Birth name Bernhard-Victor Christoph-Carl von Bülow NationalityGerman Birth 12 november 1923 at Brandenburg an der Havel (German) Death 22 august 2011 (at 87 years) at Ammerland (German) Awards Bavarian Order of Merit, Order of Merit of Berlin
Bernhard-Victor Christoph-Carl von Bülow (12 November 1923, Brandenburg an der Havel – 22 August 2011, Ammerland at Lake Starnberg), known as Vicco von Bülow (from Bernhard-Victor Christoph-Carl) or Loriot, was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.
He is 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.
Biography
Vicco von Bülow was born in Brandenburg an der Havel in Prussia, today Brandenburg, in modern north-eastern Germany. His family von Bülow belonged to German aristocracy. His parents separated soon after he was born, his mother died when he was six. Von Bülow and his brother grew up in Berlin with their grandmother.
Von Bülow 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 First Lieutenant of Panzergrenadierregiment 3 in the 3rd Panzer Division. Asked during an interview later in his life if he had been a good lieutenant he answered: "Not good enough, otherwise I would have been part of the resistance on July 20th, 1944. But for this dreadful German contribution to world history, I will be ashamed for the rest of my life." He completed his Abitur in 1946.
, 1h29 Directed byLoriot (humoriste) GenresComedy ActorsEvelyn Hamann, Loriot (humoriste), Irm Hermann, Ludger Pistor, Balduin Baas Roles Heinrich Lohse Rating78% Heinrich Lohse is a manager at the "Deutsche Röhren AG" who increasingly tends to lose control. After ordering a 40-year supply of typewriting paper and erasers (because of quantity rebate), his boss forces him to retire. Confronted with this new situation, Lohse's family reacts in shock. It turns out Heinrich's wife Renate and his son Dieter were quite comfortable with the absent husband and father and don't want to see their situation disrupted. Heinrich, however, refuses to allow his career to end and immediately begins to rearrange the Lohse household based on his questionable managerial skills. This leads to a steadily increasing series of conflicts with his wife, son, and friends that get more and more bizarre.
, 1h28 Directed byLoriot (humoriste) GenresComedy ActorsLoriot (humoriste), Evelyn Hamann, Eberhard Fechner, Vincenzo Crocitti Roles Paul Winkelmann Rating73% Paul Winkelmann is single and running the family's furniture and decoration business. Despite his age (he is 56 years old), he still maintains a close relationship with his mother who cooks for him and cannot understand that he rents his own apartment.
, 1h27 Directed byPierre Étaix OriginFrance GenresComedy, Romance ActorsPierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Alain Janey, Renée Gardès, Micha Bayard Rating74% Pierre, un homme de quarante ans, directeur d'une usine de tannerie, se retrouve marié avec Florence, sans amour, ni désamour, mais plutôt par convention. Se passent quelques années d'une vie ennuyeuse, monotone et douillette. Et puis un jour sa vieille secrétaire lui présente sa remplaçante, une jeune et jolie jeune femme. Elle s'appelle Agnès. Elle a 18 ans. Elle est ravissante. Il en tombe éperdument amoureux, l'invite au restaurant mais ne peut se déclarer car très timide.
, 1h28 Directed byBernhard Wicki GenresDrama, Comedy ThemesFilms about religion ActorsRichard Münch, Christiane Nielsen, Horst Bollmann, Günter Pfitzmann, Paul Edwin Roth, Brigitte Grothum Roles Kauziger Professor Rating70% Next to a church in a prosperous German industrial town is the Eden bar, a night club and brothel. The Eden bar is a thorn in the side of the worldly innocent monk Father Malachia (Horst Bollmann), who is praying to God that he will close the bar. The prayer is heard and the building and the bar and all people inside vanish and reappear on an island in the North Sea. This apparent miracle draws the attention of the media, politicians and scientists, all trying to find rational explanations. The Catholic Church is reluctant to officially recognize this occurrence as a miracle, both fearing a loss of control in matters of faith, or a loss of face if the disappareance of the Eden bar would turn out to be a fabrication.
, 1h45 Directed byBernhard Wicki OriginGerman GenresDrama, War, Historical ThemesPont, Political films ActorsFritz Wepper, Volker Lechtenbrink, Cordula Trantow, Michael Hinz, Edith Schultze-Westrum, Günter Pfitzmann Roles Stabsweldfebel Rating79% In the closing days of World War II, a small German town comes into focus as American forces advance in its direction. In the town's school, seven boys—each about 16 years old—are oblivious to the seriousness and dangers of the war, feeling excitement about how close the fighting is getting to them, and they live their lives as normally as they can, though they are overshadowed with personal problems: Karl, who has a crush on his hairstylist father's young assistant, is shocked to see them in an intimate situation; Klaus is oblivious to the affections of his classmate Franziska; and Walter is deeply resentful of his father, the local Nazi Party Ortsgruppenleiter, who has chosen to save his own skin under the pretense of an important Volkssturm meeting. Jürgen is the son of a German officer who has been killed in action, and hopes to live up to his father's reputation.
, 1h29 Directed byLoriot (humoriste) GenresComedy ActorsEvelyn Hamann, Loriot (humoriste), Irm Hermann, Ludger Pistor, Balduin Baas Rating78% Heinrich Lohse is a manager at the "Deutsche Röhren AG" who increasingly tends to lose control. After ordering a 40-year supply of typewriting paper and erasers (because of quantity rebate), his boss forces him to retire. Confronted with this new situation, Lohse's family reacts in shock. It turns out Heinrich's wife Renate and his son Dieter were quite comfortable with the absent husband and father and don't want to see their situation disrupted. Heinrich, however, refuses to allow his career to end and immediately begins to rearrange the Lohse household based on his questionable managerial skills. This leads to a steadily increasing series of conflicts with his wife, son, and friends that get more and more bizarre.
, 1h28 Directed byLoriot (humoriste) GenresComedy ActorsLoriot (humoriste), Evelyn Hamann, Eberhard Fechner, Vincenzo Crocitti Rating73% Paul Winkelmann is single and running the family's furniture and decoration business. Despite his age (he is 56 years old), he still maintains a close relationship with his mother who cooks for him and cannot understand that he rents his own apartment.
, 1h29 Directed byLoriot (humoriste) GenresComedy ActorsEvelyn Hamann, Loriot (humoriste), Irm Hermann, Ludger Pistor, Balduin Baas Rating78% Heinrich Lohse is a manager at the "Deutsche Röhren AG" who increasingly tends to lose control. After ordering a 40-year supply of typewriting paper and erasers (because of quantity rebate), his boss forces him to retire. Confronted with this new situation, Lohse's family reacts in shock. It turns out Heinrich's wife Renate and his son Dieter were quite comfortable with the absent husband and father and don't want to see their situation disrupted. Heinrich, however, refuses to allow his career to end and immediately begins to rearrange the Lohse household based on his questionable managerial skills. This leads to a steadily increasing series of conflicts with his wife, son, and friends that get more and more bizarre.
, 1h28 Directed byLoriot (humoriste) GenresComedy ActorsLoriot (humoriste), Evelyn Hamann, Eberhard Fechner, Vincenzo Crocitti Rating73% Paul Winkelmann is single and running the family's furniture and decoration business. Despite his age (he is 56 years old), he still maintains a close relationship with his mother who cooks for him and cannot understand that he rents his own apartment.