Maximilian Osterritter

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Maximilian Osterritter , also Max Osterritter or Maxi Osterritter (* 1956 in Bonn ; † 1999 there ) was a German cabaret artist and actor .

Life

Maximilian Osterritter came from the Bonn artist family Osterritter, whose most famous representative was the painter and caricaturist André Osterritter .

Osterritter was handicapped and stunted from birth. In adulthood, he was only 1.10 meters tall and, due to a congenital hip damage and severely shortened legs, found it difficult to move, mostly with the help of a tricycle specially designed for him. After graduating from the Oberkassel elementary school, he turned his back on a workshop for the disabled and embarked on a stage career. He dealt aggressively with his handicap.

After being in the headlines for a while as “Germany's smallest rock musician”, he turned to acting and played the elephant man Joseph Merrick in the play Ich, Joseph Carey Merrick, the elephant man by Martin Kuchejda in the Bonn bread factory , which he always does referred to as “the role of my life”, and a short ruler at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf .

Since the existing theater literature only had a few roles to offer for a man of his physiognomy , Osterritter looked for another artistic field of activity and discovered this in cabaret. With the 1.86 meter tall Christoph Schunck († 2001) he found a stage partner who offered him a real contrast and at the same time an excellent addition: Together with Schunck he brought out a series of cabaret programs that highlight the contrast between “handicapped” and “ Non-Disabled ”on the topic and characterized by a sometimes relentless breach of taboo: Sooner or later or tormenting dwarfs are examples of the sometimes provocative titles of these cabaret evenings.

Osterritter and Schunck toured the entire Federal Republic of Germany with their programs and also appeared at numerous events organized by organizations for the disabled, such as the “ Aktion Sorgekind ” (now “ Aktion Mensch ”) and on television.

Together with Schunk, Osterritter founded the monthly program Nachtfieber as a “springboard” for young cabaret artists in the Harmonie cabaret theater in Bonn ; Renowned cabaret artists increasingly appeared there.

As a solo artist, Osterritter was in Dr. High and Mr. Down on stage, playing a “little one” who, out of sheer despair of life (“I always wanted to be a basketball player, but I have no chance - as a white man!”), Wants to plunge down from a bar stool and only finds a feeling of supposed greatness by means of a drug. Numerous self-deprecating, sometimes cynical anecdotes from Osterritter's personal everyday life spiced up this tragic-comic program: “Others enter an elevator and you say hello. The dachshund licks my face. "

In addition to his stage work, Osterritter was active as a painter and author of poetry, song texts and programs for other cabaret artists.

Osterritters died at the age of 43 from a hernia operation. His urn was buried in Beuel .

The cabaret Harmonie in Bonn dedicated a memorial evening to Osterritter, which was moderated by his stage partner Christoph Schunck and his nephew Gerd J. Pohl . Schunck died two years later of a brain tumor. The junior series Nachtfieber , initiated by both, is still in existence today.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tina Stommel: The garden gnome wants everything, only pity not  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , General-Anzeiger (Bonn) on the website of Aktion Mensch@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / publications.aktion-mensch.de  
  2. ↑ He went to cabaret to enjoy freedom. On the death of Maximilian Osterritter. General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , June 2, 1999
  3. ^ Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch vol. 98, 1990, p. 90, preview Google book
  4. ^ Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch vol. 99, 1991, p. 106, preview Google book
  5. ↑ Aggessiv and smugly: Further performances of the 4th Oldenburg cabaret days , Uni-Info 2/99, University of Oldenburg
personal data
SURNAME Easter knight, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osterritter, Max; Easter knight, Maxi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist, author, musician, painter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 1999
Place of death Bonn