Hilde Wackerhagen

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Hilde Wackerhagen (* 1945 on Lake Constance or in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German political cabaret artist , author and director.

Career

After graduating from the Odenwald School in Ober-Hambach near Heppenheim / Bergstrasse, Wackerhagen studied sociology, school and adult education in Munich and Frankfurt am Main, where she has lived since 1968.

Hilde Wackerhagen has been active in the new women's movement since the beginning. As a student in 1970, she was a founding member of the Frankfurt Women's Council and played a leading role in the first Federal Women's Congress in March 1972 in Frankfurt am Main, which marked the beginning of the new German women's movement .

From 1979 until its dissolution in 1982, she played in the " Karl Napps Chaos Theater " founded by the Frankfurt alternative scene . The troupe, consisting of nine (then still) amateur satirists, received the “ German Cabaret Prize ” in 1980 , awarded by the “Lower House” in Mainz. All other players, including Matthias Beltz , Dieter Thomas and Hendrike von Sydow, Klaus Trebes and Florian Lindemann , came from the student environment of the Socialist German Student Union (SDS) and the 1968 movement . In 1981 the “Chaos Theater” was awarded the “Berliner Wecker” initiated by Konstantin Wecker .

Hilde Wackerhagen has been a political solo cabaret artist and director since 1984, working for the theater, radio and television. The peculiarity of her performances lies in the improvisation, her stage work in free speech without fixed text makes her a rarity among political cabaret artists and a specialist in (women's political) congresses and conferences, which she accompanies with direct comments. Text prints of their solo programs are rare for this reason. Political education is Wackerhagen's profession and life issue. Since the abortion debate about § 218 and the children's home movement in the 1970s, the cabaret artist has dealt with everyday and professional experiences of women, with gender relations and the broad field of social and contemporary criticism: the politicization of the private provides the material for what is probably the first feminist satirist from and after the 68 movement.

When Hilde Wackerhagen uses texts, she writes them herself. She also wrote the first theoretical contribution on the subject of (lack of) female presence in West German cabaret, which she published right at the beginning of her career in 1984 and which was updated again in 2007: Wackerhagens “Considerations zu the gender-specific requirements of humor and comedy ”in conjunction with their decades of feminist-critical stage work are style-setting for generations of cabaret artists. Lisa Politt, for example, hostess of the Hamburg “Polittbüros” and the first female winner of the “ German Cabaret Prize” in 2003 , calls Hilde Wackerhagen “when asked about female role models”.

Wackerhagen is a signatory of the call “Frankfurt for Women's Rights” from 2018, in which reproductive self-determination and open-ended, benevolent and free pregnancy conflict counseling for women * in Frankfurt am Main are called for.

Hilde Wackerhagen is married to the director and actress Barbara Englert .

Artistic productions

Program improvisations - solo (excerpt)

  • 1989 "Quo vadis, woman?"
  • 1990 "Environment and life protection, tea bags and racism recycling"
  • 1991 "Daily news is aimed at the head and stomach"
  • 1992 "The garbage, the city and the women"
  • 1993 "Speech sink - a woman talks back"

Text prints

  • "Well deserved"
  • "Dr. Oetker is to blame! "(With Barbara Kuster)
  • "Georg" (with Cornelia Niemann )

Venues (excerpt)

  • 1995 Women's cabaret and theater in the Loni-Übler-Haus in Nuremberg
  • 1996 Women's Cabaret Days Saarbrücken: in a duo with Barbara Kuster
  • 1996 ufaFabrik Berlin, Front-Frauen-Revue
  • 1998 8th Women's Cabaret Days Nuremberg
  • 1990s Frauenkulturhaus Frankfurt am Main
  • 1999 Ludwigsburg campaign "Active against male violence", moderation of the kick-off event
  • from 2000 Theaterhaus Frankfurt am Main
  • 2001 Gallus Theater Frankfurt am Main Choralle Frankfurter Frauenchor / Hilde Wackerhagen with the program "Walpurgis Night"
  • 2004 Cabaret Festival Hamburg, Polittbüro
  • 2006 Handover of the signature campaign for the advancement of women to the Hessian state parliament: Hilde Wackerhagen with cabaret program
  • 2007 20 years of the Nuremberg Women's Office: Hilde Wackerhagen with a cabaret program
  • 2008 “The woman - an adjective”: Film series by the Asta Nielsen Kinothek , Frankfurt am Main, with Hilde Wackerhagen as the protagonist of the “Council of Women” and the 1968 movement
  • 2008 30 years of the Erlangen women's center: Hilde Wackerhagen with a cabaret program
  • 2008 Frankfurt am Main women's department: “'68 and women: the small difference and its consequences. Women's Movement and Student Movement in Gender Dialogue “- Panel discussions with Hilde Wackerhagen, Prof. Dr. Sibylla Flügge , Jutta Ebeling , Daniel Cohn-Bendit , Prof. Dr. Ute Gerhard and Thea Vogel
  • 2009 International Women's Day in the Vordertaunus, Kronberg ceremony: Hilde Wackerhagen with a cabaret program "Are women counter-financed?"
  • 2011 Hanauer Frauenwochen: Hilde Wackerhagen with cabaret program
  • 2012 50 years Club Voltaire Frankfurt: Panel discussion with, among others, Hilde Wackerhagen
  • 2018 lesbian autumn

Cooperations

Karl Napps Chaos Theater 1979–1981

1979
  • Scene sequence "State Harmony" (Kino Harmonie Frankfurt am Main)
  • "The Police Festival" ( Theater am Turm , Frankfurt am Main)
  • "Scenes from the scene"
1980

The Frankfurt playwomen 1976–1996

Between 1976 and 1997 the “Frankfurter Spielfrauen” conceived eleven plays - from street theater to cabaret revue - together and performed them in Frankfurt am Main, but also at national venues. The theater group, founded by activists of the Frankfurt autonomous women's movement, consisted of eight permanent and numerous freelance performers who wanted to bring independent women's cabaret to the stage in addition to work, family and women's politics: “After many years of very theoretical work in the women's council, we needed something completely different , after ridicule and fun ”, said Wackerhagen in the afterword to the publication“ Frankfurter Spielfrauen. Collected Works 1976–1996 ”. The minstrels produced their entire repertoire with great pleasure themselves, from the texts to the choreography, the costumes and stage sets to the technology.

Hilde Wackerhagen was the only professional cabaret artist to be a permanent member of the ensemble. Her part was the character of "Aunt Gerda", who, consistently established in the renovation times between the scenes, made quick comments on current politics, in the best Hessian. Occasionally she enriched the musicians' pieces with Bavarian and Swabian dialect.

In 1983 the Hessischer Rundfunk produced the radio play "Santa Claus is a woman" with the Frankfurt playwomen (broadcast on December 24, 1983). Filmmaker, photographer, university professor and minstrel Margit Eschenbach shot the film “With a woman's waffles” in 1987 during discussions and rehearsals for Hessian television as a kind of making-of.

The Frankfurt playwomen, often photographed by Abisag Tüllmann , performed in Frankfurt am Main in the Krebsmühle Niederursel, the Gallus Theater and the Historical Museum , with street theater on the Römerberg and in the Grüneburgpark . National appearances of the ensemble took place in the Berlin Cafe Schalotte, in the Hessian State Representation in Bonn, in the State Theater Tübingen and in Stuttgart. In 2018, after a long time, the Frankfurt playwomen celebrated a temporary revival in the Frankfurt Club Voltaire .

In a duo with Barbara Kuster

After German reunification , Hilde Wackerhagen was invited to appearances in the new federal states by the women's movement in the former GDR. Together with the Potsdam singer and cabaret artist Barbara Kuster, she realized the first one-on-one east-west cabaret stage program “Dr. Oetker is to blame ”, with which the two toured East and West in the 1990s.

The front women

Around 100 female stage artists from all varieties of cabaret joined the "Woman and Cabaret" network, founded in 1993, including Hilde Wackerhagen and, initially the only "Ostler", Barbara Kuster. In joint theater performances, the cabaret artists refuted the cliché that there are no women to be taken seriously in all German cabaret. With the weapons of joke, parody, satire and music, as Waltraud Schwab reported in 1996, Hilde Wackerhagen and the so-called front women proved the opposite. Wackerhagen made guest appearances with the cabaret festival “Front-Frauen-Revue” in the ufaFabrik in Berlin and in the Mousonturm artist house in Frankfurt am Main. In addition to Hilde Wackerhagen, the women at the front include the Frankfurt cabaret artists Cornelia Niemann , Annemarie Roelofs , Claudia Brendler and Connie Webs.

Filmography

Guest star on the television series: Die kleine Heimat, episode 9, 1980

9-part family series by Hanns Dieter Hüsch and Werner Schretzmeier , German first broadcast on ARD 1979/80

1993/4 regular appearances in Polit-Magazin Z on Kanal 4, broadcast on RTL and SAT1. From 1991 15-part series "90 years of satire against the zeitgeist", including 1993/94 "Hilde Wackerhagen - full on the air" with a cabaret program as a director and various television appearances on radio, ZDF, SWF and WDR

Publications

  • Hilde Wackerhagen: The Frankfurt playwomen. In: Hilde Steppe : Seeing the diversity instead of fearing chaos: selected works. Eva M. Ulmer, Eva M. Krampe, Walburga Haas, Hilde Wackerhagen (eds.). Verlag Hans Huber, Bern / Göttingen / Toronto / Seattle 2003, ISBN 3-456-83919-7 , p. 179ff. (Steppe was a member of the Frankfurt playwomen; Hilde Wackerhagen presents her cabaret work in the book).
  • Hilde Wackerhagen: Finally arrived. When I was 60, I married a family. In: love in old age. (= Publik-Forum Extra. Magazine for spirituality and the art of living ). Publik-Forum Verlagsgesellschaft, Oberursel 2012, ISBN 978-3-88095-220-1 , pp. 14–15.
  • Hilde Wackerhagen: Why do women write so little satires? In: Susann Heenen (ed.): Women's strategies. New Critique Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1984, pp. 138–166. (Republished in a revised and greatly abbreviated form in: Tobias Glodek, Christian Haberecht, Christoph v. Ungern-Sternberg (Eds.): Political cabaret and satire. With contributions by Peter Ensikat, Eckart von Hirschhausen , Jürgen Kessler, Volker Kühn, Kurt Tucholsky , Henning Venske , Hilde Wackerhagen et al. WVB Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86573-262-0 , pp. 113-124).
  • Hilde Wackerhagen: Afterword. In: Heidi List, Ulla Schickling-Hünlich (ed.): On the way to a Tarzan-free society. The Frankfurt playwomen 1976–1996. All pieces 1976–1996. Funded by the Frankfurt maecenia foundation for women in science and art, Frankfurt am Main 2016, pp. 269–272.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One has the last word. In: Blog of the Women's Political Council. Women's Political Council of the State of Brandenburg V., February 22, 2015, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  2. ^ Klaus Budzinski, Reinhard Hippen in connection with the German Cabaret Archive: Metzler Kabarett Lexikon . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01448-7 , p. 417 .
  3. ↑ The first Federal Women's Congress in Frankfurt marks the beginning of the new German women's movement, 11.-12. March 1972. In: Contemporary history in Hessen - data · facts · background. Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies, accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Minutes of the plenary session of the Federal Women's Congress on March 12, 1972 in Frankfurt / M. In: FrauenMediaTurm. FrauenMediaTurm Feminist Archive and Library, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ Prize for Polt - Groll at ZDF . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1980, pp. 228 ( spiegel.de [PDF]).
  6. Jump up ↑ Funny shame . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1980 ( spiegel.de ).
  7. ^ Klaus Budzinski, Reinhard Hippen in connection with the German Cabaret Archive: Metzler Kabarett Lexikon . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1996, p. 177 f .
  8. ↑ Die Frankfurter Spielfrauen (ed.): On the way to the Tarzanless society. The Frankfurt playwomen. All pieces 1976–1996 . Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 280 f .
  9. ↑ # 16 Gender equality - (not) an issue in the debate about alternative educational concepts. Institute Solidarity Modern e. V., accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ "There was nothing but defense". Hilde Wackerhagen on the legendary Council of Women . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 7, 1998, p. 25 .
  11. ↑ Anke Nolte: Dangerous opponent of reason. Women and comedy: a tricky story . In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 7, 1995.
  12. ↑ Waltraud Schwab: The women at the front. Your battlefield is the stage ramp . In: the daily newspaper . October 10, 1996, p. 13 .
  13. ↑ "There was nothing but defense". Hilde Wackerhagen on the legendary Council of Women. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 7, 1998, p. 25 .
  14. ↑ Susann Heenen (ed.): Women's strategies . New Critique Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-8015-0198-1 , p. 186 .
  15. ↑ An overview of the German Cabaret Prize. Nuremberg Burgtheater e. V., accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Annette Garbrecht: Watch out, men, here comes your mistress! In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 10, 2004, p. 2 .
  17. ↑ Signatories. Frankfurt for Women's Rights Alliance for Women's Rights and Self-Determination, accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Hilde Wackerhagen: Finally arrived. When I was 60, I married a family . In: love in old age. Public forum extra. Magazine for spirituality and the art of living . Publik-Forum Verlagsgesellschaft, Oberursel 2012, ISBN 978-3-88095-220-1 , p. 14th f .
  19. ^ Klaus Budzinski, Reinhard Hippen in connection with the German Cabaret Archive: Metzler Kabarett Lexikon . Verlag JB Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01448-7 , p. 417 .
  20. ^ Marianne Rogler (ed.): Front women. 28 cabaret artists get started . Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02474-4 , p. 95; 191; 195 .
  21. ↑ The cake base shows the truth. Women's cabaret days with East-West talks . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . June 8, 1996.
  22. ↑ Jana-Axinja Paschen: We encourage you to think along! 18th Hamburg Cabaret Festival: For example Hilde Wackerhagen . In: the daily newspaper . May 3, 2004, p. 23 .
  23. ↑ Hilde Wackerhagen. In: Lesbian autumn - initiatives and conferences for lesbian women 49plus. Lesbian Autumn, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  24. ^ Matthias Beltz biography. In: Matthias Beltz Archive. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  25. ↑ On the way to a Tarzanless society. In: Gallus Theater. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Die Frankfurter Spielfrauen (ed.): On the way to the Tarzanless society. The Frankfurt playwomen. All pieces 1976–1996 . Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 280 f .
  27. ↑ Dörthe Jung: Laudation on the occasion of the Martinée for the book publication of the “Frankfurter Spielfrauen” “On the way to a society without tarzan” on September 18, 2016 in the Gallus Theater, Frankfurt am Main. (PDF) Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  28. ↑ On the way to a Tarzanless society. In: Gallus Theater. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Eva Maria Magel: With a woman's waffles . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 17, 2016, p. 43 .
  30. ↑ Die Frankfurter Spielfrauen (ed.): On the way to the Tarzanless society. The Frankfurt playwomen. All pieces 1976–1996 . Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 281 .
  31. ↑ Die Frankfurter Spielfrauen (ed.): On the way to the Tarzanless society. The Frankfurt playwomen. All pieces 1976–1996 . Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 271 .
  32. ↑ Die Frankfurter Spielfrauen (ed.): On the way to the Tarzanless society. The Frankfurt playwomen. All pieces 1976–1996 . Frankfurt am Main 2016, p. 271 .
  33. ^ Events in the Club Voltaire archive. In: Club Voltaire. Club Voltaire, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  34. ↑ One has the last word. In: Blog of the Women's Political Council. Women's Political Council of the State of Brandenburg V., February 22, 2015, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  35. ↑ Waltraud Schwab: parody with compulsion to laugh "Witz & Donna" - women's cabaret and comedy festival in the UFA factory . In: the daily newspaper . October 14, 1995, p. 31 .
  36. ↑ Rosa K. Wirtz: “There must always be anger at the beginning”. Interview 4. In: Volker Surmann (Ed.): New tendencies in German cabaret in the 90s. Written Housework in the state examination . Bielefeld University 1999, p. 142 ( volkersurmann.de [PDF]).
  37. ↑ Waltraud Schwab: "Women are parsley in cabaret". Barbara Kuster, “bitter beauty from Prussia”, first front woman from the east. In: the daily newspaper . October 10, 1996, p. 13 ( taz.de ).
  38. ↑ Waltraud Schwab: The women at the front. Your battlefield is the stage ramp . In: the daily newspaper . October 10, 1996, p. 13 .
  39. ↑ Jutta Baier: About the desire to capsize the boat . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . May 4, 1996, p. 21 .
  40. ↑ About five who went out to spread the hand cheese. Hessen trash and slide show - the cabaret performance for local elections / The ultimate answer to the blue goat . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 7, 1997, p. 3 .
  41. ↑ Hilde Wackerhagen. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
  42. ↑ Peter Kleinert: Hilde Wackerhagen - fully on air / part 1. In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung Online. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .
  43. ^ Marianne Rogler (ed.): Front women. 28 cabaret artists get started . Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02474-4 , p. 191 .
personal data
SURNAME Wackerhagen, Hilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political cabaret artist, author and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main