Michael Lerchenberg

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Michael Lerchenberg at an artist reception in the Old Town Hall in Munich (2011)

Michael Lerchenberg (born August 3, 1953 in Dachau ) is a German actor , director , screenwriter , author and artistic director .

Live and act

Lerchenberg was born in Dachau, grew up in Munich and was at times a student at the Augsburg grammar school near St. Stephan . After graduating from high school in Munich, he studied theater studies , German literature and history at the LMU . In 1977 he was accepted into the Otto Falckenberg School and graduated in 1979. He received his first theater engagements at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen and at the Bad Hersfeld Festival . In 1980 he played for the first time at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel , which he has been director since 2004. After engagements at the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück and the Hamburger Kammerspiele , he returned to Munich in 1983 to the then re-established Münchner Volkstheater . Until 2001 he was also a member of the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theater . From 1988 to 1998 he was also engaged as a "singing actor" at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz . From 2009 to 2013 he played the role of the prison guard Frosch in the bat production of the Bavarian State Opera .

Michael Lerchenberg has also worked as a director since 1994. He has staged at the State Theater on Gärtnerplatz, the Munich Prinzregententheater , the Städtebundtheater Hof , the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern, the Regensburg Theater, the Tyrolean State Theater Innsbruck and every year at the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel.

Michael Lerchenberg taught as a lecturer from 1995 to 2002 at the Bavarian Theater Academy / University of Music in Munich in the drama / musical course and founded the summer academy for Bavarian folk drama in 2001.

Since 2004 he has been director of the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel , which flourished again under his leadership. The festival season 2010 could z. B. be completed with a space utilization of 98%. The more than 150,000 visitors were the absolute record in the 120-year history of the festival. In autumn 2017 he prematurely ended his engagement at the festival due to differences with the city of Wunsiedel. He said goodbye to his audience in the summer of 2017 with the lead role in Thomas Bernhard's “ Der Theatermacher ”.

In addition to his theater work, Michael Lerchenberg took on roles in numerous television productions and series, for example as Kurt Soleder in the series Löwengrube and as Prelate Hinter in Der Bulle von Tölz . For the latter he also wrote three episodes as a screenwriter.

In 2007 Michael Lerchenberg was awarded the Honorary Prize for the Preservation of Bavarian Culture and Customs and the Salvator Ducat for his diverse work . In 2008 he received the Sigi-Sommer-Medal for his first Nockherberg-Lenten sermon and became a plain text writer at the Munich School of Journalism. Since 2009 he has been an honorary member of the Rotary Club Fichtelgebirge . In 2012 he was awarded the Krenkl Prize by the Munich SPD for his social commitment and not least for his critical and courageous speeches on the Nockherberg . For his services to the Luisenburg Festival and his role as "Ambassador of Upper Franconia" he was awarded the Franconian Rake in 2012 by the parliamentary group of the Bavarian SPD . In 2012 he received the Bavarian Poet Thaler from the Munich tower writers . He is also the recipient of the gold medals of honor of the city of Wunsiedel (2010) and the district of Wunsiedel (2014) as well as the silver medal of honor of the district of Upper Franconia (2013). For his successful work as a theater maker on and behind the stage of the Luisenburg Festival, he was awarded the Friedrich Baur Prize for the Performing Arts in 2017 and the then Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer awarded him the rare "Honorary Prize of the Prime Minister".

Michael Lerchenberg is married to the ballet director, choreographer and director Eva-Maria Lerchenberg-Thöny. You have a son.

Nockherberg appearances

Lerchenberg appeared from 1984 to 2007 as the actor of the former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber in the Singspiel of the annual strong beer tapping, the so-called Derblecken , on the Nockherberg in Munich . From 2008 to 2010, as Brother Barnabas , he then gave the fasting sermon at the strong beer tasting.

Resignation according to the concentration camp analogy

After the strong beer tasting in 2010, FDP boss Guido Westerwelle and Charlotte Knobloch , the chairwoman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, expressed criticism; likewise the CSU chairman Horst Seehofer and state parliament president Barbara Stamm (CSU). They criticized Lerchenberg's satirical statement about the forced labor of Hartz IV recipients planned by Westerwelle (then FDP boss and vice chancellor), with several allusions to the Third Reich and the GDR: "He collects all Hartz IV recipients in the empty, faded landscapes between Usedom and the Riesengebirge, around a barbed wire - we've seen it before. Then every day there is a water soup and a crust of bread . Instead of a heating subsidy, Sarrazin's Winter Relief Organization gives you two sweaters, and above the entrance, guarded by neoliberal Ichlingen in yellow shirts, is written in iron letters: Achievement must be worth it again! "The latter was an allusion to the cynical sayings at the gates of concentration camps such as" Work makes you free "At Auschwitz concentration camp or" To each one his own "at Buchenwald concentration camp . In the evening itself, some of the top politicians interviewed expressed themselves positively or neutrally.

Charlotte Knobloch later said that she saw the speech as a mockery of victims of National Socialism . Westerwelle stated in an open letter to the Paulaner brewery that he no longer wanted to be invited to the strong beer tapping in the future. He is used to being sharply criticized; To compare him to a concentration camp guard is going too far. The Paulaner brewery admitted that Lerchenberg had broken a taboo ; she announced that talks would be held with him. When other politicians, who had initially expressed themselves positively about the speech, expressed criticism and Bayerischer Rundfunk censored the speech in a repeat broadcast , a public discussion began. Lerchenberg and his co-author Christian Springer announced their resignation on March 5th. Many cabaret artists, like Helmut Schleich, declared their solidarity with Lerchenberg and Springer. In the ZDF cabaret show Neues aus der Anstalt , the criticized text on Westerwelle was quoted again, but without any subsequent outrage on the part of politicians. In the book Donner und Blitz auf dem Nockherberg: a strong beer biography published in 2011, Lerchenberg reviews his 27 years as a Nockherberg actor and also reveals the background to his sermon in 2010.

The 2010 speech also addressed a disclosure book published by a senior Bavarian ministerial official in 2009. 'Brother Barnabas' asked Prime Minister Seehofer and the Minister of Finance Georg Fahrenschon, who was sitting next to him, “Have you read your Schlötterer yet ?” Fahrenschon nodded; 'Brother Barnabas' gave Seehofer a copy of the book with admonitions.

Stage programs

Lerchenberg reads holy night of Ludwig Thoma in the Park Theater (December, 2016)
  • To Ludwig Thoma Michael Lerchenberg three different programs compiled:
    • Ludwig Thoma - a difficult Bavarian
    • Jozef Filsers letter exchange
    • Holy Night
  • He also portrays the folk singer Karl Valentin under the title: Karl Valentin - The Abyss of a Comedian. A homage to Liesl Karlstadt

Abuse as a boarding school student

In the course of the discussion about the victims of physical and sexual abuse in Bavarian Benedictine boarding schools, Michael Lerchenberg expressed his solidarity with the composer Wilfried Hiller and, in 2014, made public that he, as a pupil of the former St. Joseph boarding school in Augsburg, was a victim of "beating orgies" as well as psychological humiliation and sexual assault by monks of the time. Only then was the Benedictine Abbey of St. Stephan forced to publicly deal with the abuse cases there.

Further theater engagements

Theater (productions)

Television (excerpt)

Cinema (selection)

Radio plays (selection)

Audio books

Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BR24 - Lerchenberg throws out as director, called on December 21, 2016
  2. ↑ Named after the Franconian rake .
  3. ↑ Das Orakel vom Nockherberg ( Memento from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), interview with Michael Lerchenberg in the Süddeutsche Zeitung from February 18, 2008
  4. ↑ Michael Lerchenberg! , Titanic : Letters to Readers, May 2009
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Görl: “This is not how you deal with partners” ( Memento from May 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung from April 6, 2009
  6. ↑ Guido Westerwelle on welt.de on February 11, 2010
  7. ↑ page 11
  8. ↑ Concentration camp comparison for strong beer ( memento of March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), RP -Online of March 5, 2010
  9. ^ Outrage over concentration camp comparison ( memento from March 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung from March 4, 2010
  10. ^ Lerchenberg resigns ( Memento of March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 5, 2010
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Görl: Barnabas' last sermon ( Memento of March 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 5, 2010
  12. ↑ A look inside the book (LangenMüller ISBN 978-3-7844-3232-8 )
  13. ↑ Wilhelm Schlötterer : Power and abuse. Franz Josef Strauss and his successors. Records of a ministerial official . Fackelträger, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4434-5 ; (Follow-up edition: Power and Abuse. From Strauss to Seehofer, an insider unpacks . Updated first paperback edition, Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-60168- 0 ). The scene is also described in the preface to the paperback edition (pp. 11f.). Minute 31-32
  14. ↑ http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/bayern/Michael-Lerchenberg-klagt-an-Sexuelle-Ueberzüge-im-Internat-id28460082.html
  15. ↑ http://www.kempf-theater.de/suchen.php?q=lerchenberg
  16. ↑ http://www.buehnen-graz.com/
personal data
SURNAME Lerchenberg, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director, screenwriter, author and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau