Hermes Phettberg

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Phettberg, 2013

Hermes Phettberg (* 5. October 1952 in Hollabrunn as Josef Fenz ) is an Austrian actor , writer and talk show presenter.

Life

Phettberg grew up as the son of wine growers in Unteralb near Retz ( Lower Austria ) and then worked from 1969 to 1973 in Vienna as a bank clerk. After further theological training, he worked as a pastoral assistant in the Archdiocese of Vienna from 1975 to 1979 before he became chancellor in the office of the Lower Austrian provincial government (1982-89). According to his own statements, Phettberg joined the ÖVP in 1969 , which he left again in 1978. In 1982 he rejoined before he "finally" left in 1988. On May 2, 2018, he announced via Twitter that he had decided to become a member of the SPÖ .

First public appearances

The mid-1980s was Phettberg in Vienna co-founder of the association Sadomasochismusinitiative Vienna and the project Polymorph Perverse Clinic Vienna . He also proposed the establishment of an association to create a college for pornography and prostitution . He became publicly known through sadomasochistic art actions together with Walter Reichl, such as their “permanent disposal” in 1993 in Zurich . Since then, Phettberg has mainly appeared in artistic happenings and sexual performances as well as talk shows. An annual fixture is his appearance on the Rainbow Parade , where he reads the newspaper and lets himself be driven across the Vienna Ring .

From 1991 he played mostly bizarre roles in various productions of the Sparverein theater group ›Die Unz-Ertrennlichen‹ led by Kurt Palm . Since March 1992 Hermes Phettberg has also been writing the weekly Phettbergs Predigtdienst column for the Vienna city newspaper Falter , which is based on the liturgical texts of the respective Sunday in the Catholic church year in the form of a sermon .

On December 6, 1993, Phettberg held the traditional St. Nicholas reading for the first time in the Löwenherz bookstore in Vienna , for which he has been engaged annually on St. Nicholas Day since then. As part of the 4th Austrian Lesbian and Gay Forum in Vienna in the autumn of 1994, at five o'clock in the morning he read from his texts in front of a "jeans boy" in a public lavatory that was formerly Schwender lying .

Phettberg's Nice Lead Show

From November 12, 1994, Phettberg, supported by his assistant Robin (Oliver Hangl), was the humorous talk show host of Phettberg's Nette Leit Show . In the stage show produced by Palm, Viennese celebrities, scientists and members of “interesting professional groups” were guests. The conversations with these u. a. through Phettberg's unconventional questions and relentless depictions of his own problems and erotic fantasies as well as gaps in his counterparts knowledge. Some of the conversations, such as the interviews with Elizabeth T. Spira , Hermann Nitsch , Manfred Deix , Josef Hader or with opera connoisseur Marcel Prawy , who like Phettberg kept his personal belongings mainly in plastic bags, are considered legendary. “ Frucade or eggnog ?” - Phettberg's introductory question to his guests - was often quoted and is also the title of a book with excerpts from the interviews. When 19 episodes of this show were broadcast for the first time by the television stations ORF and 3sat between 1995 and 1996, Phettberg quickly became known to a larger audience in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Newer media: WebTV, DVDs, homepage

In 2000, Phettberg (together with Mandy E. Mante) became a pioneer of Internet television through a weekly online television program in which he performed his "ministry" and was tied up and whipped . In March 2001 he ran live Internet television for 168 hours (together with Thomas Holzinger), while he was held captive in the dungeon of an “Arche Phettberg”, guarded by half-naked “jeans boys” standing with their legs apart.

In 2003 and 2004, Phettberg hosted the eponymous television show as "Beichtphater Phettberg" (director and editor: Thomas Holzinger, Mandy E. Mante and Paul Poet), which was broadcast by the Austrian private broadcaster ATVplus .

In January 2007, Phettberg suffered a repeated stroke and had to go to a rehabilitation center after medical treatment. As a result, Hermes Phettberg is destitute, in debt and on welfare . He also reduced his weight from 170 to 73 kilos.

In the same year, on November 9th, The Phette Box · Phettberg's Nette Leit Show was released with 20 shows (600 min.) On 6 DVDs, while together with Kurt Palm he finished the biographical documentary Hermes Phettberg, Elender , which will be in theaters on December 7th and was released on DVD on October 3, 2008 and included Phettberg's encounters, e.g. B. documented with Sandra Maischberger , Harald Schmidt , Helge Schneider , Wolfgang Joop and Elfriede Jelinek . With The Pope Isn't a Jeans Boy , Sobo Swobodnik made another documentary about him in 2011.

Hermes Phettberg at the Rainbow Parade 2009

Since November 2007 Phettberg has been keeping a meticulous "gestion protocol". This is a kind of diary , the current entries of which he usually publishes on his website on Sundays. 28 of Phettberg's “Gestionen” from 2013 will appear in 2015 as a comic book Blue Jeans - Der Phettberg Comic . He now also expresses himself on Twitter , where he had over 5000 followers in May 2013.

In October 2009 Phettberg participated in the project Transcatholische Vögel in the Künstlerhaus -Theater. The piece is based on texts by Phettberg and the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini and deals with the parallels between the two artists who are united by their Catholicism , their homosexuality and their affiliation to the political left .

On February 22, 2017, the music video for the song " Metropolis " by the Hamburg metal band Fäulnis was released , in which he was the protagonist.

In July 2019 Phettberg was seen in the music video for the song " Hulapolizei " by the Viennese rapper Kid Pex .

Awards

bibliography

  • Time is good enough (essay), in: Rotraud A. Perner (ed.), Zeit (t) räume , Löcker, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85409-223-7 .
  • Wank! Wank! Wank! (Essay), in: Oz Almog (ed.), Birth of a Myth (exhibition catalog), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna 1994.
  • The flagellant automaton problem (essay), in: Roland Schöny (ed.), Schlaraffenland · Übersättigung und Agonie (event catalog ), Spielboden, Dornbirn 1994.
  • Josef Fenz's exercise diary 1979 , orally published in the toilet of the Germanist stairs at the University of Vienna, March 27, 1995.
  • The traces of the glances (essay), in: Ursula Hübner , Angels at the Abyss (exhibition catalog), Galerie 5020, Salzburg 1995.
  • (with Fritz Ostermayer ) Hermes Phettberg clears his apartment together , Edition selene , Klagenfurt / Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85266-019-X . - Two slightly divergent editions.
  • Hermes Phettberg's preaching service for all Sundays and public holidays of the church year , Falter, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85439-156-0 . - A first collection of the columns.
  • With Kurt Palm: Frucade or Eierlikör , Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-60536-8 . - Interviews and monologues from Phettberg's Nette Leit Show .
  • A hundred hens. Catechesis 1992–2003 , 3 volumes, Galrev, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933149-35-5 . - 585 columns as a facsimile of the typescripts.
  • On the downfall of religion , in: Fabian Burstein (Ed.), We celebrate downfall! , Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten-Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7017-3146-6 .
  • Everything terrible! Selected texts , Sensationsverlag, Waldhausen 2012, ISBN 3-902303-34-4 .
  • Blue Jeans - Der Phettberg Comic (Illustration: Walter Fröhlich), self-published, Vienna 2015.

Magazines

  • Under pressure , SM magazine, Libertine Sadomasochism Initiative Vienna, Vienna 1987–90. - Phettberg's pseudonym: Grit Fellner.
  • 66 classified ads to the bookseller's jeans , city newspaper Falter , Vienna 1988–90.
  • Stock im Eisen · From the carnal lust of the deviant , originally the organ of the association “Polymorph Perverse Clinic Vienna”, issue 1 in the winter of 1990/91.
  • Phettberg's field service , since March 1992 the weekly column in Falter , Stadtzeitung Wien.
  • Die Republik (as editor), sporadic magazine, self-published, Vienna 1992.

Theatrography

  • 1991: Monostatos in Palms Zauberflöte fast forward (Director: Kurt Palm )
  • 1991: The Uncle in O'Brien's In Swim-Two-Birds (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1992: HP in Palms Relatively Embarrassing Existences · Phettberg-Personale (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1992: City Councilor for Culture Dr. hc Prohaska in Möchel's Flatus interruptus (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1992: HB, 3 weeks public. Not watching TV before the TV is switched off (ErotiKreativ des WUK )
  • 1992: HP / Ostermayer / Rubinowitz , drinking from Viennese , Basta and News (ErotiKreativ des WUK )
  • 1993: Inspector Hubbard in Knott's On Call Murder (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1993: Comtesse de Mérilhac in Flaubert's The Weak Sex (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1993: NN in Mirbeau's The Garden of Torment (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1993: Pitchfork in Ripley's Disney Killer (Director: Gerhard Willert)
  • 1994: HP in On Ceilings. HP celebrates 5 years without sex (with GRAM and VIDO )
  • 1994: Reciter from Müller's Hamlet machine (Director: Gerald Grassl et al./ VIDO )
  • 1994: Reciter of Picasso's How to Grab Wishes by the Tail (1st Vienna Reading Theater)
  • 1994: Reciter of Lingen 's' Mr. Klestil's public 'private matter' (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1994: Moderator of the happening 5000 Years SDU (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1994: Wilmington in Metes ' Bring Me the Horns of Wilmington's Cow (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1994: Hermes Phettberg in Phettberg's permanent disposal 4 (Spielboden Dornbirn)
  • 1994: HP in Palms Relatively Embarrassing Existenzen 2 (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1994: HP in Ph.s Das Phettberg-Tribunal · Fireside chats with Josef Hader et al. (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1994: HP in Ph.s / Palms Phettberg's nice lead show (theater premiere : Nov. 12; director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1995: Reciter as Molly Blum (monologue) from Joyce ' Ulysses (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 1996: Reciter of Musil's The Man Without Qualities (Director: Rolf Schwendter)
  • 1997: HP in HP chats with the audience for the first time while lying on the couch (Kunstpark Ost, Munich)
  • 1998: HP in Phettberg saves religion (tour 1998–1999, with Schreibmüller in Austria and Germany)
  • 1999: HP in Die Phettberg-Papiere in person , Cabaret Stadnikow, Vienna (sporadically until 2001)
  • 2001: HP in Vienna is the other way around 6 (with Lilo Wanders ), Vienna
  • 2003: HP in Phettberg's brainwave protocol , Cabaret Stadnikow, Vienna (weekly until 2004)
  • 2004: HP in Phettberg speaks with the angel , Kabarett Stadnikow, Vienna (weekly until 2005)
  • 2004: Hermes Phettberg, Schutt (libretto; music: Gilbert Handler), premiere: sirene opera theater 2004
  • 2007: Josef Fenz in Fenz '/ Palms Josef Fenz and an audience look at each other fondly (Director: Kurt Palm)
  • 2009: HP in Transcatholische Vögel · A liturgical farce (directed by Gini Müller et al.)
  • 2009: HP in Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (Director: Valentin Schwarz )

Filmography

  • 1969: The Empress's Courier (costumed extra for Klausjürgen Wussow , but not in the final film).
  • 1988: Four Roses . - Short film (5 min., Director: Roland Wünsch).
  • 1993: 0137 (Jan 23 on premiere ). - Permanent disposal 2 (live interview: Sandra Maischberger ).
  • 1993: my child . - Short film (10 min., Director: Gruppe ASK).
  • 1993: Chamber Film . - Short film (6 min., Director: Georg Steinböck).
  • 1994: Amen . - Long-term experimental film 1990–97 (director: Arnold Schicker).
  • 1994: Phettberg's Nice Leit Show . - More than 25 episodes by 1996 (19 on ORF and 3sat ).
  • 1995: Phettberg . - Short film (10 min., Director: Marc Adrian ).
  • 1995: NDR Talk Show (September 15). - With Otto Waalkes , Inge Meysel et al.
  • 1995: Pudel Overnight Vienna · Hermes Phettberg in an interview at the public toilet . - 30 min., ORF / 3sat .
  • 1995: Phettberg's Nice Leit Show Vol. 1 . - Highlights 1994 (125 min. On VHS).
  • 1996: Phettbergs Nette Leit Show Vol. 2 . - Highlights 1995 / summer (120 min. On VHS).
  • 1996: Phettberg's Nice Leit Show Vol. 3 . - Highlights 1995 / winter (120 min. On VHS).
  • 1997: The Harald Schmidt Show (twice in conversation with Harald Schmidt on Sat 1 ).
  • 1999: 10 to 11 (No. 3'99, RTL / Sat.1 , director: Alexander Kluge ).
  • 2000: Phettberg's field service . - Weekly web TV .
  • 2001: Phettberg's Ark . - 168 hours non-stop Live - Web TV .
  • 2001: Summit · Hermes Phettberg meets Helge Schneider . - June 17th on ZDF (Director: Roger Willemsen ).
  • 2003: Confessor Phettberg . - Confessional show, until 2004 on ATVplus .
  • 2004: The Kurt Krömer Show (May 16 on RBB ). - Conversation with Kurt Krömer .
  • 2007: The Phette Box · Phettberg's Nice Lead Show . - 20 episodes (600 min. On 6 DVDs).
  • 2007: Hermes Phettberg, misery . - Feature film (80 min., Director: Kurt Palm ) and DVD (2008).
  • 2009: Trans-Catholic Birds . - Theater recording (directed by Gini Müller et al.) For cinema / DVD.
  • 2011: No Strings Attached (HP: Doorman). - Short film (5 min., Director: Michael Brent Adam), Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
  • 2011: The Pope is not a jeans boy . - Documentary film (74 min., Script / director / camera: Sobo Swobodnik ), International Documentary Film Festival DOK Leipzig, Documentary Film Festival Kassel, International Human Rights Film Festival this human world .
  • 2015: A Perception . Feature film (74 min, director: Daniel Pfander, Germany)

Radiography

  • Josef Fenz cleans up his apartment, notices something and thinks about it again , in: Die Musicbox (with Fritz Ostermayer ), Radio Ö3 , January 16, 1992.
  • Hermes Phettberg realizes that his apartment cannot be tidied up and erects the monument to the unknown consumer , in: Die Musicbox (with Fritz Ostermayer), Radio Ö3, March 8, 1994.
  • Hermes Phettberg at Schwenderklo Vienna , in: Diagonal - Radio for contemporaries (with Peter Waldenberger), Radio Ö1 , September 16, 1995.

literature

  • Beatrix Pirchner: Phettbergs Phaxen (comic), Edition Va Bene, Vienna / Klosterneuburg 1995, ISBN 3-85167-044-2 .
  • Klaus Kamolz: Hermes Phettberg. The crutch as a scepter , Links, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-86153-106-2 .
  • Joseph Kühn: Phettberg's stations (exhibition catalog), VIDO, Vienna 1996.
  • Franzobel : Phettberg. A Hermes tragedy , Edition selene, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85266-099-8 .
  • Elsa Kremser: A critical approach to the biography of Hermes Phettberg , seminar paper from 2008, GRIN Verlag, Munich 2010, eISBN 978-3-640-50988-1.
  • Helmut Neundlinger: Diary of inner horror. About Hermes Phettberg's “Predigtdienste” , Klever, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902665-11-9 .
  • Andre Sokolowski: Die Phettbergfarm , audio piece, epubli, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-5480-0 .

Magazines

  • Gerald Grassl: News from the 31st floor / Phettberg special edition , Lust & Laune magazine, Vienna, Nov. 1993.
  • Susanne Stampf-Sedlitzky : Be careful, Phettberg! (Interview), in: Focus Magazin, No. 10'96, Focus, Munich 1996. - Also on Focus.de: Be careful, Phettberg! , checked 2011-0529-2255 (ed. 1996-0304-0000).
  • Alexandra Lautenbacher: Again over the mountain (?) (Interview), in: Focus Magazin, No. 17'99, Focus, Munich 1999. - Also on Focus.de: Wieder über Berg (?) , Examined 2011-0601-2355 (ed. 1999-0426-0000).

Web links

Commons : Hermes Phettberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ registered there as "Phettberg_McGoohan" (@Phettberg_McGoo)
  2. ↑ World premiere in the final scenes of the film Hermes Phettberg, Elender (cinema / DVD 2007/2008).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Stampf-Sedlitzky : Be careful, Phettberg! In: Focus , March 4, 1996, accessed November 18, 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.phettberg.at/biographie01.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.phettberg.at/biographie02.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.phettberg.at/biographie02.htm
  5. ↑ https://twitter.com/Phettberg_liebt/status/991744140064034817
  6. ↑ Sebastian Bordthäuser: "They cut off three kilos of skin" In: Spiegel Online , November 18, 2010, accessed on November 18, 2010.
  7. ↑ Gestionen , phettberg.at.
  8. ↑ Blue Jeans - Der Phettberg Comic , Radio Ö1 Leporello , September 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ harddriveprod: FÄULNIS - Metropolis (official music video) feat. Hermes Phettberg. February 22, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  10. ↑ KidPexTV: Kid Pex - Hula Police (answer to Andreas Gabalier). July 17, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Over the mountain again (?). In: Focus , April 26, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Phettberg, Hermes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fenz, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist, actor, author and talk show host
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollabrunn