Hanns Dieter Hüsch
Hanns Dieter Hüsch (born May 6, 1925 in Moers ; † December 6, 2005 in Werfen ) was a German cabaret artist , writer , children's book author , actor , songwriter , voice actor and radio presenter .
With over 53 years on German-speaking cabaret stages and 70 of his own programs, he was considered one of the most productive and successful representatives of literary cabaret in Germany in the 20th century. From 1999 he was patron of the cabaret award Das Schwarze Schaf . Johannes Rau called him the "poet among the cabaret artists".
Life
Hanns Dieter Hüsch grew up in the Lower Rhine district town of Moers in the 1930s as the son of Protestant parents. “Everything I am is in the Lower Rhine region,” he later confessed in pointed conciseness. The father was promoted to administrative director of the district administration in Moers; the son found the living environment in his parents' home, relatives and neighborhood to be petty-bourgeois and provincial. The "little people" were familiar with their tone of voice and value judgments. He observed them all his life and dealt with specific world views of the “Niederrheiner” in admiration and shaking his head.
Until he was 14 years old, Hüsch had to undergo several operations because of a deformity in his feet. He was forced to walk around in misshapen felt slippers because his shoes didn't fit, and he could hardly play with other children. At best, he was able to swim and cycle as a sporting activity. “A difficult clinical experience,” he later recalled, “you felt alone very quickly.” During this time, Hüsch began to write his first texts. After graduating from high school Adolfinum in Moers, he was spared military service due to his illness. As a young cabaret artist, he mirrored his physical and mental disposition self- deprecatingly with the song I'm so unmuscular .
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, Hanns Dieter Hüsch studied medicine for a semester at the University of Giessen at the request of the family , but without enthusiasm. For his goal of becoming an opera director, went Hüsch instead of Mainz and studied at the University of Theater Studies, literature and philosophy. At that time, Hüsch's talents were less in the theoretical than in the practical-artistic area (“I didn't attend any seminars at the university, but I wrote my texts.”). He took part in the Mainz student cabaret "Die Tol (l) eranten" and performed as a chansonnier with his first solo program Das literäre Klavier as early as 1949 . Up until his last tour in 2000, more than 70 others followed this program.
In the 1950s, Hanns Dieter Hüsch lived with his first wife Marianne Lüttgenau (whose peculiarities he alluded to in his "Frieda" stories) and their daughter in modest circumstances. He had already given up his studies, he earned his living with artistic commissioned work or as a newscaster for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk . In 1956 he founded his own cabaret with arche nova , which existed until 1961. During this time, Hüsch had successful stage appearances in Switzerland . After financial difficulties, he became one of the most important representatives of literary cabaret in Germany in the 1960s. He caricatured the petty bourgeoisie and philistineism with his “people's mouth” looking, language-juggling joke. But the theater also attracted him again and again. In 1957 and 1959 he wrote z. B. together with Rudolf Mors the musical parodies Freiheit in Krähwinkel and Der Weiberstreik ; the latter was broadcast on ZDF in 1963 .
In the 1960s, Hüsch was present on television, for example in the ARD television game No Man's Land of Smiles (1962). From the mid-1960s on, he gave his cabaret lectures increasingly political principles. In 1967, he took the record as a quartet with Franz Josef Degenhardt , Wolfgang Neuss and Dieter Süverkrüp . on. A year later he was enthusiastic during the general student unrest (along with Degenhardt and Süverkrüp) to the Essenes song days (and in which a well.. Frank Zappa occurred) and put this on stage for the first time instead of piano, a Philicorda - organ , which for the became his musical hallmark for the next thirty years. - Shortly afterwards, Hüsch broke off his collaboration with the 1968 movement after being booed at the Chanson Folklore International Festival at Burg Waldeck and in Berlin after disruptions from the stage as a “kitsch spirit with gold brocade”, which made his poetic power a “bourgeois Belittling trend “sacrifice. In his program of beheadings , he reckoned bitterly with the experience. After that he only performed in Switzerland for a while.
At the end of the 1960s, Hüsch became increasingly active for ZDF: on the one hand in the role of a tour guide with a sense for the grotesque, and on the other hand as a formative voiceover in almost 400 episodes of the TV adaptations of the Laurel and Hardy films and other films the fathers of clothes (e.g. The little rascals and Pat & Patachon ). With more than 200 scenes a day and up to five different voices on one page of text, this was, as Hüsch once said, one of the most strenuous work of his artistic life.
In the 1970s he made his breakthrough on the German-speaking cabaret with the program Hüsch - Live 1973. Until 1976, the number of his listeners increased from tour to tour and in the course of the 1970s led to further permanent TV and radio engagements, such as the social evening of the Saarländischer Rundfunk - not only the oldest cabaret show on ARD, but also the specialty the only parallel on radio and television - or the weekend entertainment on Westdeutscher Rundfunk. In 1973 there was a collaboration with the Swiss actress Silvia Jost . A literary cabet program was created under the title Faux Pas de Deux . The program was performed in Sankt Gallen, Basel and at the WDR in Cologne. The recording at WDR was also broadcast. This was followed by Hüsch's great television success as a family man in the ARD series Goldener Sonntag (1976–1978). The invention of his fictional character Hagenbuch , the nagging dreamer and bourgeois braggart who became a favorite character of the Hüsch public in the 1980s, also fell into the final phase of the 1970s .
In the 1980s, Hanns Dieter Hüsch published numerous books and recordings; he brought at least one new program to the stage every year. In 1986 he staged a wonderful guy based on Wilhelm Busch for the Westphalian State Theater in Castrop-Rauxel (broadcast on ZDF Theaterkanal , among others ). At the age of 60, he stopped smoking as a chain smoker for many years.
After the death of his wife Marianne in 1988, after 40 years, Hüsch left his adopted home Mainz and moved to Cologne (“I didn't want to go to Moers, my childhood town, because I thought you would then begin your retirement”). He abandoned new programs and continued his stage appearances in the form of readings. The Hüsch, who always advocated Christian tolerance, was publicly involved. B. at Protestant church conventions . He met his second wife Christiane Rasche-Hüsch (he jokingly called her "the Chrise"). The couple married in 1991. In the following years he continued to write reflections on the philosophy of life with accents from the Lower Rhine. Recovered from serious cancer, he gave his farewell tour in 2000 as the longest-serving German cabaret artist with See you again . Shortly before Hanns Dieter Hüsch was able to fulfill his last artistic lifelong dream and appear in the title role in a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Dresden State Theater , he suffered a stroke in November 2001 from which he never recovered. After that he was no longer able to perform or continue his literary work.
Jürgen Kessler from the German Cabaret Archive published a comprehensive compendium on Hanns Dieter Hüsch's more than 50 stage years under the title Cabaret on your own , which looks back in many pictures of Hüsch's cabaret studies (the title of a book from the 1960s) between 1947 and 1997. Hanns Dieter Hüsch's artistic legacy was published in book form in October 2003 under the title encore . In 2004 a DVD box with seven cabaret programs from three decades was released. On his 80th birthday in May 2005, the artist again received various honors, including a major TV homage with many companions. In addition, various radio stations broadcast either the long Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Nacht (duration: ten hours) from Jena or the gala Strictly Public - The Don Quixote from the Lower Rhine from the Rheinberg town hall, with Dieter Nuhr , Konstantin Wecker , Erwin , among others Grosche , Dieter Süverkrüp , Helmut Ruge and Günter Gall as guests.
In May 2005 another double CD was released from the social evening series with the most important songs and texts from four decades and an audio book CD by Hanns Dieter Hüsch with texts from his book encore, performed by cabaret colleagues Elke Heidenreich and Dieter Hildebrandt . In autumn 2005 new editions of old Hüsch books (including Frieda auf Erden ) came out as well as the DVD And She Moves Me With a recording of the stage program of the same name from 1985.
Hanns Dieter Hüsch lived with his wife Christiane in Werfen in the Windecker Ländchen for the last few years . He died at the age of 80. Hüsch found his final resting place in a grave of honor in the Hülsdonker main cemetery in his native Moers.
plant
Hüsch was not the type of cabaret artist who primarily dealt with political issues, but rather saw himself as a “literary entertainer” and a “philosophical clown”. This put him u. a. into a tradition with Heinrich Heine . In his texts he was particularly fond of everyday curiosities in which Hüsch also uncovered moral and political dimensions. As a contemporary witness of the Second World War and National Socialism , he stood up forcefully for the concerns of the peace movement and against neo-Nazism . He sensitized people to non-conformist ways of thinking ("I sing for the crazy ones, those who are bent sideways ..."). In his acceptance speech for the awarding of the Ludwig Börne Prize in 2007 , Henryk M. Broder praised Hüsch's tolerant view of things. - In 2008, Spiegel Online magazine described Hüsch's qualities as “the man who put jazz into words” in the category one day .
Hüsch also encountered critics such as the writer Eckhard Henscheid , for whom Hüsch was "the most unbearable". Hüsch himself called Henscheid's review of his work and person, published for the first time in 1986, which caused a stir, a “criminal shitty article”. - An incident in 1991 when the German Cabaret Prize was awarded: Hüsch was supposed to present the prize to his cabaret colleague Georg Schramm . The latter was amused by the situation and used the label "Reading Grandpa"; quite a few listeners reacted with boos. Hüsch remained confident and said, before handing the bell over to his colleague: “If he wants it: out of my hands.” Schramm accepted the award; seventeen years later he qualified his remark in a statement on Hüsch's website.
Awards
Hüsch has received many prizes and awards for his work, including twice, in 1972 and 1982, the German Cabaret Prize , the City of Mainz Ring of Honor in 1984, the Ring of Honor of the City of Moers in 1985, the Morenhovener Lupe , the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Rhineland Taler 1990 and the State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia (1994), the Federal Cross of Merit , the Kassel Literature Prize , the 'Cornichon' of the Olten Cabaret Days , the honorary citizenship of his hometown Moers, the honorary citizenship of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , the Carl-Zuckmayer -Medal of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , the Cabaret Oscar for his life's work, the Great Culture Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland in 1996, the Saarland Order of Merit in 1999 and the Wilhelmshavener Knurrhahn for his life's work (2000).
In 2000 Hüsch was for lifetime achievement with the sermon Price of publishing for the German economy excellent (Bonn). In 2003 he received the integration award from the Apple Tree Foundation.
From April 28th to May 28th 2005 the exhibition We Are Again was. But who? 100 Years of German Cabaret - Cabaret in the Cold War (1946–1966) to be seen with a special section Hüsch in Mainz in the foyer of the Mainz City Hall; From May 6th to September 25th, 2005, The Black Sheep from the Lower Rhine (that's the exhibition title) resided in a large exhibition in the Grafschafter Museum in Moers Castle.
One star for his life's work was dedicated to Hüsch on the Walk of Fame in Mainz.
effect
Contemporary cabaret artists still show themselves to be influenced by Hüsch or, like Jürgen Becker, were only inspired to do cabaret through him. Max Moor is even of the opinion: “Cabaret without the influence of Hüsch? Inconceivable! "The established by Hüsch cabaret Price Black Sheep promotes also continued the literary cabaret young and now goes on tour. In addition, popular artists from Blumfeld to Reinhard Mey continue to cover songs by the artist who was later perceived mainly as a verbal cabaret artist. Hüsch is still present in the media to this day; Books, image and sound carriers continue to appear or are being republished, and in January 2016 he was once again the cover boy for the radio program magazine Dampf-Radio .
Buildings and other places in public space have long been named after the cabaret artist. In his honor, the education center in Moers, which houses the library, the adult education center, the city archive and the culture office, was renamed the Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Bildungszentrum . On May 6, 2007, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Platz was inaugurated in Moers old town at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Pfefferstrasse. On the square, five granite tablets with caricatures and verses - carved all around in the granite - and a notice board remind of Hüsch. The Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg has existed on the campus of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2006 and connects the Ackermannweg and the Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg. The associated secondary school Uedem - Weeze has had the name Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Verbundschule since the beginning of the 2009 school year.
Works (selection)
Cabaret programs in CD, DVD, LP album or book form
Book publications
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E-booksThe literary work , published by Helmut Lotz on the occasion of his 90th birthday on May 6, 2015
Works for theater and radio
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literature
- Wolfgang Bittner , Mark vom Hofe (ed.): "Hate is not my bread". Hanns Dieter Hüsch. In: I meddle. Striking German résumés . Bad Honnef 2006, ISBN 978-3-89502-222-7 .
- Wilhelm Brunswick, Jürgen Schmude (Ed.): Dare to do it - nothing will be done. Brendow, Moers 2005, ISBN 3-86506-055-2 .
- Martin Buchholz: What do we do afterwards? Hanns Dieter Hüsch - Confessions of a cabaret artist. Brendow, Moers 2000, ISBN 3-87067-815-1 .
- Georg Bungter (Ed.): In search of the mind: Hanns Dieter Hüsch in the garden on the bench . KIWI, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-462-03519-3 .
- Hein Driessen: My dream of the Lower Rhine. Mercator, Duisburg, ISBN 3-87463-244-X .
- Elke Frühling: Hanns Dieter Hüsch. A cabaret artist from Mainz. Dumjahn, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-88992-001-2 .
- Jürgen Kessler (Ed.): Hanns Dieter Hüsch - Cabaret on your own: 50 years on stage. Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-15064-7 .
- Stefanie Mittenzwei, Bernd Weisbrod: Hüsch. And challenge me to dance again. A literary-photographic portrait. H. Schmidt, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-87439-199-X .
- Karl-Heinz Schmieding: Hüsch and the Saarland spirit. Review of the Saarbrücken era of the cabaret artist. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . December 6, 2007, p. B4.
- Bernd Schroeder: Hanns Dieter Hüsch has now admitted ... A collage. Arche, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-7160-2026-5 .
- Georg Schwikart: HDH - How the cabaret artist made God smile. Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88981-299-5 .
- Bernhard Josef Stalla: Hüsch, Hanns Dieter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 700-704.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hanns Dieter Hüsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information on life and work
- Website about Hanns Dieter Hüsch
- hüsch.org Hanns Dieter Hüsch on the Internet , website commemorating work and activity with texts from the private archive
- Hanns Dieter Hüsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hanns Dieter Hüsch in the German dubbing index
- alpha forum: Hanns Dieter Hüsch in conversation with Ursula Heller in the broadcast of the BR on October 9, 2000 (PDF file; 50 kB)
- Obituary for Hanns Dieter Hüsch - Archive SWR-Kultur
Items:
- No matter what! , NRZ , May 4, 2005, Hüsch explains the Lower Rhine (er)
- “The old-fashioned way” Die Zeit -Online, obituary dated December 7, 2005
- "The man who put jazz into words" , SPIEGELonline , May 19, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Speech on December 16, 2000 on the stage farewell to Hüsch ( Memento from August 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 24, 2012
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hanns Dieter Hüsch
- ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ^ A b Karl-Heinz Schmieding: Hanns Dieter Hüsch on the ninetieth: Hagenbuch on the Halberg. Section: Order of Merit for the "Ehrensaarländer". In: www.sr.de. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Integration award . Apple Tree Foundation, accessed on October 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Was Hanns Dieter Hüsch really your role model, Mr. Becker? on www.waz.de.
- ↑ Patrick Bahners: A heavenly organist: To the death of Hanns Dieter Hüsch. In: FAZ.net . December 6, 2005, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Songs 0 in mind
- ↑ Homepage Hüsch
- ↑ Dampf-Radio , week 3/2016, year 26, January 15, 2016
- ^ School page , accessed August 25, 2012
- ^ Saarländischer Rundfunk: SR2 social evening. Retrieved June 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Saarland Radio: ALFONS and guests side of the Saarland Radio to broadcast. Retrieved June 25, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hüsch, Hanns Dieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cabaret artist, actor and presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moers |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 2005 |
| Place of death | Windeck-Werfen |