Gisela Oechelhaeuser

Gisela Oechelhauser (2015)

Gisela Oechelhaeuser , née Ekardt (born January 22, 1944 in Schmauch , Prussian Holland district in East Prussia ) is a German cabaret artist .

Life

The pastor's daughter and trained industrial watchmaker studied German and Romance languages at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where she received her doctorate in 1975 with the thesis On Problems of Aesthetic Theory of 'Critical Theory' of the Frankfurt School on Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno .

During her studies she played student theater and in 1975 became a member of the student cabaret academixer . Later she was a lecturer for drama, cabaret artist and, since September 1984, vice-president of the newly constituted committee for entertainment arts of the GDR. She had been working as a cabaret artist in the Distel since 1989 and directed it after the political change in 1990. In addition, she presented the contemporary witness program “Am Tag, als ...” on ORB television.

In 1999, a signature that she had given became known, which identifies her as an unofficial employee of the GDR Ministry for State Security from 1976 to 1980, and she left the Thistle. Since then, she has performed as a freelance cabaret artist with political solo programs and a program dedicated to the writer and Saxon dialect poet Lene Voigt .

From 1980 to 1995, Oechelhaeuser was married to Dietmar Keller , Minister for Culture in the Modrow government .

Quotes

"A good cabaret artist has to get used to the idea that people clap even when he falls dead from the stage - because they believe that it belongs to the play too ..."

“Satire has to take things to extremes. That makes people laugh and thus think - about incidents that make them cry ... "

Awards

• 1998: Order of Merit of the State of Berlin
• 2007: Aschersleben City Cabaret Prize

Works

• From the turn to the end. Turning year - the thistle in the Scharfen Kanal. Berlin (Edition Hentrich) 1990.
• Lothar Bisky: “I don't bend down that low!” . Berlin ( Dietz Verlag ) 1993. ISBN 978-3-320-01832-0
• Gisela O Wechselhaeuser sings and plays Lene Voigt . A live recording. Audio CD. Leipzig ( Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung ) 2002. ISBN 978-3-928-83378-3
• Stayed here! Life in stories . Berlin (Eulenspiegel Verlag) 2005. ISBN 978-3-359-01630-4

further reading

• Günter Gaus : About the person . Volume 4. With articles on: Katarina Witt, Inge Vieth, Barbara Thalmann, Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, Gisela Oechelhaeuser, Antje Vollmer, Ellen Brombach. Berlin ( Das Neue Berlin ) 1999. ISBN 978-3-932-18003-3
• Hans-Dieter Schütt: The half-powerful laugh. Conversations with Gisela Oechelhaeuser . Berlin ( Dietz Verlag ) 1997. ISBN 978-3-320-01950-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Gisela Oechelhaeuser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage Official website
• Article in the Berliner Zeitung about the involvement of the Stasi on April 24, 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Note in a review by Wolfgang Hörmann: Lustig, bissig, Oechelhaeuser. In: maz-online.de. March 15, 2018, accessed January 25, 2019 . 
2. ^ New Germany from September 25, 1984
3. ↑ Reference to this in a text on IM activities by Christoph Dieckmann: Das Lachen im Neck. The cabaret artist Gisela Oechelhaeuser worked for the Stasi. In: zeit.de. April 15, 1999, accessed January 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Your IM work has been discussed controversially in the media. Comment from Marion Müller: How the Oechelhaeuser hides their immorality. In: welt.de. June 6, 2000, accessed January 25, 2019 . 
5. ^ News item Unofficial cabaret artist. In: spiegel.de. April 7, 1999, accessed January 25, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Gisela Winkler:  Oechelhaeuser, Gisela . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
7. ↑ Both quotes taken from an interview with Gisela Oechelhaeuser, conducted by Hannes Hofmann: Two lives, one laugh. In: superillu.de. January 30, 2014, accessed January 25, 2019 .