Michael Alex

Michael Alex (born June 9, 1937 in Berlin-Spandau ) is a German author .

Life

Michael Alex already wrote glosses for the youth radio of the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) as a student . From 1957 he wrote texts for the youth radio cabaret "Immer auf Schlimme" for the Berlin broadcaster RIAS and wrote cheerful features ("Opportunities through advertisements", "The darn new year") for the RIAS Cultural Word department. For several years he worked as a copywriter for the Berlin cabaret Die Stachelschweine and provided the cabaret artist Wolfgang Gruner with punchlines for his famous solo appearances. He wrote for the Munich cabaret “Die Onion” directed by Michael Burk and for the cabaret Die Wühlmäuse, founded by Dieter Hallervorden . For sixteen years he was a permanent employee of the RIAS audio magazine “Die Rückblende”, published by Hans Rosenthal every four weeks. For this he wrote poems that were mostly spoken by Friedrich Schoenfelder or Hans Söhnker . He also wrote more than sixty song texts for the flashback , which the composer Heinrich Riethmüller set to music. He also wrote the frame manuscripts for seven years until the series was discontinued .

For the RIAS he wrote skits and lyrics for several cabaret programs . Hans Rosenthal staged the toddler cabaret Hurray, a baby! , Music: Helmut Brandt , the student cabaret Oh, you dear school days , music: Jürgen Knieper and the traffic cabaret “Wir Schilderbürger”, music: Olaf Bienert . Horst Kintscher was the director of the sports cabaret Gold und Silber I love very much , music: Heinz Reinfeld and the newspaper cabaret Leaves That Mean the World , music: Olaf Bienert. Manfred Marchfelder staged the holiday cabaret Urlaub vom Ich , music: Jürgen Knieper.

He worked for the RIAS series "Ewalds Schlagerparade" for eleven years. He put together the music programs for 281 programs and wrote the interludes for the actor Ewald Wenck. Wenck, the oldest disc jockey in the world , said goodbye to his listeners every time with the exclamation "Bye, and Opi, dopi!"

Alex provided text contributions for the senior citizens' club RIAS , led by Ivo Veit , and for Hans Rosenthal's series of programs Who asks, wins, it has to be fun and alone against all . The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) produced its cabaret program Ei, ei, ein Baby! For the SFB radio, Alex wrote the connecting words for two-hour music broadcasts ( other countries-different melodies, musicians are there! ). In the current SFB radio program "Rund um die Berolina", Wolfgang Gruner commented 41 times on current affairs as taxi driver Kalle Bräsicke based on his manuscripts. He was one of the authors of Wolfgang Gruner for his television appearances in the Berliner Abendschau as street sweeper Otto Schruppke.

For the ARD senior television lottery , overseen by Jochen Richert , the father of the television lottery, Alex wrote the scripts for commercials with Heidi Kabel , Addi Münster and Ewald Wenck . He worked for the Berliner Festspiele , for a Berlin radio exhibition , for the Norddeutscher Rundfunk , for the UFA television production, for the ZDF and for the theater of the city of Duisburg ; wrote for the satirical page Das kleine Welttheater of the newspaper Die Welt and for the Spandauer Volksblatt , in which a poem by him entitled SATIRIUS appeared every Sunday for three years.

Alex wrote texts for revues for the Spandau Theater Varianta and edited the operettas Frau Luna, Der Fürst von Pappenheim, Die Kinokönigin and Der Juxbaron with theater director Wolfgang Nusche . He also wrote folk plays with singing with the theater director , for example My husband, the housewife, Scandal in the backyard, Zille sein Milljöh, Spandau becomes a cosmopolitan city and Die wilde Hilde . The composers of his lyrics included Michael Hansen , Alfred Jack and Hajo Schlesener.

For the SFB he wrote the scripts for the old Berlin television films staged by Thomas Engel: Bei Pfeiffers is ball, Im Ballhaus is music and Im Ballhaus is schwoft . Leading actors of the three episodes: Cornelia Froboess , Willi Rose and Berta Drews .

Alex wrote the lyrics for the Berliner Lieder, published by Edition Meisel and on CDs, Da laughs the old Juliusturm, Berlin dialect and My heart beats for Spandau . (Composer: Jimmy Günther).

Michael Alex is a widower, has a son and a granddaughter and lives in Berlin-Haselhorst .

Web links

• Michael Alex in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Popular programs of the RIAS Berlin. Retrieved January 10, 2013 .