History Creator / Loriot

Born in Brandenburg on the Havel in 1923 into a noble family originally from Mecklenburg which produced numerous officers (he himself was a lieutenant in a Panzer division during World War II), public servants and Bernhard von Bülow, one of Wilhelm II's chancellors. Already in his high-school days he began to work on stage. After 1945 he at first worked as a lumberjack before starting to study art. He first came to public attention as a cartoonist, and from 1967 he began to appear on television.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Brought up in In-Universe as a defense by the titular character in "Der Kunstpfeifer". When being criticized for his amateurish performance at whistling, he accuses the interviewer of being generally incapable of judging arts and successively claims that modern compositions require "spiritual involvement" by the listener, that contemporary music is a matter of habit and that in spite of his actual performance his general "artistic concept" would still hold up.

* BlatantLies: In the sketch "Der Kunstpfeifer" (lit.: ''The Whistler''), the interviewed whistler claims to have had his first public show at a cattle auction in 1954. Right thereafter he claims to have performed as well at the coronation of [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth]] and the very first Bundestag session, both which took place well before that. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since this whistler is exposed as a fraud later during the inverview.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: [-''Would you remove the mask for us?'' - ''Which mask?''-]

* MoodDissonance: Basically the underlying concept for most of his later works. The speech of the characters is almost never appropriate to the situation. But especially prominent in the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayvXxADjACg Christmas Poem]]", in which a kind elderly gentleman recites a Christmas poem that TastesLikeDiabetes, but tells a lurid story about murder and cannibalism.

* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: Parodied -- in the sketch "Filmspektrum - Besprechung eines Heiteren Films" ("Film Panoply - Review of a Merry Movie"), two film critics get into a heated argument about a silent movie slapstick clip that is just 4 seconds long.[[note]] Specifically, the scene is from the Creator/BusterKeaton short ''Film/{{Cops}}'' and shows Keaton, having hidden in a street sweeper's can, standing up with the lid on his head and then falling over backwards.[[/note]] One of them sees the "movie" as one of the greatest examples of cinematography and artistic quality, while the other one regards it as a socialist allegory about the population revolting against the exploitation by the ruling class. [[invoked]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** For a show that focuses mostly on the conservative middle-class in 70's Germany, there's a lot of innuendo.
-->'''Interviewer:''' Your jokes never turned sexual...
-->'''Loriot:''' Then you didn't pay enough attention.
** For example the "Es saugt und bläst der Heinzelmann wo Mutti sonst nur saugen kann."[[note]] "The Heinzelmann (a novelty vaccuum-cleaner that also has a hair dryer hood attached to it) sucks and blows where mommy otherwise would only suck."[[/note]]

Victor "Vicco" von Bülow ([[PenName aka]] ''Loriot'') was a German humorist, caricaturist, director and actor. His importance for the GermanHumour could be compared to Creator/RowanAtkinson's or Creator/MontyPython's for the British.

He passed away on August the 22nd, 2011.

* BinomiumRidiculus: ''Petrophagia lorioti'', the common stone louse. Totally made up by him, but made it even into the [[Pschyrembel https://www.pschyrembel.de/Steinlaus/K0LHT]], the German medicine handbook.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: For a show that focuses mostly on the conservative middle-class in 70's Germany, there's a lot of innuendo.

* PorkyPigPronunciation: A newsreader in her attempt to summarize the first part of a British mini series - which hasn't much of a plot, but makes up for it with long and complicated names - gets tangled up in the difference between German and British pronunciation. ''Schlipth''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: At age 17 Loriot appeared as an extra in the 1940 biopic ''[[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Friedrich Schiller]] -- Der Triumph eines Genies''. He later had a small, speaking but uncredited, role as a German staff officer in in ''Film/TheLongestDay''. Before the latter he also had small parts in two other films directed by Bernhard Wicki, the anti-war movie ''Film/TheBridge'' (1959) and ''Das Wunder des Malachias'' (1961).

And if we say "Germany", we mean TheBonnRepublic, at least to begin with. He also became quite popular in the parts of the GDR where you could receive West German TV. After Reunification ''Pappa ante Portas'' was filmed in the Babelsberg studios in Potsdam and in Ahlbeck on the island of Usedom (on the German-Polish border).

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[[caption-width-right:256: "Life without a pug is possible but pointless."]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: At age 17 Loriot appeared as an extra in the 1940 biopic ''[[UsefulNotes/DichterAndDenker Friedrich Schiller]] -- Der Triumph eines Genies''. He later had a small, speaking but uncredited, role as a German staff officer in in ''Film/TheLongestDay''. Before the latter he also had small parts in two other films directed by Bernhard Wicki, the anti-war movie ''Die Brücke'' (1959) and ''Das Wunder des Malachias'' (1961).

** For example the "Es saugt und bläst der Heinzelmann wo Mutti sonst nur saugen kann."[[note]] "The Heinzelmann (a vaccuum-cleaner) sucks and blows where mommy otherwise would only suck."[[/note]]

-->'''Dieter Lohse:''' MichaelJackson.

* MadDoctor / MadScientist: Appears in one sketch. Has invented a medicine that shrinks people down to 0.002 millimeters. He suggests using it to fight overpopulation - but for a start, only with volunteers.

* ProductionPosse/ThoseTwoActors: Actress Evelyn Hamann was the female lead in virtually all of Loriot's films and sketches.

* ProductionPosse: Actress Evelyn Hamann was the female lead in virtually all of Loriot's films and sketches.

Victor "Vicco" von Bülow ([[PenName aka]] ''Loriot'') was a German humorist, caricaturist, director and actor. His importance for the GermanHumor could be compared to Creator/RowanAtkinson's or Creator/MontyPython's for the British.