Oliver Kalkofe
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Oliver Kalkofe in 2012
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12 September 1965 Hanover, Germany |
| Occupation | Satirist, columnist, book author, actor, writer |
| Website | www |
Oliver Kalkofe (born 12 September 1965) is a German satirist, columnist, book author, actor and writer.
Kalkofe was born in Hanover. He grew up in Engelbostel and Peine. After passing the Abitur in 1984, he finished his training as a foreign language correspondent clerk and interpreter in English and French before enrolling at the University of Münster to major in media and communication studies.
In 1990 he joined the Frühstyxradio, a comedy show on commercial radio station ffn. Broadcast on Sunday mornings, the shows had a theme and were presented by fictional hosts, with episodes of various ongoing series and stand-alone sketches more or less dealing with that theme. Kalkofe developed and voiced a variety of characters and series for the show.
He gained popularity on a national level with the TV show Kalkofes Mattscheibe on German pay TV network Premiere, which he had adapted for television in 1994 from his Frühstyxradio series of the same name. The show's title is a pun based upon the fact that the German word Mattscheibe can mean "television screen" as well as a "mental blackout". In it, he shows clips from German TV and humorously comments on them or parodies them. In 1996 he was awarded the Adolf-Grimme-Preis for the show. After changing channels several times over the years, the show's current incarnation (entitled Kalkofes Mattscheibe Rekalked) is broadcast on Tele 5.
At least since the beginning of the Mattscheibe show, it's Kalkofe trademark to use many various humorous pseudonyms and puns based upon his real last name often mispronounced or misremembered by people and the fact that it involves the syllable Kalk, which is the German word for "chalk" or "lime", and at times these puns also show conscious interplay with the German verb verkalken ("to calcify", "to fossilize", "to ossify", "being a fossil"). Examples involve Kalkofe himself and merchandizing relating to his shows referring to him as Kalkinator (in reference to the Terminator) "terminating" bad television (many of the show's different intros and merchandizing depict him violently destroying television sets), Kalk-Man (in reference to superheroes such as Superman, used for his online campaign Kalk-Man hilf! where viewers can point out examples of bad television they want him to parodize), as well as the title to the Mattscheibe show's current incarnation calling it "Rekalked" (in reference to the current movie trend of calling director's cuts, remakes, reboots, and sequels re-something, such as Apocalypse Now Redux, or calling remixes or re-releases of pre-existing material revisited, such as the best-of album Peter Gabriel Revisited).
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