Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes

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Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes and something similarly titled was a cabaret program of varying lengths by the Austrian theater and film actor Fritz Muliar , which frequently changed in terms of content and was documented over decades in a wide variety of television, radio and recordings. After 1945, it contributed to the renewed popularization of Jewish jokes in German-speaking countries and established Muliar's reputation as the “master of Jewish jokes”.

Emergence

After accepting a job as an emcee at the Moulin Rouge in Vienna at the time of the Viennese theater crisis after 1949, the actor Muliar noticed his lack of talent for conferences, which Ernst Waldbrunn and Karl Farkas apparently easily "shook out of their sleeves". So instead of the usual loose transitions from program point to program point, he began to tell Jewish jokes he knew, which suited him better. The first independent program Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes came about by chance: Louise Martini surprisingly canceled an appearance as part of the program in the Marietta Bar, which Muliar frequented in the 1950s, due to a hoarseness. Gerhard Bronner had no artistic alternative ready so quickly and therefore asked Muliar for his help. He then completed his first fifteen-minute program with Jewish jokes. The enthusiasm of the audience gave Bronner the idea of ​​making a tape recording at home. From this, Bronner and Otto Preiser produced the first record in 1959 with Jewish jokes performed by Muliar, which was followed by numerous others due to its great success.

content

A string of Jewish jokes made every expression - whether on records, on the radio or on the cabaret - of the well-known Muliar program. The narrator preferred the traditional Jewish joke, but occasionally also brought modern variations. The individual jokes were often introduced by Muliar with the phrase "So that I don't forget to tell you".

effect

After the Jewish joke was initially frowned upon in German-speaking countries after the Holocaust , and was even mistakenly considered anti-Semitic by some , the interpreter, who only came from a Jewish family on his stepfather's side, contributed significantly to the publicist Salcia Landmann , who took up the topic at the same time, by distributing his joke plates its popular rediscovery. Muliar himself saw his work as a contribution to the maintenance of Jewish culture and language. He later published anthologies with Jewish jokes and wrote contributions to scientific works on Jewish humor.

Fritz Muliar also made major appearances in German-speaking countries with Jewish jokes, for example in the Europa-Center-Berlin or in Hamburg. In addition to such major events, his program was a guest in event venues of Jewish communities. Even purely literary lecture evenings Muliar as an actor and reciter later included a block with Jewish jokes due to the popularity of his art of joke-telling with the audience.

Publications (selection)

Sound carrier

  • The Jewish joke / presented by Fritz Muliar . Preiser 1959
  • Cabaret from Vienna No. 31 .: Bonkes and Chalosches tells of Fritz Muliar . Preiser 1960
  • Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes , Preiser undated
  • So that I don't forget to tell you! Jewish jokes 2nd episode . Preiser undated
  • Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes for the 3rd time . Preiser undated
  • Fritz Muliar tells jokes, of course Jewish ones . no year
  • New Jewish jokes and stories . (Live recording). Philips 1968
  • Yiddish jokes and stories . Fontana 1973
  • ... not only the Jidden laugh . (Live recording). Fontana undated
  • Fritz Muliar tells Jewish jokes . Preiser CD PR90298, 1999
  • So that I don't forget to tell you! Fritz Muliar is telling Jewish jokes again . Preiser CD PR93043, 1999
  • Fritz Muliar tells Jewish and other jokes . Preiser CD PR90659, 2005

Book editions

  • So I don't forget to tell you. Fritz Muliar tells Yiddish stories and Lozelachs . Matari, Hamburg 1967
    The apple, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-85450-162-6 .
  • The best of my collection of Jewish jokes and anecdotes . Heyne, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-453-00387-X (incorrect ISBN because it was used twice).

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Fritz Muliar died: People-oriented character actor with comic talent. In: Mindener Tageblatt . May 5, 2009, accessed February 6, 2014 .
  2. ^ Fritz Muliar / Eva Bakos: Strictly indiscreet! . Zsolnay, Vienna 1969.