Oliver Kalkofe

Oliver Kalkofe
Oliver Kalkofe at the Romy TV awards 2008
Born	September 12, 1965 (1965-09-12) (age 46) Hanover, Germany
Occupation	actor, writer
Website
http://www.kalkofe.de/

Oliver Kalkofe (born 12 September 1965 in Hanover) is a German satirist, columnist, book author and actor.

Career

Kalkofe grew up in Langenhagen-Engelbostel near Hanover and in Peine. After passing the Abitur in 1984 Kalkofe finished his training as a foreign language correspondent clerk and interpreter in English and French before enrolling at the University of Münster to major in media and communication studies.

In 1990 he joined the Frühstyxradio, a comedy show on commercial radio station ffn. Broadcast on Sunday mornings, the shows had a theme and were presented by fictional hosts, with episodes of various ongoing series and stand-alone sketches more or less dealing with that theme. Kalkofe developed and voiced a variety of characters and series for the show.

He gained popularity on a national level with the TV show Kalkofes Mattscheibe on German pay TV network Premiere, which he had adapted for television in 1994 from his Frühstyxradio series of the same name. In it he shows clips from German TV and comments on them or parodies them. In 1996 he was awarded the Adolf-Grimme-Preis for the show.

His biggest success are the movies Der Wixxer and Neues vom Wixxer, a parody of the German Edgar Wallace screen adaptations from the 1960s. The movies were based on a Frühstyxradio series called Der Wixer (an obscene variation of the Edgar Wallace movie title Der Hexer), written by him and Oliver Welke. They also wrote the scripts together with comedian Bastian Pastewka. Kalkofe starred in both movies as Chief Inspector Even Longer.

Filmography

Only select major roles.

• Der Wixxer (2004, also writer-producer)
• Die ProSieben Märchenstunde: Rumpelstilzchen - Auf Wache im Märchenwald (TV; 2006)
• Neues vom Wixxer (2007, also writer-producer)
• Der Goldene Nazivampir von Absam 2 - Das Geheimnis von Schloß Kottlitz (2007)
• Urmel voll in Fahrt (2008, voice)

He also provided voices for the German dubbed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Movie, or Blue Sky's Robots and Pixar's Cars, among others.

Bibliography

• Onkel Hottes Märchenstunde (2001, illustrated by Michael Hellmich, ISBN 383033026X)
• Der Wixxer (2007, with Bastian Pastewka and Oliver Welke, ISBN 9783802517440)
• Neues vom Wixxer (2007, with Bastian Pastewka and Oliver Welke, ISBN 9783802517457)
• Geschafft! Wir sind blöd! : Kalkofes letzte Worte (2008, ISBN 9783830331698)

External links

• Official Website
• Oliver Kalkofe at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by and about Oliver Kalkofe in the catalog of the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

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Name	Kalkofe, Oliver
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Date of birth	12 September 1965
Place of birth	Hanover, Germany
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