Robert T. Odeman

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Robert T. Odeman (born November 30, 1904 in Blankenese , † January 14, 1985 in Berlin ; sometimes also written Odemann , real name Martin Hoyer ) was a German cabaret artist , poet and pianist .

Life

Robert T. Odeman was born as Martin Hoyer on November 30, 1904 in Blankenese . After training as a carpenter , he studied piano and performed successfully as a pianist for several years . He accompanied silent films in many Hamburg cinemas. Due to an injury to his hand, he had to give up playing the piano and turned to the theater.

In 1922 he met the architecture student Martin Ulrich Eppendorf (nickname: Muli), with whom he lived for ten years until his partner died in 1932. In 1933 he took over the musical direction of the New Theater in Hamburg. In 1935 he founded a cabaret in Berlin, which the Gestapo closed shortly after it opened .

In November 1937 he was arrested by the Gestapo for his love for a Hamburg bookseller and sentenced to 27 months imprisonment under Section 175 of the Criminal Code, which he served in Plötzensee and other Berlin penal institutions.

After his release, Odeman was banned from working and was not allowed to perform in public.

Even a sham relationship with the singer Olga Rinnebach could not prevent him from being arrested again in 1942. He served his sentence under severe conditions in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In the concentration camp he held the post of block clerk. In the spring of 1945, under circumstances that were not entirely clear, he managed to escape from the concentration camp.

After the war, he took part - especially in Hamburg - in building up cultural life, completed an actor's training and appeared in various theaters and productions. Satirical poems that Odeman wrote, published in book form, were set to music by musicians such as Charles Kálmán and Norbert Schultze and published on music and speech records , the latter of which Odeman discussed himself at the suggestion of the actresses Pamela Wedekind and Ursula Herking .

In 1959 he met Günter Nöring (1933-2006), then 25, in Berlin, whom he called Kai ( out of the box ) and with whom he stayed until his death. Since the two were not allowed to marry, Odeman adopted his younger partner, who from then on had the double name Günter Odeman-Nöring.

In 1985 Robert T. Odeman died at the age of 81 in Berlin-Grunewald after being bedridden for a long time.

Works

Robert T. Odeman wrote over 50 satirical poems, it was published by Blanvalet Berlin (now Random House Verlag) a. a. :

  • Don't mince your words
  • A bachelor's rascal
  • weed does not pass
  • The little magic mountain
  • The wedding in Canaa

Speech plates

In Telefunken appeared within the row word and voice several highly successful speech plates , on which he spoke selections from his poetry collections u. a .:

  • Everyday life is not gray - verses of an incorrigible
  • Ladies please listen away
  • Let's not talk about it
  • Without make-up for fine people
  • Verses of a brazen contemporary
  • Just between us

Settings

  • Norbert Schultze - grapefruit kisses. 13 chansons based on poems by Robert T. Odeman
  • Diverse - Robert T. Odeman: Time flies. A portrait in historically z. Some unpublished photos from 1934–1978

Audio books

  • Dark suit requested (Speaker: Michael H. Gloth)

literature

  • Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 383 (short biography)
  • Odeman, Robert T. , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 707

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Eisenhauer: Günter Odeman-Nöring (obituary). DER TAGESSPIEGEL October 20, 2006, tagesspiegel.de
personal data
SURNAME Odeman, Robert T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoyer, Martin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1985
Place of death Berlin