Michael Mittermeier
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Michael Fritz Mittermeier (born April 3, 1966 in Dorfen , Upper Bavaria ) is a German comedian and author . In his programs he combines modern stand-up comedy with elements of classic cabaret .
Life
After graduating from high school in Gars am Inn , Mittermeier began to study political science and American studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1994 he wrote his master's thesis on American stand-up comedy .
Career start
Mittermeier has been a fan of U2 since his youth . At a concert in the Olympiahalle in Munich on July 21, 1987, he stood in the front row and saw Bono sing the song People Get Ready from the Impressions . But when Bono lost his way on the guitar twice and then asked the audience if someone could play the guitar, Mittermeier answered and was then pulled onto the stage by the security. After Bono had briefly shown him the three chords, Mittermeier played the song together with Bono. According to Mittermeier's own statement, at that moment it became clear to him that he wanted to work as a stage artist and that no other life was an option for him. 20 years later, Mittermeier presented Bono with the special award for global commitment as a laudatory speaker at the Echo 2007.
Artistic career
Made famous by his program Zapped (1996), Michael Mittermeier toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland and took part in various comedy television programs , but also in Wetten, dass ..? part. The best-known parts of Zapped are parodies of advertisements by Yogurette and AOK as well as the show Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst and the US TV series MacGyver . The latter became a running gag . Even in the current programs there are always references to MacGyver.
Mittermeier's other stage shows were called Wahnsinnlich (1990), Back to Life (2002), Paranoid (2004), Safari (2007), Achtung Baby (2010), Blackout (2013), Wild (2015) and Lucky Punch (2018). He made the term " ass antlers " popular and had success with the Mittermeier vs. Guano Babes (the Guano Apes , who couldn't use their normal band name due to contractual reasons) and the single Kumba Yo! Since 1992 Mittermeier has appeared regularly on the stage of the stand-up club Quatsch Comedy Club in Berlin , which he also owns together with Thomas Hermanns and the actor who played the character Atze Schröder .
In 2001 Michael Mittermeier met U2 again at a concert on the Waldbühne in Berlin : Since the soundcheck for the actual opening act Söhne Mannheims could not take place due to a storm and their performance had to be canceled, Mittermeier in the audience was hired as temporary support. Mittermeier spontaneously performed excerpts from his current program Back to Life . In 2004 and 2005 Mittermeier played in English in New York comedy clubs. On July 2nd, 2005 Mittermeier and Anne Will hosted the Live8 concert in Berlin. He finished his Paranoid program in late 2006 , and from April 2007 toured a stand-up program Stand Up! - Freestyle comedy with Michael Mittermeier through Germany and Austria. On July 7th, 2007 he performed at Al Gores Live Earth in Hamburg .
His program Safari had on October 2, 2007 at the sold-out Circus Krone -Bau in Munich Premiere . On October 22nd and 23rd, 2008, the Safari DVD was also recorded at Circus Krone. During a performance on October 14, 2009 in Munich, the DVD was awarded three times gold. In the Disney film Hexe Lilli - The Dragon and the Magic Book from 2009 Michael Mittermeier speaks the voice of the animated dragon Hector. In the sequels Lilli the witch - Die Reise nach Mandolan (2011) and Lilli the witch saves Christmas (2017) he took on this speaking role again. At the beginning of 2010 Mittermeier traveled to Cape Town in South Africa and was the first comedian from Germany to take part in the international comedy festival. The documentation Michael Mittermeier in Cape Town , which was created during this trip, was published on June 11, 2010. He also visited the Vulamasango social project there as part of the RTL donation marathon . In 2011 he was the only German artist to appear at the Just for laughs festival in Canada.
Mittermeier wrote the book Achtung Baby! About the birth of his daughter and his experiences as a father . which was released on February 22, 2010. Watch out baby was also the title of his stage program, which premiered on October 18, 2010 at Circus Krone in Munich. In October 2010 the film This Prison Where I Live was released , which documents how Mittermeier travels to Burma with Rex Bloomstein to talk to the imprisoned comedian Zarganar about his fate. A year later, Zarganar was released from prison, not least at Mittermeier's instigation. Mittermeier has appeared as the German Rat Pack with Xavier Naidoo , Rea Garvey and Sasha since 2011 . Since autumn 2013 he has been on tour with his program Blackout in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2012, 2014 and January 2014 he played individual shows in English in London. Further appearances in English took place in South Africa and Russia. In autumn 2015 he played under the title "Das Blackout" on a small US tour in Washington DC, New York, Atlanta and Chicago with the support of the Goethe-Institut . The English show is an adapted version of his last German program, mixed with blocks specially written for the US audience.
family
Michael Mittermeier has been married to the singer Gudrun Allwang, also known by her stage name Somersault , since 1998 . The couple living in Pullach have a daughter (* 2008) who is featured in Mittermeier's book and the live program Achtung Baby! when the indirect main character was introduced to the public. His older brother Alfred Mittermeier is also a cabaret artist. His father Josef worked as an auctioneer.
social commitment
Mittermeier supports the " Your voice against poverty" campaign , the development organization ONE and the Vulamasango project , which helps children and young people from the townships of Cape Town. Mittermeier is politically active on and off the stage, describes himself as a political left and is a voter of the Greens , to whom there is no alternative for him.
On April 25, 2008, Michael Mittermeier, co-signing an open letter to the Chancellor in a full-page advertisement in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the daily newspaper, spoke out in favor of the protection of intellectual property . Mittermeier is also committed to human rights . He was the godfather of the initiative Ein Logo für Menschenrechte and moderated the presentation of the initiative on May 3, 2011.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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| 1997 | Zapped! |
DE28 (36 weeks) DE |
- |
CH10  (20 weeks)CH |
First published: May 1997
Sales: + 25,000 |
| 2000 | Back to Life |
DE2 (39 weeks)DE |
AT20th (9 weeks)AT |
CH7th (19 weeks)CH |
First published: May 2000
Sales: + 200,000 |
| 2001 | Mittermeier & Friends |
DE13 (17 weeks) DE |
AT59 (4 weeks) AT |
CH47 (5 weeks) CH |
First published: May 2001
|
| 2004 | Paranoid |
DE6 (14 weeks) DE |
AT5 (28 weeks) AT |
CH6th  (37 weeks)CH |
First published: May 2004
Sales: + 40,000 |
| 2008 | safari |
DE19 (5 weeks) DE |
AT10 (14 weeks) AT |
CH3 (32 weeks)CH |
First published: March 2008
Sales: + 15,000 |
| 2010 | Watch out baby live | DE- 1DE |
AT55 (4 weeks) AT |
CH15 (5 weeks) CH |
First published: December 2010
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| 2013 | Blackout - the live program | DE- 1DE |
AT27 (3 weeks) AT |
CH9 (12 weeks) CH |
First published: October 2013
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| 2016 | WILD | DE- 1DE |
AT26 (1 week) AT |
CH13 (6 weeks) CH |
First published: April 8, 2016
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| 2018 | Lucky Punch - Die Todes-Wuchtl strikes back | DE- 1DE | - |
CH98 (1 week) CH |
First published: November 30, 2018
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Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DE
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AT
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CH
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| 2002 | Back to Life (Live) |
DE10 (13 weeks) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 2002
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| 2006 | Paranoid (Live) |
DE5 (19 weeks) DE |
- |
CH6 (12 weeks) CH |
First published: October 2006
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| 2007 | 20 years of Mittermeier |
DE18 (13 weeks) DE |
- |
CH63 (1 week) CH |
First published: December 2007
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Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
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DE
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AT
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CH
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| 2001 |
Kumba Yo! Mittermeier & Friends |
DE3 (15 weeks)DE |
AT4 (16 weeks) AT |
CH12 (12 weeks) CH |
First published: March 26, 2001
Sales: + 250,000; (as Guano Babes ) |
Awards for music sales
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Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
gold |
platinum
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Sales | swell |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
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Germany (BVMI)
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3 × gold3
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11 × platinum11
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975,000 | musikindustrie.de |
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Austria (IFPI)
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2 × gold2
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2 × platinum2
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50,000 | ifpi.at |
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Switzerland (IFPI)
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3 × gold3
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4 × platinum4th
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123,000 | hitparade.ch |
| All in all |
8 × gold8th
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17 × platinum17th
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Artist awards
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Grazer Kleinkunstvogel
- 1988
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Prix Pantheon
- 1996: Audience Award Applauded & Booed
- 2017: Special award from the Reif & Bekloppt jury
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Golden Europe
- 1998: Comedy category
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German Comedy Award
- 1999: Best Comedian (Audience Award)
- 2000: Best Comedian (Audience Award)
- 2002: Best Live Comedy for "Back to Life"
- 2004: Best Live Comedy
- 2008: Best Comedian
- 2015: Best TV solo program for “Michael Mittermeier live! Blackout"
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Eins Live Krone (WDR)
- 2000: Best Comedian
- 2001: Best Comedian
- 2012: Best Comedian
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ECHO Pop
- 2001: Comedy category
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Arosa Schneestern , audience award of the Arosa Humor Festival
- 2000
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Zeck cabaret award
- 2005: main prize
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The big cabaret festival
- 2009: Berlin Prize
- Arosa Humor Filler, Jury Prize of the Arosa Humor Festival
- 2009
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Ybbsiade
- 2018: Ybbs jester
See also
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- ↑ Bernd Philipp: Mittermeier on the threatened German language. In: Welt Online. Retrieved December 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Philipp Schwenke: MENSAGE TALK WITH MICHAEL MITTERMEIER "Whoever is funny is never funny". In: Zeit Online. Retrieved December 20, 2013 .
- ↑ TV portrait "Michael Mittermeier" by Jürgen Barto , produced by BR , 2004.
- ^ "Diary Michael Mittermeier", MTV , October 19, 2006
- ↑ Witch Lilli - The Film
- ^ Official website of the project in Cape Town. Retrieved May 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Cinema .de: This Prison Where I Live - About this film
- ↑ ALIVE & SWINGING - Rea Garvey, Xavier Naidoo, Sasha and Michael Mittermeier “Tribute” to the legendary Rat Pack last seen on October 13, 2010
- ↑ sohotheatre: Michael Mittermeier: the Blackout ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ New York Times: Michael Mittermeier: Das Blackout , show program
- ↑ Meiermeier.com: THE US PREMIERE of “DAS BLACKOUT!” in NYC! , October 16, 2015
- ↑ welt.de: "Gags that make my wife laugh work"
- ↑ wochenanzeiger.de: Munich - "I am the mouthpiece"
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Dorfener family Mittermeier
- ↑ Your voice against poverty: Review of the G8 concert in Rostock 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Michael Mittermeier on his commitment to ONE
- ^ Official website of the project in Cape Town. Retrieved May 11, 2014 .
- ^ "You can only meet populists like Roland Koch as populists" On: Spiegel-Online, February 20, 2008 (accessed June 30, 2012)
- ↑ heise online : Open letter: Federal Chancellor should protect artists' rights , April 24, 2008
- ↑ http://www.humanrightslogo.net/
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
- ↑ NÖN: Ybbsiade: Joker goes to Michael Mittermeier . Article dated April 24, 2018, accessed April 24, 2018.
Web links
- whoswho.de
- Michael Mittermeier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Michael Mittermeier's official website
- Literature by and about Michael Mittermeier in the catalog of the German National Library
- Michael Mittermeier at laut.de
- WDR 5 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) table talk - culture of conversation with prominent contemporaries from June 13, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mittermeier, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mittermeier, Michael Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comedian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dorfen , Bavaria |