Emil Steinberger
Emil Steinberger (born January 6, 1933 in Lucerne ; entitled to live there ) is a Swiss cabaret artist , writer , director and actor who has been known to a wide audience in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as Emil since the 1970s thanks to his TV skits .
life and work
Emil Steinberger is the son of the accountant Rudolf Steinberger and his wife Creszentia, b. Horat. As a boy he was already improvising skits. After training as a post office clerk and nine years of counter service, he attended the Lucerne School of Design (now Lucerne School of Design and Art ) for five years from 1960 and became a qualified graphic artist . Even then he played in the cabaret "Cabaradiesli". In 1966 he married Maya Rudin; Son Philipp was born in 1969. In September 1967 they opened together the small theater on Bundesplatz , today the small theater in Lucerne , in which jazz concerts, theater and cabaret performances took place and where he performed his first own programs. For a few years he also ran the Kino modern in Lucerne, which existed under the same name, and in 1973 he set up a studio cinema with 150 seats himself, the studio cinema , which was closed in 2008 .
At the beginning of the 1970s, Steinberger filled all theaters in Switzerland and soon in Germany with his solo programs “Stories That Life wrote”, “E for Emil” and “Emil Träum”. The Emil recordings broadcast by ARD contributed to its popularity in Germany. Various tours through Germany and Switzerland followed, and he also performed several times in the GDR .
In 1977 he stood in the circus Knie ring for nine months .
Another milestone in his career was one of the two leading roles in the film Die Schweizermacher , directed by Rolf Lyssy .
In 1980 he was the financial obstetrician and director at the restart of Circus Roncalli in Cologne. In the same year his second son Martin was born. His stage program Feuerabend , which he began in 1980, was so successful that he decided to be just Emil .
In French-speaking Switzerland in the 1980s, he also played his numbers in French in the programs "Une heure avec Emil" and "Feu et flamme". In the 1986 sports film Feuer und Eis , produced by Willy Bogner , he took on the role of narrator in the German-language dubbing . In 1987 he appeared for the last time as Emil and thus temporarily ended his stage career.
In 1989 his marriage to Maya was divorced.
From 1990 to 1991 Emil Steinberger was part of the advice team in Yes or No , a What am I? -Remake with Joachim Fuchsberger . At the same time he was successful in advertising. Among other things, he wrote and staged 100 commercials for Melitta coffee, with which Melitta man Egon Wellenbrink became famous. He also wrote and directed commercials for Fisherman's Friend and Bico Mattresses. During this time he staged a major advertising tour for “Switzerland Tourism” under the title “Switzerland Plus” and toured Germany with a troupe. In 2008 Steinberger was again active as a recruiter by writing and playing ten TV commercials for Rivella International.
At the end of 1993 he went to New York to lead a life of anonymity. On May 28, 1999, he married Niccel Kristuf in New York. In 1999 they returned to Switzerland together and lived by Lake Geneva for 15 years .
In 1999 his first book "True Lies Stories" was published. In 2000 he and his wife Niccel founded their own publishing house, Edition E, in which in 2001 his second book "Emil via New York" appeared. In this publishing house the Steinbergers publish their books as well as CDs and DVDs with Emil's earlier programs. In 2013 Edition E entered into a cooperation with Oltner Knapp Verlag. Since 1999 he has been on the road with readings that developed into a new stage program, “Three Angels!”. He performed more than 850 times with this program. From 2015 to the end of 2017 he toured with the program “Emil - no einisch” (“Emil - once again”), which he played in Swiss German, German with local Swiss flavor and French and in which many successful numbers from his programs of the 1960s through 1980s are included. In November 2017, a recording of this program for Swiss radio and television was made in the Gloria Theater in Bad Säckingen and broadcast on SRF 1 on January 6, 2018 on the occasion of his 85th birthday .
In between he was also a speaker in children's radio plays (e.g. in Michel vo der Schwand (Michel from Lönneberga) by Astrid Lindgren ). He also acted as a spokesperson for Hans Fischer 's children's story Pitschi . On behalf of the Diogenes publishing house , he also read Hugo Loetscher's “The Wash Kitchen Key ” for an audio book production .
In 2006 Emil and Niccel Steinberger exhibited their jointly drawn “Wochenblätter” for the first time in the Haus der Kunst St. Josef in Solothurn. Exhibitions followed in Göttingen, Stuttgart, Lauchheim, Lucerne, Montreux and other places.
On his 75th birthday in 2008, he was made an honorary citizen by the city of Lucerne . In 2013, on the occasion of Steinberger's 80th birthday, Knapp-Verlag published the latest book “Lachtzig” in the Perlen series.
Emil Steinberger lived in Montreux for 15 years , and since 2014 he has been living in Basel with his wife Niccel, who offers salmon seminars at irregular intervals .
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1976: Konrad Steiner's sudden loneliness
- 1978: The Swiss makers
- 1979: Messidor
- 1980: The formula (The Formula)
- 1981: Cassette love (title for Switzerland)
- 1982: Video-Liebe (title for Germany)
- 1985: Kaiser and one night
- 1985: An eccentric finds himself in a mysterious milieu
- 1991: Niklaus and Sammy
watch TV
- 1975: Emil on the post
- 1984: Fresh, cheeky, happy - free? - An Olympic cabaret show
- 1987: Escape with Lucifer (miniseries)
Works
Records and CDs
- 1970: stories that life wrote
- 1971: Stories That Life Written, Part 2
- 1972: EMIL improvised ...
- 1973: E for Emil
- 1976: Emil dreams ...
- 1981: Fire evening
- 2005: A cabaret reading (later program title: Three Angels)
- 2008: E for Essen (Swiss German title: Soup, Wurscht und Brot)
as narrator:
- 1999: Astrid Lindgren : Immer dä Michel , 3 CDs
- 2004: Astrid Lindgren: Karlsson vom Dach / Karlsson flies again , 2 CDs
- 2010: Hugo Loetscher : The laundry room key or what - if God were Swiss
- 2014: Schwyzerdütsch with The Grooves
Books
- Fire evening . Diogenes, Zurich 1985
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True lies . No & But, Zurich 1999; Ullstein, Munich 2000
- extended new edition: Edition E, Territet 2004, ISBN 978-3-905638-23-3
- Emil via New York . Edition E, Territet 2001; slightly overworked. A. 2009, ISBN 978-3-905638-39-4
- Eighty . Knapp, Olten 2013, ISBN 978-3-905848-78-6
- Hans Fischer : Pitschi . Translated into Swiss German by Emil Steinberger. NordSüd, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-314-10388-9
List of his most important skits (a selection)
Standard German | Schwyzerdütsch | French |
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At the window | At the Fänschter | A la fenêtre |
On the Matterhorn | On the Matterhorn | Au Cervin |
The tax form | Study form | - |
The blood donor | Dä Bluetspänder | Donneur you sang |
The gourmet | Dä gourmet | Le gourmet |
The stroller | Dä baby carriage | La poussette |
The loser of the election | Dä loser of the election | Politicien flambant |
Wedding congratulations | Highest congratulations | - |
In the train | On the train (contains Chileli vo Wasse ) | In the train |
Set theory | Defect | La théorie des ensembles |
Police Headquarters | Police poach | Post de police |
Telegraph office | S Telegraph Office | - |
The pilot | The pilot | - |
- | At the kiosk | Le kiosque |
- | De Quizmaster | - |
Awards
Emil Steinberger received a large number of awards:
- 1970: Recognition award from the city of Lucerne for cultural activities
- 1976: German Cabaret Prize in the cabaret category
- 1981: Prix Walo
- 1986: Karl Valentin Order
- 1988: Hans Reinhart-Ring of the Swiss Society for Theater Culture
- 1993: Morenhovener Lupe
- 1996: Badge of Honor of the City of Lucerne
- 1996: Gold records in Germany for the video albums Emil Steinberger - Volume 1 and Emil Steinberger - Volume 2
- 2003: Rose d'Or (Honor Rose)
- 2003: Oertli Prize for his humor that transcends language borders
- 2004: Göttingen Elch for his life's work
- 2004: German Comedy Award (honorary award for his life's work)
- 2005: Salzburg bull ( bull of honor for his life's work)
- 2006: Bavarian Cabaret Prize (Honorary Prize)
- 2007: Swiss Cabaret Prize Ehrencornichon
- 2007: Golden Akustikus Nürnberg
- 2008: Honorary citizen of the city of Lucerne on the occasion of his 75th birthday
- 2008: The Great Cabaret Festival Honor Prize
- 2009: Acknowledgment award from the city of Montreux
- 2009: Münchhausen Prize , Bodenwerder
- 2009: Star of Satire Mainz
- 2010: Arosa Humorfüller - Jury Prize of the Arosa Humor Festival for his life's work
- 2011: SwissAward - Lifetime Award for his life's work
- 2012: Honorary Award for Bilingualism Biel-Bienne
- 2012: Hall of Fame of the German Speakers Association
- 2013: Radio Pilatus Ehren-Rüüdige Lozärner
- 2013: Human Dignity Award
- 2014: Peace electricity price
- 2019: Recognition award from the Canton of Lucerne
literature
- Mats Staub: Emil Steinberger . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1745 f.
- Hansruedi Lerch: Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Emil Steinberger in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Emil Steinberger, Franz Hohler : Swiss cross-examination between the cabaret artists Emil Steinberger (E) and Franz Hohler (H) . In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. An almanac for the stage, podium and ring (= cassette ). No. 4 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 191–213 (with the text of the number The Pilot ).
Web links
- Official website
- Literature by and about Emil Steinberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Emil Steinberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Publisher Edition E
- Show «Schawinski». Roger Schawinski in conversation with Emil. Video in: Swiss television from October 1, 2012 ( online, 27 minutes )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emil reveals a secret: There is still a son , Switzerland on the weekend , April 13, 2013
- ↑ Cabaret artist turns 85 :: No «parking» for Emil Steinberger , shz.de , January 6, 2018
- ↑ Much applause for the eternally young Emil , Badische Zeitung , November 13, 2017
- ^ Emil Steinberger celebrates his 85th birthday , Radio Pilatus , January 6, 2018
- ↑ "Laughing Seminars" from Niccel Steinberger
- ^ Emil Steinberger and his wife Niccel move to Basel , aargauerzeitung.ch , February 28, 2014, accessed on September 22, 2014
- ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 27, 2016
- ^ Friedestrompreis for "Swiss Original". In: rp-online.de. October 2, 2014, accessed July 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Hugo Bischof: Emil Steinberger receives the recognition award from the Canton of Lucerne - endowed with CHF 10,000. In: luzernerzeitung.ch. April 19, 2019, accessed May 7, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Steinberger, Emil |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Emil |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss cabaret artist, writer, director and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lucerne |