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Rainer Pause (2006)

Rainer Pause (born June 14, 1947 in Essen ) is a German cabaret artist . In 1987 he founded the Pantheon Theater in Bonn .

Life

Rainer Pause studied in Bonn first medicine , then German , Communications and phonetics .

In 1966 he started as an actor at the Studiobühne at the German Department of the University of Bonn , whose director and director he became some time later. In 1979 Rainer Pause became a member of the Hoffmanns Comic Teater ensemble , to which u. a. Peter Möbius , Rio Reiser ( clay stones shards ) and Claudia Roth belonged. From 1982 he did cabaret with Heinrich Pachl in the Cologne theater Der Wahre Anton . A year later he co-founded the alternative carnival session Pink Punk Pantheon . In 1987 Pause founded the Pantheon Theater in Bonn, of which he is the owner and manager today. Since 1990 he has appeared together with Norbert Alich as the duo Pause-Alich and since 1994 he has also worked with the Cologne journalist Martin Stankowski . Since 1995 he has presented the Prix ​​Pantheon cabaret and satire award . His directorial work includes: for Georg Schramm Thomas Bernhard would have shot (2005) and Meister Yodas Ende (2010), for Andreas Giebel In the collecting basin of passion (2007) and The rustling in the trees (2011) and for Helmut Schleich The very last hero ( 2008), not with me! (2011) and Ehrlich! (2014). In 2013 he directed the anniversary production of the Tollwood Festival in Munich " First Class " ( Ludwig Thoma ), for which he was also co-author responsible. In 2005 he founded the cabaret Political Ash Wednesday in Berlin.

Pause has a son, Aljoscha Pause , and a daughter. He has lived in Bonn since 1966. Rainer Pause is the nephew of the mountaineer and writer Walter Pause .

Norbert Alich (left) as Hermann Schwaderlappen and Rainer Pause (right) as Fritz Litzmann (2016)

Fritz Litzmann

Rainer Pause's stage character and alter ego 'Fritz Litzmann' has been an integral part of the Pantheon Theater's program for many years . Litzmann is the age president of the fictional 'Heimatverein Rhenania' and, together with the alter ego of his stage partner Norbert Alich , 'Hermann Schwaderlappen', chairs the alternative Bonn carnival session Pink Punk Pantheon . As Fritz Litzmann, Rainer Pause is also a partner of Norbert Alich in the cabaret duo Pause-Alich and in cooperation with the Cologne historian Martin Stankowski in his performances in churches, crematoriums and funeral homes with the production Death in the Rhineland and on boat tours on the Rhine, etc. . a. with a revolution in the Rhineland .

His repertoire also includes his solo finale, The Last Judgment , a tour de force marked by black humor through the "funeral affairs and mischief" . Fritz Litzmann appears as an undertaker who spans the range from the Holocaust to the grave master model of the New Millennium.

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Programs in which Rainer Pause has already appeared:

and worked as a director:

Awards

(in cooperation with Norbert Alich )

  • 1991: Morenhovener Lupe
  • 1992: Critics' Prize of the Komödiantenpreis in Hamburg's Schmidt Theater “for the courage to use bitterly angry words to lead us to our own tolerance limits; a comedian who extends words and emotions to the limitless extremities and immerses himself seamlessly in pain, outrage and roaring laughter ”.
  • 2002: Minden stickleback - group award

Publications

  • Rainer Pause: The last dish. 3sat edition, DVD, ISBN 3-86923-012-6
  • Rainer Pause, Jean Faure and Norbert Alich: Kölsch for Europe. Audio CD, ISBN 3-416-05012-6
  • Rainer Pause: Pressed Fauna , in: Vorleser, Vol. 3 - Heimatklänge , audio CD, ISBN 3-86604-158-6
  • Rainer Pause and Martin Stankowski: Death in the Rhineland. Audio CD, ISBN 3-7857-3034-9
  • Rainer Pause and Martin Stankowski: Death in the Rhineland. Last words from Elke Heidenreich. New, complete. revised 2004 edition, ISBN 3-462-03572-X

Web links

Commons : Rainer Pause  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files