Georg Schramm
Life
Schramm was the only child of his high school class workers. After leaving school he undertook, first as a regular soldier in the army. He was valedictorian at the lone course. At the military school of the army he fell due to " unfitness of character " by the officer training course. After his discharge from the army as an ensign, he was promoted to lieutenant of the reserve.
Subsequently, he studied psychology at the Ruhr- University Bochum and graduated with a diploma. From 1976 to 1988 he worked as a psychologist in a rehabilitation clinic in Allen Bach on Lake Constance. He was council member, shop steward and was only decided " at the last moment " for a career as a full-time public workers' union union secretary. In 1988 he took the hospital a two-year break and unsuccessfully toured as a solo cabaret artist through the country. Only one TV appearance at the Sender Freies Berlin moved further engagements in Northern Germany by itself. From then on, cabaret artist was his profession.
During his last appearance on News from the Institute he founded as Lothar Dombrowski on 8 June 2010 a few days after Horst Koehler's resignation as President, his own departure from the cabaret show with his planned candidacy in the election of the next President of Germany. During the presidential election of 2012, this statement was then taken up, when he was brought by members of the Pirate Party and the Left as a possible candidate this week. He refused and said, continue to "fight with the means of political cabarets against a policy that is increasingly dominated by the law of the jungle and threatened with the power of lobbyists and interest groups, the democratic separation of powers in our constitutional state ."
The three-time father Georg Schramm, who is married for the second time, lives in Badenweiler in Markgraeflerland. He is a proponent of co-operative banks and co-owner of several agricultural and ecologically engaged production cooperatives.
Cabaret
Schramm is considered one of the best and sharpest representatives of political cabaret. In his polemical texts analyzed, and he often criticized the capitalist economic system and the prevailing zeitgeist, by confronting it with the classical educational ideals, while the line between fun and seriousness blurred. He occurs almost exclusively in the form of self-developed art figures in front of the audience. In particular, his well-known stage characters are not mere sketches of functional types, " but worked out to the last detail characters ".
Regularly employed figures during his performances are
- Lothar Dombrowski, an unruly and old Prussian pensioners ( named after a former newsreader )
- Lieutenant Colonel Sanftleben, one drawn from his long military service, press and public relations officer,
- August printer, a mentally living in the past Hessian Social Democrat and former trade unionist who has become an annuity in the current stage program ( a character who died in part due to Schramm's father aims )
- As well as an always cheerfulness sprayed and ever groaning Rhinelander, which represents the average person with no occupational specification during his performances in Neues aus der Anstalt a pharmaceutical representative and Schramm stage programs.
Especially his passionate representation of the energetic character of Lothar Dombrowski challenged critics as admirers and made Schramm also known to a wider audience. In this role, the World War II veterans Schramm wearing a black glove, which is a prosthetic hand. In an interview he said that there was a reason for the glove, but he the one who had brought him to the idea, have promised never to spread the true reason.
During his various stage programs, changed his first rather classic political " number Cabaret ," which he theatrically enriched to display his art figures, more and more, so that in addition to his cabaret been ever increasingly appreciated his acting performance in the direction of a through-composed theater presentation.
Another peculiarity of his cabaret performances and other performances were his partial clearly articulated personal stance on the issues. Schramm offered no purely entertaining superficial political satire, but urged both by his artistic imagination as well as through direct appeals a substantive positioning of the spectator one. This was reflected, for example, even in his final speeches to the audience in which he wooed reflection and personal commitment. At the end of his last master Yoda end program he recommended, for example, the reading of the essay outrage! the former French resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel.
Cabaret career
In the 1990s, Georg Schramm had several appearances in Dieter Hallervorden TV cabaret series Hallervorden mockery Light.
On the initiative of Matthias German man Schramm 1998 contributed a ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the Baden Revolution two lectures on the project Colorful evening for revolutionaries: the importance of military music in the skirmishes in the Baden region anno 1848 and St. Paul's Church lie where he is other polemical dealt with Germano and nationalism. The title of the event was the work of asylum in the country. Colorful evening for revolutionaries (1968 ) by Wolfgang Neuss borrowed. Recordings of the evening appeared as an audio book.
Schramm occurred from 2000 to 2006 as a permanent ensemble member in the television program wiper ARD, which he headed from 2003 by Dieter Hildebrandt parting with. On 24 April 2006, he announced after conceptual and personal differences with Mathias Richling and Bruno Jonas on his exit from the series. Richling was planning to change the concept of the political cabaret through to comedy entertainment. Schramm's successor took over on 29 June 2006, the comedian Richard Rogler.
2004 Schramm was also seen in a small role in Jo Baier's Stauffenberg film adaptation.
From January 2007 to June 2010 ( generally once a month) he received together with Urban Priol on ZDF in the cabaret series Neues aus der Anstalt colleagues and guests and there analyzed from the perspective of a psychiatric day hospital current political events. In addition to his other figures he stepped on it, especially when Lothar Dombrowski in the role of spokesman for the hospital patients. On 25 May 2010 Georg Schramm announced that he would leave the cabaret series in order to concentrate fully back on his stage show after ten years of intensive television coverage can. On 8 June 2010 Schramm was seen for the last time on the show. In episode 37 Frank -Markus Barwasser aka Erwin Furry joined as a permanent member of the shipment to its successor. In the last episode on October 1, 2013 Schramm was then again as a guest in the institution.
In September 2007, Schramm appeared so far the only book Let me say this - Dombrowski indicated the signs of the times in which he makes reference to happen texts from his cabaret programs 1983-2007 Review the history of the Federal Republic of Germany from the perspective of Lothar Dombrowski.
In January 2008, Georg Schramm was in his role as Lt. Col. Sanftleben by Alexander Kluge as part of the broadcast NEWS & STORIES under the title The soft target is the man. Lieutenant Colonel Sanftleben discussed core problems of the troops interviewed. Four years later, Schramm joined again in an interview with Kluge. Under the title Who will keep Europe's jumping mat? he answered in January 2012 in the first time offered the role of Erwin Dombrowski questions about the financial and Euro crisis. The introduced as a cousin Lothar Dombrowski "Brussels budget commissioner " is largely congruent created with Schramm's most famous stage character.
Since its premiere on 1 September 2010 in Freiburg is Schramm its new program, Master Yoda's end - About the misappropriation of dementia, which was broadcast by 3sat 25 September 2011, back on tour.
Together with Urban Priol he appeared at the 50th Monday demonstration against Stuttgart 21 in the figure of Lothar Dombrowski on October 25, 2010. Another appearance by Schramm followed on 14 March 2011 at the 67th Monday demonstration. As part of a large-scale demonstration of the Action Alliance banks in their place he entered on November 12, 2011 in Frankfurt in front of the towers of the Deutsche Bank.
End of April 2011 Schramm joined at the award ceremony of the 25th Small Art Prize of Baden- Württemberg in the Europa-Park Rust on a pensioner Dombrowski. Invited 300 guests he processed the events surrounding the currently deselected CDU state government and the activities of the Baden-Württemberg Lottogesellschaft satirical. The audience, which consisted mainly of representatives of the two main sponsors of the cabaret price, reacted with partially rough abusive calls. Visitors from the back rows of the hall celebrated Schramm, however, for his appearance, during this the scandal was sorry to part, but stressed to want to take back anything. The prize money of 5,000 euros donated Schramm, as already several times. Club at the Medico International for refugees, whose foundation he belongs as a board member
In July 2012, Schramm announced that he will finish the end of 2013 with his 25-year stage anniversary his tour as a solo cabaret artist:
" The end of 2013 I will have 25 years, stood as a cabaret artist on the stage and in front of the camera. 25 years in which I ( luckily) always knew already 2 years in advance when I'll be where, which in this case means: 31.12.2013 I'll stop going as a solo cabaret artist on tour. Therefore there will be no tour in 2014 beginning with planning, waiting lists and reservations more. I would like to thank all the organizers for your loyalty, your efforts -. Well as your interest in the running to keep me, ' "
On 13 December 2013, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Georg Schramm praised stage finish in his series radio pointed: " anger and outrage are the creative forces that drive him. Comedian Georg Schramm is a passionate resistance fighter, a recalcitrant moralist who has realized that reason without morality ultimately has no value. " For a" small farewell tour " Georg Schramm is, however, also in 2014 on the stage.
TV series
- Chicken fever or Quiet Days in Wutzkes, 1991/92, 10 episodes. German Original Air Date: July 2, 1992 (N3 ). SFB cabaret -soap, with the Missfits and Erwin Grosche. Idea and script: Georg Schramm and Hilde Schneider