Walk of Fame of Cabaret

Walk of Fame of Cabaret

The Walk of Fame of Cabaret is a sidewalk between Proviant-Magazin and Schönborner Hof in Mainz, Germany, which is embedded with more than 40 seven-pointed irregularly shaped stars featuring the names of cabaret celebrities selected by a group of experts and honored by several sponsors for their contributions to the cabaret culture.

The first stars, awarded on July 16, 2004, were inaugurated in the presence of Christina Weiss, Culture Representative and Minister of State of Germany and Kurt Beck, the premier of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In January 2007, Peter Hammerschlag was honored, and his became the 43rd star on the walk.

Characteristics

The Walk of Fame runs north to south between Münsterstraße and Schillerstraße.

Each star consists of a stainless-steel seven-pointed irregularly shaped star, inlaid into a bronze square. Inside the star, the signature of the honoree is etched. The full name of the honoree in capital letters can be seen on the bronze square, as well as the sponsor in normal letters.

The committee of experts initially selected 80 deceased stars to be honored on the walk of fame. Additionally to these, each year a living author or interpretor receives a star.

Details on the honorees

Details on the honorees may be found at the nearby Stiftung Deutsches Kabarett (German Cabaret Foundation). Here, the core of the German Cabaret Archive is formed by more than eighty literary estates with biographies, documents and cultural heritage, regarding eighty thousand people from the history of cabaret and the forms of comedy that preceded it. This archive is based on the private initiative of Reinhard Hippen (1961). The counterpart of the "Walk of Fame" can be found in the "Hall of Fame" in the Bernburg castle, in Saxony-Anhalt. Numerous exhibits remind viewers of the "immortals" of cabaret.

List of stars

Of all the nominated people, the following stars have been created:
*Hugo Ball (1886 – 1927)
*Ortrud Beginnen (1938 - 1999)
*Matthias Beltz (1945 - 2002)
*Curt Bry (1902 - 1974)
*Blandine Ebinger (1899 - 1993)
*Heinz Erhardt (1909 - 1979)
*Karl Farkas (1893 - 1971)
*Werner Finck (1902 - 1978)
*Kaspar Fischer (1938 - 2000)
*Kurt Gerron (1897 - 1944)
*Valeska Gert (1892 - 1978)
*Fritz Grünbaum (1880 - 1941)
*Otto Grünmandl (1924 - 2000)
*Wolfgang Gruner (1926 - 2002)
*Eckart Hachfeld (1910 - 1994)
*Trude Hesterberg (1892 - 1967)
*Ursula Herking (1912 - 1974)
*Dieter Hildebrandt (b. 1927)
*Friedrich Hollaender (1896 - 1976)
*Hanns Dieter Hüsch (1925 - 2005)
*Erich Kästner (1899 - 1974)
*Klabund (1890 - 1928)
*Georg Kreisler (b. 1922)
*Lore Lorentz (1920 - 1994)
*Jürgen von Manger (1923 - 1994)
*Gisela May (b. 1924)
*Erika Mann (1905 - 1969)
*Walter Mehring (1896 - 1981)
*Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914)
*Erich Mühsam (1878 - 1934)
*Rudolf Nelson (1878 - 1960)
*Günter Neumann (1913 - 1972)
*Wolfgang Neuss (1923 - 1989)
*Gerhard Polt (b. 1942)
*Joachim Ringelnatz (1883 - 1934)
*Klaus Peter Schreiner (b. 1930)
*Mischa Spoliansky (1898 - 1985)
*Kurt Tucholsky (1890 - 1935)
*Karl Valentin (1882 - 1948)
*Helen Vita (1928 - 2001)
*Claire Waldoff (1884 - 1957)
*Hugo Wiener (1904 – 1993)
*Herbert Bonewitz (b. 1933)
*Peter Hammerschlag (1902 - 1942)

External links

* [http://www.kabarettarchiv.de/Dosiers_english.html Official site: Dossiers in English]


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