Volker Kühn (director)

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Volker Kühn on the occasion of being awarded a Star of Satire , 2013

Volker Reinhard Kühn (born November 4, 1933 in Osnabrück ; † September 20, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German author , television and theater director and film producer with a focus on satire and cabaret . He was also the literary administrator for the work of Wolfgang Neuss and a member of the PEN Center Germany . In Germany he was also considered "the great connoisseur and chronicler of cabaret history".

Live and act

After a four-year stay in the United States , Volker Kühn started working as an editor at Hessischer Rundfunk , for which he wrote and produced the satirical monthly balance up to the last frequency for over ten years from 1963 and also worked as a radio play director from 1967, including for the crime series based on historical Role models cases without files . From 1970 he published numerous radio plays and features as a freelance writer and director for various other radio stations. In addition to his work for radio, he was also co-author and director of programs for the Berlin Reich Cabaret , founded by Volker Ludwig , and soon wrote cabaret texts for Lore Lorentz , Wolfgang Neuss , Hanns Dieter Hüsch and Jürgen von Manger .

In 1973 he raised together with Dieter Hildebrandt for the ZDF , the notes from the province launched. Numerous television programs followed, including television documentaries over 100 years of German cabaret, entertainment in the Third Reich and cabaret in the concentration camp, as well as film satires and the portrait of Neuss I laugh tears, howls of joy .

Kühn wrote and staged theater revues and was a songwriter for musicals and feature films. Among other things, his stage version of Marlene , which he developed for the Berlin Renaissance Theater , was invited to guest performances in Switzerland, Austria and Japan and brought it to 533 performances from June 28, 1998 to January 2006.

He produced political satire on records and CDs and published numerous books on cabaret and satire in the 20th century as an author and editor .

The grave of Volker Kühn

He appeared several times as an interview partner and contemporary witness in television and screen documentaries, including in several movies such as B. Have you ever been in love with me? . From 2008 to 2011 he could also be seen as an actor in four productions at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" and previously (see Internet Movie Database ) between 1995 and 1997 in five other productions by other producers. a. in a supporting role as drug investigator Stein in the Munich Tatort episode " Der Teufel " from 1997.

In 2008, the historically savvy “gray eminence of cabaret” made headlines when Johannes Heesters lost a trial against him and Kühn was still able to claim that Heesters had performed in a concentration camp in 1941.

Awarded several high prizes, in 2013, shortly before his 80th birthday, he was awarded a satire star on the “Walk of Fame des Cabaret” in Mainz and at the end of October 2014 he was made an honorary member of the Kurt Tucholsky Society .

From the late 1960s until his death, Volker Kühn lived primarily in Berlin ; during the 1980s he lived in Schmitten / Taunus for a few years . Kühn was married several times, most recently to the actress Katherina Lange , and the father of four children. He died after a long illness at the age of 81. Kühn found his final resting place in the Berlin forest cemetery in Zehlendorf (grave location 060-266).

The estate of Volker Kühn is in the German Cabaret Archive in Mainz, and there is also an extensive collection of “Volker Kühn” material in the archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Awards

Works

stage

book

  • You are doing something . A musical review. With Brigitte Mira , Ralf Wolter , Uta Hallant , Joachim Kemmer . Berlin Festival, 1987
  • EinsZweiDrei musical. With Lambert Hamel, Pascale Camele, Helmut Baumann, Monica Solem, Cusch Jung, Silvia Wintergrün, Friedrich Schoenfelder u. a. Kennedy Center Washington, 1989; Theater des Westens, Berlin 1989
  • Bomb atmosphere A Ufa revue. With Angelika Milster , Helmut Baumann, Hartwig Rudolz, Cusch Jung, Pascale Camele, Elke Rieckhoff u. a. Theater des Westens, Berlin 1992; TV recording by ARD, 1993
  • Carl Maria von Weber : The Freischütz . New version of the text for the 175th anniversary of the premiere. Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1996
  • Bankers Opera - A threepenny piece . Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 1998
  • Marlene . German version of a gem piece. With Judy Winter . Renaissance Theater Berlin, 1998
  • Love, Marx & Coca Cola . Musical. New version of EinsZweiDrei . Ingolstadt Theater, 1999

Director

Written and directed by

  • Have education in your heart . Cabaret program. Co-copywriters: Dieter Kursawe , Detlef Michel , Volker Ludwig . Berlin Imperial Cabaret, 1967
  • The guerrilla sends his regards . Cabaret program. Co-copywriters: Dieter Kursawe, Detlef Michel, Volker Ludwig. Berlin Imperial Cabaret, 1968
  • Ex and hops! . Cabaret program. Co-copywriters: Dieter Kursawe, Detlef Michel, Volker Ludwig. Cabaret program for the Berlin Reich Cabaret, 1970
  • Germany, here we come! . Cabaret program. With Dieter Hallervorden , Wolfgang Immenhausen , Rotraud Schindler . Berlin voles, 1971
  • Heartache and tears . A wet and sad review. With Maria Schell , Karl Friedrich, Hanns Dieter Hüsch , Roland Schneider. Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad, 1976; TV recording by ARD, 1976
  • Once before and review . - A show effect by other means. With Angelika Milster , Su Kramer , Okko, Lonzo, Berry, Chris and Timpe, Gottfried Böttger , Nemo u. a. Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad, 1978; TV recording by ARD, 1978
  • Die Welt als Überbrettl - The cabaret of the early years . A scenic collage. With Karl Friedrich, Karin Schroeder, Toni Slama, Peter Schlesinger a. a. Berlin Festival, 1984; TV recording ZDF, 1984
  • The name was Schall und Rauch - Max Reinhardt's cabaret theater . A scenic collage. With Karl Friedrich, Karin Schroeder, Toni Slama, Peter Schlesinger a. a. Berlin Festival, 1984; TV recording ZDF, 1984
  • Cabaret to the Hungry Pegasus - The Boheme does the honors . A scenic collage. With Karl Friedrich, Peter Schlesinger, Rolf Schwendter , Alfred Edel , Mathias Koeppel, Elke and Alexander u. a. Berlin Festival, 1984; TV recording ZDF, 1984
  • Proleten-Pointen - cabaret from below . A scenic collage. With Karl Friedrich, Peter Schlesinger, Alfred Edel , Helmut Krauss , Elke and Alexander, Horst Koch u. a .; Berlin Festival, 1984; TV recording ZDF, 1984
  • Quaale dream strangles my singing . A scenic apocalyptical. With Hanns Dieter Hüsch , Marianne Mosa, Michael Thomas, Alfred Edel , Emil Mangelsdorff , the Ensemble modern u. a. Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1985
  • About the life and death of the poor poet A scenic collage. With Katharina Thalbach , Uwe Karsten Koch , Detlef Kügow, Peer Raben u. a. Dortmund, TV recording by ARD, 1987
  • Libertäterä or: The revolution takes place in the hall . A revolutionary review. With Gisela May , Dieter Süverkrüp , Alfred Edel , Michael Thomas, Hans-Peter Minetti , Werner Kreindl , Claus Kühnl , the chamber orchestra and youth wind orchestra Schloß Werneck, the Collegium vocale Cologne, the Vienna Mask Theater and others. a. Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1989
  • May of the century . A May revue. With Sabine Sinjen , Werner Kreindl , Michael Thomas, Heinrich Pachl , Helmut Krauss , Marianne Mosa u. a. Free Volksbühne, Berlin 1990; TV recording ARD, 1990
  • Remain shakable and resist . A text music collage. With Senta Berger , Erika Pluhar , Elisabeth Trissenaar , Jutta Wachowiak , Karl-Michael Vogler , Ingo Hülsmann , Albert Mangelsdorff , Walter Norris , Aladár Pege , Conny Bauer ; Gethsemane Church Berlin, Schauspiel Frankfurt / M .; 1990; TV recording DFF / ARD, 1990
  • The spook is over . A cabaret program of the last hour. With Gisela May , Erwin Geschonneck , Hermann Treusch, Michael Schweighöfer u. a. Berlin Festival, 1995
  • Looking back ahead . A cabaret program from the very beginning. With Jutta Wachowiak, Götz Schubert, Petra Hartung , Michael Schweighöfer, Udo Kroschwald. Berlin Festival, 1995
  • We have enough zores… . Laughter on the edge. With Cathlen Gawlich, Petra Hartung, Bernd Stempel, Otto Mellies . Deutsches Theater Berlin , 1995
  • Hurray, we're still singing! A cabaret journey through time. With Heribert Sasse , Gina Pietsch, Till Sarrach u. a. Schloßpark-Theater Berlin, 1995
  • We bereaved - cabaret in destroyed Germany . With Gisela May , Petra Hartung , Michael Schweighöfer, Udo Kroschwald. Deutsches Theater Berlin as well. with Katherina Lange , Dorothee Hartinger, Wolfgang Gorks, Christoph Hohmann. Drama Frankfurt / M., 1995
  • The child prodigy . A piece of music based on Hollander's "Songs of a Poor Girl". With Katherina Lange . Drama Frankfurt / M., 1996
  • Soldiers are murderers - Tucholsky and no end . Songs and lyrics against the war. A quote collage. With Jutta Wachowiak , Dieter Mann , Götz Schubert. Deutsches Theater Berlin, 1996
  • Vocabulary . A cabaret-musical poetry evening. With Claudia Burckhardt , Helmut Mooshammer, Thomas Huber, Klaus-Lothar Peters. Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, 1997
  • How unfair! How unfair !! . A program with Tucholsky texts and Hollaender songs. With Katherina Lange and Jürgen Holtz. Deutsches Theater Berlin, 1997
  • There's something idiotic in the air ... Mischa Spoliansky revue. With Barbara Schnitzler , Katrin Klein, Cusch Jung. Academy of Arts, Renaissance Theater, Deutsches Theater, Berlin 1998/99
  • ... and Rudi adds music A little Nelson revue. With Katherina Lange , Barbara Schnitzler , Uwe Kroschwald. Academy of Arts, Berlin 1999
  • The crazy salon A musical review. With Judy Winter , Ralf Wolter , Katherina Lange , Uli Scherbel, Adam Benzwi , Schall und Hauch, Boris Aljinovic . Renaissance Theater, Berlin 1999/2000
  • G as in Gustav. A Gustaf-Gründgens -Revue with F. With Georg Preuße , Margit Bendokat, Horst Hiemer, Wilhelm Eilers, Michael Gerber. Deutsches Theater, Berliner Festspiele 1999/2000
  • There was only one time… . A little Werner Richard Heymann review. With Katherina Lange , Cathlen Gawlich, Cusch Jung, Matthias Günther . Academy of Arts, Berlin 2000
  • G as in Gustav. With F. Gründgens - Life as a game. A theatrical monologue. With Helmut Baumann. Renaissance Theater Berlin, 2000
  • We bereaved cabaret of the hour zero. With Gisela May , Cathlen Gawlich, Hermann Treusch, Wolfgang Häntsch. Academy of Arts, Berlin, 2001
  • I'm the biggest idiot of the century - Woliehen and his Überbrettl . With Lena Stolze , Thomas Schendel, Dieter Mann / Otto Sander . Academy of Arts, Berlin 2001
  • Hello, I'm Johnny Cash . With Gunter Gabriel in the title role and Helen Schneider as Cash's wife June Carter . Renaissance Theater, Berlin 2010
  • I, Gunter Gabriel . With Gunter Gabriel in the title role and Barbara Felsenstein. Theater am Kurfürstendamm , Berlin 2013

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Director

Written and directed by

Documentation

Radio

feature

  • And where did I play marbles? On the homesickness of the actor Paul Graetz - radio feature , Deutschlandradio , CD: Edition Mnemosyne, Neckargemünd 2002
  • I am not always loud . From the catacomb to the monastery - Isa Vermehren for her 85th birthday, Feature, DLF, 2003
  • Laughter on the edge . The life path of the cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum . Feature, DLF, 2004
  • The compass levels off . From light muse in difficult times: entertainment and cabaret in the Third Reich . Feature, hr , 2004

editorial staff

  • Until the last frequency . A cabaret monthly balance sheet. With Wolfgang Neuss , Thierry, Hans Timerding , Margret Gute, Dieter Hildebrandt , Hanns Dieter Hüsch u. v. a. HR 1965-1972
  • Someone takes care of or how the man makes his bed, that's how one lies . Radio play. With Joseph Offenbach a . a. HR, 1972
  • End of the line: happy ending . An acoustic lesson in sex stations. With Ursula Heyer and Hans-Joachim Krietsch. HR, 1973

Director

  • Cases without files . Multi-part crime series based on historical models, HR 1967-1968
  • Death in the drawer . From Kenneth Bird, HR 1971
  • The birds . According to Aristophanes , SDR 1980

Book publications

author

  • The cabaret of the early years - a cheeky muse takes its first steps . Quadriga Verlag, Weinheim / Berlin, 1984
  • The humiliation trickles softly . Turning parodies on the state of the nation. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 1985
  • Poem from Bonn . Disposable poetry from the Bundestag. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 1985
  • I answer yes to the question all round . Introduction to the language of the Chancellor. Co-author: Günter Walter. Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg, 1985
  • Choose nicer . Guide for the responsible citizen. Co-author: Günter Walter. Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg, 1986
  • The vicious muse - 111 years of cabaret . vgs Verlag, Cologne, 1993
  • Dawn of mockery . From the long death of the great little Friedrich Hollaender . Parthas Verlag, Berlin; 1997

editor

  • The Wolfgang Neuss book . A satire collection, edited, documented and commented on by Volker Kühn. Satire Verlag, Cologne, 1981
  • We cellar children . Three satires by Wolfgang Neuss. Syndikat Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 1983
  • Neuss Testament . A satirical time bomb by Wolfgang Neuss. Syndikat Verlag, Frankfurt / M., 1985
  • Tunix is ​​better than unemployed . Sayings of a survivor by Wolfgang Neuss. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 1985
  • Letters from the Black Forest Clinic . Edited by Jürgen von der Lippe , Elke Heidenreich and Volker Kühn. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg, 1986
  • Back, comrades, onward . Satires, songs, sarcasms - us socis in the studbook. Rasch and Röhring Verlag, Hamburg, 1986
  • Kleinkunststücke - cabaret library in five volumes (1900–2000) . Quadriga Verlag, Weinheim / Berlin, 1987/1994 / Zweiausendeins, Ffm., 2001
Volume 1: Donnerwetter - flawless - cabaret during the imperial era. 1900-1918.
Volume 2: Oops, we're shaking - cabaret from a certain republic. 1918-1933.
Volume 3: Germany's Awakening - Cabaret under the swastika. 1933-1945.
Volume 4: We are so free - cabaret in the rest of Germany. 1945-1970.
Volume 5: In this country - cabaret at this time. from 1970.
  • Friedrich Hollaender : Human flotsam . With a foreword by Thomas Mann . Weidle Verlag, Bonn, 1995
  • Friedrich Hollaender: From head to toe - my life with text and music . Weidle Verlag, Bonn, 1996; Development of the Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin, 2001
  • And nothing else ... The Friedrich Hollaender Chanson Book. Torch Bearer Verlag, Hanover, 1996
  • Wolfgang Neuss : The total Neuss . Collected Works. Rogner and Bernhard, Frankfurt 1997
  • Claire Waldoff : Still vest ...? Memories and documents. Parthas Verlag, Berlin 1997
  • Otto Schneidereit: Richard Tauber . One life, one voice. Parthas Verlag, Berlin; 2000
  • Matthias Beltz : GOOD and EVIL . Collected understatements. Work edition in two volumes. Two thousand and one, Frankfurt / M., 2004

Records / CD / audio cassettes

Director

Text author

  • Turos Tutti: Halftime Music: Matthias Thurow. Biber / Bellaphon-LP Bi 6040, 1980
  • Lyrics . Lyrics and music live. By and with Dieter Hildebrandt , Konstantin Wecker , Matthias Koeppel, Wolfgang Neuss , Uli Becker, Oskar Pastior, Heiner Müller , Volker Kühn u. a .; Excerpts from the WDR television series of the same name; Grooved snake / plans 730005, 1985
  • One, two, three . Songs from the musical of the same name. Music: Birger Heymann , lyrics: Volker Kühn. With Pascale Camele, Cusch Jung, choir and orchestra of the Theater des Westens, Berlin. TdW-TK, 1989
  • The Hello Sisters . Songs from the film of the same name by Ottokar Runze . Music: Birger Heymann, lyrics: Volker Kühn. With Gisela May , Ilse Werner , Harald Juhnke . Prod.-TK, 1990
  • I'm fine . Songs from “Bankers Opera” by Volker Kühn, music: Atomic B. & The Huguenots. With Dolly S. and Dollies. Hessian State Theater Marburg; CD Rol 001, 1999
  • Judy meets Marlene . Judy Winter reads and sings Marlene Dietrich . Audiobook manuscript: Volker Kühn. duo-phon records, Berliner Musenkinder special. CD 07 04 3rd, 2003

Director and text writer

  • Have education in your heart . Excerpts from the program of the Berlin Reich Cabaret. Reichskabarett-LP 12/056, 1967
  • The guerrilla sends his regards . Excerpts from the program of the Berlin Reich Cabaret. Bellaphon BP 002, 1968
  • I am Kohl, my heart is pure . With texts by Elke Heidenreich , Thomas Freitag , Helmut Kohl , Volker Kühn, Ronald Reagan , Walter Schumacher, Stephan Wald , Günter Walter. Music: Uschi Flacke . T & K / Grooved Snake 5609, 1984
  • The child prodigy . A piece of music based on Hollander's "Songs of a Poor Girl" by Volker Kühn. With Katherina Lange . Live recording of the premiere at the Schauspiel Frankfurt / Main. Bear Records CD BCD 16025, 1996

Production / features

CD1: Insulting songs on your own .
CD2: Whenever I say "over there" ... Wolfgang Neuss and the "Youngest Rumor" in East Berlin (1965)
  • NEUSS TOTAL . Wolfgang Neuss, the man with the kettledrum. A portrait by Volker Kühn. With Dieter Mann and Robert Gallinowski. Bear Family Records; BCD 16077 BH
  • Paul Graetz - homesickness for Berlin . Double CD. Edition Mnemosyne, 2000, ISBN 3-934012-14-0 .
CD1: Chansons and texts by Paul Graetz , Friedrich Hollaender , Walter Mehring , Kurt Tucholsky a . a.
CD2: ... and where did I play marbles? . Feature about Paul Graetz from Volker Kühn.
  • Fritz Grünbaum - The cabaret is my ruin . Edition Mnemosyne, 2003
CD1: Cabaret, conferences, chansons and hits by and with Fritz Grünbaum
CD2: laughter on the edge . Feature about Fritz Grünbaum by Volker Kühn.
  • The May . Gisela Mays recordings in a CD box. 8 CDs, one DVD, accompanying book, 170 p. Compiled, commented on and edited by Volker Kühn. Bear Family Records, BCD 16064
  • I am not always loud . From cabaret to monastery - The long way of Isa Vermehren . A portrait by Volker Kühn, read by Judy Winter . Edition Berliner Musenkinder, duo-phon records 07093
  • We have enough zores… . Cabaret in the Jüdischer Kulturbund . Audio picture by Volker Kühn. With Judy Winter , Katherina Lange , Cathlen Gawlich and Ilja Richter . Edition Berliner Musenkinder, duo-phon records 07083

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Neuss also stole like a raven . Conversation between Ilja Richter and Volker Kühn on the 20th anniversary of Wolfgang Neuss' death in: Die Welt , May 5, 2009, accessed on September 20, 2015.
  2. ^ Members of the PEN Center Germany
  3. ^ "Up to the last frequency" - On the death of the cabaret author Volker Kühn . ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayern 2 , September 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ ARD radio play database: search result Volker Kühn as radio play director at Hessischer Rundfunk , online at hoerspiele.dra.de
  5. ↑ ARD radio play database: search result Volker Kühn as radio play director for various radio stations, online at hoerspiele.dra.de
  6. ^ Search for Kühn, Volker in the general catalog of the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" , online at filmuniversitaet.de
  7. ↑ Katinka Strassberger: Volker Kühn: The gray eminence of cabaret . ( Memento from October 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayern 2 , radioThema, November 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ Christian Schröder: But the Nazis are over now . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 17, 2008 (on the trial between Johannes Heesters and Volker Kühn).
  9. ↑ fbh: Whistle a song in the storm! In: Das Blättchen , Volume 17, Number 22, October 27, 2014, accessed on November 6, 2014 (on V. Kühn's honorary membership in the Kurt Tucholsky Society ).
  10. ^ A b Christian Schröder: On the death of Volker Kühn: I laugh tears, howl serenity. In: tagesspiegel.de. Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, September 22, 2015, accessed on September 24, 2015 .
  11. ↑ In the author's text of the book Leise rieselt der Schmäh (1985) and in Kürschner's German Literature Calendar from 1988 reference is made to Schmitten / Taunus .
  12. ↑ Kühn's own statement about his children in: Stephan Göritz: Commemorative broadcast on the death of Volker Kühn - “Kleinkunst? What in the world is great art then ?! ”(54:32 min.), On Deutschlandfunk on September 23, 2015, online at deutschlandfunk.de
  13. ↑ Cabaret author and director Volker Kühn has died . In: sz-online.de , Sächsische Zeitung , September 20, 2015, accessed on September 24, 2015.
  14. ↑ Legacies , see section “Theoreticians”, online at kabarettarchiv.de
  15. ↑ Personal files Kühn, Volker , for further results enter "Kühn, Volker" in the search window above (free text search) , online at archiv.adk.de
  16. ↑ a b c See entry on Volker Kühn in Who's Who , online at whoswho.de
  17. ↑ Volker Kühn: Wowereit presented him with the Federal Cross of Merit . ( Memento from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) berlin.de, March 1, 2007.
  18. ↑ Katinka Strassberger: Honor for Volker Kühn - star on the Walk of Fame in Mainz ( Memento from October 12, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Bavaria 2 , October 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Bold, Volker
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kühn, Volker Reinhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and television director, author and producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 2015
Place of death Berlin , Germany