Ludwig Manfred Lommel

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Ludwig Manfred Lommel (born January 10, 1891 in Jauer / Lower Silesia, † September 19, 1962 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German humorist .

Career

Lommel grew up in Neukirch an der Katzbach as the son of a cloth manufacturer. From 1908 he lived in Bremen to gain experience in his father's industry. But Lommel was drawn more to the theater. He secretly took acting classes, whereupon he was sent to business friends in Manchester as punishment . Despite this supervision, he made his debut on stage in the Prince Theater in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight under the pseudonym "Charles Holmes", whereupon his father cut him the benefits. He returned to Germany as a representative “in oils and in fats”.

During World War I he was a reserve officer and imitated the sounds of aircraft engines for the amusement of his subordinates. An encounter with a Silesian farmer in national costume inspired him to play the role of "Paul Neugebauer", which later became so successful.

After the end of the First World War, Lommel became, like many of those discharged from the army without a trained profession, a ›wine traveler‹. Since he was unsuccessful in this, he turned back to acting as a comedian. He became famous through solo tours and on the radio through numerous couplets , but above all through his "Stories from Runxendorf" with the main characters Paul and Pauline Neugebauer . He could vocal parody up to 12 different people within a scene and credibly imitate the necessary noises from the carpenter's saw to the dentist's drill. In his lectures he was mostly accompanied on the piano by the pianists and composers Siegfried Klupsch and Werner König .

In the late Weimar period , Lommel reached the peak of his popularity; he successfully appeared in several films that have now disappeared, and records of his humorous lectures sold in enormous numbers. Lommel was one of the most popular radio comedians under National Socialism. In 1938 he was director of the Great Comedy Theater on Friedrichstrasse for a year. Occasionally he worked with the quick-talk comedian Gisela Schlueter . With her he was hired for a short advertising film for the Sparkasse in 1942 .

After 1945 he settled in Bad Nauheim and got involved in various charitable projects for the benefit of the displaced . For this, Lommel was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and various other awards in 1956 . In the 1950s his contributions ( Paul and Pauline ) came regularly on the Hessischer Rundfunk .

Lommel had five children:

Filmography

“The film of the 1930s secured the enormous popularity of the parodist, dialect and voice imitator Ludwig Manfred Lommel ...”. He has appeared in five full-length films and eight short films:

(italic: role )

  • 1930: Barracks magic: Sergeant Sturm
  • 1932: Ludwig Manfred Lommel (short film, 2 acts): [also screenplay]
  • 1936: Paul and Pauline: Paul Neugebauer
  • 1936: Hilde and the 4 hp
  • 1937: Rooster in the basket
  • 1937: Guest in his own home (short film): Mr. Kroll
  • 1937/1938: Have a good trip, Mr. Meier (short film)
  • 1937/1938: A deliberate act (short film): Master carpenter Groot
  • 1938: brass music (short film)
  • 1938: Klimbusch does the weekend (short film): Authorized signatory Klimbusch
  • 1938/1939: The gentleman in the house (short film) l
  • 1938/1939: Customer service (short film)
  • 1942: Mr. Schnick and Mrs. Schnack (short advertising film for the Sparkasse, with Gisela Schlüter)
  • 1956: Christel von der Post: Botanist Prof. Manfred Hummel

Discography

  • The latest from Runxendorf (double LP, reissued as CD)
  • The station Runxendorf speaks here (10-inch vinyl record, Bertelsmann record ring No. 33037)

Web links

Illustrations

  • Photo by Lommel from a catalog of the record company Homocord from 1929 [12]
  • Lommel's grave in Bad Nauheim [13]
  • Title of Lommel's book "Lache mit Lommel" [14] (“Das Beste von der Welle des Sender Runxendorf”. Selection from the volume published in 1943, supplemented by some new sketches. M. Numerous Illustr. By Ernst Scholz. Landshut: Aufstieg-Verl., 1987. 93 p.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in his couplet lecture “And my earlier job” he later refers to it, cf. Homocord 4-3128 (TC964), listen to and read the text at [1]
  2. ↑ a b so Meurer in Titanic 1/2007
  3. ↑ at the “ Schlesische Funkstunde ”, cf. Künstler im Rundfunk IV, p. 41 [2] ; Front page of the radio newspaper “Schlesische Funkstunde” at [3] , advertisement for the magazine at Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dra.de
  4. ↑ Photo: Siegfried Klupsch (left) and Ludwig Manfred Lommel in the sketch "Pauline in the Welfare Office" in Berlin's Scala 1937, at grammophon-platten.de [4]
  5. ↑ Werner König: Review . Nemeter-Verlag, Speyer 2004. pp. 62-64.
  6. ↑ Sample from 1941 at titanic-magazin.de [5]
  7. ↑ cf. Filmportal.de [6]
  8. ↑ Source 1: filmportal.de [7] , Source 2: fan page: filme [8]
  9. ↑ The film aroused the annoyance of the Württemberg censorship authority at the time because of - from today's point of view - harmless trifles (Lommel tells two jokes that are not completely clean), cf. Audit decisions at [9]
  10. ↑ Title page of the sheet music for the two film hits, the tango “Eine sehr kleine Liebe” and the Slowfox “What do you do when you are supposed to kiss” (both by Walter Kollo with words by Hans Brennecke) at [10]
personal data
SURNAME Lommel, Ludwig Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humorist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Yeah
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1962
Place of death Bad Nauheim