Volker Heissmann

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Volker Heissmann (2007)

Volker Heissmann (born March 10, 1969 in Fürth ) is a German comedian , actor , singer and theater director .

Life

Volker Heißmann, born in Fürth in 1969, appeared on stage for the first time at the age of five. Before Volker Heißmann turned his comedic talent into his profession, he completed his school education at the Hans-Böckler-School in Fürth and then an apprenticeship as a hotel manager . Many appearances with his first partner Marcel Gasde made him known in Nuremberg and the Fürth area.

He has been working with Martin Rassau since 1990 . The cooperation began with joint stage appearances as early as 1983 when they were at school, and since 1991 with their own small stage, which was so successful that Heissmann and Rassau soon opened the Small Comedy Nuremberg at another location with 280 seats. In 1998 he and his colleagues Martin Rassau, Michael Urban and Marcel Gasde opened the Comedy Fürth in the Berolzheimerianum.

The best-known stage role of the two, the shrill widow couple " Waltraud and Mariechen ", has been an integral part of the show Fastnacht in Franconia in Veitshöchheim near Würzburg in Lower Franconia since 1997 . The two widows were also an integral part of the Musikantenstadl from 2006 to 2015 .

In 1998, Rassau and Heissmann turned the historically significant Berolzheimerianum , which was dilapidated at the time, in their home town of Fürth , into a larger theater with themed gastronomy, the Comödie Fürth .

With their Franconian regiolect and often coarse humor, the duo Heißmann and Rassau supply their audience and slip into roles that change frequently, but essentially remain the same. Hot man is regularly cast as a mentally not too active booby. A popular piece from her repertoire is Essn für ann , her Franconian version of Dinner for One (the Franconian title is also the almost literal translation). Bayerischer Rundfunk regularly broadcasts tabloid comedies starring Heißmann and Rassau. The comedies are recorded in the headquarters of Comödie Fürth.

At the same time, Volker Heissmann regularly fulfills his dream of musical recordings and performances in the spirit of show greats such as Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin . At New Year 2008, the show “As I am” was broadcast for the first time on Bayerischer Rundfunk. From September 2008 to 2010 the program Das ist Heiss-Mann! on Bavarian television. Since 2009, he has hosted the BR live show Auf geht’s first with Heike Götz, then with Michael Harles . Since 1999, he and his partner Martin Rassau have attended the Sternstunden gala on BR television every year. Since 2016 he has moderated the three-hour live broadcast with Sabine Sauer.

In the 2010/2011 season, he played the bailiff Frosch in the operetta Die Fledermaus at the Nuremberg State Theater . From 2011 to 2017 he was and still is regularly on the Nuremberg stage as Alfred P. Dolittle in the musical My Fair Lady . From 2013 to 2016 he played Leopold in the operetta Im Weißen Rössl . In the 2015/16 season he played the two crooks in Kiss me Kate with Martin Rassau . Since 2015 he has played the role of Zaza in the musical La Cage aux folles at Comödie Fürth in over 100 performances . In 2019 he played the frog in the operetta "Die Fledermaus" at the operetta summer at the fortress in Kufstein! In September 2019 was the premiere of "The Merry Widow", which was brought to the stage of the Comedy Fürth as a jazz operetta with Heissmann and Rassau and the musician Thilo Wolf.

So far, the comedian duo Heissmann and Rassau dared to jump from the stage to the screen with their episode film 6 auf See , which they produced themselves in 2000.

In March 2017, Volker Heißmann and Martin Rassau were honored with a special prize at the first Bavarian Dialect Prize. In June 2018 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit . Also in 2018, the Bavarian Cultural Heritage Initiative together with Martin Rassau named him Bavarian Cultural Heritage Ambassador.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Volker Heissmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With Courage and Heissmann. nordbayern.de, July 7, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Michael Bartmann: Heissmann & Rassau and Willy Michl received awards. Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 20, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder awards the Bavarian Order of Merit on bayern.de
  4. ↑ Heissmann and Rassau become cultural heritage ambassadors on nordbayern.de
personal data
SURNAME Heissmann, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian, actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth , Germany