32-413: Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow (12 November 1923 – 22 August 2011), known as Vicco von Bülow or Loriot ( German: [loˈʁi̯oː] ), was a German comedian, humorist , cartoonist , film director, actor and writer. As an artist, he was almost exclusively known under his pen name Loriot, which is the french term for the bird oriole depicted as a crest in the coat of arms of
64-453: A Wodehouse-style novel. Mark Twain (pen name of Samuel Langhorn Clemens, 1835–1910) was widely considered the "greatest humorist" the U.S. ever produced, as noted in his New York Times obituary. It's a distinction that garnered wide agreement, as William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature ". The United States national cultural center, the John F. Kennedy Center for
96-628: A book of humorous essays and short stories, in 1977 (published 1979). He wrote his first humorous play Picasso at the Lapin Agile in 1993, and wrote various pieces in The New Yorker magazine in the 1990s. He later wrote more humorous plays and two novellas. Hugh Laurie (born 1959) is an English comic actor who worked for many years in partnership with Stephen Fry . He is a fan of the English humorist P. G. Wodehouse , and has written
128-444: A humorist's work grows from viewing the morals of society. The term comedian is generally applied to one who is performing to an audience for laughter. Humor is the quality which makes experiences provoke laughter or amusement, while comedy is a performing art . The nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of humor (a German loanword from English) to mean any type of comedy. A humorist
160-562: A love of classical music and opera. In 1982, he conducted the humorous gala concert for the 100th anniversary of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra . He is also related to the orchestra's history by kinship ( Hans von Bülow , the first chief conductor of the orchestra, was distantly related to Loriot). His narrative version of Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals was repeatedly performed by Loriot with
192-485: A small oil painting hangs crooked. When he tries to correct this, he touches the adjacent painting which slides out of its frame. At nearly the same time, he accidentally throws something down from a table underneath the paintings. While reaching for it, he has to move a couch, the other end of which pushes a small table which tilts, and further items fall to the floor. In a slow chain reaction, every of his attempts to bring things in order causes further and greater disorder in
224-402: A vaudeville comedian who created the character Uncle Josh Weathersby and toured circuses and medicine shows . He befriended Twain and Rogers, and in 1898 became the first comedian to make sound recordings , on Edison Records . Garry Moore (1915–1993), known as a television comedian who hosted several variety and game shows , after his 1977 retirement became a regular humor columnist for
256-468: A writing career and gain notability as a humorist. Some examples are: Will Rogers (1879–1935) was a vaudeville comedian who started doing humorous political and social commentary, and became a famous newspaper columnist and radio personality during the Great Depression . He is an exception to the education rule, as he only completed a tenth grade education. Cal Stewart (1856–1919) was
288-545: Is adept at seeing the humor in a situation or aspect of life and relating it, usually through a story; the comedian generally concentrates on jokes designed to invoke instantaneous laughter. The humorist is primarily a writer of books, newspaper or magazine articles or columns , stage or screen plays, and may occasionally appear before an audience to deliver a lecture or narrate a written work. The comedian always performs for an audience, either in live performance, audio recording, radio, television, or film. Phil Austin , of
320-428: Is even spoken in an incidental manner, such as if the painting would indeed be the only problem in the room, baffling the viewer (while the reaction of the maid is not shown). Loriot's enormous popularity, his accurate language, and high-brow sense of comedy led to the adoption of a large number of phrases and inventions from the series' sketches into German common knowledge and everyday speech. Among these are certainly
352-690: The Bavarian Film Award , Special Prize, and in 1993 the Bavarian Film Award, Honorary Award. Loriot was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Wuppertal in 2001. He is honorary citizen of his hometown of Brandenburg an der Havel and his chosen home of Münsing from 1993 until his death. Furthermore, Loriot was a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste since that same year and of
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#1732780086629384-752: The Berlin Academy of Arts since 1997. He became honorary professor of theatrical arts at the Berlin University of the Arts in June 2003. He received numerous awards for his performance in TV, movies and other disciplines. He died in Ammerland at Lake Starnberg of old age. His cartoons hinged on the contrast between the presented situation, the dignity displayed by his typically big nosed characters and
416-491: The Bülow family . He was best known for his cartoons , the sketches from his 1976 television series Loriot , alongside Evelyn Hamann , and his two movies, Ödipussi (1988) and Pappa Ante Portas (1991). On the television series Unsere Besten ( Our Best ), Loriot was ranked the 54th best German ever. In a special comedy episode of Unsere Besten , he was ranked as the most famous German comedian ever. Vicco von Bülow
448-447: The " yodeling diploma ", a sentence like "With that," (said diploma) "you have something of your own!", "the " stone louse ", but also remarks like, "Please ... don't talk right now.", "There used to be more tinsel!", "Look, a piano! A piano, a piano!" or the laconic, hardly translatable "Ach!?" ("Oh, is it?"). Pictures showing Loriot's signature and German semi-postal stamps with topics of Loriot's work that illustrated Loriot's entry in
480-508: The 1990s. Before long, Wum was accompanied by the elephant Wendelin, and later by Blauer Klaus (Blue Klaus), an alien hovering in with his flying saucer. Loriot wrote, drew and dubbed all of these skits by himself. Each cartoon ended with Loriot asking the viewers to take part in the TV-lottery, which supported the "Aktion Sorgenkind". When the show was dropped, the adventures of Wum and Wendelin ended as well. Today, Wum and Wendelin appear on
512-627: The German-language Misplaced Pages were removed by the Wikimedia Foundation on 8 November 2011. This action was prompted by an interim order forbidding Wikimedia to use these images, that had been initiated by an heiress, daughter Susanne von Bülow , at the Landgericht Berlin on 6 October 2011 after an email from the heiress requesting their removal had not been answered. Wikimedia had to pay the cost of
544-559: The Scharoun Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble consisting of musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. As a director, Loriot staged the operas Martha ( Staatsoper Stuttgart , 1986) and Der Freischütz ( Ludwigsburg , 1988). In 1983 Radio Bremen produced the broadcast "Loriot's 60th birthday" for the broadcast station ARD on the occasion of Loriot's 60th birthday. In 1988 he received
576-595: The autobiography Smilet er den korteste afstand ("The Smile is the Shortest Distance") with Niels-Jørgen Kaiser. Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) was an English comic actor who wrote several humorous plays and film scripts. Woody Allen (born 1935), known as a comedian and filmmaker, early in his career worked as a staff writer for humorist Herb Shriner . He also wrote short stories and cartoon captions for magazines such as The New Yorker . Steve Martin (born 1945), comedian and actor, wrote Cruel Shoes ,
608-547: The comedy group the Firesign Theatre , expressed his thoughts about the difference in 1993 liner notes to the Fighting Clowns album: To me, there is a great difference between a humorist and a clown, and I had hoped that life for the Firesign Theatre would have led more toward the world of Mark Twain than the world of Beepo. The humorist is a happy soul; he comments from the sidelines of life, safe behind
640-405: The keyboard or pen; not forced to mold his thinking to the direct response of an audience, he has indirection on his side. He has time to think. Beepo, on the other hand, takes his chances directly facing—or mooning—the audience; a buffoon, a patsy, a performer, he is out in the open and his audience, unlike a humorist's, becomes necessarily half-friend and half-enemy. Sometimes a comedian will adopt
672-498: The last page of the TV magazine Gong . The first episode of the German television comedy series Loriot was produced in 1976. In six episodes, Loriot presented sketches, usually being the protagonist himself, and short cartoons that he had drawn. Examples of sketches from the series include Der Lottogewinner ("The lottery winner"), Jodeldiplom ("yodeling diploma") and Englische Ansage ("English announcement"). Loriot had
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#1732780086629704-451: The legal proceedings. The final court decision was announced on 27 March 2012; it upheld the interim order regarding the stamps, but overturned it for the signature. Wikimedia was ordered to pay + 4 ⁄ 5 of the costs. Humorist A humorist is an intellectual who uses humor , or wit , in writing or public speaking . A raconteur is one who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way. Henri Bergson writes that
736-509: The mascot of Aktion Sorgenkind , a German humanitarian organization. During the Christmas season of 1972 Wum's song "Ich wünsch' mir 'ne kleine Miezekatze" ("I wish I had a little kittycat"), sung in sprechgesang style, became popular enough to remain in the top position of the German pop charts for nine weeks. Wum also appeared in the German show Der Große Preis [ de ] (The Big Prize), where he appeared during breaks until
768-465: The newspaper The Island Packet of Northeast Harbor, Maine , with a column titled "Mumble, Mumble". He later released a book of his columns under the same name in the early 1980s. Victor Borge (1909–2000) was a Danish-American comedian known for bringing humor to classical music . He wrote three books, My Favorite Intermissions and My Favorite Comedies in Music (both with Robert Sherman ), and
800-399: The painting, with an undertone of significance telling her: "The painting hangs crooked!" (German: "Das Bild hängt schief!"). What makes the above sketch typical for Loriot is not only the complete absurdity of the whole scene including the end, but that the character, while acting extremely clumsy, never loses his temper and keeps his dignity during the evolving catastrophe. The final remark
832-558: The picture's caption. Inevitably one of these elements gets out of line, for example, when he combines the caption "We demand equal treatment of men and women, even if the suckling baby might temporarily lose weight." with the picture of a bulbous-nosed man breast-feeding a baby in a distinguished manner. The topics of his cartoons were mainly drawn from everyday life, scenes of the family and middle-class society. The same contrast between absurd situation and dignified behaviour of his characters could be seen in his various sketches and films. In
864-402: The room, including whole wall shelves breaking down. His relentless efforts to repair the damage cause further damage and ultimately result in the nearly complete devastation of the salon. Finally, the maid returns, and the last camera position is behind her who stands in the opened door, looking on the still intact fraction of the room. The official walks towards her and points in the direction of
896-466: The sketch "Zimmerverwüstung/Das schiefe Bild" (room destruction/the crooked painting) from the Loriot TV series of 1976, a maid offers a distinguished looking official – played by Loriot – who has just arrived on a house call a place in a finely furnished salon for a moment in order to let the house owners know. The person waiting looks at the furnishings from an armchair for a while. He then notices that
928-583: Was born in Brandenburg an der Havel in Prussia , today Brandenburg , in modern north-eastern Germany. The von Bülow family belongs to German aristocracy. His parents, Johann-Albrecht Wilhelm von Bülow (1899–1972) and Charlotte ( née von Roeder, 1899–1929), separated soon after he was born, and his mother died when he was six. Von Bülow and his brother grew up in Berlin with their grandmother. Von Bülow
960-574: Was eminent already during his school years. After the war he studied graphic design and painting at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg . From 1950 onwards, he published cartoons under the pseudonym "Loriot", derived from the French word for oriole , his family's heraldic animal. In 1971, von Bülow created a cartoon dog named Wum [ de ] , which he voice acted himself. Wum became
992-517: Was killed on 21 March 1945, less than two months before the end of World War II. Asked during an interview later in his life if he had been a good soldier he answered: "Not good enough, otherwise I would have been part of the resistance on 20 July 1944 . But for the dreadful German contribution to world history, I will be ashamed for the rest of my life." Von Bülow completed his Abitur in 1946. In 1951 he married Romi Schlumbom (born 1929), with whom he had two daughters. Von Bülow's talent for drawing
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1024-554: Was still in school when World War II started. After graduating early from secondary school, he followed the family's tradition and became a military officer. He was deployed to the Eastern Front for three years, serving as Oberleutnant of Panzergrenadierregiment 3 in the 3rd Panzer Division . He was decorated with the Iron Cross 2nd class and 1st class. His younger brother, Johann-Albrecht Sigismund von Bülow ,
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