Lorenz Keizer

Lorenz Keizer (born October 20, 1959 in Zurich ) is a Swiss cabaret artist .

Life

Lorenz Keizer was born in 1959 in Zurich as the son of César Keizer and Margrit Läubli . After working as a primary school teacher in Ossingen in 1981 , he studied history and Italian at the University of Zurich from 1983 . From 1984 Keizer wrote columns, satires and short stories in various newspapers and magazines in Switzerland and Germany. From 1984 to 1988 he worked as an editor at Radio DRS and began in 1989 with his first solo piece “Zug missed”. In 1992 the second play "Der Erreger" followed, which led to a lawsuit against the National Councilor Gianfranco Cotti . In 1996 the third solo piece "Aquaplaning" followed. From 1998 to the end of 2007 Keizer had a regular column "List" in the Tages-Anzeiger . In 2000 he brought out his fourth solo piece “Schär Holder & Meierhofer”, with which he won the Swiss Cornichon Cabaret Prize. His parents had already won this award in 1990. In 2003 he appeared with the fifth play «Konkurs» and 2007–2008 with the play «Affentheater». In 2010 Lorenz Keizer first worked as a film director with the comedy Longer Life . From 2011 to 2012 he played his seventh solo piece Big Bang, a satirical summary of 2 billion years of geological history in two hours.

Keizer is married and has a daughter and a son.

Awards

• 1989: Salzburg bull for "Train missed"
• 1994: Oltner Tanne for "Der Erreger"
• 2001: Swiss Cabaret Prize Cornichon for "Schär Holder & Meierhofer"
• 2004: Prix ​​Walo

Stage plays

• 2017: "Matterhorn Mojito" (with various previews from autumn 2016)
• 2014: "Cheese and bread & Rock'n'Roll"
• 2011: "Big Bang"
• 2007-2008: "Affentheater"
• 2002–2004: "Bankruptcy - A fast-paced pleasure trip into the devil's kitchen"
• 2000–2002: "Schär Holder & Meierhofer - A ghost ride on the stock market carousel"
• 1996–1997: «Aquaplaning - A spray ride through the puddles of the free market»
• 1995: «Whoever dies last» (musical comedy)
• 1992–1993: "The pathogen"
• 1989–1990: "Missed the train"

Movies

• 2010: Live longer

Works

• The shower diet and other unchristian bathing customs , 2008, ISBN 3-0369-5527-5
• Best before see tube fold , 2004, ISBN 978-3-0369-5127-0

Quotes

«When they still had a Federal Councilor, the SVP said that Samuel Schmid was only half a Federal Councilor. Now they have two federal councilors and they say they have none. In four years they will have four federal councilors and they will say they have minus two. I wonder what kind of drugs they take. "

- Lorenz Keizer in the Tages-Anzeiger on December 28, 2007

literature

• Tanja Stenzl: Lorenz Keizer . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , pp. 973-975.

Web links

• Lorenz Keizer's website
• Literature by and about Lorenz Keizer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lorenz Keizer in the Internet Movie Database (English)