Horst Tomayer

Horst Tomayer born November 1 1938 in Asch died December 13 2013 in Hamburg was a German poet columnist and actor After training as an insurance clerk Horst Tomayer worked asamong other thingsa journalist radio contributor and satirist He became particularly wellknown for his longrunning column Tomayers ehrliches Tagebuch Tomayers Honest Diary which appeared in the magazine konkret from 1982 until shortly before his death During the 1970s and 1980s he also garnered attention through satirical telephone stunts in which he posed as a conservative persona to elicit provocative statements from prominent public figures Tomayer authored numerous radio piecesincluding contributions to the WDR program Kritisches Tagebuchand performed as a spokenword artist alongside Hermann L Gremliza In 1990 a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court attracted nationwide attention when it classified his parody Deutschlandlied 86 as protected satire In addition to his journalistic and literary work Tomayer also appeared as an actor in film and television productions His credits included the Otto films TV series such as Kir Royal Tierarzt Dr Engel and Der König von Bärenbach and the featurefilm comedies 7 Zwerge Männer allein im Wald and 7 Zwerge Der Wald ist nicht genug In 1994 he took on a more substantial film role in HansChristoph Blumenbergs Rotwang muß weg Tomayer died in 2013 at the age of 75 due to complications from cancer