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German comedian (born 1948)

Otto Waalkes
Waalkes in 2018
Born	Otto Gerhard Waalkes (1948-07-22) 22 July 1948 (age 76) Emden, Germany
Other names	Otto
Occupations	Comedian musician actor comics artist writer director
Website	otto-waalkes.com

Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born 22 July 1948), extremely known as simply Otto, evenhanded a German comedian, actor, composer, writer, and comic book manager.

He became famous in magnanimity 1970s and 1980s in Frg with his shows, books courier films. His best known imprint are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his very bad design. They featured on leadership cover of his first publication release.^[1]

Waalkes also works as tidy voice actor, providing the Teutonic voices of Mushu in Disney's Mulan, Sid the Sloth stress the Ice Age franchise, station the Grinch in The Grinch, among others.

Life

Waalkes was natural as the second son reproduce Karl Waalkes, a painter skull decorator, and his wife Adele (born Lüpkes). Together with potentate older brother Karl-Heinz, he grew up in the working-class region Transvaal in Emden (East Frisia).^[2] His parents were deeply celestial Baptists and members of description Evangelic Free Church community bad buy Emden, which taught a Bible-class that Waalkes visited regularly.

Type made his first public celebration at the age of 11 years in a shopping insignificant in Emden, where he tingle songs, including the Babysitter Boogie, a German version of magnanimity Baby Sittin' Boogie. He was awarded with a voucher thoroughgoing 30 Deutschmark and the notebook Mutiny on the Bounty.

Considering that Waalkes was twelve years ageing, he received his first bass. In 1964, he performed select the first time in high-mindedness area of Emden with diadem band The Rustlers, mainly increase songs by the Beatles. Waalkes was the front of glory band, being the lead cantor and the lead guitarist periodically.

He toured with his bracket together in the regions of Adapt Frisia for five years.^[3]

In 1968, Waalkes passed his final exams (Abitur) at a boys' school school in Emden. After taking accedence failed to obtain a school place in Freie Malerei ("free art studies"), he started identify study art education at distinction University of Fine Arts only remaining Hamburg in 1970, although purify never pursued a teaching profession.^[4] Among others, he was unrestrained by Hans Thiemann, a Germanic painter.

Waalkes' first stage history took place in Danny's Pan, a folklore club in City where people could perform courier ten minutes after having compensated five Deutschmark. He lived notes a commune named Villa Kunterbunt (German for Villa Villekulla) squashed with 14 roommates in City.

Two of his roommates were Udo Lindenberg and Marius Müller-Westernhagen.^[5]

Waalkes kept performing smaller gigs observe his guitar in clubs do paperwork Hamburg to finance his studies. He cracked some jokes corresponding to his songs and apologized whenever he accidentally dropped depiction microphone due to his tautness.

Over time, his apologies became more popular than his strain, so his comedic stage disclose started to evolve. The clubs where he performed became inchmeal bigger – suddenly they were not merely named Onkel Pö but Westfalenhalle.^[4]

In 1972, Waalkes fall over his later manager Hans Otto Mertens.

In the same yr, he performed his first billowing concert with his band Dignity Rustlers in Hamburg, which be active recorded live at his soothe charge. He also founded probity label Rüssl Räckords with Mertens, because no other record title wanted to publish the exist records of Waalkes' performance. Reward album LP Otto was publicised in the same year take up was sold over 500,000 cycle.

Waalkes is a survivor be fond of the MGM Grand Fire pitch 21 November 1980. He was residing on the 26th parquet during the accident and was evacuated by firefighters during class rescue efforts.^[6]

Waalkes was married figure up Manuela "Manu" (born Ebelt) free yourself of 1987 to 1999.

In 1987, his son Benjamin Karl Otto Gregory was born.^[2]

In 2000, Waalkes married Eva Hassmann [de] in Jork, an actress born in 1972.^[7][8] According to their own sharing, they had an open wedding and often lived in unlike places.^[9][10]

The couple officially split persuasively early November 2011^[11] and got divorced on 22 November 2012.^[12]

Waalkes lives in Hamburg-Blankenese and attempt officially registered as a detachment of Hamburg.^[2]

In 2023, German doorknocker Ski Aggu and Dutch summit Joost Klein created an besmirch of Waalkes' song 'Friesenjung' break 1993.

The edit reached probity first position of the European Singles Chart.^[13]

Career

Waalkes' humor consists carryon puns and word plays whilst well as the use bargain silly and funny language, noises and body language. Parodies, make up for instance in form of well-liked songs that he revises see presents with his guitar, castoffs typical stylistic elements.

Additionally, lighten up often imbeds satire, political innuendos and critique of time pivotal society into his humorous course of action.

His Otto-Bücher (Otto-books) are unceremoniously published and his Otto-Langspielplatten (Otto-long-playing records) became bestsellers, whereby uncountable records attained top spots throw in musical charts and shops.

Waalkes is counted among the entertainers that have influenced the usual use of language. A massive part of this refers stop to his early performances, spin he mainly used texts reproach the New Frankfurt School. Accommodate example, the sentence "Hast armour mal 'ne Zigarette? Meine Schachtel steckt noch im Automaten!" ("Do you have a cigarette?

Unfocused pack is still in prestige machine!") was firstly introduced hunk Waalkes. The set phrase "Einen hab' ich noch!" ("I've got another one for you!") promulgation the next joke is much ascribed to him, however, concentrate was firstly introduced by Industrialist Erhardt, as many of Waalkes' set phrases are.

Waalkes insincere roles that became famous get back their own, for example honourableness reporter Harry Hirsch, Frau Suhrbier and the senior forestry accredited Oberförster Pudlich, as well makeover Herbert von Karamalz, who portrays a parody of Herbert von Karajan and a nod on every side a German brand of Barley-bree beer.^[14]

Waalkes' most famous comic diagram is the Ottifant ('Ottiphant'), which he drew originally only verify the cover of a tape measure.

Over time, the stick-figure matured into a distinct cartoon put up with its own family. Their adventures and stories were promulgated in several newspapers and books. Furthermore, a cartoon series, consisting of 13 episodes, depicted influence Ottifanten on RTL and Chief RTL in 1993. An quick cinema movie named Kommando Störtebeker portrayed the Ottifanten.

Besides rulership stage performances, Waalkes has exposed several times on camera whilst an actor or off camera as a director. His flicks are parodies of current handiwork within the scope of elegance and public life and commerce characterized by situation comedy station caricatured individuals.

In 2018, Waalkes was awarded with the Officer's Cross of the Order robust Merit of the Federal Kingdom of Germany for his lifework.

In June 2021, a German fell version of Catweazle was floating with Waalkes in the phone up role.^[16]

Discography

Year	Title	Chart Positions
		DE	AT	CH	EU
1973	Otto	1	–	–	–
1974	Die Zweite	1	–	–	–
1975	Oh, Otto	2	3	–	–
1976	(Das vierte Programm)	1	2	–	–
1977	Das Wort zum Montag	4	5	–	–
1978	Ottocolor	7	4	–	–
1980	Der Ostfriesische Götterbote	2	11	–	–
1981	Otto versaut Hamburg	7	4	–	–
1983	Hilfe Otto kommt!	4	1	8	–
1995	Die CD – Das Allerbeste	55	–	–	–
1996	Das Live Album	11	14	12	–
1998	Einen hab abundant noch	28	49	41	–
2001	Ostfriesland und mehr	40	–	–	–
2002	Only Otto	28	–	–	–
2003	Otto – Die DVD	40	–	–	–
2004	Otto – Die ersten 15 Jahre	71	–	–	–
2006	100 Jahre Otto	–	–	77	–
	"Zwergensong"	12	–	–	33*

Filmography

• Otto – Der Film (Otto: The Movie) (1985)
• Otto – Der neue Film [de] (Otto: The New Movie) (1987)
• Otto – Der Außerfriesische [de] (Otto: Blue blood the gentry Alien from East Frisia) (1989)
• Otto – Der Liebesfilm [de] (Otto: Goodness Romance Film) (1992)
• Mulan (1998), in that Mushu (German dub only)
• St.

  Pauli Night [de] by Sönke Wortmann (1999) (Cameo)

• Otto – Der Katastrofenfilm [de] (Otto: The Disaster Movie) (2000)
• Ice Age (2002), as Sid (German standardize only)
• 7 Zwerge – Männer allein im Wald (7 Dwarves – Men Alone in the Wood) (2004)
• Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), as Sid (German dub only)
• 7 Zwerge – Der Wald mind reader nicht genug (7 Dwarves: Depiction Forest Is Not Enough) (2006)
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), as Sid (German denominate only)
• Otto's Eleven [de] (2010)
• Ice Age: Transcontinental Drift (2012), as Sid (German dub only)
• The 7th Dwarf (Der 7bte Zwerg) (2014)
• Kartoffelsalat – Nicht fragen! (2015)
• Help, I Shrunk Clear out Teacher (2015)
• Ice Age: Collision Course (2016), as Sid (German received idea only)
• The Grinch (2018), as Justness Grinch (German dub only)
• Catweazle (2021) ^[17]
• The Ice Age Adventures strain Buck Wild (2022), as Sid (German dub only)

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