Günther Paal

"Gunkl", Vienna 2010.

Günther "Gunkl" Paal (born March 23, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian cabaret artist and musician .

Live and act

Günther Paal made his name for the first time as a member of the Wiener Wunder group , which had a top 10 hit in the Austrian charts in 1986 with Loretta and in 1994 contributed the soundtrack to the Austrian hit Muttertag - Die härere Komödie . In addition to solo programs, Paal has been playing the saxophone and electric bass in Alfred Dorfer's performance band since 1993 . From 2004 to 2011 he appeared regularly in his television satirical show Dorfers Donnerstalk as an “expert on everything anyway” .

In 1997 Paal was the presenter of the ORF cultural program kunst-pieces . In 2013, Gunkl was the patron of the Giordano Bruno Foundation's art prize “Der cheeky Mario” .

Günther Paal has been playing with Manuel Rubey , Cathi Priemer , Clara Luzia , Gerald Votava and Boris Fiala in the Lässig group since 2014 .

Programs

"Gunkl" Günther Paal, Vienna 2010

Cabaret solo

1. Fundamental considerations - made vividly with curious individual performances of the peril of everyday life, which is probably a bit too long as a program title, especially since it contains, let's be honest, a very inelegant genitive chain. (1994)
2. The best of the next six programs except the fifth (1995)
3. I have to concentrate enough now to put this quasi-meta-language story on stage in a halfway credible and understandable way '(1997)
4.     (1998) The program has no title, therefore not "Untitled" either
5. I Let Me Go - A Farewell (2001)
6. Luck - A Guess (2002)
7. From life - an experience report (2004)
8. We - difficult (premiere October 3, 2006)
9. Losses - A Story (Premiere August 28, 2008)
10. The great offenses of humanity - not easy either (premiere September 1, 2011)
11. Stuff - a pile of notes (premiere September 3, 2014)
12. Between actual and target (premiere September 12, 2017)

With other artists

• "2" with Titus Vadon (2002)
• Via Emilia - a story with orchestra; with the Johann Strauss Ensemble , music by Thomas Barth. (2005)
• " Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra with Gunkl" (2012)
• "Blade" with the Science Busters (2015)
• "Heart & Brain" with Gerhard Walter (2015)

Books

• Tip of the day. ten years , Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2011 ISBN 978-3-85002-742-7
• (with Harald Weinkum): Max and Moritz. in Schüttelreimen , Edition Va Bene, Vienna-Klosterneuburg 2011 ISBN 978-3-85167-247-3
• Harald Weinkum with foreword by Günther Paal: Der Struwwelpeter. in Schüttelreimen , Edition Va Bene, Vienna-Klosterneuburg 2010 ISBN 978-3-85167-239-8

Movie and TV

• Müller's Office (1986)
• Kaisermühlen Blues as a guest actor
• Mother's Day: The Harder Comedy (1992)
• Free game (1995)
• Ravioli (2003)

In the satirical late night show “Dorfers Donnerstalk” he was “dr. günther paal - expert for everything anyway "

radio

• The Blue Hour - moderated together with Thomas Niesner

Awards

• Freetown freshman 1995
• Salzburger Stier 1996 for its 2nd program
• German Cabaret Prize 2005
• Prix ​​Pantheon 2011, Jury Category "Early Ripe & Corrupted"
• Ybbs jester 2015
• Austrian Cabaret Prize 2018

Web links

Commons : Gunkl  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Günther Paal's homepage with daily tips and old solo programs for reading
• Literature by and about Günther Paal in the catalog of the German National Library
• Günther Paal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• “Dasein must be enough” Interview with Gunkl , Der Standard from August 31, 2011, accessed March 30, 2014
• Die Presse Günther Paal vulgo Gunkl - Privat ( Memento from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

supporting documents

1. ↑ Program presentation on burgenland.orf.at
2. ↑ Art Prize "The Cheeky Mario 2012"
3. ↑ Cabaret artist Gunkl biography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Program was actually called that!  
4. ↑ Gunkl - event dates . Retrieved July 11, 2014.
5. ↑ First performance of Gunkl's “Via Emilia” at the RadioKulturhaus . APA notification dated February 10, 2005, accessed on January 21, 2015.
6. ↑ Sabine Hottowy: At Easter: "Heart and Brain" In: Die Presse from March 25, 2015, accessed on June 1, 2017.
7. ↑ Gerd Kern: Gunkl and Walter with heart and brain ( memento from January 29, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ).
8. ^ Local stage Freistadt: Freistadt freshman . Retrieved March 5, 2018.
9. ↑ NÖN: Joker for Gunkl . Article dated April 23, 2015, accessed August 3, 2015.
10. ↑ orf.at: Cabaret award for Günther “Gunkl” Paal . Article dated September 4, 2018, accessed September 4, 2018.