Max Uthoff
Max Uthoff
Person from Germany
Genres: kabarett, german, standup, comedy
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About Max Uthoff
Maximilian "Max" Uthoff (*September 24, 1967, in Munich) is a German cabaret artist. His father, Reiner Uthoff, founded the Munich Rational Theater in 1965 and co-directed it with his wife Sylvia Uthoff for thirty years before it went on a ten-year hiatus. Max Uthoff gained his initial experiences on and behind the stage there. He studied law and passed the second state examination in 2002. In 2006, Max Uthoff resumed operations at the Rational Theater but relinquished the management in July 2008 due to his numerous performances at other venues, which left him with less time for regular theater activities. Since 2007, he has been performing as a solo artist, aiming to "overturn the capitalist system with the tools of satire." His first cabaret program was titled "Sie befinden sich hier!" (You are here!), and a recording from September 2010 was released as an audiobook in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he served as the "Anstaltsanwalt" (institutional lawyer) in the ZDF cabaret show "Neues aus der Anstalt." In 2020, Max Uthoff was awarded the main prize at the Bavarian Cabaret Prize. The Bavarian Broadcasting praised his gripping interpretations of "world madness" and his ability to expose "politician lies" and dissect economic connections. Uthoff resides in Munich, is married, and has two daughters. Controversies In response to his statements on the Russo-Ukrainian War since 2014 and his criticism of the media in the eighth episode of "Die Anstalt," a columnist from the Frankfurter Rundschau accused Uthoff of "stereotypical black-and-white thinking without intellectual differentiation." Uthoff was criticized for endorsing the narrative of a "remote-controlled Ukraine" and a Russia solely responsible for the safety of the innocent population in eastern Ukraine, which, supported by the NATO devil, was being bombed by a fascist government. Uthoff was compared to Ken Jebsen in this regard. In an interview with Matthias Lohr for the Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, Uthoff was referred to as Germany's most important cabaret artist. However, Uthoff's statement that German media was "stuck with their heads in the Americans' asses" reminded the interviewer of the Pegida demonstrators' criticism of the allegedly synchronized mainstream press. Uthoff defended himself, stating that it was the journalists' job to "differentiate finely," while his role as a cabaret artist was to "denounce and satirically exaggerate shortcomings, sometimes to the point of pain." He argued that the criticism against "Die Anstalt" was unjustified and highlighted the lack of differentiation in the coverage of the Ukraine crisis in outlets like the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit. In a legal battle, Josef Joffe, then editor of Die Zeit, sued Uthoff for implying Joffe's membership in organizations engaged in lobbying. Initially, Uthoff lost before the Hamburg Regional Court, but the Hamburg Higher Regional Court ruled in favor of Joffe on September 9, 2015, prohibiting Uthoff from further disseminating or repeating the contested statements. On January 10, 2017, the Federal Court of Justice overturned the OLG Hamburg's decision, agreeing with the first-instance opinion that satirical representations of facts could include distortions.
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