Horst W. Blome

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Horst W. Blome (born November 24, 1937 in Bremen ) is a German cabaret artist and actor. He was a leading activist of the extra-parliamentary opposition in Nuremberg and became known nationwide through numerous campaigns and political happenings .

Life

Because of the threat of being drafted into the military (first year of conscripts), Horst W. Blome volunteered as an officer candidate for the German Armed Forces , but carried out anti-militarist actions there. He escaped arrest by escaping to the barracks chapel. In court he was first convicted of desertion in two instances , but later - represented by attorney Heinrich Hannover - recognized before the Federal Administrative Court as the first conscientious objector in the Federal Republic of Germany . That is why in 1989 he was one of the “100 Germans who made us great” for Wiener magazine, which was also published in Germany at the time .

Parallel to studying at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (sociology, philosophy, theater studies) and taking several years of speaking and acting classes, Blome was committed to the nuclear armament of the Federal Republic. Among other things, he was temporarily an employee of Hans Werner Richter in the Munich committee against nuclear armament .

After smaller engagements and first attempts at cabaret, Blome founded the small ensemble theater Neues Theater in Nuremberg in 1962 , from which the cabaret Die Hintertreppe emerged . From 1966 this became the starting point for political activities within the framework of the extra-parliamentary opposition. Numerous political actions and happenings were also carried out outside the theater in public spaces. For his last solo program Is the Marx Still Inhabitable , Blome received several advertisements for arousing public nuisance because he performed a complete striptease on stage while reading anti-Semitic texts by the English writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain . The city banned the cabaret "Die Hinterteppe". No art is offered there, but political events that require approval are held. After actions on the occasion of the central West German 450th anniversary of the Reformation (Blome pinned 95 satirical theses on the portal of St. Sebaldus Church.) He was convicted of insulting religion , disseminating lewd literature and disseminating writings harmful to young people.

Blome continued to campaign against the Vietnam War , against the emergency laws and against the NPD . In 1968 he was one of the initiators of the founding of the Republican Club in Nuremberg, to which up to 3,000 citizens temporarily belonged. On the occasion of several legal proceedings and convictions, Blome sat in custody several days. Due to a partial amnesty, he got away without a long prison term. He was expelled from the SPD and became involved in the DKP from then on . Blome, who was involved early on in children's theater (play-along theater, anti-authoritarian children's theater), was also a co-founder of the first children's shop in southern Germany in 1968 .

In 1970 he opened the left Libresso book center in Nuremberg, which existed under different management until 2008. In 1973, together with others, he founded the Theater am Kopernikusplatz (TAK) in the southern part of Nuremberg - a guest theater with broad support for local and regional cultural activities. After the closure of the TAK, Blome worked as a publicist, broadcaster, actor and lecturer at various educational institutions. An activity as a lecturer at the theater studies seminar of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg was terminated by a professional ban in the course of the radical decree. Since the mid-1980s, Blome has been working as a speaker trainer and consultant for public and private broadcasters as well as for corresponding training institutes.

literature

  • Keyword The back stairs , in: Klaus Budzinski / Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Kabarett Lexikon . Metzler-Verlag Stuttgart 2000
  • Heinz Greul: Boards that mean time. The cultural history of cabaret , Volume 2, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich
  • Werner Schuder (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1967. Berlin 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All the best, Germany. The best list: The 100 Germans who made us great. Wiener, May 1989, p. 41.
  2. ^ Klaus Budzinski / Reinhard Hippen: Metzler Cabaret Lexicon. Metzler-Verlag Stuttgart 2000.
  3. ↑ Siegfried Zelnhelfer: The protest came on the "back stairs" Nuernberger Nachrichten 1,993th
  4. ^ Nürnbergs Super-Dutschke, Die Zeit, Hamburg December 15, 1967
  5. ↑ Dietmar Bruckner: What was going on in Nuremberg 1950–2000. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2002
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel, Hamburg, edition 31/1968, p. 30.
  7. ↑ Lothar Strogies: The Extra-Parliamentary Opposition in Nuremberg and Erlangen. Verlag Palm & Enke, Erlangen and Jena 1996, p. 278.
personal data
SURNAME Blome, Horst W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen