Steffen Lukas

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Steffen Lukas (born November 12, 1969 in Berlin ) is a German radio presenter at Radio PSR . He achieved national fame with the series "Sinnlos" -Telefon as well as the characters he embodied "Grandpa Unger" and "Harry Werner".

Life

At Radio PSR

Steffen Lukas grew up in Karl-Marx-Stadt . He completed an apprenticeship as an agricultural engineer and from 1988 did his military service in the "Kurt Bennewitz" non-commissioned officers' school in Delitzsch. He was with the NVA until 1990 and is sergeant in the reserve. From 1990 he worked as a roadie and was a DJ with a mobile disco. He came to Radio PSR in 1993, where he worked as an editor. In September 1996, the series "Sinnlos" -telefon started on Radio PSR, in which Lukas made fictitious joke calls. Radio PSR broadcast three telephone calls every Saturday, with up to 500,000 listeners already in 1997. "Steffen Lukas has developed these calls into a trademark of the station", according to the Sächsische Zeitung 1997. Lukas appeared in the figure of the 84-year-old vital but slightly hard of hearing pensioner Grandpa Unger, which became popular in a short time . From February 1997, Lukas toured Saxony with the Grandpa Unger Live Show. In the spring of 1997 the first “Sinnlos” telephone CD was released; By 1998, around 500,000 copies of the five episodes that had been published by then had sold; two years later, episode 9 was already on the market, with around one million records having been sold. By 2009, 17 “Sinnlos” phone CDs had been released.

After Böttcher and Fischer left Radio PSR, Lukas and Peggy Schmidt took over the morning program in February 1998 as "The Two from Six to Nine". He appeared in various roles, including Grandpa Unger. In addition, the “Sinnlos” telephone was included as an integral part of the program, which was discontinued at the beginning of May 1998. From then on, Lukas presented the show Sinnlos-Telefon-Show every Saturday morning , in which, in addition to Grandpa Unger, the characters Harry Werner and Wilfried Mollenbröder ("Saxon Ossi-Proll and Rhenish Besserwessi ") appeared. In 2001 the first Radio PSR Sinnlos radio play appeared with Grandpa Unger and his little house , in which Lukas spoke to five people. In the same year, Lukas was a member of the jury for the first German Radio Comedy Prize alongside Herbert Feuerstein and Wigald Boning .

Together with Jasmin Wiegand and Alex Buchwald, Lukas formed the team for the morning show Perfect Awakened as Grandpa Unger from 2003 and presented the Saturday morning program on Radio PSR (“Super Saturday Morning ”) in various character roles. From autumn 2005 he was in the afternoon program as Grandpa Unger and took over in May 2006 with Claudia Schier (from the end of 2006 Sibylle “Billy” Wulff, from mid-2008 Diana Schell and Rob Szymoniak, from the beginning of 2010 Diana Schell and Ulrich “Uli” Müller , from August 2010 Diana Holtorff and Uli Müller) the Radio PSR Morning Show (“Steffen Lukas Show”). From January to March 2007, the Steffen Lukas Show caused a sensation when Germany's largest radio jackpot was played with one million euros in prize money. In the same year, against the background of the dispute over the Dresden Waldschlösschenbrücke, the new character "Hufi Horseshoe Bat", spoken by Lukas, was created, which was marketed with merchandising products ("Baby Collection") and a song of its own ( Ulrike, come back! ) .

From December 2011 to March 2013, the Steffen-Lukas-Show was replaced by a new morning show (“Die Guten-Morgen-Macher”), which caused criticism from the audience. The morning show “Steffen-Lukas-Show” with Steffen Lukas, Karolin Ficiolka (traffic news) , Claudia Switala (weather) and Hajo Wilken (news) has been running again since March 2013 . Until December 2014, Lukas moderated it together with Kati Huhn; since January 2015 both have only moderated the morning show together on Saturday; Lukas has moderated the morning show with Claudia Switala ever since.

After Lukas was awarded the German Radio Prize for the Steffen Lukas Show in the category Best Comedy in 2016, he won the German Radio Prize for Best Presenter at the end of September 2019 . In their justification, the jury found that Lukas “accompanied the listeners with humor, stylish, poise and with a wonderful Saxon touch”. The morning show is "an institution - with a moderator who has remained spontaneous and still organizes prime time on the Leipzig radio station with audibly great joy and various Saxon songs".

further activities

Lukas worked with lyricist Max Reeg on his first album Sommer in Borna from 2002 ; the first single Schneise was released in 2002, the album followed in early 2003.

Together with Jörg Maaß and Maximilian Reeg, Lukas conceived the literary performance and Schwitters homage in 2003 on the 55th anniversary of Kurt Schwitters ' death. The middle is the beginning of the end , which was performed in Leipzig in January and June 2003. In October 2003, Luke was in the staged by Max Reeg comedy Knight Unken Stone of Karl Valentin seen as a knight Heinrich on the stage; the piece had its premiere at the Leipzig Laughter Fair at the Moritzbastei . Lukas stood with Christoph Hohmann, Heidi Ecks and Max Reeg in 2005 for the short film Der Krake by Christoph Graebel and Thomas Podhostnik , which was shown in January 2006 at the 27th Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken. In 2008 he took part in a Brecht reading Brecht ruft 110 and in March 2012 was one of the speakers at the Karl May reading of Der Ölprinz on Moritzbastei.

From 2009, Lukas worked with Tobias Künzel and Max Reeg on the Karl Marx musical Comeback! The Karl Marx musical , which premiered on November 2, 2013 in the Vogtland Theater in Plauen . He also appears as a singer with his seven-piece band "Steffen Lukas and the Plattenbauorchester".

The presenter gained further fame in July 2014 with his parody of the song “ Breathless Through the Night” (text version of the parody: Maximilian Reeg) for the 2014 World Cup , which the publisher has prohibited from being viewed on YouTube .

Private

Lukas has lived in Leipzig since 1994. He is married for the second time and has two children.

Discography (selection)

  • 1997–2009: Radio PSR - Sinnlos-Telefon Best of, Vol. 1–17
  • 2001: Grandpa Unger and his little house (1st Radio PSR Sinnlos radio play, with Max Reeg)
  • 2002: Schneise (single, as "Steffen Lukas und die Forensiker", with Max Reeg)
  • 2003: Summer in Borna (album, as "Steffen Lukas and the forensic experts")
  • 2004: Grandpa Unger and his ghost (2nd Radio PSR Sinnlos radio play, with Max Reeg, including the character "Chief Police Officer Fichtner")
  • Since 2009: Die kleine Schnecke Monika Häuschen (radio play series by Kati Naumann, produced by Tobias Künzel; as speaker)

Awards

  • 2000: Media award from the police union in the German Association of Civil Servants for "Grandpa Unger"
  • 2007: Golden Rose of the Leipzig Carnival Funding Committee for "Grandpa Unger"
  • 2016: German Radio Prize for the Steffen Lukas Show, Best Comedy category
  • 2019: German Radio Prize in the Best Moderator category

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Steffen Lukas at kress.de
  2. ↑ Frog and driver's license in Borna . In: Leipziger-Volkszeitung (Bornaer Zeitung) , January 4, 2003, p. 25.
  3. ↑ Delitzsch scores with Beatles, rolls and presents . In: Delitzsch-Eilenburger Kreiszeitung , September 14, 2010, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Happy regular soldier . In: Döbelner Allgemeine , April 11, 2008, p. 16.
  5. ↑ Popular croak voice. Grandpa Unger from the Sinnlos-Telefon in Löbau . In: Sächsische Zeitung , December 8, 2000, p. 9.
  6. ↑ Ingolf Rosendahl: Half a million turn on Radio PSR every Saturday so as not to miss the “pointless” phone calls . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , April 12, 1997, p. 4.
  7. ↑ Stefanie Claudius: Controlled business . In: Sächsische Zeitung , August 8, 1997, p. 20.
  8. ↑ Grandpa Unger with granddaughters turned everything upside down , Leipziger Volkszeitung, July 17, 2000, p. 21.
  9. ↑ André Böhmer: Author dispute about Grandpa Unger - famous like Asterix? . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , November 11, 1998, p. 4.
  10. ↑ Panic in the editorial office: Grandpa Unger decorates Oehl . In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 27, 1999, p. 7.
  11. ↑ André Böhmer: Moderator Roulette at Radio PSR: Böttcher & Fischer change channels . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , February 7, 1998, p. 4.
  12. ↑ Ulf Mauder: Saxon radio feud brings the rumor mill to a boil . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , February 18, 1998, p. 4.
  13. ↑ There is a rumble in Karl-Marx-Stadt . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 4, 2002, p. 8.
  14. ↑ Radio with pointless telephone . In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 5, 1998, p. 15.
  15. ↑ Still Wessi jokes . In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 17, 2001, p. 21.
  16. ↑ PSR changes morning show. Early riser Steffen Lukas . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , May 27, 2006, p. 14.
  17. ^ New voices in the morning . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , December 6, 2011, p. 13.
  18. ↑ Steffen Lukas takes over the morning show on Radio PSR again , radiowoche.de, March 11, 2013.
  19. ↑ Reason of the jury in Kerstin Decker: Steffen Lukas wins German Radio Prize . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , September 27, 2019, p. 18.
  20. ↑ See Steffen Lukas - Schneise , funtix.de
  21. ↑ Nikos Natsidis: What connects the radio PSR pointless telephone presenter Steffen Lukas with the Wyhrastadt . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 4, 2003, p. 25.
  22. ↑ See ritterunkenstein.de
  23. ↑ Goldbrasse Label shoots short film "The Octopus" . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , August 18, 2005, p. 20; "The octopus" in Saarbrücken. Leipzig short film premieres abroad . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 24, 2006, p. 15.
  24. ↑ Karl Marx celebrated as a musical hero at the premiere in Plauen . sächsische.de, November 3, 2013.
  25. ↑ Steffen Lukas and the Plattenbau Orchestra. Retrieved September 14, 2019 (German).
  26. ↑ hub / spot: Helene Fischer: Vortex around the “breathless” parody , abendzeitung-muenchen.de , July 4, 2014, accessed on July 7, 2014.
  27. ↑ Ivette Wagner: Two honorary commissioners chosen in Dresden . In: Dresdner Latest News , May 22, 2000, p. 14.
personal data
SURNAME Lukas, Steffen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio host
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin