Torsten Sträter

Torsten Sträter at the Freiburg 2020 Culture Exchange

Torsten Sträter (* 4. September 1966 in Dortmund-Eving ) is a German horror - and comedy - writer , slam poet , comedian and cabaret artist .

Life

Sträter completed an apprenticeship as a men's tailor and also worked in this profession. He then worked for a freight forwarding company and as a mobile phone seller for twelve years . During this time he lived u. a. in the Dortmund district of Marten . Later he began to present his short stories very successfully at poetry slams throughout the German-speaking region. In addition to numerous regional championships in 2009, 2010 and 2012, he won the state competition NRW Slam . Sträter wrote for the satirical magazine Pardon and humorous columns for the kicker . There are only short stories in his books . It occurs regularly at nuhr in the first and extra 3 .

Sträter's trademark is a beanie hat . The fact that he wears them to almost all appearances has a purely practical origin: He needed something to catch the sweat that trickles from his forehead under the headlights. And he could "put on a headband like Björn Borg ".

According to his own account, Torsten Sträter suffered from a depressive illness in the nineties , which he also discussed in cabaret. In January 2018 he became patron of the Deutsche DepressionsLiga eV (DDL).

Since 2013 he has been running the podcast Sträter Bender Streberg - The Podcast with Hennes Bender and Gerry Streberg .

Sträter lives in Waltrop on the outskirts of the Ruhr area and has one son.

Torsten Sträter will be on tour with his program It's never too late to be unpunctual until autumn 2019 . Since then, his stage program has been Snow Falling on Ceran .

Works

Torsten Sträter at a tour of Tegtmeier's heirs in 2013 in the Mülheim town hall

• Hemoglobin , Eldur Verlag, 2004. ISBN 978-3-937-41903-9 .
• Postcards from the Dark , Eldur Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-937-41910-7 .
• Hit the Road, Jack! , Eldur Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-937-41911-4 .
• Brainspam , Eldur Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-937-41917-6 .
• David is the death of Goliath , Carlsen Verlag , 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-37535-9 .
• Give up self-control due to circumstances , Carlsen Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-551-68481-3 .
• CD release by Feez / Sony, live recording of self-control due to circumstances to be given from the Ebertbad in Oberhausen, 2013.
• To give up self-control due to circumstances , Ullstein Taschenbuch , 2014, ISBN 978-3-548-37534-2 .
• When I was my age , Lappan Verlag , 2016, ISBN 978-3-830-33406-4 .
• Vinyl release by Feez, It's never too late for a happy childhood live from the Zakk in Düsseldorf, October 2017.
• It's never too late to be late, Ullstein Taschenbuch, 2017, ISBN 978-3-548-37535-9 .

watch TV

• since 2013: nuhr im Erste , regular guest appearances, Das Erste
• since 2013: Pufpaffs Happy Hour , guest appearances, 3sat
• 2013: Friday at night, guest appearance, BR television
• 2013–2015: Midnight peaks , guest appearances, WDR television
• 2013–2015: Stratmanns - Jupps pub theater in the Pott , guest appearances, WDR television
• since 2014: extra 3 , guest appearances, NDR television / Das Erste
• since 2014: Comedy with Karsten , guest appearances, MDR
• 2014–2017: Cabaret from Franconia , guest appearances, BR television
• 2014: Late shift - The Comedy Stage , guest appearance, SWR television
• 2014: Club home Schwabing , guest appearance, BR television
• 2015: Ina's Night , episode 88, the first
• 2015: Bauerfeind assists ..., guest appearance, 3sat
• 2015–2016: heute-show , guest appearances, ZDF
• 2016: rooms available! , Episode 686, WDR television
• 2016: The Wild Poets Club - The Story of the Poetry Slam, Documentation
• 2016–2019: Sträter's male household , WDR television
• since 2017: Genial besides , guest appearances, Sat.1
• 2017: Fancy hiking! From the Ruhr area to the Münsterland, guest appearance, WDR television
• 2017: Luke! The school and me , episode 6, Sat.1
• 2017–2019: Who knows that? , three guest appearances, Das Erste
• 2018: You never think of it! , Guest appearance, ZDF
• since 2018: Genial besides - the quiz , guest appearances, Sat.1
• 2018: Ina's Night , episode 126, The First
• 2019: Go! Guest appearance, ZDF
• 2019: Quiz duel , guest appearance, the first
• 2019: Hirschhausen's Quiz of People , guest appearance, Das Erste
• 2019: Mittermeier !, guest appearance, Das Erste
• 2019: Riverboat , guest appearance, MDR
• 2019: Luke! The Great Night Show , episode 6, Sat.1
• 2020: Small versus large , guest appearance, the first
• since 2020: Sträter , Das Erste

speaker

• 2018: For the computer game Fallout 76 , Sträter took on the role of the narrator of the horror radio plays stories from the hills of West Virginia , which were published on YouTube on Halloween and later found their way into the finished game.

Awards

Torsten Sträter at the Prix ​​Pantheon 2013

• Winner of the NRW Slam in 2009, 2010 and 2012
• Winner of the Iserlohn Poetry Slam at the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences on December 9, 2010
• Multiple winner of his home slam “SpeechReiz” in the Herner Flottmann-Hallen
• Annual winner 2010/2011 of the Bunker Slam in Hamburg
• Annual winner 2010 at the Slam Papp a la Papp in Krefeld
• Executioner's ax in Passau , December 2012
• Special prize of the Tuttlinger Krähe , 2013
• Audience award applauded & voted at the Prix ​​Pantheon , June 2013
• Award for particularly innovative performances as part of the Comedy Arts Festival Moers awarded by the Neue Rhein Zeitung (NRZ), August 2013
• The big cabaret festival : Jury Prize 2014
• German Cabaret Prize 2018 in the Cabaret category
• Honorary award of the Dattelner Kleinkunstpreis , the Dattelner NachtSchnittchen 2018
• The big cabaret festival: Berlin Prize 2019

Web links

Commons : Torsten Sträter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Torsten Sträter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Torsten Sträter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Torsten Sträter
• Author portrait by Eldur Verlag
• Interview with Torsten Sträter on literatopia.de (July 30, 2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait of the satirist Torsten Sträter ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Maren Schürmann: This is how the Revier laughs - Sträter sweats in the gym. In: derwesten.de . October 19, 2014, accessed September 6, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Sven Astheimer: "A corduroy suit looks like a tapestry". In: faz.net. FAZ , February 14, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Press release: Torsten Sträter is the patron of the Deutsche DepressionsLiga eV In: depressionsliga.de. Deutsche Depressionsliga  eV, January 19, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Thought aloud with Torsten Sträter. ( Web video ) In: youtube.com . Friends for Life eV , April 16, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019 . 
6. ^ Website of the podcast "Sträter Bender Streberg - The Podcast". In: straeterbenderstreberg.de. Retrieved May 3, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Torsten Sträter. In: carlsen.de. Carlsen Verlag , accessed May 3, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Small versus large - ARD | The first. Retrieved January 4, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Speech stimulus. Archived from the original on November 28, 2018 ; accessed on May 3, 2019 . 
10. ↑ German Cabaret Prize: Prize Winners 2018. In: unterhaus-mainz.de. Unterhaus - Mainzer Forum-Theater , November 5, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Dattelner Cabaret Prize. In: nachtschnittchen.net. Accessed May 31, 2019 .