Gayle Tufts

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Gayle Tufts (2015)

Gayle Tufts (born June 17, 1960 in Brockton , Massachusetts ) is a German entertainer with American roots who lives in Berlin . She writes and produces shows with music and stand-up comedy in English and German, which she mixes into the “ Denglisch ” characteristic of her stage show .

life and career

Tufts was born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1960 and trained at New York University ’s Experimental Theater Wing between 1978 and 1982 . She worked there with the directors Anne Bogart and Yoshiko Chuma, the writers Nicky Silver and Ain Gordon, the choreographer David Gordon and the composer Philip Glass . Tufts first came to Berlin in 1984 and toured in 1986 as a backup singer for Max Goldt and Foyer des Arts . From 1988 to 1994 she worked at Tanzfabrik Berlin as a performer, director (with Dieter Heitkamp) and teacher.

Tufts has lived in Berlin since 1991. From 1991 to 1998 she worked with the pianist and composer Rainer Bielfeldt ; together they produced six stage shows, released four CDs and wrote stage music for the Komische Oper Berlin and the Dutch Rotterdam Dans Group. In 1998 Tufts received the Berliner Zeitung's Critics' Prize ; her first book Absolutely on the move - an American woman in Berlin was published in 1998 by Ullstein Verlag . From March 2001 to September 2008 Tufts had a weekly radio column Gayle's Week on Radio Multikulti and Funkhaus Europa . In 2001 and 2002 she played in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in the musical theater Stella in Berlin; In 2002 and 2003 she was the leading actress in the Christmas revues Jingle Bells 2002 and Jingle Bells 2003 in Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast . From 2003 to 2005 she presented a monthly happy hour at the Quatsch Comedy Club in Berlin .

In April 2004 Tufts presented the stage show Soul Sensation in the Berlin Tipi at the Chancellery , in which she told her biography on the basis of selected soul songs. A Christmas show entitled White Christmas followed in November 2005 . At the Leipzig Book Fair in March 2006, her second book, Miss America, was published with a collection of autobiographical short stories, which were then also published as an audio book. A reading tour took her through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In November 2006, Tufts presented a sequel to the first Christmas show under the title White Christmas Again, which was broadcast on RBB television that same year ; In 2008 a DVD was released for the show. In 2007 she published her third book, Christmas at Tiffany’s , in which she looks behind the scenes of her Christmas show and tells the differences between German Christmas and American Christmas .

In 2010 she produced her six-part documentary Germany for Beginners , which was broadcast by ZDFneo from November . After several months of stage abstinence after the death of her mother in the USA, Tufts presented her book Some like it hot and her stage program of the same name in 2012 . In 2014 she produced the stage show LOVE! In collaboration with Marian Lux . which premiered at the beginning of the Germany tour in the Berlin Tipi at the Chancellery. After 26 years in Germany, Tufts took on German citizenship in November 2017. In addition to public and private reasons she called explicitly choosing Donald Trump for US president as a motivation for this step.

In February 2019, Axel Ranisch's fictional film Familie Lotzmann auf den Barrikaden (2016) was awarded the Grimme Prize 2019 in the fiction competition. Tufts played the role of Brenda McAndrew, an electronics store chain owner, in the film.

On June 28, 2020, she moderated the presentation of the German Synchronization Prize , which was broadcast live on YouTube in a small company due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Books

Web links

Commons : Gayle Tufts  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b US comedian Gayle Tufts takes German citizenship , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 23, 2017
  2. ↑ Petra Schwegler: ZDFneo lets Gayle Tufts loose on "German beginners" , Werben & Sell , 7 July 2010
  3. ↑ Sandra Luzina: What you should know about women , Tagesspiegel , April 4, 2012
  4. ↑ Kai Luehrs-Kaiser: Tipi at the Chancellery: Gayle Tufts: “Love!” ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) rbb Kulturradio , April 9, 2014
  5. ↑ Prize Winner - Grimme Prize. Retrieved March 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Tufts, Gayle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comedian, singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Brockton (Massachusetts) , Massachusetts