Gabi Decker
Gabi Decker (born July 5, 1956 in Ratingen , North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a German cabaret artist , presenter and singer .
Career
Gabi Decker grew up in Bokensdorf in Lower Saxony . She broke off training as a draftsman in Wolfsburg and as a travel agent in Braunschweig . In 1981 she went to Berlin. There she earned her living working as a waitress or housekeeper and performed at night as a jazz singer in bars, where she was discovered. Without much success she released three singles produced by Ralph Siegel's record company in 1983 and 1984 ( Under the shower , I'm going crazy and alone ).
From 1985 to 1994 she worked as a radio presenter for the SFB and could be heard on the nationwide ARD night express . She was a gag writer for Mike Krüger , Harald Schmidt , Gerd Dudenhöffer and Hans Werner Olm . In 1994 she presented her first solo program on stage I would love to be a chauvinist . In 1998 she was seen together with Isabel Varell in the six-part ZDF comedy show Varell and Decker . Other TV appearances followed, including Quatsch Comedy Club , Mitternachtsspitzen and Blond am Freitag , where she has been a regular guest since 2001. Gabi Decker has been on tour across Germany with her stage program Leibhaftig since June 2004. In August 2010, the Berlin cabaret theater Die Wühlmäuse started their stage program Das Beste - Zugabi . In 2019 she went on tour with "Lieder mit Musik", where she showed a cross-section of her work. On December 14th, 2019 she performed her last show in the concert hall of the UDK in Berlin under the name "100 Years Gabi Decker" and said goodbye to the stage.
Private
She is the founder of the foundation "Help for Seniors in Berlin and the Surrounding Area" and patron of the Berlin gay advice service.
In June 2018 she married the doctor Dr. Heiner Stiepani.
Stage programs
- 1994: I'd love to be a chauvinist
- 1998: class reunion
- 2000: Couples to love (with Hans Werner Olm )
- 2001: casting
- 2004: bodily
- 2007: Deck earth
- 2010: The best - Zugabi
- 2019: songs with music
- 2019: 100 years of Gabi Decker
TV
- 1991: The Mike Krüger Show
- 1998: Heinz Becker family
- 1998: ZDF hit parade
- 1998: Varell & Decker
- 2001 & 2005: 3 to 9
- 2001–2007: Blond on Friday
- 2002: Edgar Wallace: The Four Just
- 2002–2003: Comedy Kids
- 2002: Laughter is good for you - Comedy for Unicef
- 2004: The Kurt Krömer Gala
- 2005: Nonsense Comedy Club
- 2005: The Kurt Krömer Show
- 2006: Riverboat
- 2007: Olm on the go
- 2007 & 2009: Lafer! Lights! Delicious!
- 2008: Celebrity don't get angry!
- 2008: brilliantly off the mark
- 2009: one man, one fjord
- 2009: Happy Birthday, Hella!
- 2010–2011: Markus Lanz
- 2011: NDR Talk Show
- 2011: Take a big break - The High School Vampire Grusical
- 2011: The big cabaret festival
- 2012–2013: Late shift - The Comedy Stage
- 2013: Inka!
- 2013: THAT!
- 2016: My God Walther! The super nose Mike Krüger
Books
- 1998: I'd love to be a chauvinist . Ullstein, ISBN 3-548-36206-0
- 2013: Let me through, my husband is a doctor! , together with Jens Westerbeck , Orell Füssli, Zurich. ISBN 978-3-280-05515-1
CD & LP
- 1983: I'm Going Insane (Jupiter Records), single
- 1983: Under the Shower (Jupiter Records), single
- 1984: Alone (the dragons are big and the princes are small) (Jupiter Records), single
- 2000: The Truth About Germany PT.3 (WortArt)
- 2003: I would love to be a chauvinist (Efa)
- 2003: The Truth About Germany PT.5 (WortArt)
- 2003: The secret diaries of Eva B. (radio star)
- 2004: Casting (WortArt)
- 2004: class reunion (WortArt)
- 2004: Bodily (WortArt)
- 2005: Songly (Zapp)
- 2006: The Truth About Germany PT.6 (WortArt)
- 2007: Deckerdenz (WortArt)
- 2007: The Truth About Germany PT.7 (WortArt)
Video
- 2002: Cabaret from Franconia, episode 5 (Media-Arte)
Web links
- Gabi Decker at Discogs.com
- Literature by and about Gabi Decker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gabi Decker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Gabi Decker
- Official website of the Decker Foundation
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Decker, Gabi |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cabaret artist, presenter and singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratingen |