Georg Schramm

Georg Schramm (born 11 March 1949) is a German Kabarett artist. He was a host of the Kabarett shows Scheibenwischer and Neues aus der Anstalt.

Biography

Schramm was born in

Schramm never stars on the stage as himself but uses a range of different characters to speak their minds. Even if he stars on the stage as "Schramm", he only does so acting as a character of the same name.[3] Most of the time he uses three characters for his performances:

Lothar Dombrowski

Dombrowski is a Prussian pensioner, disabled by a war and living in a retirement home. He is against any trends and funny comedy. Schramm uses this character to dish out coarse criticism of current events.^[3]

Oberstleutnant Sanftleben

An officer of the

financial crisis

.

August

August is a worker and SPD member from Hesse, talking in the typical dialect of that region. Coming from a social democratic background himself, Schramm uses August to both criticize the party from a member's perspective and to shield it from criticism.^[3] The character is partly modeled after Schramm's father.^[1]

Schramm is considered the most aggressive, outspoken and serious Kabarett artist of his time.^[3] In 2007, he published his first book, Lassen Sie es mich so sagen – Dombrowski deutet die Zeichen der Zeit, a compilation of texts from his shows from 1983–2007.

Television

From 2000 to 2006 he was a regular guest in the Scheibenwischer which he co-hosted since 2003. He left the show on 24 April 2006 for reasons of conceptional and personal differences with fellow co-hosts Bruno Jonas and Mathias Richling.^[4] From 2007 to 2010 he co-hosted Neues aus der Anstalt with Urban Priol.^[5]

Solo programs

• Solche Männer hat das Land
• Dein Platz an der Sonne
• Schlachtenbummler
• Ans Eingemachte – Best Of
• Mephistos Faust
• Thomas Bernhard hätte geschossen
• Meister Yodas Ende

Awards

• Salzburger Stier (1990)
• Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis (1991)
• Leipziger Löwenzahn (1994)
• Deutscher Kabarettpreis (1999)
• Stern des Jahres from the Munich Abendzeitung in the category "Kabarett" (2005)
• Gaul von Niedersachsen (2001)
• Schweizer Kabarett-Preis Cornichon of the Oltner Kabarett-Tage (2005)
• Ehrenpreis Tegtmeiers Erben (2005)
• Deutscher Fernsehpreis for Beste Comedy (with Urban Priol) (2007)
• Bayerischer Kabarettpreis (2008)
• Erich Fromm Prize (2012)

Bibliography

• Lassen Sie es mich so sagen – Dombrowski deutet die Zeichen der Zeit, München, Karl Blessing-Verlag, 2007,
  ISBN 978-3-89667-348-0