Walter Roderer

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Walter "Rodi" Jakob Roderer (born July 3, 1920 in St. Gallen ; † May 8, 2012 in Illnau ; resident in Trogen and Zurich ) was a Swiss folk actor , cabaret artist and theater entrepreneur.

Life

Walter Roderer was born the son of a textile merchant. He learned Greek and Latin in high school because he wanted to be a pastor. After graduating from high school , he studied German in Zurich for four semesters , but had to give up his studies for financial reasons when his father became unemployed.

For thirty francs per evening he took on supporting roles at the Zurich Schauspielhaus and also worked in the factory and as a representative of floor wax . After being discovered for the Cabaret Fédéral and starring in Swiss films such as Oberstadtgass , he founded his own touring theater in 1957. Roderer set a theater record with 1288 performances by the model husband. His film A Swiss named Nötzli is still one of the most commercially successful Swiss cinema productions today, followed by the sequel Der doppelte Nötzli . In Germany, Roderer was noticed because of his participation in the Dudu film series.

Roderer said goodbye to the stage in 1993. Previously, he had placed an advertising campaign in the German-speaking Swiss press on the then planned EEA accession of Switzerland. In it he called on his compatriots to vote against accession in a referendum scheduled for the end of 1992 . Roderer's argument earned him applause in right-wing conservative circles, but discredited him among those in favor of membership.

In 1996 Roderer's first wife, the Hungarian Lenke Mekkey (* 1918), died. In 1986, 2004 and 2007 Roderer suffered several heart attacks. On February 29, 2004, his long-time stage partner and second wife Ruth Jecklin (born November 11, 1934) died of cancer. In July 2010 it became known that in January 2005 he married his sixty years younger grandniece Anina in order to be able to secure her future financially. Roderer received the Prix ​​Walo as a crowd favorite in 1983 and 1988, the 2006 Honorary Prix Walo in 2006 for his life's work and in 2010 the Lifetime Award for his life's work when the Swiss TV Prize was presented .

He lived in Illnau , where the Walter Roderer-Weg was named after him. He died in his house at the age of 91.

theatre

Filmography

cinemamovies

watch TV

  • 1958: The model husband
  • 1961: Charley's aunt
  • 1968: Room 13 - Stories from a Hotel
  • 1971: Professor Sound and the Pill
  • 1971: The sixth program
  • 1974: On behalf of Madame
  • 1979: The stopgap
  • 1982: The sold grandfather
  • 1985: The model husband
  • 1991: Calafati Joe - The guy from the Prater

Radio plays

Songs and skits

  • En Saudi sled dog
  • Torchlight procession with Hansjörg Bahl
  • Lost property office
  • DJ Antoine feat. MISH - One Day, One Night

Works

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ «I am an emotional person». In: Schweizer Illustrierte of June 18, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Walter Roderer has died. In: NZZ Online from May 8, 2012
  3. ↑ SF 1 : Walter Roderer married his great niece Article from July 18, 2010
  4. ↑ Sunday view : Secretly married grandniece. Article of July 18, 2010
  5. ↑ Prix ​​Walo crowd favorite. ( Memento of January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 11, 2012
  6. ↑ Honorary PRIX WALO ( Memento from September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ SF 1 : “Swiss Television Prize 2010 - the winners” article from March 26, 2010. Accessed on March 28, 2010.
  8. ↑ picture Walter Roderer-Weg on the website www.wandersite.ch
  9. ↑ Walter Roderer
personal data
SURNAME Roderer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roderer, Walter «Rodi» Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss folk actor
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2012
Place of death Illnau