Saturday, 31.12.2016, 19:36
This new year’s eve-Sketch is more popular than the new year’s speech – since 1963, Germany is laughing about “Dinner for One”. A couple of stories that everyone knows:
- Freddie Frinton, as überhöflicher Butler James the tidy Miss Sophie supports, started his career as a worker in a fish factory. From there, he drew colleagues with parodies of the monotonous work. Therefore, he was fired as a factory worker.
a Few years after the serene “Dinner for One” has the most “Miss Sophie” May Warden a role in one of the most brutal and darkest films of the 70s: In Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “a clockwork Orange” (1971), it is seen as a homeless without the Text.
- When recording in 1963, in Hamburg, laughed NDR-operator Sonja Göth loudest. You can hear it literally in the audience. “The Manager eventually came up to me and laid the Finger on the lips,” she said again, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine”. “This meant that If I didn’t stop, I need to get out. Even Freddie Frinton, felt disturbed. So they told me afterwards, at least.” Proud of you, don’t be. “To me, this is rather embarrassing.”
- Not only the German citizens to maintain the Tradition of “Dinner for One” on the last day of the year. Also, stations in Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Australia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland show the Sketch to new year’s eve. In the British home of Freddie Frinton and May Warden the piece, however, is not common.
were supposed to be from a dislike of Germany – the memories of the Second world war, after 20 years, still rather fresh – to Frinton refused to speak in English.
- The export hit “Dinner for One” was nowhere to be synchronized. However, it has played the piece several times in dialect followed, among other things, in low German.
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