Helmut Schleich

Helmut Schleich, 2014

Helmut Schleich as "Heinrich von Horchen"

Helmut Schleich (born July 28, 1967 in Schongau ) is a German cabaret artist .

life and career

Helmut Schleich began his career with the establishment of the cabaret group "Fernrohr" , which he founded in 1983 together with Christian Springer and Andreas Rüttenauer . In the tradition of Dieter Hildebrandt , Helmut Schleich developed into a popular cabaret artist who was completely absorbed in his roles.

Helmut Schleich has three children with his partner Martina.

With Christian Springer and Andreas Rüttenauer, Helmut Schleich created ten stage programs up to 1997 and performed well over 1000 appearances with them in the entire German-speaking area. Christian Springer and Helmut Schleich could also be heard together as Heinzi and Kurti on Bayern 1 from 2003 to 2011. He can also be seen again and again in the “ Grünwald Friday Comedy ”.

Helmut Schleich has been performing as a solo artist since 1998 and was awarded first prize at the Paulaner Solo + for his first stage program . Helmut Schleich is also one of the co-initiators of the Kaktus cabaret , the Munich cabaret up-and-coming festival.

Since 2001 he has played the beverage store owner Heinzi Liebl in the comedy series Spezlwirtschaft on Bavarian television . In 2006, 2007 and 2010 Schleich performed in the Munich Philharmonic in Gasteig at the Ash Wednesday of the cabaret artists . Together with Sebastian Knözinger , he hosted the Gamsbart Ahoi program for the first time in the summer of 2007 for a “cabaret evening on the high seas” on board an excursion steamer on the Chiemsee . In May 2009, Schleich and his colleagues brought by Gamsbart Ahoy also to Herrenchiemsee Palace with the participation of Chinese Wagner - soprano Qiu Lin Zhang, the program Ludwig IV. - A real king does not sink to the performance.

With appearances in programs such as Ottis Schlachthof and Neues aus der Anstalt , Schleich made his way beyond the borders of Bavaria with successful parodies of Ottfried Fischer , Pope Benedict XVI. , Franz Josef Strauss and Sigmund Gottlieb alias Traugott Sieglieb a name. Since June 2011 he has also been proving his versatility in the program SchleichFernsehen . He was also regularly seen in the cabaret weekly review of Bavarian TV No offense . Since September 2009 lent creep as a successor to the late Jörg Hube the figure of the CSU - members of parliament Max Froschhammer in the political satire The great Max his voice.

In the Singspiel of the traditional strong beer tapping on the Nockherberg , Schleich took over the role of Kurt Beck in 2007 and 2008 , and in 2009 he also played his successor as SPD chairman, Frank-Walter Steinmeier . In 2010, he left the former Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss at the Nockherberg to resurrect the stage. Franz Josef Strauss is his star role, which also appears regularly in his program SchleichFernsehen .

The solo program Not with me! he presented in April 2011 in the Munich Lach- und Schießgesellschaft . In 2013 he published his book Daheim is ned dahoam together with Thomas Merk . His solo program Ehrlich premiered in May 2014 at the Munich Lustspielhaus . On May 1, 2018, his new program Kauf, Du Sau! again in the Munich comedy theater.

Helmut Schleich gave an interview to the Munich evening newspaper on the result of the 2019 European elections . On Thursday, June 6, 2019, he wants to publish his personal election gleanings in the next issue of SchleichFernsehen , which led to the "political bang" in the SPD . In response to the interviewer's statement “Maybe politics as a whole can be improved by satirists [...] What do you want to be? Is Bavarian Prime Minister enough for you? ”Helmut Schleich gave a quick-witted answer: That is a very charming question […] I feel very good as a cabaret artist to put my finger in the wound. But the answers have to be found by others. I also don't think that we would be particularly good politicians [...] If we take the example of the satirical party “The Party” , then Mr Sonneborn's aim is to reduce politics to absurdity . Going into the election campaign under the slogan “It's enough for Europe” sums up the matter pointedly .

Solo programs

1998: Brewery-free - The rush unpacks
2001: You eat with your eyes
2005: Mutanfall - A fearful rabbit shoots back
2008: The very last hero
2011: not with me!
2014: Honest
2018: Buy, you pig!

Discography

2000: Brewery-free , CD
2002: You eat with your eyes , CD
2005: Mutanfall , CD
2008: The very last hero , CD
2011: Not with me , CD
2012: Not with me , DVD
2015: Honest , DVD
2015: SchleichFernsehen - Das Beste , DVD
2016: me san me - and me too! - with Uwe Steimle, CD
2017: Ehrlich , CD

Books

Daheim is ned dahoam , with Thomas Merk , LangenMüller, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7844-3321-9
Franz Josef Strauss - My diary from 1988 to today , Droemer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-27614-3