Dieter Hildebrandt

Dieter Hildebrandt at Cologne in 2007.

Dieter Hildebrandt (born May 23, 1927 in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Germany, now Boleslawiec, Poland) is a German Kabarett artist.

Born in Bunzlau, Lower Silesia, Hildebrandt attended school until he became an assistant for the German Air Force in World War II. After four months as an assistant Hildebrandt was ordered to the frontlines to support the German Wehrmacht.

According to documents released in June 2007, Hildebrandt may have joined the Nazi Party on 20 April 1944.^[1]

On 8 May 1945, Hildebrandt was taken captive by the United States Army, but was released a few months later.

In the years after the war, Hildebrandt finished his schooling and moved to Windischeschenbach in Bavaria. In 1948 he started studying theatre sciences in Munich. During that time he founded a student-performed cabaret show,“Die Namenlosen”, in Schwabing. After finishing his studies Hildebrandt worked with Sammy Drechsel to found and develop the “Münchner Lach und Schießgesellschaft”, a successful cabaret venue where he worked alongside cabaret artists such as Klaus Havenstein and Bruno Jonas. He stopped working with Drechsel in 1972, to work for radio and TV stations.

From 1973 until 1979 Hildebrandt was the presenter and author of the cabaret show “Notizen aus der Provinz” (Notes From The Province), which was broadcast by ZDF. Hildebrandt also worked with Werner Schneyder, with whom he founded the so called “Autorenkabarett”. The SFB show Scheibenwischer, which he created in 1980, ran till 2009.

Hildebrandt was married to Irene Mendler from 1956 until her death. They had two daughters, Ursula and Jutta. He remarried, to German actress Renate Küster, in 1992.

Awards

• Grimme-award in bronze, silver and gold
• German cabaret-award
• Schiller-award
• Högner-award
• Knoeringen-award

References

1. ^ Die Welt: Dieter Hildebrandt soll in NSDAP gewesen sein 30. Juni 2007

External links

• Official website
• Dieter Hildebrandt at the Internet Movie Database

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