Günter Willumeit

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Günter Willumeit (born December 10, 1941 in Memel ; † October 17, 2013 in Bad Segeberg ) was a German humorist , parodist , entertainer and dentist .

Life

As a refugee child, he came from East Prussia with his parents and his sister to Holstein via Pomerania and Mecklenburg in 1945 . He spent his youth in Bühnsdorf and Bad Segeberg, where he graduated from high school in 1962. After two years in the Bundeswehr , from which he resigned as a lieutenant in the reserve (air defense), he studied dentistry in Kiel , where he passed the state examination in 1970 and received his license to practice medicine . After his doctorate as Dr. med. dent. at the University of Hamburg he practiced as a dentist in Bad Segeberg for almost 25 years.

In his spare time he appeared in bars as a humorist in the evenings, and had growing success with his jokes and parodies. From the very beginning, the rural-village environment in which he grew up was a permanent source of inspiration for him. In the mid-1970s his well-known alter ego matured in him : the figure of the brash tractor driver Bauer Piepenbrink . In it he personified the familiar, dry, subtle Holstein humor with a low German tongue. For the first time he played Piepenbrink for the school radio series Neues aus Waldhagen . After a performance in the Hamburg club Onkel Pö , Ulf Krüger von Leinemann brokered him a record deal .

He soon became known throughout German-speaking countries through appearances on radio and television. He had his greatest song success with a German cover version of the Village People hit YMCA , LMAA , which made it to the German charts. As a parodist, he mastered 50 speaking and singing voices and almost all dialects . Also, speech disorders ( stuttering , harelip ) were part of his repertoire. He released 27 LPs / CDs and 18 books with humor, cabaret, parody and entertainment. His motto was: There is nothing better than making people laugh.

After the death of his first wife, Willumeit met his second wife Karin on Sylt , who brought daughters and grandchildren into the marriage. He had given up his dental practice in 1994 and since then has been concentrating entirely on his appearances, including as a permanent guest in the NDR series Freut dich des Nordens and Lachen from Lüders Krug . Since 1994 he had a second home in Niendorf .

Until recently, Günter Willumeit appeared on various stages. Willumeit suffered from esophageal cancer and died on 17 October 2013 aged 71 in his adopted home of Bad Segeberg his cancer . On the morning of October 25, 2013, there was a memorial service in his honor in the Marienkirche in Bad Segeberg. Günter Willumeit was then buried at sea.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
LMAA (Herbert's YMCA)
  DE 33 04/23/1979 (6 weeks)
  • 1974: Günter ... from Germany LP Polydor 2371523
  • 1975: Old Home - New Home , Polydor
  • 1976: Laughing with farmer Piepenbrink , Polydor
  • 1976: ... meet 2 .. , Polydor
  • 1977: Live from the Hamburg Music Hall , Polydor
  • 1977: Do you have ears? ... do you want to hear rabbit jokes! LP Polydor 2437 416
  • 1977: Bauer Piepenbrink: Fun must be , Polydor
  • 1977: 3 , Polydor
  • 1979: LMAA (single), RCA Victor
  • 1979: Everything laughs at my command , RCA Schallplatten GmbH
  • 1980: News from the farmer Piepenbrink , RCA Schallplatten GmbH
  • 1980: No more Mallorca Single RCA PB 5725
  • 1981: When Bauer Piepenbrink comes to town , RCA Schallplatten GmbH

Web links

Commons : Günter Willumeit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ln-online.de: Günter Willumeit alias "Bauer Piepenbrink" died. Article from October 17, 2013
  2. ^ "Bauer Piepenbrink" - comedian Günter Willumeit is dead , SHZ, October 18, 2013
  3. ↑ Charts DE
personal data
SURNAME Willumeit, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farmer Piepenbrink
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2013
Place of death Bad Segeberg