Torsten Sträter (born 4 September 1966 in

Dortmund Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city ...

) is a German

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comedian A comedian (feminine comedienne) or comic is a person who seeks to entertainment, entertain an audience by making them laughter, laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolishly (as in slapstick), or employing prop c ...

and

kabarett Kabarett (; from French ''cabaret'' = tavern) is satirical revue, a form of cabaret which was developed in France by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 as the ''cabaret artistique''. It was named Le Chat Noir and was centered on political events and satire. ...

ist.

Life

Torsten Sträter was born in

in the district Eving (Brechten) as an illegitimate child in his grandmother's house. The next day the family moved to

Waltrop Waltrop ( is a town in the Recklinghausen (district), district of Recklinghausen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the Datteln-Hamm Canal, approximately 15 km east of Recklinghausen and 15 km north-west of Dortmund. ...

and he only returned to Dortmund when he was 16. In Dortmund he then completed his training as a men's tailor. He then did 15 months of basic military service in the Bundeswehr where he was stationed in

Neustadt am Rübenberge Neustadt am Rübenberge (; ) is a town in the Hanover (district), district of Hannover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. At , it is the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), though only about 45,000 inhabita ...

. and then worked in mobile phone sales and for his mother and brother's shipping company. Especially in the mid-1990s, Torsten Sträter suffered from a depressive illness, which he also dealt with in cabaret. He was on stage for the first time in 2006 when he was still suffering from depression. He is a frequent guest on

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and also appeared on LOL: Last One Laughing which he won in 2021. His trademark has been a Beanie for some time now. He is the father of one child and lives in Dortmund.

Works by Sträter

* ''Hämoglobin'', Eldur Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-937419-03-9. * ''Postkarten aus der Dunkelheit'', Eldur Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-937419-10-7. * ''Hit the Road, Jack!'', Eldur Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-937419-11-4. * ''Brainspam'', Eldur Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-937419-17-6. * ''Der David ist dem Goliath sein Tod'', Carlsen Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-548-37535-9. * ''Selbstbeherrschung umständehalber abzugeben'', Carlsen Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-551-68481-3. * ''Selbstbeherrschung umständehalber abzugeben'', Ullstein Taschenbuch, 2014, ISBN 978-3-548-37534-2. * ''Als ich in meinem Alter war'', Lappan Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8303-3406-4. * ''Es ist nie zu spät, unpünktlich zu sein'', Ullstein Taschenbuch, 2017, ISBN 978-3-548-06352-2. * ''Sträters Gutenachtgeschichten'', Ullstein Verlag, 2021, ISBN 978-3-548-06454-3. * D''u kannst alles lassen, du musst es nur wollen'', Ullstein Verlag, 2022, ISBN 978-3-864-93227-4.

External links

Official website by Torsten Straeter

References

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