Winfried Krause (comedian)

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Winfried Krause (left) and Horst Feuerstein, 1981

Winfried Krause (born April 26, 1939 in Zittau , Saxony , † March 8, 2019 in Essen ) was a German comedian in Upper Lusatian- Saxon dialect .

Career

After graduating as an electrical engineer in 1967, he celebrated his first great success as a humorist in 1970 on the television program Herzklopfen gratis , after he was discovered by Heinz Quermann . Before that (in 1967 and 1969) he had been banned from performing for several months because of his critical content.

In 1975 he received the official approval and classification as a professional artist required in the GDR ; So the permission to be a full-time humorist . From 1971 to 1990 he was a regular in the Saturday evening show Since Musike is there and the Christmas revue Between breakfast and roast goose of German Television to see after the turn he hosted, among others, the MDR to Langen Saturday .

Winfried Krause wrote texts for television and radio, mainly for himself and his sketch partners, including Horst Feuerstein , Margot Ebert , Reiner Süß and Eberhard Cohrs .

With his tour program In der Stimmungsklause ... (with Winfried Krause as head waiter, Horst Feuerstein as property manager, Eva Schröder-Branzke as cook, Ingolf Hartstein, Freddy Athenos, "Mary and Jolly" as guests and the sextet "Quintett Leipzig +1") he was on the road from 1980 to 1984, from 1985 to 1989 with the revue Always this Krause (with Hannes Langer, Gerda Bachtig, "Corny", I. Hartstein and the "Dresden Septett").

Winfried Krause died on the night of March 8th to 9th, 2019 in the St. Josef Hospital in Essen-Werden.

Typical quotes

  • "You think we don't have any big bottles in the GDR?"
  • “That's all of us. But not for us. "
  • "If you want to clap, you have to take both hands ..."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zittau humorist Winfried Krause dead , Sächsische Zeitung Zittau, March 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comedian in Upper Lusatian-Saxon dialect
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Zittau , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2019
Place of death eat