Gerd Knabe

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Gerd Knabe (born January 13, 1923 in Marburg ; † 2016 ) was a right-wing extremist author and cabaret artist. The former SS-Obersturmführer of the Waffen-SS has been known as the founder, director, lyricist and composer of his travel cabaret Die Zeitberichter since 1952 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Knabe volunteered for the Waffen SS, in which he received several awards and rose to Obersturmführer (equivalent to the rank of first lieutenant ) by the end of the war . Already in captivity he made parodic contributions. He wrote and played his first popular program Die Himmelskugel in 1947 in Regensburg in the US internment camp there.

In 1952, Knabe founded the right-wing extremist political cabaret Die Zeitberichter , of which he was director, lead author and lead actor until 1979. At the same time, he and most of his fellow actors, including his wife Peppi Kausch, appeared from 1958 to 1979 with his rather apolitical touring theater called Frankfurter Brettl, which was operated at the same time . After the end of the two groups, Knabe went on tour as a soloist until 1990.

In 1977 he wrote a song that is still popular among neo-Nazis in the tradition of the Hitler Youth . In the 1980s he was a frequent speaker at meetings of the Young National Democrats .

Knabe published almost all of his cabaret texts and songs in book form. In 1987 he wrote an autobiography under the title: From the Waffen SS to cabaret . He also wrote glosses for the Deutsche National-Zeitung, among other things . Later he also wrote publications and the like for the NPD, which were widely used as “political information pamphlets” . In 1988 he claimed in a letter that Anne Frank's diary was forged.

The Federal Gazette No. 98 of May 31, 1989 announced the indexing of Knabe's writing Every day counts .

literature

  • Klaus Budzinski and Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Cabaret Lexicon. Stuttgart / Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01448-7

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Obituary: https://zuendstoff-nachrichten.de/2016/08/nachruf-auf-gerd-knabe/
  2. ^ Klaus Budzinski : The cabaret. 100 years of literary criticism of the times - spoken - sung - played , ECON Taschenbuch Verlag, 1985, pp. 7 and 282
  3. ↑ Erika Funk-Hennigs, Johannes Jäger: Racism, Music and Violence: Causes, Developments, Consequences. 1996, p. 131.
  4. ↑ Jörg Fischer: How right-wing extremist organizations recruit young people. In: Christoph Butterwegge, Georg Lohmann: Youth, right-wing extremism and violence: Analysis and arguments. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 3-8100-3222-0 , p. 104.
  5. ^ Gerd Knabe: The truth about "The diary of Anne Frank" , 2nd edition, Winkelberg Verlag, 1994
  6. ↑ Federal Testing Office for Youth Media: Indexed Carrier Media ( Memento of the original dated May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bpjm.com
personal data
SURNAME Boy, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH 2016