Stunk session
The stunksitzung is an alternative cabaret session in the Cologne Carnival . The name alludes to the “ceremonial sessions” of the organized carnival meeting, from which the stunk session is deliberately separated. The term stink is a modification of stink and stands for provocation and initiated quarrel. In the carnival season 2010/2011 50 meetings were held with around 55,000 revelers instead.
The Tuschfactory GmbH is responsible for the Stunksitzung, and achieved an annual surplus of around 230,000 euros in the 2014/15 financial year. The managing directors are the actress Brigitte Wanninger and the musician Georg Kunz.
program
The topics of the political numbers range from world politics to the German political scene to Cologne local topics. Artistic numbers and the corruption of well-known films, classical music and songs - often in the Cologne dialect - complete the program. Popular targets of the mockery include politicians, the Bundeswehr, the Catholic Church and earlier in particular Cardinal Meisner , the Düsseldorf rivalry, the local soccer club 1. FC Köln as well as the Bergheimers (provincial mockery ) and the traditional carnival societies, especially the Cologne triumvirate and the reds Sparks .
History and contributors
Founded in 1983 by a Cologne student collective of Cologne University , emerged from the Cologne Games Circus, is the first session of took place on 26 February 1984 in the Old Mensa University of Cologne instead. Co-founder is the cabaret artist Jürgen Becker , who until his departure in 1995 as "Iroquois-Heinz" held the role of the meeting president. Then Reiner Rübhausen took over the office. Biggi Wanninger has been the president of the meetings since 1999 .
Many of the current actors on stage have been there since the beginning of the Stunksitzung 1984: Martina Bajohr, Doris Dietzold, Martina Klinke, Doro Egelhaaf, Didi Jünemann , Günter Ottemeier and Bruno Schmitz. Christian Rzepka has been part of the company since 1988, Anne Rixmann (1996), Tom Simon (1998) and Ozan Akhan (2000) joined them in the late 1990s. The house band has been Köbes Underground since 1988 , after most of the band members had previously performed in stunks meetings under other names such as The Dead Lambsdorffs, Sister Christa and the Brinkmanns or Elmar goes to Lüdenscheid. Since the carnival session in 1991, the stunk sessions have taken place in the E-Werk in Cologne-Mülheim .
Since 1996 the WDR television has broadcast the sketch Ash Wednesday for one at the end of the carnival on Ash Wednesday night . This is a Cologne variant of the Skit Dinner for One from the stunksitzung from 1995. In April 2010 the Cologne City Museum showed the special exhibition Carnival repaired? Politics, protest, provocation and parody , a critical homage to the 25th anniversary of the stunksitzung.
Legal action against the stunk session
In the stunks meeting 2006 Pope Benedict XVI. and the then Cologne Cardinal Joachim Meisner portrayed as gay "rat and tit" in bed. The criminal complaint by a private person for insulting denominations, religious societies and ideological associations triggered a public prosecutor's investigation, which was discontinued in March 2006. Already in 1993 there was an advertisement because a crucifix with the inscription " Tünnes " was shown in a stunks meeting . The subsequent seizure of these props turned out to be untenable in retrospect: like the sketch “Ratze und Meise”, this action was also covered by artistic freedom in the opinion of the court .
censorship
The WDR practiced self-censorship several times by not broadcasting certain content during television broadcasts of the stunk session:
- In 1992, cabaret artist Jürgen Becker described Cardinal Meisner from Cologne as an “asshole” in a speech. When the recording was broadcast, the word was electronically drowned out.
- In 2006 the sketch “Ratze und Meise” was cut out of the recording.
- In 2011, the appearance of Bruno Schmitz as Bishop Walter Mixa was not broadcast in the summary of the meeting after there had been criticism of the sketch in advance. In the long version of the stunk session, the WDR only shows a cut version of the sketch.
literature
- Petra Metzger, Georg Bungarten, Nadja Fernandes and Manfred Linke (eds.): Carnival repaired? 25 years of the Cologne Stunk Meeting. On the trail of a phenomenon . Edition Arge Kulturidee, 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-029202-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cologne stunks meeting - contact. In: stunksitzung.de. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Tuschfactory GmbH: Annual financial statements for the business year from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015 , published in the Federal Gazette on July 8, 2016.
- ↑ Cologne stunks meeting. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.ksta.de/papst-satire-wdr-zensiert-stunksitzung-12219024
