The Senate Department of Society and Europe commemorates the comedian and actor Wolfgang Neuss (1923-1989) with a Berlin commemorative plaque. He is regarded as a single of the most stubborn stand-up comedians of the postwar period of time, worked as an actor in element films and joined the 1960s APO (Excess-parliamentary opposition). At Lohmeyerstraße 6 in Charlottenburg, wherever Neuss lived right up until his dying, a Berlin memorial plaque is now getting erected for him.
Talk at the opening Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 10:30 am in Lohmeyerstraße 6, 10587 Berlin
Dr. Klaus LedererSenator for Society and Europe
Georg FriedrichsChairman of the board of directors GASAG AG
Juppy from the ufa manufacturing facility
Arnolfo evaluationstand-up comic
Wolfgang Neuss was born in Breslau on 3 December 1923 and moved to Berlin at the age of 15. Shortly thereafter he was drafted into the Reich Labor Provider and from 1941 fought as a soldier on the Japanese Front. Right after an personal injury he most likely inflicted on himself, he was taken to the healthcare facility, wherever he 1st appeared as a comedian and advised jokes. Just after the war – returned to Berlin – he starred in the Reich comedy cabaret. Collectively with stand-up comedian Wolfgang Müller, he obtained terrific fame as the duo “Die Zwei Wolfgangs”: they appeared as movie actors, cabaret artists and pop singers just before Müller died in a plane crash in 1960. In the identical yr, the movie by cabaret by Neuss Wir Kellerkinder was premiered. Given that the mid-1960s, Neuss has been regarded as just one of the most common and energetic German cabaret artists and was routinely on the phase at the Lützowplatz household as “the gentleman with the drum”. With a joint program in 1965, he released East Berlin singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann to the west of the city.
Politically, Neuss sympathized with the college student movement of the 1960s, took part in demonstrations and other political actions, and was active in the Republican Club. As a outcome, he turned the enemy of the Springer press, lived overseas for a time and withdrew from the community eye. In the 1980s he started out a comeback, wrote columns for taz and Stern and appeared on tv. In 1983 he obtained the German Cabaret Award.
Wolfgang Neuss died on 5 May well 1989 right after a lengthy sickness and, at his ask for, was buried subsequent to his former theater lover Wolfgang Müller in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery.
The Berlin Memorial Plaques are a software of the Point out of Berlin, integrated into the Historical Metropolis Markings funding application of the Senate Section of Culture and Europe. The white porcelain plates are created by the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin. The investigate and corporation of the plaque was the duty of the Aktives Museum Fascismus und Resistance affiliation in Berlin, which has been involved in the implementation of the Berlin memorial plaque method because 2013.
Unique thanks to GASAG AG, which financed the plaque for Wolfgang Neuss as the principal sponsor of the Berlin commemorative plaque system for a lot of decades.
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