Walk of Fame of Cabaret


The Walk of Fame of Cabaret is a sidewalk between Proviant-Magazin and Schönborner Hof in Mainz, Germany, which is embedded with more than 40 seven-pointed irregularly shaped stars featuring the names of cabaret celebrities selected by a group of experts and honored by several sponsors for their contributions to the cabaret culture.
The first stars, awarded on July 16, 2004, were inaugurated in the presence of Christina Weiss, Culture Representative and Minister of State of Germany and Kurt Beck, the premier of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In January 2007, Peter Hammerschlag was honored, and his became the 43rd star on the walk.

Characteristics

The Walk of Fame runs north to south between Münsterstraße and Schillerstraße.
Each star consists of a stainless-steel seven-pointed irregularly shaped star, inlaid into a bronze square. Inside the star, the signature of the honoree is etched. The full name of the honoree in capital letters can be seen on the bronze square, as well as the sponsor in normal letters.
The committee of experts initially selected 80 deceased stars to be honored on the walk of fame. Additionally to these, each year a living author or interpreter receives a star.

Details on the honorees

Details on the honorees may be found at the nearby Stiftung Deutsches Kabarett. Here, the core of the German Cabaret Archive is formed by more than eighty literary estates with biographies, documents and cultural heritage, regarding eighty thousand people from the history of cabaret and the forms of comedy that preceded it. This archive is based on the private initiative of Reinhard Hippen. The counterpart of the "Walk of Fame" can be found in the "Hall of Fame" in the Bernburg castle, in Saxony-Anhalt. Numerous exhibits remind viewers of the "immortals" of cabaret.

List of stars

Of all the nominated people, the following stars have been created:
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1.Werner Finck
2.Hugo Ball
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4.Kurt Tucholsky
5.Wolfgang Neuss
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7.Blandine Ebinger
8.Erich Kästner
9.Claire Waldoff
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12.Kurt Gerron
13.
14.Lore Lorentz
15.Walter Mehring
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17.Klabund
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19.Trude Hesterberg
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22.Helen Vita
23.Heinz Erhardt
24.Valeska Gert
25.Friedrich Hollaender
26.Georg Kreisler
27.Hanns Dieter Hüsch
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29.Karl Valentin
30.Christian Morgenstern
31.Erich Mühsam
32.Ursula Herking
33.Gerhard Polt
34.Dieter Hildebrandt
35.Gisela May
36.Günter Neumann
37.Mischa Spoliansky
38.Erika Mann
39.Rudolf Nelson
40.Joachim Ringelnatz
41.Fritz Grünbaum
42.Otto Reutter
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47.Werner Richard Heymann
48.Kate Kühl
49.Karl Farkas
50.Peter Hammerschlag
51.Frank Wedekind
52.Helmut Qualtinger
53.Liesl Karlstadt
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55.Rosa Valetti
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