Ludger Stratmann

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Ludger Stratmann (2014)

Ludger Stratmann (born July 23, 1948 in Verl ; † August 25, 2021 in Bottrop ) was a German doctor and cabaret artist .

Life

Youth and medical work

After the early death of his father, his mother Margret moved to Essen with her nine children (of whom Ludger was the second youngest) in 1958 . There Ludger Stratmann attended various schools, finally a commercial school and did a savings bank apprenticeship. After completing his Abitur at the episcopal evening grammar school in Essen (today: Nikolaus-Groß-Abendgymnasium ), he studied human medicine in Bochum and Essen. During his student days he made his first attempts at cabaret.

After completing his studies in Essen, he worked as an assistant doctor at the Marienhospital in Gelsenkirchen . In 1985 Ludger Stratmann did his doctorate at the Ruhr University in Bochum on the subject of tumor diseases of the duodenum , literature review and own observations . Then he settled in Bottrop with a practice for general medicine . He stopped practicing in 1998 and devoted himself exclusively to his stage work.

Cabaret work

Together with his brother Christian Stratmann (* 1951) he opened the Stratmanns Theater Europahaus in the Amerikahaus in Essen in December 1994 , after years of looking for a suitable location for a cabaret and renovating the dilapidated building for 2.5 million euros. Since July 1995 Ludger Stratmann has appeared on his own stage with various cabaret programs under the title Doctor Stratmanns - Heiteres Medizinisches Kabarett .

Since 1995 Ludger Stratmann, who became known in the cabaret scene as “the doctor”, has written a new solo stage program about every two years and initially played it on stage together with the pianist Hagen Rether . From 2005 he performed solo. The titles of the programs are: The main thing is that I get help! (1995), Today I'll come with my leg! (1997), the main thing is not fat ... (1999), free yourself, please! (2005), Malpractice (2009) and Pathological (2015). Up until 2007, these stage programs visited around 1.2 million people live in his theater and on stages from Flensburg to Munich. Stratmann was one of the most successful cabaret artists and live comedians in Germany. The television broadcaster WDR broadcast the first three programs in full. Ludger Stratmann filled the Grugahalle several times with up to 4,500 spectators. In 2003 he played the three different two-hour programs on three consecutive evenings in front of 1500 spectators in the Hagen town hall . He always embodied the hypochondriac, stage worker and allotment garden president Josef Kwiatkowski "Jupp", who gives pseudoscientific lectures on the course of illness and delivers amusing descriptions of the milieu, whereby Stratmann is at his workplace, in the waiting room or in the sickbed.

In Stratmann's first three stage programs, he played himself as a white-smocked representative of his profession, quickly caricaturing the doctors' billing system, everyday practice, the behavior of patients and medical colleagues, and politics. Later, for example, there was ironic criticism of technical aids (a wooden leg used to do it too!) . Stratmann, who has been compared to Tegtmeier , often targeted the people and quirks of the Ruhr area. In the figure of Jupp in particular, Stratmann repeatedly used the actual or supposed dialect and sociolect ("Doctor, I have knee."), Among other things with renouncing the genitive and having problems with the dative . Stratmann's lecture was often quick and required concentration from the audience, according to the Westdeutsche Zeitung "in the best old-school cabaret manner".

From 1997 to 2000, Stratmann played the Kohlenpott bar host Jupp on Wednesdays with… on WDR . Since 2001 he had his own comedy show on WDR with Stratmanns - Jupps Kneipentheater im Pott . In 2016, the WDR recorded the one hundred and fiftieth program that Ludger Stratmann ended after 15 years with around one million viewers nationwide for health reasons. He also appeared on television in the cabaret programs Mitternachtsspitzen , with his colleagues, the Missfits , in Ottis Schlachthof , Rudi Carrell's 7 Days, 7 Heads , in the sitcom Praxis Doktor Stratmann produced by Rudi Carrell , on ZDF at the final whistle , in the talk shows Markus Lanz , Current Schaubude , Herman & Tietjen and DAS in the NDR talk show , several times on Böttinger , in Kölner Treff and in Rogler's mad cabaret ( SWR ). He was twice a guest at Zimmer frei! . On September 29, 2003, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul presented Christian and Ludger Stratmann with the innovation award of the Working Group of Self-Employed in the SPD (AGS) in the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Berlin , because "through their management in an exemplary manner for innovation, entrepreneurial initiative and social commitment ”. On November 14, 2003, Ludger Stratmann was awarded the City of Bottrop's Culture Prize. He understands "time and again to put people here in our city and Ruhr region with all their joys and sorrows at the center of his cabaret diagnoses". The laudation was given by Wolfgang Clement . He also received a number of carnival medals, such as the top spring in Mülheim in 2002 and the foolish hobby horse in Krefeld. In 2003 he was honored with the prestigious Morenhovener Lupe cabaret prize. On November 21, 2005, the North Rhine-Westphalian Labor Minister Karl-Josef Laumann presented him with the “Employment Promotion Prize of the Solidarity Fund Castrop-Rauxel ”. In November 2009 Stratmann was awarded the Tegtmeiers Erben Honor Prize.

In autumn 2003 Stratmann bought the shares in the company from his brother Christian and has been running the theater on his own ever since. His brother has been running the Mondpalast in Herne-Wanne , a people's theater in the Ruhr area , since January 2004 . In 2016, Ludger Stratmann handed over the Stratmanns Theater to his son as the sole managing director and owner.

Private

Stratmann was the ambassador of the v. Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel .

He had been married to Brigitte since 1971 and had two grown children. His younger brother is the principal Christian Stratmann.

Stratmann died surprisingly on August 25, 2021 in his house in Bottrop of a heart attack .

Awards (selection)

factories

CDs

  • "The main thing is that I get help" (1997)
  • "Today I'll come with my leg" (1998)
  • "The main thing is not fat ..." (2001)
  • "Doctor Stratmann - Best of ..." (2003)
  • "Free yourself, please!" (2006)
  • "Malpractice" (2009)
  • "Pathological" (2016)

DVDs

  • "Doctor Stratmann - Best of ..." (2006)
  • "Doctor Stratmann - Free yourself up, please!" (2008)

Fonts

  • Tumor diseases of the duodenum. Literature review and own observations . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 1986.
  • Today I come with my ball. Jupp his World Cup . With illustrations by Christina Groth-Lindenberg. Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag, Bottrop 2006, ISBN 978-3-922750-69-7 .
  • Yup his stretched . In: Hermann Beckfeld (Ed.): ... the boss continues to play in heaven . Football stories from the Ruhr area. Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag, Bottrop, ISBN 3-922750-62-1 .
  • Mushroom in Buxe. Cheerful medical comic . Illustrated by Christina Groth-Lindenberg. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0491-0 .

Web links

Commons : Ludger Stratmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview for the local time in Münsterland on February 6, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Joachim Burghardt: Dr. Stratmann: "The whole of life is medicine". In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. January 13, 2005, archived from the original on June 21, 2007 ; Retrieved April 25, 2014 .
  3. ↑ High carnival award for the medical "open mouth" . In: Doctors newspaper , February 11, 2002.
  4. ↑ Josy Wübben: The pot is simmering . ( Memento from October 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Hochschulanzeiger , June 7, 2004.
  5. ↑ Filmspiegel - program of the Essen film art theaters and the Lichtburg . In: Filmspiegel Essen .
  6. ↑ Dr. Ludger Stratmann receives culture award from the city of Bottrop. Retrieved April 25, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Cabaret artist Dr. Stratmann is recognized by the Castrop-Rauxel solidarity fund . Information Service Ruhr, November 10, 2005
  8. ↑ Christian Stratmann leaves the Europahaus to his brother . Information Service Ruhr, July 25, 2003
  9. ↑ Dr. Ludger Stratmann | Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel. Retrieved February 9, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Ludger Stratmann died unexpectedly . In: www1.wdr.de . August 25, 2021.
  11. ^ WAZ of August 25, 2021: Obituary. The Ruhr area his doctor - Ludger Stratmann is dead (Dirk Aschendorf and Matthias Düngelhoff)
  12. ↑ "Dr. Stratmann ": Cabaret artist Ludger Stratmann dies , deutschlandfunk.de , August 27, 2021
  13. ↑ Ministerialblatt (MBl. NRW.) . Edition 2017 No. 4 from February 3, 2017, pages 59 to 70. Accessed February 5, 2017.
  14. ^ State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. . Awarded the State Order of Merit on January 18, 2017. Retrieved on February 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Stratmann, Ludger
SHORT DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist
BIRTH DATE July 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Loss
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Bottrop