Olivia Jones
Oliver Knöbel (born November 21, 1969 in Springe ) is a German travesty artist who became known as a drag queen with his fictional character Olivia Jones and appears almost exclusively in this female role.
Career
During his school days at the Heinrich-Göbel-Realschule in Springe, Oliver Knöbel made his first travesty appearances. Always with the goal of show business in mind, he continued his education, including language training, acting classes and make- up courses. In 1989 the company moved to Hamburg . Knöbel introduced himself to the travesty artist and director of the Schmidt Theater Ernie Reinhardt (Lilo Wanders), who, impressed by his appearance and extraordinary height of originally 2.01 meters, gave him his first appearances in the powder keg cabaret and a little later for his first own show helped in the Schmidt Theater on the Reeperbahn .
In 1997 he had his international breakthrough as a drag queen: Knöbel's character Olivia Jones won the “Drag Queen Contest ” in Miami as the official “Miss Drag Queen Of The World” against numerous competitors from all over the world.
Knöbel received more and more television engagements . For example, he moderated the broadcast of Hamburg's Christopher Street Day several times for NDR , and for RTL he acted as a Grand Prix reporter and moderated galas (e.g. for UNICEF or the AIDS benefit gala red, hot & dance ).
In 2004 he took part in the talent show Star Duell on RTL. In the summer of 2005, Knöbel lived in the Big Brother village for a week and was again on the show in 2008. He toured Germany in 2007 in the travesty role with the bigFM morning presenter Hans Blomberg , the “Morgenhans”, with the reading They called me boobs monster . In 2007 he took part in the RTL-2 - documentary soap Frauentausch as a swap mother.
Since 2006 Knöbel has been organizing sightseeing tours for tourists along the Reeperbahn with Olivias Safari ; since 2007 also Hamburg harbor tours with Olivia Ahoi . In the meantime, other artists run tours of the Reeperbahn as members of the Olivia Jones family; since 2011 Tanja Schumann , since 2012 Lilo Wanders and since 2015 Eddy Kante .
November 7, 2008 opened Knöbel in St. Pauli , the Olivia Jones Bar , in May 2010 arrived with Olivia Wilde Jungs , the first table dance added -Bar in St. Pauli, to which only women have access. At the same time he presented with Olivia Jones Secco a cranberry - Secco ago. In February 2012, Knöbel opened his third store on St. Pauli, Olivias Show Club , and in 2014, Olivias Kiez Oase was added to a beer garden on Spielbudenplatz .
In August 2010 Knöbel took part in the reality show Das Tier in mir . He donated the prize of 5,000 euros to the animal rights organization PETA . In July 2012 he was seen again in an episode of the pseudo-docu-soap Mitten im Leben , after having previously appeared on the series several times. In January 2013 Knöbel was a resident of the jungle camp in the seventh season of I'm a star - Get me out of here! , also on RTL. He took second place.
On March 6, 2013, RTL Television signed Knöbel to act as the green room presenter for the tenth season of the talent show Deutschland sucht den Superstar .
In 2014 Knöbel played himself in his role as Olivia Jones in the episode Foul (367) of the series Großstadtrevier . In 2015 he dubbed the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race for TLC Germany . In November 2015 he was on the program Inas Nacht , and in November 2019 he had a guest appearance on Mord mit Ansage - Die Krimi-Impro Show on Sat.1 .
Political and social ambitions
Oliver Knöbel often uses his great role popularity and the extravagant appearance as a drag queen to support social projects. Among other things, he works as an ambassador for the animal rights organization PETA , supports AIDS projects, made Hamburg citizens aware of the planned closure of the Hamburg women's refuge and supports the Life Ball in Vienna .
In 2004 he took part in the Hamburg state elections as a single applicant with the aim of preventing Ronald Schill's Pro DM party from moving in . Without any election posters or election workers , he achieved a result of 0.5 percent and thus a better result than Schill's former party, the Rule of Law Party , which received only 0.4 percent.
He is an outspoken opponent of the NPD and showed this by working as a reporter for the satirical program Extra 3 at an NPD election campaign event.
In November 2007, Oliver Knöbel announced a new candidacy for the mayor elections on February 24, 2008 in Hamburg. He declared that he wanted to run as “nobody” so that potential non-voters could also vote “nobody”. He also promised not to attend any meetings of the citizenship and to donate his citizenship allowance to social projects. In January 2008 Knöbel withdrew his candidacy and declared that his voters should vote for the Greens .
At the ESC 2016, Knöbel appeared in the role of Olivia Jones as the first drag queen in the Word for Sunday in order to set an example for tolerance, diversity and respect together with a pastor .
In September 2016, Knöbel filed a complaint at the Davidwache for inciting people against the AfD Saxony-Anhalt , which on its Facebook page equated homosexuality and the education about it with child abuse . The background was a brochure from the Ministry of Justice and Equality of the State of Saxony-Anhalt with book recommendations on the subject of “homosexuality” and “same-sex relationships” for daycare centers and primary schools. Knöbel's children's book Don't be afraid in the other way was also on the list . Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen then invited him to a reading and panel discussion in the Magdeburg state parliament . There was also a meeting with the then chairman of the AfD parliamentary group, André Poggenburg .
In November 2016, the Lower Saxony parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen nominated him as a member of the 2017 Federal Assembly , which elected the twelfth Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany .
Honors
In August 2010, the continued NDR in the campaign The best thing about the north ... the fictional character Olivia Jones in Knoebel's birthplace Jump by a bench a memorial. The bank in front of the former Knöbels school bears the following quote from the "Hamburg original" (quote from NDR):
- “The best thing about the north… is my school in Springe. Here men learned a lot that women would need later - and had a lot of fun as a gay butterfly in the school cocoon . I'm still not good at math - but I still have my own bank now. Seat!"
In autumn 2013 the local council of Springe named Knöbel as Olivia Jones the official honorary ambassador of the city.
In July 2017 Knöbel was awarded the Honorary Pride Award 2017 by Hamburg Pride , the organizers of the Christopher Street Day in Hamburg , which is rarely given. His political commitment is honored with reference to his work for the diversity of life patterns.
Trivia
In December 2016, Knöbel underwent a leg operation in which he had both legs shortened by six centimeters, so that his height is only 1.95 m instead of 2.01 m. As a result of this operation, he was seen with various walking aids in various television programs over the next few weeks and months, as well as during the election of the Federal President in February 2017.
Singles
- 2014: We are the Megapark - as part of the Megapark Allstars charity project
- 2015: Bring mom - Olivia Jones, Lorenz Büffel & Nona
- 2016: Finger im Po, Mexico - Olivia Jones / Kay One
TV (selection)
- 2000: Big Brother, RTL2
- 2002: Blond Poison
- 2005: Herman & Tietjen, NDR
- 2007: Wife Swap, RTL2
- 2007: File number XY ... unsolved !, ZDF
- 2007: Extra 3, NDR
- 2007, 2009: The Perfect Celebrity Dinner, Vox
- 2008: The Niels Ruf Show
- 2009: The celebrity cooking duel
- 2010: Dennis & Jesko, NDR
- 2010, 2012: Tietjen and Hirschhausen, NDR
- 2013: 5 against Jauch, RTL
- 2013: I'm a Star - Get Me Out of Here!
- 2013: Wetten, dass ..?, ZDF
- 2013: Germany is looking for the superstar, RTL
- 2013: Circus Halligalli, Pro 7
- 2015: Inas Nacht, ARD
- 2016: The duel for the money, Pro 7
- 2016: Neo Magazin, ZDFneo
- 2016: Tietjen and Bommes, NDR
- from 2018: I'm a star: The hour after
- 2019: Queen of Drags, Pro 7
- 2020: Joko & Klaas against Pro 7, Pro 7
- 2020: Who can see that ?, Pro 7
Works
- Olivia Jones: Don't be afraid in ANDERSUM - A story from the other bank , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2015, ISBN 978-3862654352
Web links
- Olivia Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Olivia Jones
Individual evidence
- ↑ Which school for my child? , Supplement to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 12, 2011, p. 18
- ^ Spiegel TV: Drag Queen Olivia Jones in the jungle camp
- ↑ Olivia Jones shrunk six centimeters
- ↑ Olivia Jones opens third show bar Hamburger Morgenpost .
- ↑ Olivia Jones moves into the jungle camp 2013 as a candidate rtl.de, January 5, 2013.
- ↑ Focus Online : DSDS: Olivia Jones goes to "DSDS" from March 6, 2013.
- ↑ fernsehserien.de , accessed on February 6, 2015.
- ↑ "Ru Paul's Drag Race" is coming to German TV!
- ^ "Extra 3 Olivia Jones at the NPD party conference" ( Memento from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Extra 3 broadcast, December 5, 2012 on YouTube.
- ^ Cross for a good cause scoopcom.de, February 3, 2007.
- ↑ Olivia Jones: Withdrawal for Greens queer.de, January 24, 2008.
- ↑ As the first drag queen: Olivia Jones at "Word for Sunday"! In: MOPO.de. Retrieved May 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Olivia Jones files a criminal complaint against the AfD on welt.de on September 15, 2016
- ↑ Olivia Jones is to vote for Federal President at ndr.de on November 25, 2016
- ↑ “ Wet biotopes that didn't exist here at the time!” NDZ.de, August 26, 2010.
- ↑ Jones is Springe's Ambassador of Honor. New press, accessed November 4, 2013 .
- ↑ Olivia Jones receives an honorary award klatsch-tratsch.de, July 28, 2017.
- ↑ Hamburg drag queen: This is what Olivia Jones feels like eight weeks after her leg shortened , stern.de , February 11, 2017.
- ↑ Olivia Jones: “I am the splash of color here” , augsburger-allgemeine.de, February 12, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jones, Olivia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knöbel, Oliver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German travesty artist, entrepreneur and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jump , Germany |