The cabaret artist, author and Adolf Grimme Prize winner Herbert Feuerstein, inventor of the show "Schmidtanders" with Harald Schmidt, is dead. The WDR announced on Wednesday.
"Today we are sad," says WDR director Tom Buhrow. "We would like to thank Herbert Feuerstein not only for 'Schmidtanders', a cult show that made television history and changed a lot. But also for his clever humor, his wonderful silliness, the intelligently thought-out anarchism and many, many extremely entertaining television and Radio lessons. So often he made us laugh. "
Herbert Feuerstein was born in Zell am See in 1937, was a trained musician (piano, harpsichord, composition) and then worked as a journalist. For 20 years he was head of the German branch of the US satirical magazine "MAD".
He first gained a foothold on television as the author of the Michael Braun talk show on WDR , followed by "Wild am Sonntag" two years later. He became a guest of advice to the broad German audience in the game show "Psssst ..!" known that Harald Schmidt moderated. Then he conceived "Schmidt One another" and there, as a co-moderator alongside Schmidt, he gained great comedy by mainly flaunting foolishness and boredom. "It was dislike at first sight," said Herbert Feuerstein, describing his collaboration with Harald Schmidt.
"Schmidt Each other" and "Feuerstein's Travels"
Late night legend Schmidt said goodbye to his deceased partner with humorous words. "Feuerstein was a genius - he told me that himself, and I confirmed it to him," said Schmidt on Wednesday. "During 'Schmidt each other' he ordered me to die first - now it turned out differently."
In the autumn of 1994, Feuerstein received the "Bambi" television prize for his creativity, "anarchist originality" and his "unrestrained courage to chaos", the jury stated. However, the WDR "Schmidtanders" let run out for half a year. Feuerstein then played theater, including in Hamburg and Leipzig.
Television remained his most successful medium, even if he asserted: "I am a person who writes" and "does not define himself through television". In "Feuersteins Reisen" he reported on trips to the most diverse regions of the world in the role of the bizarre globetrotter who showed unbiased curiosity without much prior knowledge. In 1996 he made history with an unforgettable performance by hosting "Feuersteins Nacht" for twelve hours at a time. He also had guest appearances in "Lindenstrasse".
Feuerstein also wrote numerous books, including travel reports and in 2005 the anthology "Women ask Feuerstein and seven other F-words", a hodgepodge of interviews, glosses, reports and sketches from the program "Schmidtanders". In 2014 his autobiography "The nine lives of Mr. F."
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