Leo Lukas

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Leo Lukas, Vienna 2013.
... DortCon, Dortmund  2011.
... Garching Con, 2005.

Leo Lukas (born January 8, 1959 in Köflach , Styria ) is an Austrian cabaret artist , director and writer .

Life

At the beginning of the 1980s, Leo Lukas was a founding member and one of the leading figures of the Styrian Greens .

Lukas began his career as a journalist at the Grazer Kleine Zeitung , where he first worked as a local reporter and then in the cultural department. In 1984 he decided to become a full-time cabaret artist. He had already gained experience in this area as a member of the Graz student group feinkunst cabaret WAWA . Since then he has been on stage with numerous programs and won, among other things, the most important German-language cabaret award in 1988, the Salzburg Bull . His programs mostly consist of self-written numbers, which he also accompanies himself on guitar or accordion .

He is also active as a writer and playwright, and has also been a director since the late 1980s. He writes texts and songs for befriended cabaret artists (Irene S., Wilfried , 4Xang and others). He also wrote the well-known church and youth group song It's nice to have friends like this.

Lukas has been writing travel commentaries and reports for magazines and newspapers since 1996. He has been part of the team of authors for the Perry Rhodan series since 2001 and has written 89 novels for the series as of January 2020. In 2005 Leo Lukas was awarded the Karl Cabaret Prize.

Lukas is the father of two daughters and a son.

Works (selection)

  • Cabaret programs:
    • gentle panic (1983)
    • Luke Strikes Back (1986)
    • The Idiotic (1989)
    • All Lies (1990)
    • About the change
    • Gross Mischief (1992)
    • I don't know (1993)
    • The Aboriginal Flyin Borsinis (1995)
    • Befurisfagis (1996)
    • Derfderdenndes (1998)
    • Spinach Gnuabini (1998)
    • Ollaweu Ollasöön
    • Congratulations (1998)
    • Jörgi, the dragon slayer
    • How to Make Women Happy (1999)
    • What men really need
    • Where do the little children go
    • For life if guided well
    • Bare numbers
    • The criminal energy, Leo Lukas & Simon Pichler (2012)
    • Black Magic, Leo Lukas & Simon Pichler (2014)
    • Stranger (tar and) feathers, Leo Lukas & Simon Pichler (2017)
  • Director:
    • various cabaret programs
    • Haunted! (Children's musical)
    • Schwejk (Singspiel, Graz, 1999)
    • Aladdin (children's musical, "Theater with Horizon", 2000)
  • Writer:
    • Haunted! (Children's musical) ** The bear is looos (Children's musical)
    • Vienna lead ( Shadowrun novel, 1998)
    • Jörgi der Drachentöter (satire on the occasion of the EU sanctions against the Austrian federal government, 2000)
    • Schwejk (text to the Singspiel, music: Jörg-Martin Willnauer , 1999)
    • Lara & Luki (children's musical, 2000)
    • over 40 Perry Rhodan and Atlan novels since 2001
    • The great Leo Lukas reading book , Ueberreuter-Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-8000-7713-7

literature

Web links

Commons : Leo Lukas  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ perry-rhodan.net
  2. ↑ Leo Lukas biography in the Austrian Cabaret Archive .
  3. ^ Leo Lukas - Dates . Retrieved July 7, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Lukas, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cabaret artist, director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Köflach