Loriot's 60th birthday

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Television broadcast
Original title Loriot's 60th birthday
Country of production Germany
original language German
year 1983
length 90 minutes
Director Loriot
script Loriot
production Radio Bremen, Süddeutscher Rundfunk
camera Martin Heuer, Dieter Frank, Jochen Theunert, Dieter Deichmann
cut Jutta Sternberg
First broadcast November 12, 1983 on German television
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Loriot's 60th birthday is a German television show from Radio Bremen and the South German Radio produces and November 12, 1983, the 60th birthday of Vicco von Bülow alias Loriot , the German television aired. Loriot wrote the script and directed it himself. It was the first of Loriot's four birthday programs.

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Original contributions

The program begins with a birthday song performed by a string quartet. Then Dr. Günther Wieblinger, coordinator of the German-speaking European television stations, with a speech, is interrupted. This is repeated three times in the course of the program.

The moderator Marlies Hagen, played by Evelyn Hamann, appears and asks the question "Who is Loriot?", Whereupon a cut of sketches is shown, which shows Loriot in different roles. An interview then begins between the presenter and Loriot, which runs through the entire program and is interrupted by several film clips that have already been seen in previous programs by Loriot. In the interview, the viewer learns, among other things, that Loriot, who sits on the sofa and always seems a bit cool, is actually just a role that the birthday boy does not particularly enjoy playing. In reality, his name is not von Bülow , as the press always claims, but Blühmel. "Loriot" is the French name for the bird Blühmel, popularly also called oriole .

Bruno W. Pannek, a small actor from Loriot's series Loriot, congratulates with a poem. Shortly afterwards there was a discussion with Pannek as well as Heinz Meier, Heiner Schmidt, Ingeborg Heydorn and Rudolf Kowalski, all of whom had several appearances in Loriot's sketches. When Hagen asked whether the filming was very funny, the guests respond with embarrassed silence. Hagen suggests that the opportunity to have a discussion on the role of humor and satire on television. Meier only talks about his new engagement in a six-part series that gets along without any comedy. Schmidt first demands a definition of comedy and laughter before we can continue the discussion. Pannek emphasizes that he likes to laugh when it fits, only to then laugh out loud at a completely inappropriate place. Kowalski tries Bringing Schiller's Wallenstein forward, however, is wasted. Already drunk Loriot replies to Hagen's question about his definition of humor and comedy: “I'm for it. But it doesn't have to be either. "

A children's choir appears and sings two serenades to the birthday boy. Thereupon a large basket with birthday telegrams is brought in, but in which there is only a single telegram from the unit manager, who congratulates on behalf of the first television program.

The show ends in a grand finale. The drunken Loriot is led onto a show stage, where an ancient choir awaits him, which stands in a show setting in the Greco-Roman style. Together with politicians from the parties represented in the Bundestag and the directors of the German television stations, the choir sings him a birthday song. Loriot enters an elevator that takes him to Olympus. A laurel wreath is placed on him there. The elevator continues to move upwards, so that at the end only Loriot's legs can be seen hanging from the ceiling. The number 6 of the large golden 60, which is attached to the backdrop, then turns around so that the number 90 can now be seen.

The credits follow. After this, the TV announcer Herdis Zernial announced the performance of the finale of the show on the following big birthdays of Loriot. The venues are becoming ever more exotic, on the 100th birthday it will be shown in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and on the 110th in the lunar crater Copernicus .

Sketch repetitions

The films shown in the course of the program come from Loriot's programs Cartoon , Loriot's Telecabinet and Loriot, as well as from his work for Report Baden-Baden magazine . Only the sketch Flute Concerto was shown for the first time. It was originally produced for Loriot  VI, but was not broadcast for dramaturgical reasons and due to limited airtime. The following skits can be seen in the order given:

Production and publication

The program was produced jointly by Süddeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Bremen. For the former, Loriot had hosted the cartoon show , the latter had already produced the Loriot series. The dancers appearing in the final were members of a ballet group from the Bremen Theater on Goetheplatz , the singing came from a choir from Oyten . It had already been recorded beforehand, and the extras on the show only moved their mouths to playback. Be heard in the final was the Great Festival March by Richard Wagner, a commissioned work for the 100th birthday of the USA. Loriot, a great Wagner fan, had shown scruples in another case about using a work by the composer he valued for his comedy. He and his friend and colleague Stefan Lukschy thought the march was so unsuccessful that this time there was no remorse.

The program was broadcast on Vicco von Bülow's 60th birthday, November 12, 1983, on German television (today: Das Erste ). In the same year it appeared on VHS . The final was shown again in the program Loriot's 65th birthday from 1988, also produced by Radio Bremen and broadcast on Erste .

In 1997, Loriot rearranged his television work, turning the six original Loriot episodes and other material into fourteen 25-minute episodes. The eighth episode, entitled The 60th Birthday, consists of parts of the program Loriot's 60th Birthday . Contains a shortened version of the compilation Who is Loriot? , Parts of the interview, the sketch etiquette , the discussion and the finale. The show was broadcast on June 10, 1997 on Das Erste.

The text of the views presented by Rudolf Kowalski on “Des Ernstes Kunst” appeared in the lyric chapter of Loriot's Collected Prose .

Audio and video carriers

  • Loriot's 60th birthday. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 1983, VHS (complete).
  • Loriot - His large sketch archive. Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2001, DVD No. 3 ( Loriot 8 ).
  • Loriot - The complete television edition . Warner Home Video, Hamburg 2007, DVD No. 2 (without repeated sketches).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Stefan Lukschy: The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. 2013, pp. 148-150.
  2. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, pp. 410-411. Uwe Ehlert: "That is probably more of a communication disorder". The representation of misunderstandings in Loriot's work . ALDA! Der Verlag, Nottuln 2004, ISBN 3-937979-00-X , p. 443 (also dissertation at the University of Münster 2003).
  3. a b Stefan Lukschy: The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. 2013, p. 183.
  4. Stefan Lukschy: The lucky one doesn't hit dogs. 2013, pp. 70–71.
  5. Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. 2011, p. 416.
  6. Loriot: Collected Prose . Diogenes, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-257-06481-0 , pp. 661 .