Lore Lorentz
Lore Lorentz (12 September 1920 – 22 February 1994) was a German Kabarett artist and standup comedian.[1]
She was born in Mährisch-Ostrau, Czechoslovakia (today Ostrava in the Czech Republic), as Lore Schirmer. She studied history, German literature and philosophy in Berlin and Vienna. In Berlin, she met Template:Ill, who became her husband in 1944.[1] Together, they founded the Kabarett Kom(m)ödchen in Düsseldorf in 1947. It was one of the first political cabarets in Allied-occupied Germany after the Second World War.[1] Until 1983, Lore and Kay Lorentz were directors of the Kommödchen and part of the ensemble.
Starting in 1976, she taught chanson, song, and musicals at Folkwang Hochschule.[1]
In 1983, she started with solo programs. One of her most famous programs consisted exclusively of texts written by Heinrich Heine; even though he had written them more than a century before Lorentz' program was performed, they all referred to current topics.
She received several prizes:
- 1981: Honorary Template:Ill
- 1986: Template:Ill
- 1989: Großer Template:Ill
- 1989: Honorary Recognition by the Template:Ill (jointly with her husband)
- 2004: Start on the Walk of Fame of Cabaret (posthumous)
Kay and Lore Lorentz rejected the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) in 1976. A secondary school in Düsseldorf is named in her honour.[2]
She died in 1994 in Düsseldorf of pneumonia.
On audio CD:
- Denk ich an Deutschland (A cabaret evening with texts of Heinrich Heine). CD. Template:ISBN
- Chansons. CD. Template:ISBN
- Frivolitäten – 10 Diseusen – 10 Chansons. LP. Polydor J 73 555
References
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External links
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- Kabarettists
- German artists
- German cabaret performers
- People from Ostrava
- Comedians from Düsseldorf
- 1920 births
- 1994 deaths
- Academic staff of the Folkwang University of the Arts
- Czechoslovak emigrants to Germany
- Czechoslovak expatriates in Austria
- Deaths from pneumonia in Germany
- German women comedians