Hermann Strebel (cabaret artist)

Hermann Strebel called Strebala (born December 18, 1877 in Mühldorf am Inn , † December 2, 1949 in Munich ) was a Nuremberg dialect poet, humorist and entertainer.

Live and act

Strebel was born as the son of a minor civil servant in Mühldorf am Inn , where his father had been transferred, but grew up with his uncle in Nuremberg's lead white district . He attended elementary and Latin school, was expelled from high school and trained as a construction technician. In addition, however, he has always enjoyed poetry and comedians, and from around 1899 appeared on the side on cabaret stages. He came into contact with theater people who enjoyed his lectures and advised him to go all the way to the stage. In 1901 in Munich he got his first engagement in the “Café Leopold” for a tram ticket and a warm dinner. Here he also found employment at the "Lehmann & Grimm Variety School", where he was the teacher of Karl Valentin , who was five years his junior and attended the school from May to August 1902.

Philipp Nickel (1865–1946, recte Müller), who at that time appeared as a salon humorist in the Munich large vaudeville “Colosseum” and opened the “Noris cinema” in Karolinenstrasse in Nuremberg in 1908, put him in touch with the vaudeville “Zeughaus” in Nuremberg, where he began his career as a stage humorist on September 1, 1901. He put her on the "Apollo Theater" continues, the Nuremberg, Hotel King 'JB Zetlmaier 1896 next to his hotel "Wittelsbach" had the can be built. Before and after the First World War , which he fought in as a soldier for 51 months, he performed songs and poems he had composed himself and soon became a "Strebala", who inspired the people of Nuremberg with his dry sense of humor.

In 1934 Strebel opened his own cabaret, a “beer cabaret for family audiences” (Strebel) in the restaurant of the “Wittelsbach” hotel. In 1935, as its director and leading actor, he also relocated entirely to Nuremberg. In contrast to many other artists, he kept a critical distance from the National Socialists , who were now in power . Especially with the self-proclaimed 'Franconian leader' Julius Streicher , a fanatical anti-Semite, he clashed several times. Nevertheless, Strebel gave numerous guest performances at foreign entertainment theaters during the 1930s, but always remained loyal to his stage in the “Apollo Theater”, to which he kept returning.

During the Second World War , Strebel moved to Munich with his wife Antonie in 1942, now 62 years old, to retire there. Only in 1948 did he return to Nuremberg for a few appearances in "Apollo". He died a year later in Munich.

The people of Nuremberg honored Strebel by naming a street in the Herrnhütte district .

Similar to his great folk singer colleagues Bacchus Jacoby and Karl Maxstadt , Strebel left neither film nor gramophone recordings of his performances, although this would have been technically possible.

After the death of her husband, Antonie Strebel published a selection of his texts in the book “Our Strebala” in 1956. Strebel himself had only published an 11-page booklet with “the very latest, most effective and most sparkling” jokes during his lifetime.

Hermann Strebel is not to be confused with the German physician and astronomer of the same name, who lived from 1868 to 1943.

Publications

• Hermann Strebel: The very latest, most effective and most sparkling jokes. Collected and presented by Hermann Strebel. Volume 14, around 1929, DNB 560952236 .
• Antonie Strebel (Ed.): Our "Strebala". Franconian humor, couplets and prose pieces . Karl Ulrich & Co., Nuremberg, 1956, DNB 454928084 . (4th edition. Albert Hofmann, Nuremberg 1982, ISBN 3-87191-033-3 )

Web links

• Strebel, Hermann in the DNB
• Strebel, Hermann, in the BMLO
• Strebel, Hermann, Komiker: Index entry German biography

literature

• Monika Dimpfl: Karl Valentin. Biography. dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-24611-8 .
• Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, craftsmen, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-091296-8 , p. 1861, 1973.
• Eugen Kusch (Ed.): In good Nurembergisch. Our most beautiful dialect poems. Pen drawings by Jules Stauber. Verlag Nürnberger Presse, Nuremberg 1951, p. 167 Strebel, Hermann.
• Klaus Schamberger: Strebala (Strebel, Hermann). In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 .
• Christa Schaper: Hermann Strebel, humorist, 1877–1949. In: Christoph von Imhoff (ed.): Famous Nuremberg residents from nine centuries. 2., erg. U. exp. Edition. Hofmann, Nürnberg 1989, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 , p. 362 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monika Dimpfl: Valentin biography. and Valentin family , Valentin biography, 2006.
2. ↑ a picture postcard (from the collection in Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum, Munich). at literaturportal-bayern.de ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ in the former variety theater "Himmelsleiter" by Heinrich Bayer, cf. "Mw" at nuernberginfos.de and nuernberg.de
4. ↑ is e.g. B. an appearance in which Strebel caricatured the prescribed Hitler salute by stepping onto the stage with his right arm raised and proclaiming "Su hoch ... lichd ba uns dahamm der Dreegk ...!"
5. ↑ cf. "Ch" at House of Bavarian History : "Before and during the Nazi era, critics of the National Socialists, especially the Gauleiter -> Julius Streicher".
6. ↑ cf. alleadressen.com : Hermann-Strebel-Straße is a street in Herrnhütte Nuremberg, Middle Franconia, Germany.