Udo Vietz
Udo Vietz (born September 19, 1906 in Stettin ; died September 22, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German emcee and author.
Life
Udo Vietz attended acting classes. He learned drums and guitar and was engaged for a time with the Hans Bund entertainment orchestra. Since 1935 he became known as an announcer of entertainment programs on the Reich German radio. He was the chatting troop supervisor of the Wehrmacht and in 1944 became artistic director and mood cannon in the Wehrmacht night cabaret Atlantis in Berlin. His signature song was laughter is healthy . At the end of 1942, Peter Frankenfeld was assigned to the Atlantis under Vietz, where Vietz did not conform to his jokes. He denounced Frankenfeld to the Gestapo, pointing out that his jokes were Jewish and therefore detrimental to the military.
After the end of National Socialism , he had engagements as a stage chat in the entertainment industry in Frankfurt am Main and in the Friedrichstadtpalast . He was one of the moderators of the Frankfurter Wecker program at Hessischer Rundfunk . Vietz also appeared as a quiz master and directed entertainment programs.
literature
- Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 217; P. 386f.
- Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Volume 5, 2013, p. 2786
- Geerte Murmann: Comedians for War: German and Allied Front Theater . Düsseldorf: Droste, 1992
Web links
- Literature by and about Udo Vietz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Udo Vietz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vietz, Udo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German emcee and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1965 |
| Place of death | Berlin |