Schaggi Streuli

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Schaggi Streuli (born July 4, 1899 in Bauma ; † November 3, 1980 ibid; actually Emil Kägi ) was a Swiss scriptwriter , cabaret artist , dialect poet and dialect actor .

biography

Streuli's stepfather was an alcoholic peasant farmer and carpenter. His mother, a factory worker, moved to Höngg with her six children after the divorce in 1905 . After school, Streuli completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked as an employee in the securities department of a bank. In addition, he began to write plays. In 1928 he married Elisabeth «Lisel» Eigenheer and opened an inn in Ticino, which soon went bankrupt. In 1929, Streuli returned to Zurich with his wife and took a job as a runner in a butcher's shop in Oerlikon . After the early death of their child Hans Rudolf ("Hansruedeli"), who died almost two years old in 1931, he separated from his wife in 1933. From 1936 he worked as an actor. In 1939 he married Hedwig Obrist, with whom he lived in Ober-Langenhard (municipality of Zell ) in the 1950s , then in Schmidrüti (municipality of Turbenthal ) and on a small farm near Steinenbach near Wila , where he spent his free time busy with his poultry and woodwork. After a short illness, he died on November 3rd, 1980 in Bauma hospital.

Career

His first job as an actor was in 1936 at the Corso Theater in Zurich. He had other appearances in the 1930s and 1940s at the Cabaret Cornichon in Zurich and at a Volksbühne. From 1947 to the 1950s, Streuli was an author and actor at the Cabaret Fédéral , in which actors such as Lukas Ammann , Max Haufler , Stephanie Glaser , Blanche Aubry , César Keizer and Margrit Läubli played.

From 1939 on, Emil Kägi used the stage name Schaggi Streuli. He had his first small role in a film in 1938 in the Swiss feature film Füsilier Wipf . He was best known for his star role as Polizischt Wäckerli in the 17-part radio play of the same name (1949–1950), in which he worked as an author and actor, and the feature films based on it (1955/1966) and a television series (1963-1964).

Other radio play series popular at the time with Schaggi Streuli as author and leading actor were country doctor Dr. Hilfiker (1952), Oberstadtgass (1955) and the Heiri Aeppli family (1960). These were also successful as stage plays ( Polizischt Wäckerli , 1950, and Country Doctor Dr. Hilfiker , 1953). The various radio plays in which he worked as an author and actor were street sweeps in the 1950s and often served as a template for successful feature films. With the emergence of new narrative styles and a younger generation of scriptwriters and directors with completely different points of view, Streuli's engagements decreased in the 1960s and 1970s, but this did not reduce his popularity in large parts of the Swiss population.

Streuli toured with his theater ensemble in the 1950s and 1960s with plays such as De Kampf ums Rächt (1951), Pinocchio (1952), the stage adaptation of his radio play Fritz Vollenweider (1957), the dialect play You und de Chef (1960), Familie Heiri Aeppli and the popular Schwank father don't do that ...! (1967) through Switzerland.

Streuli had his last major role in 1975 in the feature film De Grotzepuur by Mark M. Rissi . In it he played an old farmer who tragically fails in his attempt to make big money with intensive fattening.

In July 2004, in his memory of the cabaret artist Walter Roderer (whose sponsor Streuli had been in the 1950s), the “Schaggi-Streuli-Wanderweg” was inaugurated in his last place of residence in the Zurich Tösstal . The actor's life and work are recognized on various information boards along the hiking trail.

Filmography (selection)

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  • 1963–1964: Polizischt Wäckerli (TV series)
  • 1966: The Frog King (theater recording)
  • 1971: The William Tell Story (TV movie)
  • 1975: De starch Stamm (theater recording)
  • 1976: De Schützekönig (television play, Swiss television)

Radio plays

  • 1949–1950: Police Wäckerli
  • 1950: Black pike
  • 1952: Fritz Vollenweider
  • 1952–1953: Country doctor Dr. Helper
  • 1955–1956: Oberstadtgass
  • 1958: Dur all Böde duur!
  • 1959: De Grochsi
  • 1960: Heiri Aeppli family
  • 1962: Policeman Wäckerli in danger
  • 1969: Village festival in Allenwil or policeman Wäckerli's most difficult case
  • 1974: Police Wäckerli retired

Awards

  • 1949: Zurich Radio Play Prize

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Streuli, Schaggi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kägi, Emil (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss screenwriter, cabaret artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bauma
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1980
Place of death Bauma