Max Uthoff

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Max Uthoff (2016)

Maximilian "Max" Uthoff (born September 24, 1967 in Munich ) is a German cabaret artist .

Since February 2014 he presented together with Claus von Wagner hosted the ZDF telecast the institution .

In 2019 Uthoff received the German Cabaret Prize . The reason given by the Nuremberg Burgtheater , which awards the prize together with the city of Nuremberg , stated that he " relentlessly demonstrates the contradictions and injustices of our social system with dry humor ."

Life / career

Max Uthoff's father Reiner Uthoff founded the Munich Rationaltheater in 1965 and ran it together with his wife Sylvia Uthoff for thirty years before it was idle for ten years. There Max Uthoff gained his first experiences on and behind the stage. He studied law and passed the second state examination in 2002 .

From 2006 Max Uthoff resumed the operation of the rational theater, but gave up the management in July 2008, as his numerous appearances at other venues left less and less time for regular theater operations.

He has appeared as a solo artist since 2007 and has since tried “to unhinge the capitalist system using satire .” His first cabaret program was titled You are here! , a recording from September 2010 was also published as an audio book in 2011 .

From 2011 to 2013 he was a regular guest on the ZDF cabaret show Neues aus der Anstalt as a "lawyer" .

The main prize of the Bavarian Cabaret Prize in 2020 goes to Max Uthoff. His interpretations of the "world madness" are gripping and rousing, explained the Bavarian radio . In addition, he unmasked "dissecting political lies" and clumsy economic contexts apart.

Uthoff lives in Munich, is married and has two daughters.

Controversy

On the occasion of his remarks on the war in Ukraine and his media scolding in the eighth episode of Die Anstalt , the Frankfurter Rundschau accused Uthoff of “stereotyped black and white thinking without intellectual differentiation”. He was "completely obsessed with the fairy tale of remote-controlled Ukraine and a Russia that sees itself solely responsible for the safety of the innocent Eastern Ukrainian population who - supported by the NATO devil - is bombed out by a fasco government." "A Ken Jebsen on his vigil no better either."

Matthias Lohr conducted an interview with Uthoff for the Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , in which he described him as Germany's most important cabaret artist. At the same time, in view of Uthoff's statement that the German media were "with their head in the ass of the Americans", he was reminded of "the criticism of the Pegida demonstrators of the allegedly aligned mainstream press ". Uthoff defended himself that it was "the job of journalists" to "differentiate finely", while his job as a cabaret artist was to "denounce grievances and satirically exaggerate them, sometimes to the limit of pain". The accusation by journalists against Die Anstalt is therefore not justified. Rather, “the differentiation in the Ukraine crisis [...] in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit ” is missing . In the institution “they never said that Putin was an angel. It's about starting a civil war [...] in which NATO and the Americans have very specific interests. "

Josef Joffe , the editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , led a legal dispute against Uthoff, because he had assumed that Joffe was a member of organizations that would lobby , but initially lost at the Hamburg Regional Court . The Hamburg Higher Regional Court then ruled Joffe on September 9, 2015 and prohibited Uthoff from further disseminating or repeating the contentious statements. On January 10, 2017, the Federal Court of Justice rejected the judgment of the Hamburg Higher Regional Court and followed the opinion of the first instance that the satirical presentation of a situation may also contain inaccuracies.

Solo programs

  • 2007 to 2011: You are here!
  • 2011 to 2014: stay on top
  • 2014 to 2018: reply
  • since October 2018: Moscow dogs

Discography

Awards

Web links

Commons : Max Uthoff  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ZDF finds "Anstalts" successor for Priol and Pelzig , DWDL.de, accessed on September 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Max Uthoff receives the German Cabaret Prize 2019. December 22, 2019, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b partner . February 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ruth Schneeberger: Max Uthoff in Berlin - Man without Fear? Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bavarian Cabaret Prize goes to Max Uthoff. Nürnberger Nachrichten , March 13, 2020, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Cabaret artist Max Uthoff: "My anger has grown bigger" , Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , December 16, 2014
  7. ↑ Katja Thorwarth: Ken Jebsen Stammtisch on ZDF , Frankfurter Rundschau from December 11, 2014
  8. ^ LTO: The institution loses before the Hamburg Higher Regional Court against Die Zeit .
  9. ↑ Markus Kompa: Hamburg Higher Regional Court is not a joke: satirists have to research carefully .
  10. ↑ Federal Court of Justice rejects the judgment of the OLG Hamburg "Zeit" journalists fail with lawsuit against ZDF-Satire , Spiegel-Online from January 10, 2017
  11. ↑ a b c d e Cool tour agency >> Vita Max Uthoff << .
  12. ↑ Star of the Year 2013 Cabaret: Max Uthoff , Abendzeitung, December 26, 2013.
  13. ↑ Grimme Institute winner of the 51st Grimme Prize announced . Press release from March 4th, 2015
  14. ↑ kili: m3 marler media award for human rights .
  15. ↑ Prize Winner 2016 , on deutscher-fernsehpreis.de, accessed on February 11, 2019
  16. ↑ Kabarett News 11/2016: Aschersleben Cabaret Prize for "Die Anstalt" .
  17. ↑ Deutsche Umwelthilfe awards 2017 Environmental Media Prize .
  18. ↑ Cornichon 2019 goes to Max Uthoff. News 03/2019. In: kabarett-news.de. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Nürnberger Burgtheater German Cabaret Prize Winner 2019 , accessed on September 14, 2019
  20. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Award ceremony: Bavarian Cabaret Award 2020: The winners . March 13, 2020 ( br.de [accessed on March 13, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Uthoff, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uthoff, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich