Ralph Morgenstern

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R. Morgenstern 2006
in "Cover me" 2007

Ralph Morgenstern (born October 3, 1956 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; actually Ralph Morgenstern-Nolting ) is a German moderator , musician and actor .

Life

Morgenstern's parents were both musical, his great-aunt was a singer at the Cologne Opera , and the actor Harry Piel was his great-uncle. Morgenstern was enthusiastic about singing and acting at an early age, but for the sake of his parents completed training as an educator. The father's alcoholic illness temporarily overshadowed his youth.

Morgenstern moved to Cologne at the age of 20 out of love for a man . There he soon founded the band Gina X Performance , which was produced by Bernd "Zeus" Held, the keyboard player of the band Birth Control , and Martin Hömberg. With the band he released three LPs ( Nice Mover 1978, X-Traordinare 1980 and Voyeur 1982). During this time he also worked on a number of experimental films by Hinrich Sickenberger and presented himself as a performance artist at art fairs in Cologne and Basel ; for example together with Maf Räderscheidt - who also designed the cover of the last LP - and Sickenberger 1979 at Kunst does not come from bread , and 1986 with the installation Show your colors - 41 years of Rosa Winkel . He was on cocaine during his music career, but stopped using it in the early 1990s.

In the 1980s, Morgenstern took on his first smaller roles in WDR television and in the theater. In the Cologne Theater in der Filmdose , for example, he played in Geierwally (1984–86) and Sissi - Beutelyahre einer Kaiserin (1989–90), directed by Walter Bockmayer . In addition to his work for the theater and several tours in Germany, he took on his first film role in In Heaven is Hell Going (1983). This was followed by the films Die Geierwally , A man for certain hours ( ARD , 1996), Gisbert (ARD, 1998, director: Hape Kerkeling ) and I love you baby (1998).

His television career began in 1992 at RTL , where he hosted the film can show together with Hella von Sinnen and Dada Stievermann . Shortly thereafter followed the first own television shows XOV on VOX (1993), Klatschmohn (1994) on WDR and finally the show Kaffeeklatsch (1995-2002) on ZDF, which was further developed to Blond am Freitag in 2001-2007 . He also played the lead role in the ZDF sitcom Schöne Aussichten in 1998 and was a weekly guest at the ZDF television garden as a society expert from 2005 to 2007 (3 seasons) in the summer months, and was also an irregular guest in the 2010 to 2012 season He was a guest at the ZDF spring show from 2010 to 2015 as a society expert.

Ralph Morgenstern has always remained loyal to the theater despite his numerous works for film and television. From 1992 to 1999 he was a permanent member of the Cologne Schauspielhaus. There he played in various productions, including in Petrol Station of the Damned (1994), Mephisto (1997), Faust (1996) and Die Banditen (Cologne Opera, 1999). Morgenstern was engaged by the Musical Comedy of the Leipzig Opera for the musical Kiss me Kate by Cole Porter from September 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2009 he played Edna Turnblad in the German-language premiere of the musical Hairspray at the St. Gallen Theater , Switzerland.

In 1997, moderated by him show was Kaffeeklatsch for the Rose d'Or nominated, in 2004 the program Blonde on Friday and in November 2006 he received together with Christoph Maria Herbst , the award "tip pen" in Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2014, Morgenstern was awarded the acceptance prize at the Christopher Street Day in Duisburg, presented by the Lord Mayor of Duisburg Sören Link (SPD), for his outstanding work for diversity, understanding and acceptance of homosexual people.

From January 2011, Morgenstern and his daughter Jadwiga (born 1983) ran a café in downtown Cologne. He gave up on January 20, 2013, to devote himself more to work at the theater. Morgenstern has lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg since October 2013 .

Theater (selection)

Filmography (selection)

Moderation (selection)

Audiobooks (selection)

  • 2018 Dr. Knox Author: Peter Spiegelman, Publisher: HarperCollins at Lübbe Audio

Web links

Commons : Ralph Morgenstern  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b c d Axel Schock and Karen-Susan Fessel: OUT! - 800 famous lesbians, gays and bisexuals. Querverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89656-111-1 .
  2. ^ Maf Räderscheidt ( Memento from December 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), as of June 18, 2007
  3. ↑ Morgenstern opens Cafe ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at koeln.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koeln.de
  4. ↑ Renaissance Theater - Degenerate Art. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ A little longing | State Opera Berlin. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Musical "Wedding with Obstacles" by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison - Städtische Theater Chemnitz. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ The Wizard of Oz ›City Theater Klagenfurt. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Renaissance Theater - IN THE WEISSEN RÖSSL. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ program | Theater at the Marientor. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Everyone. Accessed February 1, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Morgenstern, Ralph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgenstern-Nolting, Ralph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German presenter, musician and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr