Mateng Pollkläsener

Mateng Pollkläsener

Mateng Pollkläsener (born November 30, 1960 in Wiedenbrück as Martin Pollkläsener ) is a German actor, cabaret artist and director. He is one of the founding members of the theater du pain .

Live and act

Private

Martin Pollkläsener was born and raised in Wiedenbrück (now Rheda-Wiedenbrück), North Rhine-Westphalia, the son of the master baker and confectioner Heinz Pollkläsener and his wife Margret, née Kleibaumhueter, with an older brother and a younger sister.

When his brother Uli returned home from a trip to South America in 1976, he temporarily adopted a South American dialect: “My brother Martin” became “Mi hermano Mateng”. He quickly became a brother again, the nickname Mateng remained. He still bears this name today. In the meantime he is entered as a stage name in his passport.

Mateng Pollkläsener learned to be a carpenter. He has been married to his wife Rita since 2002, whom he met when the theater du pain first performed on September 1, 1984.

Artistic career

theatre

During his apprenticeship as a carpenter, he played as a drummer and singer in a band. He also demonstrated his first acting talent in performances in a youth group. Brother Uli was so enthusiastic about his role as Danish cook from the “Muppet Show” that he persuaded him to follow him to Paderborn. On the second educational path he made up his Abitur and founded the performance group “The Six Correct” with his brother and four other companions. These appeared as street theater far beyond the borders of his home region.

The theater du pain was created in 1984 from “the six correct ones” . Hans König and Mateng Pollkläsener from Bremen established themselves with a changing ensemble with their bizarre and ludicrous programs in the German off-theater scene. To this day, the features section loves this anarchic mixture of absurd wit, malice and a good deal of self-irony.

In the warehouse in Bremen, the theater du pain offered ideal conditions for constantly staging new programs. Wolfgang Suchner, who comes from Wuppertal, has been a permanent member of the ensemble since 1999.

From 1997 to 2002 the former street artist was a member of the ensemble of the Bremen Goethe Theater and was involved in opera productions such as “ Carmen ” and “ The Discovery of Slowness ” or in the musical “ West Side Story ”.

As before, it is a third of the theater du pain, which u. a. 1995 was awarded the WDR audience award "Prix Pantheon Bonn", to be seen in Germany and neighboring countries. In addition to this tradition, the actor is looking for new challenges as a member of the ensemble of the young Bremen theater, in a theatrical city action for the Year of Science in Bremen, in an open-air production of "Moby Dick" in the historic port of Vegesack, a district of Bremen, or in the project "Science Cliption", science in a nutshell.

Movie and TV

Mateng Pollkläsener was also a guest on film and television. He made his celluloid debut in 1985 in “La Poetica Norma”, a tour from Trieste through Germany as part of the “Blue Caravan”, which was documented by both ARD and ZDF. He was seen in a guest role in the ARD early evening series “Not from Bad Parents” and “From Good House”, as well as in the feature film “Crazy for Paris” directed by Pago Balke and Eike Besuden .

Works

• 1993: Beat Aleman - theater du pain , premiere at Documenta IX, Kassel
• 1994: Fantasies in the Bremen Ratskeller , play based on a story by Wilhelm Hauff, performances in the lower town hall, Bremen
• 1997–2002: Engagement at the Goethe Theater in Bremen

with the following performances:

Discovery of slowness, opera

West Side Story, musical

Molière or The Executioners of the Comedians, opera

Carmen, opera; Rosenkavalier, opera

Suzuki I + II, acting

Noah, opera

Satyricon, opera

• 1999–2000: Young Theater Bremen

with the following performances:

Missery, acting

The Race, acting

Shopping and fucking, acting

• 2000

Das Große Glas (text and direction Hans König) - homage to M. Duchamp, drama

• 2002

Der Meister & Margarita in Berlin, stage adaptation of "Der Meister und Margarita" by Michail Bulgakow, play (arranged by Hans König, directed by Christian Bronder)

• 2004

Rutting + joy, theater du pain, musical theater

Porte Dauphine, Butzbacher & Brommelmeier, text by Hans König, directed by Sarah Harjes, drama

Seilanz, by Hans-Joachim Hespos, scenic adventure as part of the conference of the project group New Music

• 2005/06

Guest performances with the Theater du Pain and the Ensemble Butzbacher & Brommelmacher in German-speaking Europe

• 2005

Theatrical city action for the Year of Science in Bremen, improvisation and action theater

• 2006

Wortbrot & Fischgesang, theater du pain, musical theater

In the white horse, operetta, Worpswede

Karoshi, music performance, Schwankhalle, Bremen

• 2007

Die Drei Rätsel, by Detlev Glanert, opera in two acts for children and adults

Orchester du Pain, premiere of the orchestra

• 2008

Captain Ahab in "Moby Dick", open-air production, text and direction Hans König, drama

MIRLI, chamber opera by Hans-Joachim Hespos

Survival artist, drama, Schwankhalle, Bremen

Poems to the night, recitations and drama, Schwankhalle, Bremen

• 2009

The comical German, musical and humorous recitations of great German poets in the Bremen concert hall Die Glocke , in-house production, director: Kevin Young

Faust II, music theater project with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, at the comprehensive school east, Bremen

Image film for Airbus, Hamburg

We made a fire, script , direction and production together with Pago Balke - as part of the Chance 50+ project “KulTourGuides” of the BAgIS Bremen and Bremerhaven

Butzbacher & Brommelmeier, “Why not Mexico?”, Play, text by Hans König, direction Sarah Harjes

• 2010

Schlaglichter - A volcanic revue, together with the script , direction and production with Pago Balke - as part of the Chance 50+ project “KulTourGuides” of the BAgIS Bremen and Bremerhaven

• 2011

Corporate theater Opus Novum, Bremen for EWE, Oldenburg, STAS, Reilingen, Stadtwerke Wedel u. a.

Guest performances with the theater du pain in February, March, April, May, October, November

Kafka project: silent film with voice, idea Peter Borowski, Berlin

• 2012

Science cliption, science in a nutshell

• 2013

75th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz, Bremen - theatrical background music for the ceremony with Hans König

Crime theater

The temporary port bar Golden City - in the events during the 3-month summer season, the temporary port bar "Golden City" at the Europahafenkopf has been bringing a breath of fresh air to the Überseestadt Bremen since 2013

• 2014

Crime theater

Swinging Detective

• 2015

Bremer Eiswette - project - as Captain Karl-Heinz Schmidtke, Pollkläsener takes on the novices' introduction to the presidium

Crime theater

The Baskerville Dog

Danish delicacies

Wait until it gets dark

Arsenic and lace cap

Filmography

• 1985: La Poetica Norma, tour from Trieste through Germany as part of the Blue Caravan , documented by ARD and ZDF
• 1988: Durst by Uwe Stoll, short cinema film
• 1991: Extra Light on channel 4
• 1995: Not from bad parents, ARD evening series
• 1996: The Pope in Bremen, satire, Open Channel Bremen
• 1996: Isernhagen Law, pilot film by and with Oliver Kalkofe, Oliver Welke, Sabine Bulthaupt for premiere
• 1999: From a good home, series on ARD
• 2002: Crazy about Paris, movie

Awards

• 1995: Award of the theater du pain with the audience award Prix Pantheon Bonn, WDR
• 1995: Cabaret Prize Das Kupferle for “theater du pain”, Zehntscheuer, Ravensburg

Web links

• http://www.theatredupain.de/
• http://www.science-cliption.de/
• Mateng Pollkläsener in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personal interview with Mateng Pollkläsener from January 20, 2015 with Akribes - Consulting & Coaching, Bremen, Arne Gloe
2. ^ Report on the actor in the district newspaper
3. ↑ Report on the theater du pain on the Wuppertal culture website njuuz.de