Johnny Klinke
Johannes "Johnny" Klinke (born June 25, 1950 in Berlin ) is the founder and director of the variety theater " Tigerpalast " in Frankfurt am Main .
Career
The son of a pastor graduated from high school in 1970 at the humanistic Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main. Together with Matthias Beltz and Margareta Dillinger , he founded the Frankfurt Tigerpalast in 1988 under the "new old ideals: Liberté, Egalité, Varieté".
Political commitment
During his school days at Heinrich von Gagern High School, Klinke was active in the 1968 movements , and later in the Frankfurt squatter scene . Together with Joschka Fischer and Daniel Cohn-Bendit , he was a member of the anti-authoritarian student movement and the Revolutionary Struggle group . For the Frankfurt mayor election in March 2012, Klinke supported the CDU candidate Boris Rhein with the self-financed campaign "Boris Rhein is not Roland Koch".
Awards
On February 9, 2007, Johnny Klinke and Margareta Dillinger were awarded the Goethe plaque by the State of Hesse , the highest honor given by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art . On December 3, 2014 he was awarded the Hessian Order of Merit.
Web links
- Literature by and about Johnny Klinke in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ BASIC DEMOCRACY? OCH NÖ ... The Greens' balancing act In: Journal Frankfurt, March 27, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jack, Johnny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klinke, Johannes (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |