Olaf Böhme

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Olaf Böhme in January 2015

Olaf Böhme (born September 23, 1953 in Dresden ; † March 18, 2019 ) was a German cabaret artist and actor .

life and work

Olaf Böhme took part in the International Mathematical Olympiad as a student , where he won a silver and a bronze medal. He studied mathematics at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1983 he received his doctorate in the field of probability theory .

Since 1980 he has dealt with poetry and short prose, from 1985 to 1990 he worked in the independent theater and film scene in the theater group "Spielbrett". Later he organized his first solo evenings and became director of the "theater 50" in Dresden, which he headed until 1996. From 1988 he made short films with Stefan Martin. In 1992 he received the St. Ingbert Cabaret Prize . From 1995 to 2001 he ran the private stage "bebe" in Dresden-Löbtau . Since 1997 he has been working as a freelancer.

Böhme became known as a cabaret artist primarily with the figure of the “drunken Saxon”, to whom several solo programs were dedicated, most recently in 2011 the evening “20 years of 'The drunk Saxon'”. At the same time, Böhme also created other, especially more serious programs and stage plays in which he dealt with his being in the world. These include, for example, “And the puppets crack at night”, “Lions don't cook with salt” and “The angler”. The last stage evening before an illness-related interruption was 2011 "The Wandering of the Blind Tits" based on his book "4000", which only consists of 4000 fictional book titles.

For several years Böhme held mathematical and cabaret lectures for students and increasingly also for “non-students” as individual events in lecture halls of the Technical University, such as “When integrals learn to laugh”, “The bill without the host” and “One task, two mistakes, three solutions ".

In 2008, Böhme shot the film “Meeting Point Kronentor - A City Tour with the Drunken Saxony”. In cooperation with Stefan Martin and Clemens Hübner, the experimental film “WOMEN” was created in 2009, for which Böhme made a new cut in 2011 with the title “I look at you”.

“Mr. Pichmann's poems” from Boehme's pen, which he originally wrote for his colleague Stephan Uhlig as part of a series of events , also became known.

At the beginning of 2008 he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia , which in autumn 2011 led to a deterioration in his health. To treat the disease, Böhme received a stem cell transplant in May 2012 . Since the end of 2013 he has occasionally been seen again with readings and screenings of his films, since spring 2015 with his evening “… know ?!”, in which he gave insights and reviews of the figure of the “drunken Saxon” and at the same time something of his current worldview revealed. From autumn 2016 Böhme stopped performing. He died in March 2019 at the age of 65 from complications from leukemia.

Böhme lived in Klipphausen- Kleinschönberg near Dresden. Böhme bequeathed his property to Sonnenstrahl eV and the Michael Succow Foundation. His art collection with 100 works was auctioned in December 2019 in a charity auction for the benefit of these two organizations through a Dresden auction house.

Stage works

Olaf Böhme at the premiere of "Der Patient" in the Herkuleskeule Dresden
  • 1986: Bohemian Villages - solo nonsense cabaret
  • 1987: Just a cry and just a laugh - poetry program
  • 1987: Do you actually know how to make dumplings? - Nonsense scenes
  • 1990: The train goes - a development game
  • 1990: … k-Watsch !!! - Solo nonsense cabaret
  • 1991: August the weak - baroque theater spectacle (with Alf Mahlo , Rainer König , Peter Flache, among others )
  • 1992: A castle in the Wörtersee - solo cabaret
  • 1992: The most beautiful scenes of German classical music
  • 1994: And at night the Kasper - Kammerspiel cracks
  • 1994: 4 years of German unity - 4 years of a drunken Saxon
  • 1994: Blauer Raum 23 - a poetic journey
  • 1995: Love and the anarchist - Sachse ahoy! - Solo evening
  • 1995: everything new! - Solo evening
  • 1997: The story of Master Huber, the fairy and the others
  • 1997: Welcome to the waiting room: The drunken Saxon - Part 2
  • 1998: Lions don't cook with salt - solo evening
  • 1998: The Dream of Shooting - grotesque chamber drama
  • 1999: Everything was great - a ballet evening with Olaf Böhme
  • 1999: The Midnight Axis - a cabaret rendezvous
  • 1999: The End of Loveliness - Solo Chamber Game
  • 2000: No connection under this number
  • 2000: Little Red Riding Hood and others
  • 2001: 4 on one board
  • 2002: Germany awakens
  • 2002: Maybe in the evening
  • 2002: Christmas with the drunken Saxon
  • 2003: The drunken Saxon and me
  • 2003: To Böhme and back
  • 2003: And the violin smashes at the rhyme
  • 2004: Böhme: A lot of beautiful things
  • 2004: All my fairy tales
  • 2004: What does a person cost?
  • 2004: The fisherman
  • 2004: All of Shakespeare's works (slightly shortened) (participation)
  • 2004: Dead in Venice
  • 2005: Everything comes to mind
  • 2006: Ode to the Elbhangfest
  • 2006: Participation in the Beckett project of the Dresden State Theater ("Fragment 2")
  • 2006: The pancake trickles softly
  • 2007: Oh, here ... (The drunken Saxon - part 7)
  • 2008: the patient
  • 2008: Olaf meets Olaf (with Olaf Schubert )
  • 2009: In the land of smiles
  • 2009: Everything Pichmann!
  • 2009: The new one! Midnight axis
  • 2010: Alles Böhme
  • 2010: 20 years of "The Drunk Saxon"
  • 2011: The wandering of the blind tits
  • 2013: silence and being
  • 2013: The light and the dark
  • 2013: Advent. Advent. Advent.
  • 2015: … knew ?!

Cabaret lectures

  • 1998: On some aspects of the role of chance in human life and on happiness
  • 2003: Trinity - Inequality - Divisibility?
  • 2005: x + 3 and having fun!
  • 2007: 4 + 3 = 8 and the trip to Mars
  • 2008: When integrals learn to laugh
  • 2010: The bill without the host

Books

  • 2000: Mr. Pichmann's poems
  • 2003: The days, the nights, the years
  • 2004: Mr. Pichmann's poems (part 2)
  • 2005: Of course
  • 2006: Ode to the Elbhangfest
  • 2009: Everything Pichmann!
  • 2011: 4000

CD, film and video

  • At the table (film, 1987)
  • Here (film, 1988)
  • Coincidence (film, 1989)
  • The Project (film, 1990)
  • The best images in a film (film, 1990)
  • Dresden black and white (film, 1992)
  • Best of (Video, 1999)
  • No connection under this number (DVD, 2004)
  • The whole Saxon (double CD, 2005)
  • NOTHING BUT LIFE (film, 2006)
  • 6 hours Böhme (DVD set, 2007)
  • Counted - lived - known (DVD, 2008)
  • Meeting point Kronentor (film and DVD, 2008)
  • WOMEN (film, 2009)
  • Everything Pichmann! (CD, 2009)
  • It's Christmas at the drunken Saxony (CD, 2009)
  • The drunk Saxon - highlights from two decades (DVD, 2010)
  • Grimm's fairy tales read by Olaf Böhme (DVD, 2010)
  • The new! Midnight Axis (DVD, 2011)
  • I'm looking at you (film, 2011)
  • The patient (DVD, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Olaf Böhme  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death @ sz-trauer.de accessed April 27, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Peter Ufer: “I'm not holding onto anything”. In: Sächsische Zeitung , March 20, 2019, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Theater group "Spielbrett" Dresden e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Böhme, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 18th March 2019