Schillerstraße ("Schiller Street") was a German improvisational comedy show that aired weekly on Sat.1 . It was recorded without a script and broadcast unedited to a large extent. The American broadcaster Fox has earned the licence for Schillerstraße and is to produce its own series.
11-489: The setting of the show is the living room of the main actor (until 2008 Cordula Stratmann , in 2009 Jürgen Vogel - all the actors keep their real names) who lives on the fictional street "Schillerstraße" in Cologne , Germany. The main character is regularly visited by friends and relatives. The participants only know the topic of the episode in advance. The whole plot has to be improvised comically. The cast receive directions from
22-456: The Spielleiter (game master) on their headphones, and have to follow the cues, e.g. "Cordula: Tell the others you're pregnant!". The show mostly airs unedited and things that go wrong are not removed, either. The main cast have included Cordula Stratmann , Annette Frier , Martin "Maddin" Schneider , Michael Kessler and Ralf Schmitz . They interchange with dozens of other guests. The show
33-559: The family counselling section of the Pulheim youth welfare office she also trained as a family therapist. For the carnival season in 1992, she invented the character " Annemie Hülchrath ". Stratmann had her first television appearances as the host of the comedy shows Manngold and Sonst gerne on tm3 and on ZDF . In 1998, she acted in Zimmer frei! as "Annemie Hülchrath". In 2001, her first stage programme Andererseits wiederum … followed. In
44-482: The later evening programme and were a big success. For this reason, the run time was extended in January 2005 and moved into a prime time slot on Thursdays. On 26 January 2007 Schillerstraße got a new slot during Friday evening prime time and started with a special 90-minute 100th episode broadcast in which the actors and the game master Maike Tatzig looked back at the previous 99 episodes. The former game master Georg Uecker
55-427: The rumor that she was pregnant. To hide her pregnancy, her Schillerstraße character became very "fat" by means of a fatsuit and finally had to go to a diet camp. On 31 March 2006, she gave birth to a son, Emil, from her marriage with Rainer Osnowski. This German biographical article related to television is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a German comedian or humourist
66-681: The show is produced and aired by Afrikaans channel kykNet under the title Proesstraat . In 2011 the show was canceled in Germany. Notes Sources Cordula Stratmann Cordula Stratmann born in 1963 is a German comedian and actress. After taking the Abitur school-leaving examination, Stratmann studied social work at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia , in Cologne . During her work at
77-606: The years 2002 to 2004, she had a show called Annemie Hülchrath – Der Talk on WDR , and in September 2004 she started an improvisation comedy show Schillerstraße . In October 2001, Stratmann was nominated for the German Comedy Award as "Beste Komikerin" (best comedian). In October 2002 another nomination followed, and in 2005 she finally won the award for "Schillerstraße", as "Beste Impro-Comedy" (best improvisational comedy show). In November 2005, her management confirmed
88-595: Was constructed. The format was sold internationally and the rights were sold to the American media company Fox which is going to produce the show in the United States, United Kingdom , Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The rights have been sold as well to France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands , Finland , Estonia , Russia, Romania , Hungary, Turkey , Czech Republic , Israel and Bulgaria . In South Africa
99-465: Was created by Maike Tatzig who is also the show's executive producer. In September 2005 she took over the task of the game master, after Georg Uecker left or had to leave the show for unknown reasons. The show is produced by Hurricane Fernsehproduktion GmbH . Schillerstraße first aired on 3 September 2004 on the German TV channel Sat.1 . The episodes originally only lasted 30 minutes were aired in
110-422: Was not mentioned once; instead they decided to make it look like Maike Tatzig had been the game master since the beginning of the show. After Uecker left the show, producer Maike Tatzig became the game master in autumn 2005, officially due to schedule problems of Uecker. On 20 April 2006 the stage was extended. So that the show could reasonably be continued without Cordula Stratmann, who was on maternity leave and
121-455: Was therefore not available for some episodes, they created a pub next door, the Schillereck (Schiller corner). Stratmann's pregnancy was never part of the show. Her character on the show became fat and had to go to a diet camp. The pub is "owned" by Bernhard Hoëcker , a friend of Cordula's. The stages are set in a right angle. To be able to use both stages in one show, a rotatable audience stand
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