Friedhelm Riegel

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Friedhelm Riegel (born May 17, 1935 in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk ) is a Düsseldorf humorist who had his greatest successes in the 1970s. The hand-made speaker , singer , entertainer and stage designer is also active as an artist today .

Life

Riegel first learned the profession of decorator, he also studied art and painting for a few semesters. He gained notoriety though, his main job for a local brewery, among other things, as an ambassador for the Düsseldorf Altbier , through appearances at the carnival and as a humorist. His self-written monologues and almost pointless skits - several of which the artist recorded together with Angelika Milster - as well as musical sillinesss appeared on five long-playing records in the 1970s, from which singles were also extracted. Riegel's rank zang zang was a hit . He then traveled the world as an entertainer on cruise ships for a decade. Later he could be heard every year as co-presenter of Manfred Breuckmann in the broadcasts of the WDR television of the Düsseldorf Rose Monday procession . Reginald Rudorf once characterized the satirical magazine Pardon Riegel's humor as a condensation and stylization of the embarrassing situations of everyday life and called him a "humorist of alienation" as well as the only really funny German-speaking humorist "at the time" (1976). After he retired, Riegel turned more and more to art painting.

In 2001 the humorist was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Johannes Rau for social merit .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedhelm Riegel celebrated his 80th birthday. Gesellschaft Düsseldorfer Spiesratze eV 1911, May 28, 2015, accessed on November 16, 2016 .
  2. ^ Stephan Hamacher: Painted love for the city. In: RP Online . August 26, 2011, accessed November 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Riegel, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Düsseldorf-Oberbilk