Rudolf Rolfs

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Rudolf Rolfs (born August 4, 1920 in Stettin ; † April 12, 2004 in Tuscany ) was a German satirist , writer and theater director .

Life

After the Second World War , Rolfs first moved through the Soviet zone of occupation on a traveling stage before founding the cabaret Die Schmiere in Frankfurt am Main on September 9, 1950 , which he directed until 1989. According to its self-promotion, the supposedly worst theater in the world first played in the basement of the stone house before moving to the Carmelite monastery in 1959 . One of his partners was Reno Nonsens , with whom he said goodbye to the stage in 1990 with the Rolfs and Nonsens evacuation program .

In the 1960s, Rolfs was involved in the Easter march movement . He took part in the marches and, among other things, gave a speech at the final rally in Frankfurt in 1962.

Rolfs published his aphorisms in several volumes sorted by keyword. The aphorisms in the 1980 volume Ask August Pi! have a dialogical structure: the figure of the philosophical clown "August Pi", who Rolfs had already invented for a few pieces in the Schmiere, answers satirically to an equally fictional interviewer.

Rolfs lived in Frankfurt am Main, Waldacker and Finland . His daughter is the cabaret artist Effi B. Rolfs .

Rudolf Rolfs once said in a television interview: "Time is a vase. It depends on whether you put thistles or roses in it."

Works

  • How do you find the goo ?, (Frankfurt a. M .: Hosch GmbH.)
  • Schmiere, the worst theater in the world, Frankfurt a. M .: Pionier-Druck & Verl.
  • That should be banned !, Frankfurt / Main: Olymp-Verl., [1951]
  • happy-end ?, Frankfurt a. M .: Art u. Print, 1959
  • The hand of Josef König, Frankfurt a. M .: Die Schmiere, 1960
  • The suspenders, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1962
  • Rot, Frankfurt / Main Carmelite Monastery: Die Schmiere, 1963
  • Diary of a non-sleeper, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1963
  • Full belly on barricades, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1964
  • Pamphlete, Frankfurt / M .: Verl. Die Schmiere, 1965
  • Tripwire for the innocent, Frankfurt / M .: Verl. Die Schmiere, 1965
  • The cat kicks the stairs crooked, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1966
  • Ich, ein Buhmann, Frankfurt / M .: Röderberg-Verl., 1967
  • look it up at rolfs, frankfurt / m .: Röderberg-Verl., 1967
  • The leg, namely the left one, Ahrensburg, Paris: Damokles-Verlag, 1970
  • naked, radical prose, Frankfurt (center): Die Schmiere, 1973
  • Pfui !, Rolfs, Rudolf. - Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, [1975?]
  • Inventory of a brain, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1976
  • Wonderful shit love !, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1978
  • Ask August Pi! A circus d'esprit with 1444 contradictions, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1980
  • Ich mal ich, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1980
  • Body, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1981
  • Fahndungsbuch, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1982
  • Feuer, Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, 1983
  • Somebody listens, Rolfs, Rudolf. - Frankfurt / M .: Die Schmiere, [1984]
  • The adventure: "Schmiere", Waldacker [i. e. Frankfurt / M.]: Die Schmiere, 1985
  • Friday, 9 p.m .: Berlevåg, Frankfurt a. M.: Die Schmiere 1985
  • The "X" stories, Frankfurt am Main: Die Schmiere, 1987
  • Rust in chrome, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1989
  • The art of living freely, Marburg: Görich and Weiershäuser, 2005
  • Aphorisms about pleasure and enjoyment, Marburg: Görich & Weiershäuser, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Friedemann Spicker : The German aphorism in the 20th century. Game, picture, knowledge . Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-484-10859-2 , p. 724 with additional information
  2. ↑ a b Biographical information in: Ask August Pi! (1980), inside cover on the back.
  3. ↑ Easter March 1962. Report on a campaign for disarmament , plans, No. 9/10, October 1962, Dortmund, p. 47. His speech given in 1962 is in the archive of the Schwäbische Alb living quarters .
  4. ↑ Ask August Pi! (1980), p. 285.
  5. ↑ Spicker 2004, p. 950.
personal data
SURNAME Rolfs, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German satirist and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2004
Place of death Tuscany