Georg Schramm

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Georg Schramm (2014)

Georg Schramm (born March 11, 1949 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) is a German cabaret artist .

Life

Schramm was the only working-class child in his high school class. After graduating from high school, he first signed up as a regular soldier in the German Armed Forces and was the best in his year in the lone fighter course . At the army officers 'school he failed because of “unsuitable character” in the officers' course. After his discharge from the Bundeswehr as an ensign , he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve .

He then studied psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum and graduated with a diploma. From 1976 to 1988 he worked as a psychologist at the Schmieder Clinics in Gailingen , then in Allensbach on Lake Constance. He became a works council member, union shop steward . At that time he lived in Konstanz , where his two daughters were born and where Ulrich Khuon , the director of the Konstanz Theater , encouraged him to work as a cabaret artist. Only "at the last moment" did he decide against a career as a full-time ÖTV union secretary. After he had already had his first appearances with the Noie Para-Theater in Konstanz from 1983 and then initially toured the country with little success as a solo cabaret artist from 1985, he took a two-year break at the hospital in 1988. Only a TV appearance on the broadcaster Free Berlin led to further engagements in northern Germany and paved the way for a full-time cabaret life, from which he finally retired in 2014 after 29 years on stage.

Schramm is married for the second time, has three children and lives in Badenweiler in the Markgräflerland .

cabaret

Its peculiarities and characters

Georg Schramm 2018 as pensioner Lothar Dombrowski

Schramm is described by the Badische Zeitung as "one of the best, because the hottest, most political cabaret artists in Germany". In his polemical texts, he often analyzed and criticized the capitalist economic system and the prevailing zeitgeist by confronting them with the classical ideals of education and thereby blurring the line between fun and seriousness. He appeared in front of the audience almost exclusively in the form of self-developed art figures. In particular, his more well-known stage characters were not mere sketches of functionalized types, but “characters worked out down to the last detail”.

Regularly used figures at his appearances were

  • Lothar Dombrowski, an unruly old Prussian pensioner (named after a former daily announcer ),
  • Lieutenant Colonel Sanftleben, a press and public officer marked by his long military service,
  • Drucker August, a Hessian social democrat and former trade unionist who lived mentally in the past and who finally retired in the last stage show (a character who in part targeted Schramm's deceased father)
  • as well as a continually exuding cheerfulness and eternally squeaking Rhinelander, who portrayed a pharmaceutical representative in his appearances in News from the Institution and an average person without professional specification in Schramm's stage programs.

His passionate portrayal of Lothar Dombrowski in particular challenged critics and admirers and made Schramm known to a larger audience. In this role of the energetic World War II veteran, Schramm wore a black glove that represented a prosthetic hand .

In the course of his various stage programs, his initially rather classical political “number cabaret”, which he enriched for the representation of his fictional characters, changed more and more in the direction of a well-composed theatrical performance, so that in addition to his cabaret, his acting performance was later recognized.

Another peculiarity of his cabaret performances and other appearances was his partly clearly articulated personal attitude to the topics covered. Schramm did not offer political cabaret aimed at mere entertainment, but instead demanded that the viewer position the content of the audience through both his artistic performance and direct appeals. This was also expressed, for example, in his closing speeches to the audience, in which he encouraged reflection and personal commitment. At the end of his last program, Master Yoda's End , he recommended reading the essay Outraged! by Stéphane Hessel .

Important stations

Georg Schramm in 2007 as Lieutenant Colonel Sanftleben

In the 1990s Georg Schramm had several appearances in Dieter Hallervordens TV cabaret series Hallervordens Spott-Light .

On Matthias Deutschmann's initiative , Schramm contributed two lectures to the colorful evening for revolutionaries project as part of a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the Baden Revolution in 1998 : The importance of military music at the skirmishes in the Baden region in 1848 and The Paulskirche Lie , in which he denied others polemically dealt with Germanism and nationalism . The title of the event was the work Asylum im Domizil. Colorful Evening for Revolutionaries (1968) borrowed from Wolfgang Neuss . Recordings of the evening appeared as an audio book.

Schramm appeared from 2000 to 2006 as a permanent member of the ensemble in the TV program Scheibenwischer of the ARD , which he co-directed after Dieter Hildebrandt's departure in 2003. On April 24, 2006, after conceptual and personal differences with Mathias Richling and Bruno Jonas , he announced that he would be leaving the series. Richling planned to change the concept from political cabaret to comedy entertainment. On June 29, 2006, Schramm was succeeded by the cabaret artist Richard Rogler .

In 2004 Schramm was seen in a small role as SS-Oberführer Achamer-Pifrader in Jo Baier's Stauffenberg film .

From January 2007 to June 2010 (usually once a month) he and Urban Priol received news from the institution in the cabaret series on ZDF , where he analyzed current political events from the perspective of a psychiatric day clinic . In addition to his other characters, he mainly appeared as Lothar Dombrowski in the role of the clinic's patient spokesman. On May 25, 2010 Georg Schramm announced that he would be leaving the cabaret series in order to be able to concentrate fully on his stage program again after ten years of intensive television presence. On June 8, 2010 Schramm was seen for the last time on the show. In episode 37, Frank-Markus Barwasser alias Erwin Pelzig became his successor as a permanent member of the show. Subsequently, on October 1, 2013, Schramm was once again a guest in the institution.

In September 2007 Schramm's only book so far Let me say it was published - Dombrowski interprets the signs of the times, in which he reviews the history of the Federal Republic of Germany from the point of view of Lothar Dombrowski based on texts from his cabaret programs from 1983 to 2007.

In January 2008, Georg Schramm, in his role as Lieutenant Colonel Sanftleben, was presented to Alexander Kluge in the context of the News & Stories program under the title The soft target is man. Lieutenant Colonel Sanftleben explains core problems of the interviewed troops . Four years later, Schramm appeared again in an interview with Kluge. Under the title Who should hold Europe's jumping mat? In January 2012, he answered questions about the financial and euro crisis in the role of Erwin Dombrowski, which was presented for the first time . The “Brussels savings commissioner” presented as Lothar Dombrowski's cousin is largely congruent with Schramm's best-known stage character.

Schramm was on tour again between 2005 and 2013 with his programs Thomas Bernhard would have shot and Master Yodas Ende - About the misappropriation of dementia , which were also broadcast on television.

At the end of April 2011, Schramm appeared as a pensioner Dombrowski at the awarding of the 25th Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize in Europa-Park Rust . In front of 300 invited guests, he satirically processed the events of the CDU state government that had just been voted out and the activities of the Baden-Württemberg lottery company. The audience, which consisted mainly of representatives of these two main sponsors of the Cabaret Prize, reacted with some rude shouts. Visitors from the back rows of the hall, on the other hand, celebrated Schramm for his appearance, while Schramm partly regretted the scandal, but emphasized that he did not want to take anything back. As on several occasions, Schramm donated the prize money of 5,000 euros to the medico international association for refugee aid, of which he is a member of the board of trustees.

In July 2012 Schramm announced that he would end his tour as a solo cabaret artist at the end of 2013 with his 25th stage anniversary:

“At the end of 2013 I will have been on stage and in front of the camera as a cabaret artist for 25 years. 25 years in which I (luckily) always knew 2 years in advance when I would be where, which in this case means: on December 31, 2013 I will stop touring as a solo cabaret artist. Therefore, from the beginning of 2014, there will be no more tour planning, waiting lists or reservations. I would like to thank all the organizers for their loyalty, their efforts - and also your interest in keeping me 'running'. "

- Georg Schramm : On our own behalf

In 2013 Georg Schramm, Konstantin Wecker and Dieter Hildebrandt founded the stoersender.tv format . On December 13, 2013, the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation paid tribute to Georg Schramm's departure from the stage in its radioSpitzen series : “Anger and indignation are the creative forces that drive him. The cabaret artist Georg Schramm is a passionate resistance fighter, a recalcitrant moralist who has realized that reason without morality ultimately has no value. ”In 2014, a small farewell tour followed, which was finally supported by Jochen Malmsheimer and Urban Priol with the Last Curtain program - A leather hand wraps up on September 7, 2014 in the Chemnitz city hall . On the occasion of his part-time farewell, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described him as the "master of indignation [...] against turbo-capitalism, the shortage of nursing care and dodging."

Together with Urban Priol, Frank-Markus Barwasser and Jochen Malmsheimer, he was seen in the 30th episode of the institution on October 17, 2017 .

In his role as Lothar Dombrowski at the Hotel Pullmann in Berlin, he gave a speech on November 21, 2017 on the occasion of the 2017 Otto Brenner Awards .

Political commitment

After Schramm in the role of Lothar Dombrowski during his last appearance in Neues aus der Anstalt on June 8, 2010 - a few days after Horst Koehler's resignation as Federal President - justified his own departure from the cabaret show with his planned candidacy for the next federal presidential election This was taken up by members of the Pirate Party and the Left in the context of the Federal President's election in 2012 and Schramm was discussed as a possible candidate. However, he refused and declared that he would continue to fight “with the means of political cabaret against a policy that is increasingly dominated by the law of the strong and, with the strength of lobbyists and interest groups, threatens the democratic separation of powers in our constitutional state ”.

Together with Urban Priol , he appeared in the figure of Lothar Dombrowski at the Monday demonstrations against Stuttgart 21 . As part of a demonstration by the Action Alliance Banks in the Barriers , he also appeared on November 12, 2011 in Frankfurt in front of Deutsche Bank. He also appeared at the "#ausgehetzt" demonstration on July 22, 2018 in Munich at the final rally on Königsplatz. In a meeting of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs in the EU Parliament on February 18, 2019, he also appeared as Lothar Dombrowski , after he was invited as a guest speaker by the non-attached EU parliamentarian Martin Sonneborn from the party The Party.

Schramm is an advocate of cooperative banks and a partner in several agricultural and ecological production cooperatives .

Works

bibliography

  • Let me put it this way. Dombrowski interprets the signs of the times. Karl Blessing-Verlag, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-89667-348-0

Screenplay / Actor (TV Series)

Solo programs

  • 1985: The country has such men
  • 1989: Your place in the sun
  • 1996: Battle travelers
  • 2001: The nitty-gritty - Best of
  • 2001–2004: Mephistos Faust (co-author and director: Hilde Schneider)
  • 2005–2009: Thomas Bernhard would have shot (Director: Rainer Pause )
  • 2010–2013: Master Yoda's end. About the misappropriation of dementia (Director: Rainer Pause )
  • 2014: The last curtain, a leather hand wraps up

Discography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Georg Schramm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Zips: The bitingest of all - Georg Schramm with a new program in the Lustspielhaus . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 29, 2005, accessed February 17, 2012
  2. ↑ Vladimir Balzer: Poisonous pensioner, angry lieutenant colonel . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . July 13, 2005 (interview)
  3. ↑ a b c d Alexander Mühlauer & Dieter Sürig: Georg Schramm - "Three children - you don't need an investment advisor" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 10, 2009
  4. ↑ Andreas Schuler: In Konstanz he discovered the stage for himself. In: Südkurier April 29, 2019, p. 24
  5. ↑ Michaela Böhm: A brilliant grumbler . In: ver.di Publik . August / September 2008
  6. ↑ a b On the person , see Georg Schramm's website, online at georg-schramm.de
  7. ↑ TV REVIEW "NEWS FROM THE INSTITUTION" Exit Georg Schramm
  8. ↑ Heidi Ossenberg: Front building Freiburg: Georg Schramm: The generation of those at risk of care . In: Badische Zeitung . September 3, 2010
  9. ↑ Christoph Schütte: Memorable . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . October 10, 2010
  10. ↑ Georg Schramm on the impending collapse of society . In: SWR1 . November 29, 2010 (interview on Youtube; 13:35 min)
  11. ↑ Werner A. Perger: Portrait: “exploiters!” , Die Zeit , July 15, 2004.
  12. ↑ Jochen Höness: Honor for Eppler ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , Südwest Presse , December 12, 2011.
  13. ↑ Alexander Götz: Georg Schramm: "I ask for seriousness!" , DRS 1 , November 2, 2011.
  14. ↑ Individual appearances can be seen in the DVD edition Das Beste aus Hallervordens Spott-Light .
  15. ↑ Marc Neller: One of them flies over the Basic Law . In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 21, 2007.
  16. ↑ 'News from the institution: Georg Schramm leaves ZDF satire. rp-online.de, May 25, 2010, accessed on November 14, 2016 .
  17. ↑ News & Stories: The soft target is people , youtube.de
  18. ↑ Performance of the Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize 2011.
  19. ↑ a b Heinz Siebold: Awarding of the cabaret prize: Georg Schramm causes a scandal in Europa-Park . In: Badische Zeitung . May 1, 2011, accessed February 6, 2013.
  20. ↑ Georg Schramm: On our own behalf. July 2012.
  21. ↑ Dieter Hildebrandt, Peter Ensikat : How did we laugh. Views of two clowns. Edited by Franziska Günther and Thomas Grimm, edited by David Ensikat. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-02760-5 , blurb.
  22. ↑ Thomas Koppel: Squatters, troublemakers, rioters: cabaret artists in active resistance. br.de, archived from the original on December 15, 2013 ; accessed on November 14, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Played in the corner in Süddeutsche Zeitung September 6, 2014.
  24. ↑ The return of Priol and Pelzig. Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Georg Schramm as Lothar Dombrowski - Ceremonial speech awarding the Otto Brenner Awards 2017. Accessed on December 14, 2017 .
  26. ↑ Tanja Kokoska: TV review "News from the institution": Departure Georg Schramm . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . June 9, 2010, accessed February 6, 2013
  27. ↑ Markus Kompa: Georg Schramm makes a statement . In: telepolis . February 22, 2012
  28. ↑ Georg Schramm is not available as a candidate . In: Live and Funny , February 22, 2012
  29. ↑ Rejection to the pirates - Schramm does not want to become Federal President . In: N24 . February 22, 2012 (telephone interview with Schramm; 3:37 min)
  30. ↑ Georg Schramm in an interview - "That is troop support". In: sueddeutsche.de . March 14, 2011, accessed September 4, 2015 .
  31. ^ Berlin and Frankfurt: Thousands demonstrate against the power of the banks. In: Spiegel Online . November 12, 2011, accessed September 4, 2015 .
  32. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Against a shift to the right: "#ausgehetzt" in Munich: The common denominator tens of thousands of demonstrators | BR.de . July 23, 2018 ( Against a shift to the right: "#ausgehetzt" in Munich: The common denominator of tens of thousands of demonstrators | BR.de ( Memento from December 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed December 24, 2018]).
  33. ↑ Martin Sonneborn: Georg Schramm: "Is the time of court jesters over?" L. Dombrowski condolences M. Sonneborn. In: Youtube. Google Ireland Limited, February 18, 2019, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  34. ↑ " Putting roots in the old days" , Badische Zeitung , April 26, 2012.
  35. ^ Announcement of the new Master Yodas program at the end of September 2010 , georg-schramm.de
  36. ↑ The Badner Lied in 24 Variations ( Memento from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), online at helmutloerschertrio.de
  37. ↑ Star of the Year 2001 , georg-schramm.de
  38. ↑ Swiss Cabaret Prize Cornichon 2005 , georg-schramm.de
  39. ↑ Prix ​​Pantheon 2010, winner in the category mature and crazy . pantheon.de, archived from the original on June 1, 2012 ; accessed on November 14, 2016 .
  40. ↑ Cabaret awards to Schramm and Uthoff . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung (Culture) of November 10, 2011, p. B5
  41. ↑ Fromm Prize 2012. fromm-gesellschaft.eu, accessed on 14 November 2016 .
  42. ↑ Zeck Cabaret Prize 2013
  43. ↑ press release
  44. ↑ Zeck Cabaret Prize 2015
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe