Gaby Köster

Gaby Köster (2013)

Gabriele Wilhelmine "Gaby" Köster (born December 2, 1961 in Cologne-Nippes ) is a German actress , author and comedian .

life and career

After attending secondary school, Köster began training as an educator , which she gave up three weeks before graduation. She then devoted herself to music and painting , and some of her pictures were also shown in exhibitions. In order to finance her livelihood, she also worked in the Südstadt pub " Out ". It was there in 1987 that she met Jürgen Becker , who was hardly known at the time , and who asked her to do a few skits for a radio show. Gaby Köster thought the guest was crazy, but joined in anyway and wrote a text. She was surprised when it was actually used on WDR radio in weekend entertainment , a program broadcast on Saturdays from 4 to 6 p.m.

Regular radio appearances followed and later own broadcasts. In 1991 she appeared on television for the first time - also on WDR. In 1990 and 1991 she was a member of the "Prunksitzunk", an alternative carnival session that had been brought into being by some renegades of the stunksitzung, at which Wilfried Schmickler , Rich Schwab u. a. participated. From 1991 to 1995 Köster was part of the Stunksitzung ensemble . Köster became known to a broader television audience through guest appearances on RTL Saturday Night . From 1996 until the end of the program in 2005, she was part of the permanent ensemble of the show 7 days, 7 heads produced by Rudi Carrell . In addition, she played the title role of Rita Kruse in the comedy series Rita's World from 1999 . From 2016-2017 she was a juror in the RTL program Die Puppenstars .

Personal

At the beginning of 2008, Köster broke off her tour, which had only started a few weeks earlier. Whoever wants cream has to shake off cows . Later all other performance dates were canceled. Against newspaper reports about an alleged illness, their management - unsuccessfully - took legal steps.

It was only announced at the beginning of September 2011 that Köster had suffered a severe stroke on January 8, 2008 , the consequences of which, like hemiparesis , still affect her physically today. On September 7, 2011, she stepped into the RTL telecast Star TV for the first time in public again on. About her stroke and the time after that, Köster and Till Hoheneder wrote the book A cold would have been enough - my second chance , which she also read as an audio book. At that time, only stern and stern TV were allowed to show current pictures of her. In the film adaptation of her book, which RTL showed on April 17, 2017 under the title Ein Schnupfen would have been enough , Köster is portrayed by actress Anna Schudt . Köster lives in Cologne and has a son from her divorced marriage with the director Thomas Köller.

Professional

Television (selection)

• 1999–2003: Rita's World
• 1996-2005: 7 days, 7 heads
• 2005: The Bull Bride - Her First Case
• 2006: The Bull Bride 2 - Death is 17 carats
• 2007: full throttle!
• 2016–2017: Die Puppenstars , RTL
• 2017: Ingeniously beside it (guest)
• 2017: A cold would have been enough (TV movie)

stage

• The stupidest chocolate in the world (1999)
• Gaby Köster Live! (2004)
• If you want cream, you have to shake cows! (2007)
• A cold would have been enough (2012-2013)
• Sitcom (2018-2019)

CDs

• The stupidest chocolate in the world (1999)
• Gaby Köster Live on Tour (2006)
• A cold would have been enough - My second chance (Audiobook, 2011)
• The Boss (audio book, 2015)

Books

• Together with Till Hoheneder : A cold would have been enough - my second chance . Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-502-15188-3 ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from September 26 to October 30, 2011 ), as an audio book at Random House Audio, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3 -8371-1183-5 .
• The boss . Roman, Pendo, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86612-372-4 .
• Together with Till Hoheneder : Life is great - there was never any talk of easy . Ullstein Leben, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-96366-066-5 .

Awards

• 1996: Gilden Kölsch Prize, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, together with her cousin, the singer Gerd Köster
• 1998: Bambi in the Audience Award category Best Comedy Show for the show 7 days, 7 heads
• 1998: Golden Lion for 7 days, 7 heads
• 1999: German Comedy Award in the Best Comedian category
• 1999: Golden Gong , TV award with the team of 7 days, 7 heads
• 2000: Adolf Grimme Prize as leading actress in Rita's World (together with Peter Freiberg , Michael Gantenberg and Thomas Koch )
• 2000: German Comedy Prize for Rita's World
• 2000: German television award in the category Best Actress Series
• 2003: German Comedy Award in the category Best Actress in a Comedy
• 2004: Prize of the Offended Spectators (together with Ruth Moschner and Oliver Welke )
• 2007: German Comedy Award for Best Comedian
• 2011 LovelyBooks Readers' Award in the Best Book Title category for a cold would have been enough
• 2012: German Comedy Award as an honorary award
• 2018: Recklinghauser Hurz Ehren-Hurz

Web links

• Gaby Köster in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website of Gaby Köster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ richschwab.de: Bio 1980
2. ↑ richschwab.de: biography
3. ↑ The Puppenstars at Fernsehserien.de
4. ↑ Stroke thrown from the throat. In: Spiegel Online . September 6, 2011, accessed September 6, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Gaby Köster no longer performs in 2008. In: Focus Online . February 16, 2008, accessed January 15, 2017 . 
6. ^ BGH judgment of September 18, 2012. Federal Court of Justice , September 18, 2012, accessed on October 16, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Florian Festl: Gaby Köster: Lost behind a wall of silence. In: Focus Online. January 29, 2009. Retrieved January 15, 2017 . 
8. ↑ I'm no longer afraid of dying. In: stern TV . September 7, 2011, archived from the original on October 12, 2011 ; accessed on January 15, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Ulli Tückmantel: Cologne comedian Gaby Köster returns. In: RP Online . September 7, 2011, accessed January 15, 2017 .