Holger Klotzbach

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Holger Klotzbach (born January 30, 1946 in Duisburg ) is a German cabaret artist , cultural manager and entrepreneur . In 1977 he co-founded the Black Café in Berlin and from 1981 to 1988 a member of the cabaret Die 3 Tornados , who called themselves “anarcho-cabaret artists”. Since 1992 he has been the owner and manager of the Bar every reason and since 2002 of the event tent Tipi at the Chancellery in Berlin. Klotzbach plays several instruments, including the piano and the accordion.

Life

Klotzbach initially studied theology in Bethel and Tübingen, but was also a political activist and member of the Socialist German Student Union and, among other things, chairman of the Asta in Tübingen. In Berlin he was the “organizational secretary” of the “proletarian left”, among other things he worked as an unskilled worker at Siemens to agitate the employees . Due to his political activities and memberships, he was unable to work as a public service teacher . He was hired by Circus Busch-Roland , where he was initially a student assistant and later a private teacher and press spokesman.

He became acquainted with André Heller through the circus, through which he was involved in founding the Circus Roncalli in Vienna . In 1977 he was one of the founders of the Black Café on Kantstrasse in Berlin. In 1980 he was also involved in founding the Tempodrom , whose circus equipment he organized. In the Black Café he performed as a pianist with the 3 Tornados. When there was a change in personnel during the 3 tornadoes, he took over the role of accordion player. The 3 tornadoes in the line-up of Holger Klotzbach, Günter Thews and Arnulf Rating existed until 1988 when the three tornadoes dissolved because Günter Thews was sick with AIDS .

Then Klotzbach, Thews and Rating took over the "Quartier Latin" venue together with musicians from the Cologne band BAP , which they converted into a variety theater (today's winter garden on Potsdamer Strasse in Berlin). For financial reasons, however, the Latin Quarter was closed again soon afterwards. Klotzbach then went to the French "Cirque O", a Cirque Nouveau that was very successful commercially. The Swiss producer of this circus, named Ueli Hirzel, owned an Art Nouveau mirror tent, but it was stored and not used. Klotzbach bought it from Hirzel together with his friend and business partner Lutz Deisinger. It was in this tent that they opened the “Bar every reason” in the summer of 1992 on a parking deck of the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin. After initial difficulties in the first season, the turning point came with the variety show Tabernac by Meret Becker . With the self-production The White Horse Inn and night parlors came the breakthrough, also the supra-regional feature pages then reported on the bar any reason. Today, Klotzbach employs 150 people in the bar of every reason and the tipi at the Chancellery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A last appearance took place in 1989, see The 3 Tornados .
  2. ↑ Andy Dohmen: Holger Klotzbach: "I see myself as an old anarcho". In: siegessaeule.de. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klotzbach, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg