Manfred Stock (entertainer)
Manfred Stock (actually: Ernst Georg Manfred Stock ) (born June 20, 1935 in Leipzig ) is a German entertainer , actor , cabaret artist and inventor of puzzles .
Life
Stock has a professional qualification as a bookseller as well as a stage soloist. Stations of his stage career are the Studio Städtische Theater Leipzig, then the Spielgemeinde Leipzig (theater of the church), the Stadttheater Freiberg, the stages of the city of Zwickau, the theater of the young generation Dresden, the state theaters of Saxony, as well as the state operetta. He played u. a. Ganymede in "The Beautiful Galathee" by Franz von Suppè, Paul in "Die chaste Susanne" by Jean Gilbert and Freddy in the East German premiere of Frederick Loewes "My Fair Lady" at the State Operetta. In the first revues at the Kulturpalast Dresden he was on stage as a personified, historical bridge man Matz Fotz and with his one-man-show "Lexicon of the cheerful muse".
Stock started making puzzles when he was 14. He created thousands of puzzles for various magazines such as the NBI, Für Dich, den Troll, Das Magazin, the Wochenpost, the Pester Lloyd (Hungary) and several specialist magazines such as “Hund”, “Rabbit”, “AutoBild” and Po swetu (Russian- German). He developed his own types of puzzles such as "Meander" and "Anecdote hiding place " and was the constant puzzle moderator of the television series Tele-Lotto.
Stock is the world record holder in the Guinness Book of Records 2000 for a syllable puzzle with 22 words and five proverbs as a vertical solution.
Stock published in anthologies and wrote texts for productions (prologues, framework events, etc.). Of his own pieces were u. a. performed: The blue envelope (Zwickau), Knolle im Märchenwald (artist revue staging in the congress hall of the Hygiene Museum Dresden).
Books and publications (selection)
- 1995 All about puzzles. Frieling, ISBN 3-89009-930-0 .
- 2000 Ich bin die Komische Alte Sachsenbuchverlag, 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-89664-025-9 .
- 2003 Puzzling Anecdotes NoRaVerlag, ISBN 3-936735-10-7 .
- 2006 The source of fitness. (also in Braille). Mallinckroth-Verlag, Paderborn.
- 2007 Magical Anecdotes NoRaVerlag, ISBN 978-3-86557-118-2 .
- 2008 Puzzling Anecdotes DZB (Braille).
- 2009 Erotic anecdotes (graphic by Reinhard Kunze) NoRaVlg. ISBN 978-3-86557-181-6 .
- 2011 Murderers, Stars and Great Dudes - Celebrity Secdotes. Wagner Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86683-981-6 .
- 2013 Little German Riddles - the history of the riddle from anecdote to Sudoku WagnerVerlag, ISBN 978-3-86279-721-9 .
- 2015 bestseller and thriller - monster anecdotes and other (s). Edition Octopus, ISBN 978-3-95645-563-6 .
- 2016 JuxLyrik (graphic by R.Kunze). Edition Octopus, ISBN 978-3-95645-803-3 .
- 2016 German Riddle Studies - the history of the puzzle from anecdote to Sudoku. epubli, ISBN 978-3-95645-876-7 .
- 2017 bestseller and thriller - monster anecdotes and other (s). epubli, ISBN 978-3-95645-563-6 .
- 2020 Best of MS epubli Ebook
Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Stock in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josefine Janert: The Berlin entertainer Manfred Stock came up with over 9,000 puzzles. In: Tagesspiegel from August 10, 1999.
- ↑ Barbara Bollwahn: "I construct for love and not for the sake of money" In: TAZ from May 25, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stock, Manfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stock, Ernst Georg Manfred (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German all-round artist, entertainer, actor, cabaret artist and inventor of puzzles (Guinness book entry) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |