Otto Waalkes

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Otto Waalkes (2006)
Otto Waalkes at the Munich Film Festival in 2014
Otto Waalkes on July 25, 2010 in Parsdorf near Munich

Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born July 22, 1948 in Emden ), often simply called Otto , is a German comedian , cartoonist , musician , actor , director and voice actor . The native of East Frisia is considered to be one of the most successful representatives of German humor. In 2007 Otto Waalkes took in choosing the best German comedian in the ZDF telecast Our best - Comedian & Co behind Loriot and Heinz Erhardt third.

Life

Otto Waalkes at the 1977 Federal Chancellor Festival with Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (left) and Rudi Carrell (right)

Otto Waalkes was born as the second son of the painter Karl Waalkes and his wife Adele, née. Lüpkes, born. Otto grew up with his older brother Karl-Heinz in the working-class Transvaal district of Emden . The parents were devout Baptists and members of the Emden Evangelical Free Church Congregation , whose Sunday school Otto attended. The first time he appeared in public at the age of eleven when he was in a department store in Emden a. a. presented the babysitter boogie and was rewarded with a voucher for 30 marks and the book Mutiny on the Bounty . At the age of twelve he got his first guitar, and in 1964 he appeared in public for the first time in the Emden area with his band The Rustlers , which mainly played Beatles songs . Otto was the head of the music group, lead singer and lead guitarist at the same time. For five years, the band toured mainly through East Frisia .

In 1968 Otto Waalkes passed the Abitur examination at the grammar school for boys in Emden. In 1970 he began studying art education at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts - after he had not been given a place in free painting - but never practiced the teaching profession. Among other things, he learned from Hans Thiemann .

He made his first appearance on a stage in the Hamburg folklore club Danny's Pan , where you could show your skills for five marks for ten minutes. In Hamburg he lived in the “ Villa Kunterbunt ” shared flat with fourteen flatmates, including Udo Lindenberg and Marius Müller-Westernhagen .

To finance his studies, Otto Waalkes continued to perform with the guitar in small clubs in Hamburg. He would tell a few jokes about his songs, and if he was nervous about dropping the microphone, he would apologize. At some point, the excuses were better than his music and so his stage show slowly developed. The clubs got bigger and bigger - and suddenly they were no longer called Uncle Pö , but Westfalenhalle .

In 1972 Waalkes met his future manager Hans Otto Mertens, had his first big concert in Hamburg with his band “The Rustlers”, recording live and at his own expense, and founded the Rüssl Räckords label with Mertens . The label was founded because no record company wanted to publish Waalkes' live recordings. In the same year the LP Otto appeared , which sold 500,000 times.

Waalkes was from 1987 to 1999 with Manuela "Manu", b. Ebelt, married. In 1987 their son Benjamin Karl Otto Gregory was born. In 2000, Waalkes married actress Eva Hassmann, who was born in 1972 in Jork . According to their own statements, they had an open marriage in which they often lived in different places. The couple officially split in early November 2011. They divorced on November 22, 2012.

Otto Waalkes is a native of Hamburg and lives in Hamburg-Blankenese .

Career

Otto Waalkes (2005)

Waalkes' Humor is based on puns and word games and silly-funny language, sounds and body language . A stylistic means of his lectures are parodies , for example revisions of well-known songs, which he accompanies with the guitar . In the humorous lectures he embeds satire , political allusions, criticism of the times and society.

The regularly published Otto books and especially the Otto long-playing records became bestsellers, and many reached top positions in the hit and sales lists.

Waalkes is one of the entertainers who has influenced the general usage of the language; the early years, in which he mainly used texts from the New Frankfurt School , make up a considerable part of this . So goes the saying “Do you have a cigarette? My box is still in the machine! ”Back to him. The phrase “I still have one!” Is often ascribed to him, but actually - like many of his sayings - goes back to Heinz Erhardt .

Well-known role names of Otto Waalkes are the reporter Harry Hirsch, Mrs. Suhrbier and Oberförster Pudlich as well as Herbert von Karamalz (parody of Herbert von Karajan and allusion to the malt beer).

"Many Otto skits, songs, rhymes and noises have long been part of the collective memory, have become a cultural asset and are quoted by heart by both adults and children."

- The ZDF in an announcement about the anniversary show Otto - Born to fool around on December 30, 2015

The best-known comic figure drawn by Waalkes is the Ottifant . The stick figure, initially only used for Otto's record covers, developed into an independent comic strip figure with a family attachment, whose stories were published in various newspapers and in books. The 13-part cartoon series Otto's Ottifanten emerged from the comics in 1993 and was shown on RTL and Super RTL . In 2001, the animated film Kommando Störtebeker followed with the Ottifanten.

In addition to his work on stage, Waalkes stood in front of and behind the camera several times. His films are parodies of current events in culture and the public and live primarily from comic situations and caricatured characters.

For his life's work, Waalkes was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in 2018 .

chronology

"Dat Otto Huus" in Emden
Otto with Ottifant (2005)

In his early programs, he translated several skits from Woody Allen's stand-up program from the 1960s and used them in slightly modified or abridged form.

In 1973 Waalkes got to know the author and draftsman Robert Gernhardt after he had falsely pretended to be the author of a poem that had appeared on the humor page WimS of the magazine Pardon , which was managed by Gernhardt and that Waalkes performed at his stage appearances. This marked the beginning of a decades-long collaboration, initially on Waalkes 'television shows, later Gernhardt also edited Waalkes' books and was involved in the scripts of the Otto films, on which Pit Knorr and Bernd Eilert also worked.

In 1973 his first TV show "OTTO SHOW" brought the final breakthrough with ratings of up to 15%. It was broadcast on August 27, 1973 with a small audience and with performances by guests (including the guitarist and singer Peter Horton ). In this show, the sketch "English course with Peter, Paul and Mary" was played. A year later the second LP was released with the title “OTTO, the second”, while Waalkes received his first gold record for over 250,000 copies of the LP “OTTO” sold in the same year and his second broadcast under the same name on WDR and ARD up to 20% had visual participation. In 1975 the next LP “Oh, OTTO” followed, the next show with up to 44% of the TV viewers and the second and third gold records, which were awarded in Cologne .

In 1975 Otto founded Rüssl Musikverlag GmbH and Rüssl Video & Audio GmbH . Before that, he had founded the music label Rüssl Räckords in 1972 with his future manager Hans Otto Mertens , as no record company wanted to publish Waalkes' live recordings on LP.

The Otto Shows II to VII, as well as "So ein Otto" and "Ein neue Programm von und mit Otto Waalkes" (both 1981), which were broadcast between 1974 and 1979, became big hits and made Waalkes one of the most popular comedians on German television in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In 1976 Waalkes made his fourth TV show in the first and in the WDR and received the Bambi of the Illustrierte Bunte . A year later he was awarded the Golden Camera of HÖRZU excellent, published his fourth plate, sending his fifth show. The fifth LP was released in 1978, and Otto also appeared in the Hamburg State Opera as "Frosch" in Strauss's "Fledermaus" and received the "Golden Elephant" for 125,000 long-playing records sold in Austria. The sixth show on Erste and WDR also followed. In 1979 the comedian was awarded one platinum and three gold records as well as the “Golden Westphalia Hall” and brought his sixth LP onto the market.

In 1980 the first edition of Das Buch OTTO was published by Hoffmann and Campe- Verlag. The authors are Waalkes and the group of authors Robert Gernhardt, Bernd Eilert and Peter Knorr , who are also responsible for the stage programs. In the same year he barely survived a hotel fire in Las Vegas.

The seventh record followed in 1981. The year 1982 brought him the "Video Bambi" through picture and radio and the eighth LP was released. In 1983 he went on tour through Germany and released records number nine and ten. In 1984, the second book OTTO followed , another book by the same team of authors, which was published by Rasch und Röhring .

From 1982 to 1988 Waalkes led director at ZDF telecast Ronny's Pop Show , a 45-minute pop music show with actual video clips . The show was moderated by Ronny, a little chimpanzee in a jeans jacket, to whom Waalkes lent his voice and who showed little gags to whole sketches between the video clips. Waalkes had the idea for the show and was responsible for the intermediate moderation.

The last regular television show called “Help, Otto is coming” was broadcast by ZDF in 1983 and contained the Hansel and Gretel interpretation , which is still popular today, in the guise of the then popular music of the Neue Deutsche Welle . In 1985 Waalkes turned to cinema. Its first production ran under the title Otto - Der Film .

On August 1, 1987, he opened “Dat Otto Huus” in his hometown Emden in a former, converted old pharmacy near the town hall on Delft . Its manager at the time, Hartmut Fischer, became the managing director. There is a museum on the first and second floors in which memorabilia from the early days of his career are on display. Here you can admire Otto's first stubble, an Otto photo from Confirmation Days and his first chewing gum. Fan articles are sold on the ground floor, such as the famous Ottifanten as plush toys.

The Pilsum lighthouse - Otto's tower

In connection with film productions, Waalkes also stayed in America, where Hartmut Fischer accompanied him. Some scenes in his films were made in the USA, for example in Otto - Der Ausserfriesische . This film was released in July 1989 as the third feature film by and with Otto. In the film, the striking red-yellow-red Pilsum lighthouse Otto serves as an apartment. Through the film the lighthouse on the North Sea dyke, near the the municipality was Krummhörn belonging village Pilsum , known nationwide. Since then it has been nicknamed Otto's Tower . The tower is one of the most famous landmarks in East Friesland .

Waalkes has been performing with his band Otto & die Friesenjungs since 1992 . It was founded at the suggestion of Otto's friend, the film producer of the Karl May films and Edgar Wallace adaptations, Horst Wendlandt . The band made their debut in July 1992 in a small club in Berlin . Appearances at Rock am Ring in 1995 and at the New Year's Eve party in 2000 at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin followed.

In 1993 Otto Waalke's voice was heard in a single release of The Bell from Mike Oldfield's 1992 album Tubular Bells II . Waalkes lists the individual instruments in the German and an English version.

After a break from television for almost eleven years, Otto returned to the screen in early 1995 with the 13-part comedy series Otto - The Series, produced for RTL . For the series, around 250 scenes from 32 old Edgar Wallace films were extensively digitized in order to then incorporate Otto Waalkes in various roles in the film scenes. Not only were the dialogues dubbed, but scenes were in some cases re-colored and cut into sketches with additional, newly shot scenes. The digitization effort drove the production costs to 10 million  DM , up to this point a new record for a German comedy series. The series received a mixed response. Due to the declining audience ratings, which fell after five episodes from initially 7.64 to 4.11 million viewers, some spoke of a flop.

Otto has also worked as a voice actor since 1998 - initially in the Disney films Mulan and Mulan 2 , in which he spoke the dragon Mushu . In 2002 he dubbed Sid the sloth for the first time in the German edition of the cartoon Ice Age . Due to its great success, he then dubbed this figure four more times ( 2006 , 2009 , 2012 and 2016 ) and put his Otto-specific stamp on the “German” Sid.

The last major joint text work by Otto Waalkes and the group of authors Robert Gernhardt, Bernd Eilert and Peter Knorr appeared in 2002 . The book with the title Otto - Das Buch des Friesen is the third Otto book and was published by Ullstein-Verlag .

Otto Waalkes with Sven Unterwaldt (2006)

In 2004 his film 7 dwarfs - men in the forest alone reached almost seven million viewers in German cinemas. In 2006 the sequel 7 dwarfs - The forest is not enough in the cinemas and received the golden screen for three million viewers in the first 18 months. A third part of the 7 dwarfs should follow as a so-called prequel .

The single CD with the so-called dwarf song, 7 Zwerge - Stand up, if you like dwarfs , was released in 2006 for the movie 7 dwarfs - The forest is not enough . The dwarf song is sung by Otto Waalkes and the other dwarf actors. The song by Jacques Morali (music) and Bernd Eilert (text) stayed in the charts in Germany for 17 weeks and reached number 12 as the highest position.

On October 2, 2007, Waalkes began another tour of Germany Otto - Das Original , which he extended until October 2008 because of its great success. RTL broadcast a recording on October 31, 2008, and the program Happy Otto! On June 6, 2008 . We have reason to celebrate , in which well-known Otto skits were performed by other comedians and Waalkes also performed himself. The occasion was his upcoming 60th birthday. In 2008 the book Otto - Das Werk was published by Carlsen-Verlag . In the book, the best gags and drawings from Otto's first two books as well as other material have been put together in one volume to make “The Best of Otto”.

At the end of 2010 Otto started his last movie with Otto's Eleven . He had already worked with the director Sven Unterwaldt on the 7 dwarf films. Similar to Ocean's Eleven , the film is about a robbery on a casino. Around a million viewers saw the film, but it fell short of expectations.

In August 2011, Waalkes made a guest appearance while filming the 65th episode of the ZDF series Das Traumschiff . In the anniversary sequence, head hostess Beatrice celebrated her 30th professional anniversary with prominent guests. Besides Otto were u. a. Grit Boettcher, Gaby Dohm, Hannelore Elsner, Hape Kerkeling, Marion Kracht, Ingolf Lück, Michaela May, Otto Sander, Til Schweiger, Sigmar Solbach, Gila von Weitershausen, Klaus Wildbolz and Helmut Zierl on board the Deutschland on the journey from New York via Savannah to Salvador da Bahia in Brazil . The program was broadcast on November 6, 2011.

Otto Waalkes and Fredi Bobic at the Sondermann award ceremony in Frankfurt a. Main, November 2018.

At the beginning of May 2012, Otto starred in the short film Otto the Super Frieze by Willy Bogner , which was shot at the Paradiso Hut in St. Moritz , Switzerland . In the film Otto tries to impress a young blonde, played by Sophia Thomalla , with the help of top sporting performances .

On December 30, 2015, ZDF broadcast the two-and-a-half-hour television show Otto - Born for Stupid, on Otto's 50th stage anniversary, and honored the comedian with a look back at his fifty-year career. There were Otto, companions from the stage and film, as well as other prominent comedians, actors and musicians. The show hosted by Johannes B. Kerner was recorded in Offenburg, Baden, at the beginning of July .

On November 11, 2018 Otto Waalkes was awarded the Sondermann Prize ("Oscar of Comical Art") for his life's work , and presented by Fredi Bobic at the Sondermann gala in the Frankfurter Brotfabrik.

On April 25, 2018, a six-month art exhibition with paintings by Otto Waalkes started at the Caricatura Museum in Hamburg. After that, the exhibition was continued for six months from September 14, 2018 in the Hamburg Museum for Art and Commerce MGK.

On June 22, 2019, the exhibition Coming Home - He kummt na Huus followed in the Kunsthalle Emden in Otto Waalke's hometown until September 22, 2019.

In September 2019 it was announced that there will be a German remake of Catweazle . Otto plays the leading role in this film. The film is scheduled to open in cinemas at Christmas 2020.

criticism

35 years after the theatrical release of the comedy "Otto - Der Film", which was released in 1985, there is a debate about how racist a scene in the film is. Critics, including those from the Initiative Schwarzer Menschen in Deutschland , accuse Otto of making culturally insensitive and even racist statements. Matthias Wendlandt, managing director of the production company, dismissed the accusation of racism in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a misunderstanding. The “mere mention of certain terms” is not sufficient to prove the allegation. The taz also defends the controversial scene. According to his spokeswoman, Otto himself refuses any interview on the subject.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1973 Otto DE1
platinum
platinum

(16 weeks)DE 		- -
First published: 1973
Sales: + 500,000
1974 Otto (the second) DE1 (14 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: April 1974
1975 Oh, Otto DE2
platinum
platinum

(10 weeks)DE 		AT3 (24 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: April 1975
Sales: + 500,000
1976 The fourth program DE1
gold
gold

(12 weeks)DE 		AT2 (20 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: April 1976
Sales: + 250,000
1977 The word for Monday DE4th
gold
gold

(13 weeks)DE 		AT5 (24 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: March 1977
Sales: + 250,000
1978 Ottocolor DE7th
gold
gold

(21 weeks)DE 		AT4 (20 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: April 1978
Sales: + 250,000
1979 The East Frisian messenger of the gods DE2
platinum
platinum

(22 weeks)DE 		AT8 (11 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: November 1979
Sales: + 500,000
1981 Otto messes up Hamburg DE7th
gold
gold

(20 weeks)DE 		AT4 (14 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: October 1981
Sales: + 250,000
1983 Help, Otto is coming! DE4th
gold
gold

(19 weeks)DE 		AT1 (18 weeks)
AT 		CH8 (20 weeks)
CH
First published: 1983
Sales: + 250,000
1998 … I have one more! DE25 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT49 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH41 (1 week)
CH
First published: 1998
2002 Only Otto DE28 (7 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: 2002
2015 Cool and relaxed DE91 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT68 (1 week)
AT 		-
First published: November 28, 2014
as Sid & his friends

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Compilations

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1982 Otto's hodgepodge DE62 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: September 1982
1996 The CD - the very best DE55 (9 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: 1993
2001 Otto's Ostfriesland and more DE40 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: 2001
2006 100 years of Otto - - CH77 (2 weeks)
CH
First published: 2006
2008 Häppy Otto - Original Frisian Mix DE50 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: 2008

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Live albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1996 Live! DE11
gold
gold

(22 weeks)DE 		AT16 (14 weeks)
AT 		CH12 (8 weeks)
CH
First published: 1996
Sales: + 25,000
  • 2001: Peter and the Wolf

DVD albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2003 The DVD DE40
platinum
platinum

(8 weeks)DE 		- -
First published: 2003
Sales: + 50,000
2004 Otto - the first 15 years ... and more DE71
platinum
platinum

(2 weeks)DE 		- -
First published: 2004
Sales: + 50,000
2007 The Otto Show - The original Otto shows from 1973 to 1983 DE22nd
gold
gold

(14 weeks)DE 		- -
First published: 2007
Sales: + 25,000

Soundtrack

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1987 Otto - The film music DE33 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT22 (4 weeks)
AT 		-
First publication: 1987
O.ST zu Otto - Der neue Film
2004 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest DE52 (4 weeks)
DE 		AT47 (3 weeks)
AT 		-
First publication: 2004
O.ST on 7 dwarfs - men alone in the forest
2006 7 dwarfs - the forest is not enough - the dwarf songs DE53 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT52 (2 weeks)
AT 		-
First publication: 2004
O.ST zu 7 Zwerge - The forest is not enough
Number one albums DE3DE AT1AT CH-CH
Top 10 albums DE9DE AT7thAT CH1CH
Albums in the charts DE23DE AT13AT CH4thCH
  • 1985: Otto - The Film
  • 1989: Otto - Der Ausserfriesische - The music for the film
  • 1992: The Love Movie (Original Soundtrack)
  • 2000: The disaster album
  • 2010: Otto's Eleven

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2006 Get up if you like dwarfs
7 dwarfs - The forest is not enough - The dwarf songs 		DE12 (17 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: 2006
as 7 dwarfs

Awards for music sales

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg 7 × gold7th Platinum record icon.svg 5 × platinum5 2,900,000 musikindustrie.de
All in all Gold record icon.svg 7 × gold7th Platinum record icon.svg 5 × platinum5

Filmography

Otto - The Movie, 1985
Otto - The New Film, 1987
Otto - The Extra-Frisian, 1989

Feature films

cinemamovies

Television films

Synchronous roles

watch TV

  • The Otto Show (WDR, August 27, 1973)
  • Otto - MCVKIIRVIII (WDR, July 6th 1974)
  • Otto - The 3rd program (WDR, September 22, 1975)
  • Otto IV (WDR, September 6, 1976)
  • Otto V (WDR, November 28, 1977)
  • The Otto Show VI (WDR, November 23, 1978)
  • The Otto Show VII (WDR, December 6, 1979)
  • Such an Otto (WDR, April 4, 1981)
  • A new program by and with Otto Waalkes (WDR, November 26, 1981)
  • Help, Otto is coming! (ZDF, 1983)
  • Ronny's Pop Show (ZDF, 1982–1990)
  • Otto's Ottifanten (RTL, 1993)
  • Otto - The Series (RTL, 1994)
  • Rock am Ring (MTV, 1995)
  • Otto - Mein Ostfriesland and more [A star and his city] (RB, 2001)
  • Only Otto (SAT.1, 2002)
  • Best of OTTO (WDR, 2005)
  • Happy Otto! We have reason to celebrate (RTL, 2008)
  • Otto live! The original (RTL, 2008)
  • Otto - Born to Fool (ZDF, 2015)
  • Circus Halligalli (ProSieben, 2016, guest appearance in season 7 episode 16)
  • Otto live! Holdrio again (RTL, 2016)
  • Ronny's Pop Show (RTL Nitro, 7 episodes, 2017)
  • Jürgen man! von der Lippe turns 70 (ARD, 2018, guest appearance as a congratulator in video message)

Further awards

Others

  • In the German version of Mike Oldfield's single The Bell , a release from the album Tubular Bells II , Otto Waalkes took over the role of "master of ceremonies" in 1992, who briefly announced the instruments used in the piece. In the original, this role is voiced by Alan Rickman .
  • On the 1974 album Ball Pompös by Udo Lindenberg , he took on a short speaking part on the song Cowboy Rocker (Hey baby, let's go to Las Vegas, clean the sun!).
  • In the finale of the casting show Bully is looking for the strong men with Michael Herbig, he worked as the Grim Reaper in the decision of the Urobe .
  • Otto Waalkes was the main sponsor of the football club Kickers Emden at the end of the 1980s and in 2005 allowed the club to use the popular Ottifanten .
  • The video game Die Ottifanten was released in 1993 for the Sega video game console Mega Drive .
  • On March 1, 2017, Deutsche Post AG issued a postage stamp with a face value of 70 cents showing an Ottifanten with a rainbow.
  • On June 22, 2019 Otto Waalkes unveiled his own Otto traffic light in Emden in front of 500 spectators, which shows him in the famous jumping pose during the green phases. This gives the Emden honorary citizen a special appreciation. There should be four such traffic lights in total.
  • To mark the centenary of Edeka Minden-Hannover in January 2020, Otto advertised on their posters with the slogan "Essen deserves a price: the lowest."

Literature (selection)

  • Otto Waalkes / Bernd Eilert: Kleinhirn an alle - The great Otto biography , Heyne, 2018, ISBN 978-3-453-20116-3 .

Otto illustrated books :

  • Otto Waalkes, Robert Gernhardt , Bernd Eilert and Peter Knorr : The book OTTO . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1980, ISBN 978-3-455-08500-6 .
  • Otto Waalkes, Robert Gernhardt, Bernd Eilert and Peter Knorr: The second book OTTO . Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1984, ISBN 978-3-89136-001-9 .
  • Otto Waalkes, Robert Gernhardt, Bernd Eilert and Peter Knorr: OTTO - The Book of the Friesian . Ullstein, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-550-08390-7 .
  • Otto Waalkes, Robert Gernhardt, Bernd Eilert and Peter Knorr: OTTO - Das Werk . Carlsen, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-551-68169-0 .
  • The dearest book about Otto the love film , by and with Otto Waalkes. Heyne, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-05953-0 .
  • Otto Waalkes, Bernd Eilert, Michel Bergmann, Renate Westphal-Lorenz with scribbles by Otto (Hrsg.): Otto - the disaster film . No and no, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-906542-17-3 .

Web links

Commons : Otto Waalkes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Loriot wins the election for "Our Best - Comedians & Co." ( Memento from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) dailynet.de
  2. ↑ a b c GQ Star portrait: Otto Waalkes . ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) gq-magazin.de
  3. ↑ The Friesenjung. badische-zeitung.de; Retrieved February 10, 2013
  4. ↑ a b Frankfurter Rundschau : "Seriously now ..." , July 1, 2009
  5. ↑ Stern : "Lindenberg exhibits Lindenberg" , February 16, 2007.
  6. ↑ Christopher Chirvi: Günter Fink on Otto's 70th birthday: In a shared apartment with Waalkes, Lindenberg and Westernhagen. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Secret wedding. Otto Waalkes and Eva Hassmann. In: Spiegel Online website. September 5, 2000, accessed October 8, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Otto Waalkes has an open marriage with his wife , Welt Online , July 21, 2010
  9. ^ No more funny , Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 7, 2011
  10. ↑ No fun: Waalkes and Hassmann separated
  11. ^ Otto Waalkes and Eva Hassmann officially divorced , accessed on February 7, 2013
  12. ↑ a b Award ceremony on the Day of German Unity on bundespraesident.de
  13. ↑ Robert Gernhardt (karriere.de): Otto was my sixth in the lottery ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  14. ↑ How Otto survived a hotel fire in 1980 Focus online, May 15, 2018
  15. ↑ Fernsehlexikon.de - Ronny's Pop Show , accessed on February 8, 2013
  16. ↑ Getting married in the Pilsum lighthouse , accessed on May 15, 2018
  17. ↑ Otto & Fries guys , accessed on February 10, 2013
  18. ↑ Sabbelphilipp at the altar . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1995 ( online ).
  19. ↑ Otto - the flop . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1995 ( online ).
  20. ↑ a b Interview with “Ice Age” voice actor Otto Waalkes , accessed on February 7, 2013
  21. ↑ Otto announces "7 Zwerge 3 - Das Prequel" , accessed on February 7, 2013
  22. ↑ 7 Dwarves - Get up if you like dwarves . In: hitparade.ch , accessed on February 10, 2013
  23. ↑ Otto Waalkes is one of the anniversary crew of the “dream ship” , accessed on May 12, 2013
  24. ↑ bogner.com - Otto der Superfriese , accessed on December 3, 2014
  25. ↑ stern.de: Otto - Born to fool around ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Exhibition opening: OTTO WAALKES - caricatura museum frankfurt. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Gosign media, Hamburg Germany: Otto. The exhibition. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Otto as Catweazle
  29. ↑ Patrick Bahners: Satire and Racism: The sharpest critics of the N-word . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 21, 2020]).
  30. ↑ No more fun. July 30, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 .
  31. ↑ 35th anniversary: ​​How racist is “Otto - the Film”? July 17, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 .
  32. ↑ a b c d e f Chart sources: DE Otto DE 7 Zwerge AT CH
  33. ↑ Sid * & his friends * - Cool und Loose - The official music album. In: Discogs . Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  34. ↑ Otto - Otto The CD - The very best. In: Discogs . Retrieved May 14, 2018 .
  35. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1994
  36. ↑ Without him, Emden would never have become so well known. In: NWZ online. August 24, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
  37. ↑ Otto Waalkes wins the German Animation Spokesperson Award 2019 , accessed on May 4, 2019.
  38. ↑ Tubular Bells II . ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) hibernaculum.de
  39. ↑ The Ottifanten is now available as a 70-cent stamp . krone.at, March 1, 2017
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  41. ^ After protest: Edeka and farmers plan to swap roles . Online report from NDR 1 Lower Saxony from January 30, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Waalkes, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto; Waalkes, Otto Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian, comic artist, musician, actor, director and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden