Otto Grünmandl

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Otto Grünmandl (born May 4, 1924 in Hall in Tirol ; † March 3, 2000 there ) was an Austrian cabaret artist , folk actor and writer .

Life

Otto Grünmandl's father Alfred, a Jew from Hungarian Brod in East Moravia , moved to Hall in Tirol at the beginning of the 20th century and founded a textile business here with his brother in 1907 (expropriated by the National Socialists in 1938). Otto's mother Christine came from Lower Austria and came to Tyrol as a domestic worker. Otto was the third of the couple's four children. Only Otto's older sister was able to emigrate to England before the beginning of the Second World War. Helpers in Hall enabled Alfred Grünmandl to survive the Nazi era. Otto Grünmandl wrote about it in 1973: "Using my father's example, I got to know the dignity of an outlawed man during this time and that of my mother the bravery of a fearful woman."

Otto Gründmandl studied electrical engineering and worked as a textile merchant before turning to art as a freelance writer in the mid- 1960s . Radio plays in particular took him to the ORF regional studio in Tyrol, where he headed the entertainment department from 1972 to 1981 before working as a freelance writer, actor and cabaret artist. His first solo program was called “Der Einmannstammtisch” (1976).

He became known nationwide through the “Alpine interviews” he conducted with Theo Peer . The interviews were broadcast on Ö3 for months , followed by the “Alpine Inspectorate”, “Olympic Interviews”, “Alpine Inventions”.

In the 1990s he also played in several productions of the Münchner Kammerspiele , often alongside Gerhard Polt , with whom he was friends.

Otto Grünmandl was a master of the higher nonsense, his irrational humor reminded of Karl Valentin . At the same time, Grünmandl also worked as a writer throughout his life. I.a. In 1970 he published the novel "The Ministry of Proverbs".

He was a founding member of the Liechtenstein PEN Club . His estate is in the Brenner Archive Research Institute .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

The state of Tyrol has been awarding the Otto Grünmandl Literature Prize since 2010 .

Publications

  • A prisoner , 1956.
  • Mountains think differently , 1973.
  • The distance shines , 1985.
  • Robinson, Friday and the Crocodile , 1986.
  • Behind the years , 2000.

Current issues

  • Otto Grünmandl: A prisoner. Work edition Volume 1: Short prose and poems. Edited and with an afterword by Maria Piok and Ulrike Tanzer . Haymonverlag, Innsbruck-Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7099-3460-9

Programs

  • Alpine interviews , 1970.
  • The one-man regulars table , 1976 ( Styrian autumn )
  • My name is not Oblomov , 1978.
  • I am a wild parrot , 1981.
  • A foot bath in the Black Sea , 1985.
  • Politically I'm maybe a fool, but privately I know my way around , 1987.
  • I come from business
  • I am the Emperor Nero 1989.
  • Roundabout , 1992.
  • Alpine inventions , 1993.
  • The Mountain Singers , 1997.
  • Nonsense inventory in the Nonseum Herrnbaumgarten (film)

Sound carrier

  • The Alpine Interview (with Theo Peer ), EMI Columbia 2 E 052-33 074 (LP)
  • Alpine inventions (with Theo Peer), Preiser SPR 9991 (LP)
  • Life is not easy for some people (with Theo Peer), commercial single for the "Community Service of Land and Municipal Credit Institutes"
  • The whole world and in general (with Gerhard Polt), Kein & Aber , ISBN 3-0369-1106-5 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Grünmandl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Antonio Fian: Solo from the Stammtisch , in: weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Hamburg, No. 9, February 25, 2010, Austria edition, p. 14.
  2. ↑ Inventions we don't even need ... accessed on August 31, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Grünmandl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cabaret artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall in Tirol
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2000
Place of death Hall in Tirol