Missfits

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The Missfits were a German female cabaret duo from Oberhausen , consisting of Stephanie Überall and Gerburg Jahnke . The group initially consisted of five women (including Jutta Jahnke) and was founded around 1985. After two years the well-known duo was formed, which existed until 2005.

history

The duo became known through numerous performances on German cabaret stages (including in the Ebertbad in Oberhausen) and through regular television appearances. They were seen both in recordings of their own programs and as guests, for example in Dieter Hildebrandts Scheibenwischer (1993), and between 1996 and 2002 they had the Missfits & Relatives series on WDR . Between 1990 and 1998 they were regularly to be seen in the Midnight Peak (WDR) .

In 2002, the series The Death Is Not Broken , followed, in which they embodied the dissimilar sisters Mimi Deckers (Jahnke) and Hilde Neumann (Everywhere). In the series, the sisters inherit a funeral home in Oberhausen from their uncle and try to keep it going.

In 2005 Gerburg Jahnke and Stephanie Überall separated. They toured across Germany together for the last time in 2004/2005 with their farewell program “Last Round”. At the end of February 2005 the final performance of the two Missfits took place in the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg .

2010 worked everywhere and Jahnke again in production longing in Oberhausener Ebertbad together

In 2012 they performed together for a reading from their book Krapf und Krömmelbein , published in 1996 .

style

The Missfits' programs mostly consisted of loosely connected numbers that were often played by both. In addition to themselves, Jahnke and Überall also represented numerous recurring characters who dealt with different aspects of women, men and sexuality in monologues, dialogues and songs. Some programs also had an end-to-end storyline (ex: "women and children first").

Figures in the programs

The pairs of figures usually only appeared together in the constellation mentioned below, but were rarely combined in any other way: For example, Ms. Nölle turns to Matta to have her last sanitary napkin buried.

Matta and Lisbeth

Matta (Stephanie Überall) and Lisbeth (Gerburg Jahnke) are two elderly women who run a funeral home in Oberhausen, where they bury the “boys” they had over the years. They also like to talk about "fucking", burying sanitary towels and using washing machines for other purposes. Matta and Lisbeth were the most famous characters in the Missfits. In addition to their dialogues, the two also sing some songs, including a .: The pug is dead , children against the wall .

Mrs. Nora Nölle and Mrs. Lehmann-Brack

Two teachers who often talk to each other in the school toilet; mostly to the displeasure of Ms. Lehmann-Brack (Stephanie Überall), who has been divorced for years and who gets on the nerves of the esoteric and naive colleague Nölle (Gerburg Jahnke). While Ms. Lehmann-Brack is an authoritarian teacher who mostly just wants to be left in peace, Ms. Nölle cannot assert herself with the students. She is a member of a nude dance group with which she buried her last armband. She tries to find out why Ms. Lehmann-Brack spends every break on the toilet.

Greta and Brigitte

(Gerburg Jahnke, Stephanie Überall) Two old friends who meet again after many years and talk about the past; Among other things, about the self-examination course in the Eifel , a menstrual blood suction device and Brigitte's beverage trade.

Eckerhardt and Theophil

(Gerburg Jahnke and Stephanie Überall) Two young men who still live with their mother and talk about their non-existent sexual experiences. Both want to be "womenator".

Cora von Ablass-Krause

(Gerburg Jahnke) Constantly drunk bestseller author who usually sings slightly suggestive or sarcastic poems and songs, e.g. B. Flasch, Oh, Flasch and Oh, Sailor, Oh .

Gsielinde Geisiemeisie (actually Gerlinde Geiermeier)

(Stephanie Überall) Gsielinde Geisiemeisie is the "inventor" of feminism , a women's language that emerged in 1988 in the Missfits program. Here, among other things, in all words he carried them replaced and the vowels a, o and u ä as umlauts, ö and ü spoken. There are only feminine articles, and every syllable becomes a man or a woman . This corruption of words ironically takes the attempt to develop gender-equitable language to extremes.

Elfriede dried plum

Elfriede (Stephanie Überall) is an elderly widow who talks about her time with her deceased husband.

Inge Schnick

Inge Schnick is a postwoman portrayed by Stephanie Überall, who always wears a blue dress. Schnick is always looking for her husband Peter.

Sigi Stappert

(Jutta Jahnke as a guest in: “Women and Children First”) Lady for everything and gymnastics lady on the MS Helene.

Awards

Programs

  • 1985: Very secretly
  • 1986: game of three
  • 1986: The three musketeers
  • 1987: Cinderella
  • 1988: A woman is actually a man, just a woman
  • 1989: Desired child
  • 1990: Woman in her prime
  • 1993: nuances
  • 1993: women and children first
Plays on the ship MS Helene, on which Cora von Ablaß-Krause are also the mothers of Hagen and Max. Gerburg Jahnke's sister Jutta took over the role of Siggi Stapert, the organizer of the ship, and also played a sailor.
  • 1995: Where nobody waits
The program consists mainly of wildly thrown together songs with texts in which, among others, Matta & Lisbeth celebrated their debut as well as Elfriede Trockenpflaume with the well-known "Das-Fritz-ist-tot-Lied" and the first "teachers on the toilet" - Sketch.
  • 1996: Missfits and Band
“Missfits & Band” is the first album on which men can be “seen” and heard. The program consists mainly of wildly mixed up songs with lyrics, including songs such as B. "Frauenhouse" (a song that consists only of women 's names) or "Schnulze".
  • 1997: arsenic and lace cap
Matta and Lisbeth as male-murdering aunts Martha and Abby Brewster.
  • 1999: Definitely
“Mit Sicherheit” consists mainly of stories and is therefore the program with the fewest songs and the most lyrics. They are stories from everyday life on the subject of safety, for example an iron that still has residual current in the cable.
  • 2001: Now with even more men
In Now with Even More Men , the sexual, menstrual and alcoholic problems of men and women are clarified, set to music and presented with humor.
  • 2004: last round
The last round is a performance in which the most popular people and parts of the programs are reworked. In addition, Matta and Lisbeth say goodbye at the end with the song I never needed anybody .

reception

In 2001 the Rheinische Post wrote about the program “Mit Sicherheit” : “The Emanzen from Oberhausen are still full of temperament and enthusiasm, their strength is role play. And contact with the audience is important to them. ”The program is“ relaxed and easy ”and“ not a verbal and theatrical campaign against the male sex ”.

In 2001 the newspaper Die Welt wrote about “Missfits & Band… Now with even more men” : “The Missfits are masters of their profession […] Role stereotypes are taken to absurdity. Sometimes just hilarious, sometimes quite drastic, always great and fiery. As Matta and Lisbett you don't shy away from sex in old age, menopause or taboo topics. "

On the occasion of the premiere of their farewell program “Last Round”, Die Welt wrote in 2004 that the duo had “brought the little word“ fuck ”onto the stage, wore“ boob T-shirts ”, verbally stirred them in menstrual blood […]. It was always honest, sometimes smart, and not always funny. But it was important. "The merit of the Missfits for the German cabaret lies" not only in the drastic [...], but also in the dramaturgical. […] Behind all the hysteria and volume are meticulous, sophisticated, funny moments and fluency in terms of facial expressions and gestures. "

Die Welt also wrote about the “Last Round” program that the characters Matta and Lisbeth were “more macho than a dozen half-strength Spanish construction workers”. The end of the Missfits is "a bitter blow for a female comedy generation."

Discography

The following programs are available on CD:

  • Nuances (1993)
  • Women and Children First (1993)
  • Where Nobody Waits (1995)
  • Missfits and Band (1996)
  • For sure (1999)
  • The Collection (1999): "The Collection" is a compilation of the best pieces of music from the various Missfits albums, such as B. “The Möpp is dead” (actually “The Sausack Song”), “The Fritz is dead song” or “Oberhausen”.
  • Now with Even More Men (2001)
  • Last Round (2004)

Gerburg Jahnke and Stephanie Überall also discussed the audio book Instructions for Use for the Ruhr Area (2005) together.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Always funny - Typisch Ruhrpott , documentary about cabaret artists in the Ruhrpott, WDR 2018.
  2. ↑ Missfits & Relatives on fernsehserien.de
  3. ^ "Sehnsucht" lands on the Ebertbad stage , accessed on September 6, 2013
  4. ↑ Jahnke and Everywhere briefly reunited , accessed on September 6, 2013
  5. ↑ The women's cabaret Missfits is playing a theater classic in Oberhausen on berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on March 15, 2018
  6. ↑ "Missfits" called for joy of life on rp-online.de, accessed on March 15, 2018
  7. ↑ The Missfits now with even more men on welt.de, accessed on March 15, 2018
  8. ^ Geig 'farewell, according to the opinion: Missfits premiere at Schmidts Tivoli on welt.de, accessed on March 15, 2018
  9. ↑ “Jamma nich rum!” On welt.de, accessed on March 15, 2018