Philip Arp

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Grave of Philip Arp in the north cemetery in Munich

Philip Arp (* 27. February 1929 in Munich , † 17th February 1987 ibid; real name Hermann Fischer ) was a German actor , comedian , author and theater - director .

Life

Philip Arp was born in 1929 as the sixth child of a master shoemaker in the Au district of Munich , just 400 meters from the birthplace of the humorist Karl Valentin .

As a 16-year-old altar boy in the Mariahilfkirche he found the crucifix from the Holy Cross Chapel, which had been demolished in 1817 and which had been attached to a facade, after the air raids on April 25, 1944 . He brought the fragment of the cross to his home and "dressed" it with a potato sack, a rope and a white sheet. He also provided it with a text in which he wished the cross its peace.

After dropping out of high school, Arp took singing, instrumental and acting lessons. In the 1950s and 1960s he appeared as an operetta singer at the "Komische Oper München" and as a puppeteer and pantomime.

In 1959 he married his stage and life partner Anette Spola . In 1970, Philip Arp and Anette Spola opened the “Theater am Sozialamt” ( TamS for short ) in an urban shower bath next to the Schwabing welfare office that was actually intended to be demolished .

In 1971 Arp and Spola organized their first Valentinaden evening , scenes written by Arp in the manner of Karl Valentins. This program was the breakthrough for Arp and TamS. From 1973 to 1976, another Valentinaden program was created every year , which is broadcast on radio and television and with which Arp and Spola also went on tour.

1978 Arp played with Jörg Hube in the two-person piece Nepal by Urs Widmer at the Munich Kammerspiele . In 1979 Arp appeared in Urs Widmer's play Stan and Ollie in Germany, again with Jörg Hube as a partner. The author wrote the play for the two actors and directed TamS himself.

He had several appearances in the cabaret show wipers and series Fast wia in real life of Gerhard Polt .

In 1981 Arp had a guest role at the Münchner Kammerspiele in No Place for Idiots by Felix Mitterer . In 1982 he played in several television games a. a. in Five Last Days by Percy Adlon . In the same year Arp and Spola appeared on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Schwabing in the "Schwabinger Bräu" together with Gerhard Polt, the Biermösl Blosn and other contributors. In 1984 he played the role of the squatters in the play The jumping cloth is not jumped . Otto Grünmandl played the house owner . In 1985 Arp appeared in public for the last time , despite serious illness, in the “Save the Court Garden ” protest against the building of the Bavarian State Chancellery .

Philip Arp died in 1987 just ten days before his 58th birthday and rests in the Munich North Cemetery .

In November 2007, an exhibition on the 20th anniversary of Philip Arp's death was opened in the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum in Munich.

His estate can be found at the Bavarian Literature Portal. So far (October 2019) the estate has not yet been indexed and is not accessible.

Prizes and awards

Own pieces

  • The piano in the cowshed 1956
  • Prince Gong , Bärenreiter-Verlag 1958
  • Valentinaden 1971–1976 Theater am Sozialamt
  • Baierisch language course 1974 Theater at Fraunhofer
  • To the round corner 1976
  • The singer's curse - until Monday all of 1977
  • Murder at the National Theater 1978 Theater at the Social Welfare Office
  • Bavaria Loas 1979 Munich theater festival
  • Original explosion 1985

Books

  • No information from Philip Arp. Scenes, stories, poems and collages. Habbel, Regensburg 1980, ISBN 3-7748-0365-X .
  • I am not announcing anything. Verses, lectures, valentines . Published by Anette Spola et al. Hugendubel, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-88034-370-5 (with a detailed biography).

Sound carrier

  • I am not announcing anything. Scenes, lectures, Valentinaden Cologne 1998 (1 CD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of the suburbs Au e. V. (Hrsg.): 175 years Mariahilf Church Munich-Au 1839–2014 . Booklet accompanying the exhibition “175 Years of the Mariahilfkirche”. Munich 2014, DNB  1060420511 , p. 3 .
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Philip Arp . Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ estate
personal data
SURNAME Arp, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Hermann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, cabaret artist, author and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1987
Place of death Munich , Germany