DER AUSTRALISCHE COMEDIAN BARRY HUMPHRIES IST GESTORBEN

Der am 17. Februar 1934 in Melbourne geborene australische Komiker, Charakterdarsteller, Satiriker und Autor Barry Humphries (Bild) ist am 22. April 2023 in Sydney gestorben. Weltberühmt wurde er vor allem durch seine Darstellungen von Kunstfiguren, - am bekanntesten ist gewiss Dame Edna Everage. Weitere berühmte von ihm gespielte Figuren waren Barry McKenzie und Sir Les Patterson.(*)

Bild: Barry Humphries, 2001 – Foto: WTCA, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WTCA (Ausschnitt) – Lizenz: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en – Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barry_Humphries_July_2001.jpg

Australian comedic legend dies aged 89

Celebrated Australian entertainer Barry Humphries has died at the age of 89 after recently becoming ill due to complications from hip surgery. The comedy legend was best known for his alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. Humphries was a supreme entertainer and man of a million masks, headed by Housewife Gigastar Dame Edna Everage.

Don Woolford / AAP

https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/barry-humphries-australian-comedic-legend-star-dies-aged-89-c-10425339

A Gorgeous Life

Leaving behind an untouchable legacy, Barry Humphries spent his last days doing what he did best – making people laugh.

Matthew Westwood

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=TAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/barry-humphries-obituary-there-was-only-ever-one-place-that-felt-like-home-for-dame-edna-sir-les-creator/news-story/87154382e26b6fdbe9ea05dc4d2cafde&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-groupb-control-noscore&V21spcbehaviour=append

‘We’re all in pieces, we’re all heartbroken’: Tributes flow for Barry Humphries

The legendary entertainer who embodied some of Australia’s most loved characters died on Saturday at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital.

Ben Cubby

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/barry-humphries-dead-at-89-master-comedian-behind-dame-edna-everage-remembered-20230422-p5d2jp.html

King Charles, Kathy Lette pay tribute to comedic genius Barry Humphries

The King was a decades-long friend of Barry Humphries and joined comedians, media personalities and politicians who paid tribute to the entertainment icon’s quick wit and comedy genius.

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/celebrity/barry-humphries-dead-at-89-master-comedian-behind-dame-edna-everage-remembered-20230422-p5d2jp.html

Barry Humphries, performer who embodied Dame Edna, dies at 89

Barry Humphries, an Australian comedian who created and embodied the lilac-coiffed, cat-eye-bespectacled Dame Edna Everage, a character that began in the 1950s as a satire on suburbia and evolved into a global goddess of bling and irreverence who performed for British royalty and on Broadway stages, has died in a Sydney hospital at 89.

Brian Murphy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/22/dame-edna-barry-humphries-dies/

Barry Humphries, Comedian Who Created Dame Edna Everage, Dies at 89

Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer.

Margalit Fox

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/theater/barry-humphries-dead.html

Barry Humphries, aka Dame Edna, Dies at 89

He played the housewife from Melbourne on the stage, on television and in films for more than 60 years. «Hello, Possums!»

Rhett Bartlett

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/barry-humphries-dead-dame-edna-1235399495/

Australian satirist Barry Humphries, known for his onstage and TV drag persona Edna Everage and for his character Sir Les Patterson, has died

«A great wit, satirist, writer and an absolute one-of-kind, he was both gifted and a gift,» Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said following the news of Humphries’ death.

«RIP Barry Humphries – one of the greatest ever Australians – and a comic genius who used his exuberant alter egos, Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, to say the otherwise unsayable. Also an infallibly brilliant Spectator contributor. What a loss,» said former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Twitter.

Carmel Dagan, Patrick Frater

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/barry-humphries-dead-dame-edna-everage-1235591477/

Barry Humphries obituary

Entertainer whose outrageous caricatures Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson took the one-man show to new heights.

Peter Coleman

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/22/barry-humphries-obituary

Barry Humphries, ator conhecido pela personagem Edna Everage, morre aos 89 anos

Humphries criou a personagem Dama Edna na década de 1950, quando ainda morava na Australia, como uma sátira às donas de casa do subúrbio, inspirado pela sua própria mãe.

https://g1.globo.com/pop-arte/noticia/2023/04/22/barry-humphries-ator-conhecido-pela-personagem-edna-everage-morre-aos-89-anos.ghtml

Morto l’attore Barry Humphries; stregò il pubblico con i suoi alter ego. L’ex premier Boris Johnson: «Era un genio comico»

L’attore australiano aveva 89 anni. Con Dame Edna Everage e Sir Les Patterson, ha conquistato il pubblico teatrale e televisivo

https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2023/04/22/news/barry_humphries_edna_everage-397199794/

Rôle iconique

Le personnage de Dame Edna, une bourgeoise qui soutenait très sérieusement et sur un ton ampoulé que la couleur de ses cheveux était naturelle, se distinguait par des lunettes aussi extravagantes que ses robes étaient voyantes.

https://www.lematin.ch/story/le-comedien-barry-humphries-star-de-la-serie-dame-edna-everage-est-mort-446565932012

Die Queen war sein größter Fan

Jeder kennt wohl Dame Edna, die schräg-spießige Drag Queen. Sogar Kronprinz William und Kate luden sie zu ihrer Hochzeit ein. Nun ist ihr Darsteller Barry Humphries gestorben. In seinem langen Leben hat er so viel mehr verkörpert als seine berühmteste Rolle.

Manuel Burg

https://www.welt.de/kultur/article244949280/Nachruf-auf-den-australischen-Komiker-Barry-Humphries-Die-Queen-war-sein-groesster-Fan.html

Spott für Stars und Fans

«Dame Edna» beschrieb die eigenen Auftritte gern als «Monolog, der von Fremden unterbrochen wird». Beliebt wurde die Figur dank ihres schwarzen Humors – oder wie Humphries selbst es beschrieb: «Die Fähigkeit, über das Unglück anderer zu lachen». Ins Visier nahm Edna dabei Prominente wie Zuschauer gleichermaßen.

dpa/Reuters

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/dame-edna-comedian-barry-humphries-ist-tot-a-3f88ef09-1862-401c-98ce-6a0669084c34

Er war Dame Edna und mehr – nur nicht politisch korrekt

«Hello Possums!» – «Hallo, ihr Beutelratten!»

Mit dieser Phrase begrüßte Edna Everage gern ihr Publikum – auf Bühnen, in TV-Shows, in Filmen: Von einer kleinen Verkleidungsnummer in einem Comedyprogramm entwickelte sich die schrille Figur, gedacht als Karikatur des spießigen Mileus in australischen Vorstädten der 1950er-Jahre, zu einer wahrhaft globalen Ikone. Verantwortlich dafür war Barry Humphries, den Dame Edna selbst gern als ihren «Manager» bezeichnete – dass er sie verkörpern würde, stritt sie immer ab.

Michael Huber

https://kurier.at/kultur/er-war-dame-edna-und-mehr-nur-nicht-politisch-korrekt/402421934

Videos:

An Insight into Dame Edna by Barry Humphries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knq8maSJ4bk

Barry Humphries | 2016 International Festival Portrait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg0bL7-wCE0

From 2010: Dame Edna, Australian «giga-star»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_wvHqzpnvE

Donahue – Dame Edna Everage Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTTY3O6ysMA

Dame Edna Everage interview (Parkinson, 2004)