Otto Stark (cabaret artist)

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Otto Stark (born April 2, 1922 in Vienna ; † November 28, 2018 in Berlin ) was an Austrian cabaret artist , actor and director who worked mainly in the GDR .

Life

Otto Stark was the son of a Jewish hat maker from Ottakring ; his parents and younger brother were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust . He himself, also a trained hat maker, fled to England in 1938 , worked there as a baker and waiter and was interned in 1940. Stark had his first appearances in the internment camp theater group; from 1942 he played in the Austrian exile theater Das Laterndl in London . In 1946 he returned to Vienna, where he took the acting examination and played at the Theater der 49 . In 1949 he went to the GDR and had engagements in Berlin and at the Dresden State Theater . In 1952 he joined the SED .

On January 8, 1955, Stark founded the cabaret Herkuleskeule in Dresden . In addition to Alexander Bauer and Wilhelm Burmeister , Stark's wife Ilse Maybrid also belonged to the ensemble of the cabaret he directed, which continued under the name Herkuleskeulchen from 1956 to 1959 . In the summer of 1959 the troop disbanded; Stark went back to Berlin, where he was initially engaged at the Theater der Freundage . In 1960 he switched to the cabaret Die Distel and was part of their ensemble as an actor and director until the fall of the Berlin Wall . As successor to Georg Honigmann , he was director of Distel from October 1968 ; In 1990 he left the stage, which was soon privatized.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Stark went on tour with Heinz Draehn , Hanna Donner and other former Distel actors in the cabaret group Distel-Oldies . Most recently, on February 16, 2018, he performed his program, Stories of a Century of Life, in the Anna Seghers Library in the Neu-Hohenschönhausen district of Berlin .

Stark died in November 2018 at the age of 96 in Berlin.

Filmography

Radio plays

Discography

  • 1983: Fun and joy for little people - songs with clown Oops , Wolfgang Hosfeld (as singer and speaker) and Otto Stark (as speaker), Deutsche Schallplatten , Berlin (East)
  • 2008: Berlin Temperament and Viennese Schmäh - A marriage with cabaret , Thistle songs and scenes from the years 1963–1983, Ilse Maybrid and Otto Stark, self-irony publisher, Leipzig

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cabaret artist Otto Stark died at the age of 96 , derstandard.de, published and accessed on November 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost- Berlin: Cabaret artist Otto Stark died at the age of 96. November 29, 2018, accessed on January 5, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ sopos.org ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2008 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sopos.org
  4. ↑ Lichtenberger Libraries in February 2018 , berlin.de, accessed on November 30, 2018

literature

  • Gisela Winkler:  Strong, Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Kurt Zimmermann: Otto Stark - Plea for a comedian . In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. An almanac for the stage, podium and ring (=  cassette ). No. 1 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1977, p. 26-31 .

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personal data
SURNAME Strong, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cabaret artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 29th November 2018
Place of death Berlin