Edgar Külow

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Official autograph photo of Edgar Külow (1980s)
Memorial plaque in front of his former house, Bernhard-Bästlein-Straße 20, in Berlin-Fennpfuhl
Grave monument for Edgar Külow at the Resurrection Cemetery in Berlin

Edgar "Eddi" Külow (born September 10, 1925 in Werdohl ; † September 29, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German cabaret artist , director , actor , voice actor and author .

Life

Edgar Eduard Külow was born as the son of the carpenter and worker Eduard Külow and his wife, the seamstress Erna (née Koch) in Werdohl / Westphalia . The cramped living conditions and the early death of his father in 1932 overshadowed Edgar Külow's childhood to a considerable extent. Immediately after returning from a brief British captivity, which the former Wehrmacht marine was caught in April 1945, Edgar Külow joined the KPD in the summer of 1945 . As a result, the education student in Lüdenscheid in western Germany got into political difficulties, whereupon he moved to the Soviet zone of occupation .

Edgar Külow studied acting in Leipzig from 1946 to 1949. He then became a broadcaster at the Leipzig broadcaster of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . Even before the uprising of June 17, 1953 in Berlin and other cities in the GDR, Edgar Külow went back to his old home in the Sauerland on March 30, 1953, where he did odd jobs before moving to Bernburg in the GDR in May 1957 - Halle district returns. After his rehabilitation by the SED , Edgar Külow was initially allowed to take over small cultural institutions in Nienburg and Bernburg before he was engaged in the Leipziger Pfeffermühle cabaret together with Helga Hahnemann in May 1959 . In 1963 he took over the management of this ensemble as director. On August 22, 1964, he was dismissed due to “ ideological diversion ” in the program “Let's be honest”, which was forbidden before the premiere.

After that, Edgar Külow devoted himself increasingly as a writer, actor and director to the amateur cabaret “Die Taktlosen”, founded in Halle (Saale) in 1963 in the wake of the “ Bitterfelder Weg ”, their first program “Eine kleine Nachtkritik” on December 12, 1963 in the union clubhouse Premiered. At the instigation of the then First Secretary of the SED district leadership, Horst Sindermann , Edgar Külow received the Handel Prize of the Halle district for his artistic achievements as a cabaret artist and director of the ensemble in 1969 .

As early as the 1960s, Edgar Külow became a successful member of the ensemble and copywriter for the Tele-BZ series (until 1971) of the German television station and cabaret artist for the DEFA production “ Das Stacheltier ”, a humorous newsreel that was used in GDR cinemas . In addition, Edgar Külow, an avowed football fan (his favorite club at the time: BSG Chemie Leipzig), started working as a columnist for the sports newspaper “Die neue Fußballwoche (FUWO)” and the daily newspaper “ Deutsches Sportecho ”. Edgar Külow is now a regular in-house author for the only satirical magazine in the GDR, the magazine Eulenspiegel ("Owl") , which has been published by Eulenspiegel-Verlag since 1954 .

With the founding of a second television program for GDR television in 1969 and the increased demand for fictional artistic productions, Edgar Külow became a member of the newly founded TV actor ensemble in the same year, for which he moved from Leipzig to Berlin with his family.

In addition to the following appearances as an actor for GDR television and DEFA, Edgar Külow also remained loyal to the cabaret genre in Berlin : In addition to numerous satirical solo programs, with which he toured through companies and cultural institutions in the GDR, he initially worked since 1972 as a writer and performer ("Mir nach Medaille") in the Berlin cabaret Die Distel , before he also directed many programs at this house from 1975 ("Alles Rummel"). The so-called DISTEL author evenings were particularly popular with the public and the state authorities, where Edgar Külow acted as a “meeting leader” from 1975 to 1978 with colleagues such as Jürgen Klammer, Ernst Röhl , Heinz Kahlow , Heinz Lyschik and Peter Ensikat .

On October 5, 2006, Edgar Külow was awarded a star of satire (Walk of Fame des Cabaret) . The award given by the German Cabaret Archive in Mainz was jointly presented to Dietrich Kittner on this day .

He published several books: 1964 with Helmut Schreiber Schelm von Schilda , 1996 Koslowski in Weimar: Ruhrpott-Willi conquers the East , in 2000 Koslowski in the Bundestag a . a. Külow was also a columnist for Junge Welt . He also wrote regularly on the website of the Berlin soccer club VfB Einheit zu Pankow .

In the 2009 Bundestag election, Külow publicly called for the party Die Linke .

Edgar Külow died on September 29, 2012 in the Berlin Oskar Ziethen Hospital , where he succumbed to internal injuries as a result of a serious fall. Edgar Külow was buried on October 13, 2012 in the Protestant Resurrection Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

The family handed over the artistic estate to the German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) in December 2016 .

On October 2, 2019 , a memorial plaque was unveiled in front of his former residence, Berlin-Fennpfuhl , Bernhard-Bästlein-Straße 20 .

THE EDDI

On the initiative of Heinz Behling and with the consent and active support of Edgar Külow, THE EDDI Prize has been awarded since 1981 . The first prize winner on Friday, November 13th, 1981 was Edgar Külow himself. The philosophy of the EDDI award at the time consisted of honoring so-called “non-dignity winners” in the GDR, ie artists of all genres from major state and political circles Awards "intentionally" were spared. This prize was awarded until 1988.

The new edition of the EDDI award ceremony from 2013 follows the cabaret and literary-satirical life's work of the eponym and is supplemented by a newly created statuette of the sculptor Esther Brockhaus and prize money. Prize winners are artists who deal critically and satirically with society.

Filmography

Radio plays

Fonts

literature

  • Gisela Winkler:  Külow, Edgar . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Klaus Budzinski, Reinhard Hippen (Hrsg.): Metzler Kabarett Lexikon. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01448-7 , pp. 212-213.
  • Daniel Kosthorst (Ed.): Joking aside. Humor and Politics in Germany. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-361-00657-7 , pp. 77-81.
  • Hans Braunseis: Edgar Külow - not very productive? In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. An almanac for the stage, podium and ring (=  cassette ). No. 6 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 202-207 .

Web links

Commons : Edgar Külow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Burkhard Habel , Volker Wachter : The great lexicon of the GDR stars. The actors from film and television. Extended new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-391-8 , p. 214.
  2. ↑ Biography on kabarettarchiv.de (PDF; 21 kB)
  3. ↑ Biography on valaquenta.de
  4. ↑ Article ( Memento of May 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on mdr.de
  5. ↑ Call for election of the left, signed by Külow ( Memento of October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Külow, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühlow, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist, actor, voice actor and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdohl
DATE OF DEATH 29th September 2012
Place of death Berlin