Matthias Beltz

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Matthias Beltz (born January 31, 1945 in Wohnfeld / Vogelsberg ; † March 27, 2002 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German cabaret artist and freelance writer .

Life

The son of a businessman and a commercial teacher grew up in Gießen , where the family moved in 1945 after the father was reported missing on the Eastern Front . He graduated from the Alte Realgymnasium (now Herderschule ) and, after graduating from high school in 1964, studied law for four semesters in Marburg . From 1966 he moved to the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he also joined the Socialist German Student Union (SDS). In the spontaneous scene there , he made the acquaintance of Daniel Cohn-Bendit , Joschka Fischer and his long-time friend Johnny Klinke . The 1969 legal state examination was followed by a year-long work at the student legal aid organization Republican Aid . He broke off the legal traineeship in Darmstadt and Offenbach, which began in 1970, and began working for Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim . At that time he was a member of the Frankfurt Revolutionary Struggle group , which wanted to bring the revolution to the factories. He stayed with Opel until 1977, although the group had disbanded years earlier. During this time, Beltz made his first appearances with skilful Willy Brandt parodies.

From 1976 to 1981 he was a member of the Karl Napps Chaos Theater ensemble , from which the Provisional Frankfurter Fronttheater with Hendrike von Sydow and Dieter Thomas emerged in 1982 . Beltz has also been seen on stage and on television alongside Heinrich Pachl since 1984 . Since 1989 he has performed as a solo cabaret artist with programs such as acquittal for all - mercy for no one , feet in fire or emergency battles in numerous German cities. He also worked with other artists in various projects, such as in 1989 with the musicians Anne Bärenz and Frank Wolff in Liberté, Egalité, Varieté or with cabaret colleagues such as Horst Schroth , Arnulf Rating , Heinrich Pachl and Achim Konejung at the Reichspolterabend . From December 1996 he played the frog in Die Fledermaus in the Giessen city theater . In addition, since this year he has had regular appearances on the TV show Ottis Schlachthof at BR .

In 1988 Beltz founded the Tigerpalast Varieté in Frankfurt together with Johnny Klinke and Margareta Dillinger , in which he often also led the program as an emcee. His first major solo program in 1989 was Mercy for Nobody - acquittal for everyone . TV programs followed, including in 1991 the satirical look-up after the topics of the day . He moderated numerous radio series, especially with HR (from 1997 HR1- Meridian , from 1999 theater talks , from 2000 Who is laughing at whom here ). From November 1995 to 1998 Beltz invited illustrious guests to the Theater am Turm in the Bockenheimer Depot for the Monday evening party . In 2001 he succeeded Hanns Dieter Hüsch as the presenter of the SR social evening .

Grave in Frankfurt am Main

Matthias Beltz died unexpectedly of a heart attack in his apartment in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen in 2002 shortly before an evening appearance in the Tigerpalast. He was buried in the main cemetery in Frankfurt .

A star in the Walk of Fame of the cabaret in Mainz is dedicated to him. In an obituary in the feature section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Lorenz Jäger found it remarkable that Beltz addressed the transition of the militant left of the 1960s and 1970s to the “ illusionary noise of peace ” and thus “almost single-handedly discovered” the left as the subject of satire. He had freed the cabaret from its commitment to jokes about conservative politicians.

On February 7, 2003, his play Die Frankfurter Verlobung (An understatement comedy) premiered posthumously at the Schauspiel Frankfurt .

In June 2006, the installation Collected Understandings - Media Library Matthias Beltz was opened. Beltz's widow Christiane Meyer-Thoss and Maria Gazzetti, director of the exhibition venue, the relocated Literaturhaus Frankfurt , as well as the "Matthias Beltz Association" founded in 2003 promote the idea of ​​a publicly accessible media library, material and book collection.

On February 4th, 2011 the CD OBEN - Beltz Remixed by Oliver Augst and Rüdiger Carl was released on the Badly Organized Label by Mille Plateaux . For this purpose, original recordings by Beltz were set to music.

Ensembles

Solo programs

  • Acquittal for All - Mercy for Nobody (1989–1991)
  • Feet in Fire (1991-1994)
  • Executioner wanted (interim program summer 1993)
  • The few days left (1994–1997)
  • More money, less trouble (interim program spring / summer 1997)
  • Emergency battles (1997-2000)
  • Own account - when everything pays off + nobody pays (2000–2002)

Fonts

  • Matthias Beltz: Mercy for nobody - acquittal for everyone. Ammann, Zurich 1990. ISBN 3-250-01036-7
  • Matthias Beltz: The few days left. Ammann, Zurich 1994. ISBN 3-250-10228-8
  • Matthias Beltz: Schlammbeisser's world feeling: the intrusiveness of the present. Ammann, Zurich 1995. ISBN 3-250-10276-8
  • Matthias Beltz: Emergency battles: the 7 world crimes. Transit, Berlin. ISBN 3-88747-125-3
  • Matthias Beltz: Your own account: if everything pays off + nobody pays. Transit, Berlin. ISBN 3-88747-151-2
  • Volker Kühn (Ed.): Good and bad. Collected understatements in two volumes. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2004. ISBN 3-86150-626-2

Prices

Further honors

In 2014, in the north end of Frankfurt , the so-called small Friedberger Platz was named "Matthias-Beltz-Platz".

Web links

Commons : Matthias Beltz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The biography, in: Das Böse. Collected understatements. Volume 2, page 875
  2. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. March 30, 2002, p. 83, Michael Hierholzer: Experience basis Sachsenhausen. Appearances primed with a lot of local color: On the death of the Frankfurt cabaret artist Matthias Beltz
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Matthias Beltz
  4. ↑ In: Lorenz Jäger: Applied Dialectics. On the death of Matthias Beltz , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v. March 30, 2002, p. 42
  5. ↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Matthias Beltz: Späte Ehrung ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Frankfurter Rundschau. May 30, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2014.
  6. ↑ Place reminds of Matthias Beltz in: Frankfurter Neue Presse. March 5, 2014 ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Beltz, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist and freelance writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Wohnfeld , Vogelsberg
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2002
Place of death Frankfurt am Main