German Comedian Fips Asmussen Died:
The comedian Fips Asmussen is dead. The native of Hamburg died at the age of 82 on Sunday in hospital, as his partner in Querfurt in Saxony-Anhalt confirmed.
Comedian Fips AsmussenOld school humour painter:
Asmussen, whose real name is Rainer Pries, saw himself as a humour painter all his life. Someone who has to work hard every time to be successful: timing, speed, interaction with the audience.
In 2009 he said on the NDR Talk Show: "If I come on stage today, something will happen." Not everyone can laugh at Asmussen's jokes. Women, gays and foreigners are often the targets of his staccato salvos.
Everything in Asmussen's career wasn't always joking. He learned typesetter, then went into advertising. At the end of the 1960s, he had his own pub in Hamburg-Hohenfelde.
Fips Asmussen Have a great time in Hamburg:
Everything in Asmussen's career wasn't always joking. He learned typesetter, then went into advertising. At the end of the 1960s, he had his own pub in Hamburg-Hohenfelde.
In the "Violette Onion", he did "literary cabaret" with a microphone behind the counter, sang chansons by Friedrich Hollaender and read poems by Tucholsky and Kästner.
"It was a great time," he once summed up. Even if this life exhausted him: To be the solo entertainer every night, often until 5 a.m. Four years later, the man from Hamburg switched to telling jokes - live and on cassette.
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