Massimo Rocchi

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Massimo Rocchi (2019)

Massimo Rocchi (born March 11, 1957 in Cesena , Italy ) is an Italian- Swiss comedian .

Live and act

After graduating from high school Vincenzo Monti in Cesena (1976), Rocchi studied theater studies at the University of Bologna. In 1978 he took part in the Mime-Corporel class with Etienne Decroux in Boulogne-Billancourt, France . In the following three years he attended the École Internationale Marcel Marceau , where he received his diploma in 1982. He wrote theater productions such as Spiagge Italiane, FACSIMILE, Auä, Circo Massimo, rocCHipedia . In 2003 he was in the title role in the anniversary program of the Swiss Circus Knie "jeztz or Knie" throughout the year. In 2012 he made his debut as Opera Buffa director at the Opera Theater Basel with Joseph Haydn's “Lo Speziale” in 2012 and Gaetano Donizetti's “Don Pasquale” in 2014. On the occasion of the Dies academicus 2011 at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland), the Philosophical Faculty awarded him the Honorary doctorate.

His first programs were purely pantomime before he developed into speaking pantomime and language acrobat. He still not only plays with language, but also masters body language. Massimo Rocchi likes to caricature cultural archetypes as well as linguistic peculiarities and absurdities in his stage shows. He uses German (high-level language and Swiss dialect), French, Spanish and Italian; often he changes the language within a program.

In 2013, Massimo Rocchi was charged by musician David Klein for violating the Swiss criminal law on racism . In the discussion program Sternstunde Philosophie of Swiss television, Rocchi was asked by moderator Juri Steiner about the term " pleasure gain " from the book " The joke and its relationship to the unconscious " by the (Jewish) psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud . Rocchi responded with the anti-Semitic stereotype of the greedy Jew: “So that is very close to Freud - I apologize, but I say that - there is always interest in Jewish humor that (one) wants to earn. The Jew often uses humor to show that he is Jewish and that he has a sense of humor and that he is close to God. " Rolf Bossart wrote in the left-wing WOZ : " There is no better way than Massimo Rocchi to reveal what is specific in today's anti-Semitism." The proceedings are pending with the public prosecutor Jürg Boll in Zurich.

Rocchi lives in Basel .

Productions

  • 1986: Spiagge Italiane
  • 1989: Mamma Mia
  • 1990: Plages italiennes
  • 1991: The Oracle in the Desert
  • 1993: Massimo & Rocchi
  • 1994: äuä
  • 1997: je viens de partir
  • 1999: Adele!
  • 2001: Circo Massimo (version for Germany and Austria)
  • 2003: now or Knie (anniversary tour 200 years of the Knie family with the Swiss National Circus )
  • 2005: Circo Massimo (Swiss version)
  • 2009: rocCHipedia
  • 2015: EUä
  • 2017: sixty
  • 2018: Amazement in Wintergarten Varieté, Berlin, Germany
  • 2019: Life

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Massimo Rocchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Programmed tragedy. Rolf Bossart on three and more cases of anti-Semitism. In: WOZ . No. 13/2013 of March 28, 2013, accessed on November 24, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rocchi, Massimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Swiss comedian
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cesena