production 2008.
  • Rudolf Hösch: Cabaret from yesterday and today. Based on contemporary reports, reviews and memories. Volume 2: 1933-1970. Henschel, Berlin 1972.
  • Short biography for:  Cohrs, Eberhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mdr.de: Eberhard Cohrs: "I'm sorry that I ran away" - MDR.DE . June 15, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Comedian Eberhard Cohrs - why did he shoot? In: Superillu. May 22, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ayhan Bakirdögen: No attempted manslaughter, but an intoxication . In: Welt online. Die Welt, July 22, 1999, accessed January 9, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Ms. Cohrs was able to leave the intensive care unit . In: welt online. Die Welt, July 28, 1999, accessed on December 27, 2017 ( dpa ).
  5. ↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .
  6. ^ Thomas Loy: An uncanny punchline. Tagesspiegel, July 21, 2004, accessed July 20, 2018 .
  7. ↑ The Comedian's Secret. MDR, June 15, 2011, accessed July 20, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Eberhard Cohrs - The Kleene with the great Gush. (No longer available online.) MDR, archived from the original on September 23, 2016 ; accessed on September 23, 2016 .
  9. ↑ The Comedian's Secret. MDR, June 15, 2011, accessed December 17, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Ralf Schenk: The man who made everyone laugh. Rolf Herricht. In: Superillu . June 6, 2007, archived from the original on March 28, 2008 ; accessed on December 27, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cohrs, Eberhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1999
Place of death Diensdorf-Radlow