Fips Asmussen

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Fips Asmussen in Rostock , 2012

Fips Asmussen , actually Rainer Pries , (born April 30, 1938 in Hamburg ; † August 9, 2020 in Querfurt ) was a German comedian and solo entertainer .

Life

Only a few biographical details are publicly documented. After the record cover of the 1969 LP Lektion für Sexmuffel , Asmussen's father was a bank clerk in Lübeck and insisted that his son complete an apprenticeship as a typesetter . After passing his apprenticeship exam , he switched to the advertising industry (on Asmussen's website it is noted that he “studied with a diploma at the Advertising Academy in Hamburg”). Through his work in this area he came into contact with artists, completed a two-year vocal training course and learned to play the guitar .

At the end of the 1960s he opened the cabaret pub Violette Onion at Ifflandstrasse 90 in Hamburg-Hohenfelde , where he worked both as a landlord and as an interpreter. At that time his repertoire included cabaret songs, chansons and poems by, for example, Kurt Tucholsky , Erich Kästner or Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht . Asmussen ran the violet onion for a few years before he gave up the business because of the associated stress: “For four years I played solo entertainer every night until five in the morning. You give up that at some point, then the binge comes along, that's logical. ”After this early phase, which was characterized by demanding cabaret singing, he switched from 1973 to telling jokes in quick succession, which has become his characteristic.

He worked as a comedian for more than forty years and toured his humorous stage programs both in Germany and abroad . He also appeared on radio and television programs. In addition, his appearances have also been released on sound carriers since the early 1970s , such as the LPs Lektion für Sexmuffel (1969, with Beate Hasenau ) and Live in Violet - One Night in the "Violette Onion" (1970). Since the 1973 jokes churned out , he appeared under the stage name Fips Asmussen . The debut album Jokes Churning was also his most commercially successful release. It received a platinum record in Germany for 500,000 copies sold , making the work one of the best-selling comedy recordings in Germany . His first wife, with whom he had a daughter, died of cancer in 1997. In the meantime, the native of Hamburg settled in Wolfenbüttel and in Niendorf an der Stecknitz . After reunification , Asmussen moved to his wife Barbara in Querfurt in the late 1990s .

He died of cancer on August 9, 2020 at the age of 82.

humor

In his shows Asmussen told jokes and punch lines that are often tied into a narrative, e.g. B. about his everyday life. Often he used clichés and resentments , e.g. B. about women , gays and foreigners .

music

Asmussen tried himself from the 1970s as a mood singer with songs like Ein Korn im Feldbett (a cover version of Ein Bett im Kornfeld ), which reached number 35 in the German single charts in 1976. His version of Mike Krügers Mein Gott, Walther! also appeared as a single. Asmussen had sold seven million records, cassettes and CDs by 2020 (for recordings of gentlemen's evenings, some under the pseudonym Karl Ludwig). He received three gold records for his publications, all of which were published by Europa , Jokes Churning Band (1978), Jokes Churning Volume II (1979), A Cap Full of Jokes (1982) and finally platinum for Churning Jokes (1978).

advertising

From 2006, Asmussen advertised the Funny paperback ( Ehapa Verlag ) on television . Here he was telling bad jokes in order to suggest a better quality of the jokes in the funny paperback .

Publications

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
A grain in the camp bed
  DE 35 09/06/1976 (3 weeks)

Singles

  • My God, Walther, 1975
  • There are people I + II, 1976
  • Ein Korn im Feldbett ( Ein Bett im Kornfeld) , 1976
  • Yes Baby, I Can Boogie ( Yes Sir, I Can Boogie ), 1977
  • Matador, 1980
  • I Tarzan - You Jane, 1981
  • Leave my beer on the lid, 1983
  • ... only the finest, 1983
  • Typical ... (12 ″), 1984
  • From Vegesack to Titisee, 1987

LPs

  • Churning Jokes, 1973, Europe (Sales: + 500,000; DE:platinumplatinum)
  • Quasselfilou from the water's edge, 1973
  • Jokes Churning Volume 2, 1975, Europe (Sales: + 250,000; DE:goldgold)
  • Live - Episode 2, 1975
  • From today we will laugh episode 4, 1977
  • Well ignited (pick-me-up for at home and on the go), 1977, Europe
  • The big happy one from the north, 1977
  • A hat full of jokes, 1978, Europe (sales: + 250,000; DE:goldgold)
  • A gentlemen's evening with Adalbert Bumsdörfer, 1978
  • In the Haifisch-Bar, 1981, Europe
  • I can't stand that in my head !, 1981, Europe
  • Only the very best, 1983, carousel
  • Live in Violet - A night in the "Violetten Onion" with Rainer Pries , Fontana 6306001

MCs

(the # after the title denotes the serial number of the MCs published by Europe)

  • Joke with fips
  • In the shark bar
  • Today we laugh (1991, carousel)
  • Fireworks of New Jokes (1976, Carousel)
  • Jokes churning out parts 1 and 2
  • Do you know him? (# 10)
  • Balla Balla (# 7)
  • A hat full of jokes (# 3)
  • I can't stand that in my head (# 6)
  • From today we will laugh part 1–3
  • Ouch (# 4)
  • But hello ... (# 5)
  • Blow by blow (# 9)
  • He now again (# 11)
  • That too (# 12)
  • Taken from life (# 14)
  • Humor without limits (# 15)
  • No eye stays dry (# 17)
  • Live (1978)
  • The Great Laughing Parade (1991, carousel)
  • The happy from the north (1975, carousel)
  • ... only the finest (1983 Hamfelde-Trittau, Gasthof Waldeslust)

CDs

Sorted by sequence number:

  1. Jokes churning out 1
  2. Churning jokes 2
  3. A hat full of jokes
  4. Geez!
  5. But hello ...
  6. I can't stand that in my head!
  7. Balla balla
  8. In the Haifischbar (2005)
  9. In rapid succession
  10. Do you know him?
  11. He now again!
  12. From Vegesack to Titisee
  13. That too!
  14. ... taken from life
  15. Fun must be
  16. Now it's going around
  17. Not a straight face remains
  18. Mercilessly funny
  19. Gross subtleties
  20. Free to your mouth!
  21. Unusual ideas
  22. The full life
  23. Really strong
  24. A Real Hammer (2014)

Without sequence numbers: (mostly best-of compilations)

  • Humor without borders - live in the GDR
  • Fips is the trump card
  • Fips Asmussen Jokes - the Quasselfilou on duty
  • ... only the finest (compilation / best-of)
  • A firework of new jokes (compilation / best-of)
  • The Best / Episodes 1–2 (2012)
  • The Best - Humor, Power Non-Stop (Double CD 2013)

Books

  • 1991: jokes churning out
  • 1991: the book. 30 years of the finest humor
  • 1995: Really great - laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: And then there was ... laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: There is joy - laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: It's fun - laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: Simply funny - laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: Only the very best - laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: That can't be true - laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: Au Backe - Lachen with Fips Asmussen
  • 1995: The post goes off - laughing with Fips Asmussen
  • 1997: Fips Asmussen - jokes churning out
  • 1998: Mercilessly funny
  • 1999: Laughter is healthy. The best jokes from Germany's No. 1 humorist
  • 2013: The best of Fips Asmussen: Jokes, gags & cheeky sayings (Kindle), only digital (e-book)

Filmography (selection)

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Others

Fips Asmussen was one of the favorite victims of Oliver Kalkofe , who in his show Kalkofes Mattscheibe regularly made fun of Asmussen's appearance as well as the primitive humor of Asmussen from Kalkofe's point of view and called him “Fips ass muscle” or “fart anuss”. Asmussen returned the favor by telling jokes about Kalkofe for a while during his live performances.

Asmussen accused the entertainer and comedian Dieter Hallervorden several times of having taken on various gags without his consent, including the well-known sketch bottle of French fries (" Palim-Palim "), which Hallervorden had bought from the entertainer Heinz Quermann through Gerhard Wollner for his program . This controversy was the end of January 2009 by Harald Schmidt and Oliver Pocher in the show Schmidt & Pocher satirizes .

Web links

Commons : Fips Asmussen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fips Asmussen: New jokes churning out 4 . Europe 111 109.4 (1979)
  2. ↑ Beate Hasenau & Rainer Pries: Lesson for those who don't like sex . Fontana 885 447 (1969)
  3. ↑ Comedian Fips Asmussen - A ring binder full of jokes. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien GmbH, May 17, 2019, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d GOLD / PLATINUM database. In: musikindustrie.de. Federation of the Phonographic Industry e. V., accessed on August 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Charlie Walter: Daughter congratulates in picture because she can't see him: Happy birthday, Fips Asmussen! In: image . Axel Springer SE , April 30, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Grief: Comedian Fips Asmussen is dead. In: mdr.de. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , August 11, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  7. ↑ He was 82 years old: Comedian Fips Asmussen died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Died at the age of 82: Comedian Fips Asmussen is dead. In: Focus Online . Focus Online Group GmbH, August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Man of quick jokes: Fips Asmussen died of cancer at the age of 82. In: Der Tagesspiegel . Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, August 11, 2020, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ulli Tückmantel : Deutsche Witzigkeit. In: Rheinische Post . RP Digital GmbH, December 31, 2011, accessed on August 11, 2020.
  11. ^ LTB Funny paperback - Fips Asmussen, advertising film, 2006. In: Crew United . Crew United, Lutz und Zenglein GbR, 2006, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Funny paperback & Fips Asmussen. (Video; 0:44 min) In: YouTube . Egmont Ehapa Media , October 2, 2010, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Charts DE. In: officialcharts.de . GfK Entertainment GmbH, accessed on August 12, 2020.
  14. ↑ Kalkofes ground glass - All you can kalk / Die Megabox [38 DVDs] (+ UMD) · DVD. In: Films.de. Wemado GmbH, April 11, 2014, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Joke-theft: Asmussen pissed off at Hallervorden. In: freenet.de . freenet.de GmbH, April 17, 2013, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Jens Rümmler: Petra Quermann: There was no private Heinz Quermann. In: Märkische Oderzeitung . Märkisches Medienhaus GmbH & Co. KG, November 29, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  17. ↑ More than just “Palim Palim”. In: Südwest Presse . Neue Pressegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, December 7, 2013, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  18. ^ Schmidt & Pocher, episode # 2.12, January 30, 2009. In: Internet Movie Database . Amazon.com, Inc. , accessed August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Asmussen, Fips
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pries, Rainer (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian and solo entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 2020
Place of death Querfurt , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany