Leni Statz

Leni Statz (born May 10, 1929 in Saalfeld / Saale ) is a German humorist and children's voice imitator .

Life

Statz learned the trade of a shoe saleswoman and appeared for the first time in her hometown in 1947 as a children's voice imitator in various dialects. After she became famous in Thuringia, she received an invitation to a radio broadcast from the Leipzig broadcaster in 1957. It was through this program that Heinz Quermann became aware of the artist, and she made her first television appearance in January 1958 in the program Da is laughing in Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast . She subsequently appeared on stage in eight other programs in this series.

In 1957, the manager of a shoe shop decided to turn her hobby into a profession and at the beginning of 1958, after passing an examination at Hallesches Steintor-Varieté , she obtained the necessary license as a professional artist in the GDR . From 1960 she went on tour with the Vier Brummers . This was followed by further tours with Susi Schuster , until 1982 and since 1991 with the Oberhof farmers' market , and between 1983 and 1991 with ex-brummer Wolfgang Roeder under the title Unterwegs in Dinge Lachen.

In addition, Leni Statz had a number of appearances in entertainment programs on radio and television in the GDR , such as Ein Kessel Buntes , Between Breakfast and Roast Goose , There is music in it and fun games . After 1990 she had appearances and moderations in entertainment programs of the MDR as well as Jux und Dallerei on Sat.1 , the RTL - Heimatmelodie , the ZDF - Sunday concert and on the ARD in Zaubervolle Heimat.

She played in sketches with partners such as Heinz Quermann and Winfried Krause , but she shows her great strength in solo appearances with children's mouth style flowers.

On the occasion of her 60th stage anniversary in 2007, the documentarist Sabine Skupin created the film documentary Leni Statz - The Truth of the Child's Mouth for the MDR series CVs .

Web links

• Website about Leni Statz
• Page about Leni Statz at www.baerbelwachholz.de
• Leni Statz in the Internet Movie Database (English)