2023-11-02 10:51:01
On his 100th birthday, the German Federal Ministry of Finance is honoring the actor, humorist and cartoonist Loriot (1923-2011) with two special postage stamps. The ministry announced that the special postage stamps will be issued this Thursday. The ORF also remembers Loriot with a focus on Ö1 and ORF III, while ARD broadcasts a documentary.
Loriot will be the focus of the Ö1 “Radiokolleg” from Monday, November 6th to Thursday, November 9th, starting at 9:05 a.m. The topics include Loriot’s sketch regarding everyday life in a German yodelling school or the one regarding the not entirely friction-free coexistence of men and women, which is introduced with the famous words “Berta, the egg is hard”. Richard Wagner’s stage play “The Ring of the Nibelung” in a version for narrator, singers and orchestra with connecting texts by Loriot can be heard on Ö1 on Saturday, November 18th, from 7:30 p.m. ORF III will unpack all 14 episodes of the comedy series “Loriot” on Saturday, November 11th, from 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
“Loriot 100” is the name of the documentary, which can be seen in the ARD media library from Saturday and on Monday at 8:15 p.m. on Erste. This is where companions and comedy experts such as Hape Kerkeling classify Loriot’s work. In the documentary, the now grown-up child “Dickie” describes how the sketch episode “Christmas at Hoppenstedts” was filmed. Dickie actress Katja Bogdanski says that her mom was there behind the camera, that the tight clothing for the role gave her a stomach ache, but that Loriot was patient, kind and loving. But from descriptions in the documentary you also get a feeling that Loriot had some things repeated countless times during filming, simply because precision was everything in his work.
Of course, Loriot’s congenial partner Evelyn Hamann, who would be 81 today (she died in 2007 at the age of 65), is also praised. “She was like a cartoon character of his in her precision,” for example when it came to raising eyebrows, says Stefan Lukschy, who was significantly involved in the 1970s television series “Loriot.”
Co-director Lukschy reveals that the saying “There used to be more tinsel,” which Loriot whined as Grandpa Hoppenstedt and which became a common phrase for the supposedly good old days, was originally different. The original script page said: “Back in the day… Where’s the tinsel?” – but that was then crossed out and replaced.
Sarah Bosetti notes that some things regarding Loriot are “slippery in an innocent way.” One thinks of the arranged representative’s visit to Mrs. Hoppenstedt (“Heinzelmann sucks and blows where mom can otherwise only blow”). The Germanist Stefan Neumann finds much of Loriot incredibly German. Some linguistic contortions are difficult to translate into foreign languages. Think of a word like “carpet.” Helge Schneider says of the sketches: “You saw yourself in there somewhere or at least what you knew from home.” Loriot looked the people right in the mouth.
Loriot, actually Bernhard-Viktor (Vicco) von Bülow, was for decades one of the greats in his field as a cartoonist, author, director and actor. The native of Brandenburg died on August 22, 2011 in Ammerland on Lake Starnberg.
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