# Walk of Fame of Cabaret

The Walk of Fame of Cabaret is a sidewalk between Proviant-Magazin and Schönborner Hof in Mainz, Germany, which is embedded with more than 40 seven-pointed irregularly shaped stars featuring the names of cabaret celebrities selected by a group of experts and honored by several sponsors for their contributions to the cabaret culture.
The first stars, awarded on July 16, 2004, were inaugurated in the presence of Christina Weiss, Culture Representative and Minister of State of Germany and Kurt Beck, the premier of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In January 2007, Peter Hammerschlag was honored, and his became the 43rd star on the walk.

## Characteristics

The Walk of Fame runs north to south between Münsterstraße and Schillerstraße.
Each star consists of a stainless-steel seven-pointed irregularly shaped star, inlaid into a bronze square. Inside the star, the signature of the honoree is etched. The full name of the honoree in capital letters can be seen on the bronze square, as well as the sponsor in normal letters.
The committee of experts initially selected 80 deceased stars to be honored on the walk of fame. Additionally to these, each year a living author or interpreter receives a star.

## Details on the honorees

Details on the honorees may be found at the nearby Stiftung Deutsches Kabarett (German Cabaret Foundation). Here, the core of the German Cabaret Archive is formed by more than eighty literary estates with biographies, documents and cultural heritage, regarding eighty thousand people from the history of cabaret and the forms of comedy that preceded it. This archive is based on the private initiative of Reinhard Hippen (1961). The counterpart of the "Walk of Fame" can be found in the "Hall of Fame" in the Bernburg castle, in Saxony-Anhalt. Numerous exhibits remind viewers of the "immortals" of cabaret.

## List of stars

Of all the nominated people, the following stars have been created:
| # | nominated people | |
| 1. | Werner Finck (1902–1978) | July 16, 2004 |
| 2. | Hugo Ball (1886–1927) | July 16, 2004 |
| 3. | Jürgen von Manger (1923–1994) | July 16, 2004 |
| 4. | Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935) | July 16, 2004 |
| 5. | Wolfgang Neuss (1923–1989) | July 16, 2004 |
| 6. | Otto Grünmandl [de; eo] (1924–2000) | July 16, 2004 |
| 7. | Blandine Ebinger (1899–1993) | July 16, 2004 |
| 8. | Erich Kästner (1899–1974) | July 16, 2004 |
| 9. | Claire Waldoff (1884–1957) | July 16, 2004 |
| 10. | Hugo Wiener [de; fr] (1904–1993) | July 16, 2004 |
| 11. | Ortrud Beginnen [de] (1938–1999) | July 16, 2004 |
| 12. | Kurt Gerron (1897–1944) | July 16, 2004 |
| 13. | Wolfgang Gruner [de] (1926–2002) | July 16, 2004 |
| 14. | Lore Lorentz (1920–1994) | July 16, 2004 |
| 15. | Walter Mehring (1896–1981) | July 16, 2004 |
| 16. | Kaspar Fischer [de] (1938–2000) | July 16, 2004 |
| 17. | Klabund (1890–1928) | July 16, 2004 |
| 18. | Matthias Beltz [de] (1945–2002) | July 16, 2004 |
| 19. | Trude Hesterberg (1892–1967) | July 16, 2004 |
| 20. | Curt Bry [de] (1902–1974) | October 28, 2004 |
| 21. | Eckart Hachfeld [de] (1910–1994) | October 28, 2004 |
| 22. | Helen Vita (1928–2001) | October 28, 2004 |
| 23. | Heinz Erhardt (1909–1979) | October 28, 2004 |
| 24. | Valeska Gert (1892–1978) | October 28, 2004 |
| 25. | Friedrich Hollaender (1896–1976) | October 28, 2004 |
| 26. | Georg Kreisler (1922–2011) | October 28, 2004 |
| 27. | Hanns Dieter Hüsch (1925–2005) | April 27, 2005 |
| 28. | Klaus Peter Schreiner [de] (b. 1930) | April 27, 2005 |
| 29. | Karl Valentin (1882–1948) | April 27, 2005 |
| 30. | Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) | April 27, 2005 |
| 31. | Erich Mühsam (1878–1934) | April 27, 2005 |
| 32. | Ursula Herking (1912–1974) | April 27, 2005 |
| 33. | Gerhard Polt (b. 1942) | August 17, 2005 |
| 34. | Dieter Hildebrandt (1927–2013) | September 7, 2005 |
| 35. | Gisela May (1924–2016) | October 6, 2005 |
| 36. | Günter Neumann (1913–1972) | October 6, 2005 |
| 37. | Mischa Spoliansky (1898–1985) | October 6, 2005 |
| 38. | Erika Mann (1905–1969) | October 6, 2005 |
| 39. | Rudolf Nelson (1878–1960) | October 6, 2005 |
| 40. | Joachim Ringelnatz (1883–1934) | October 6, 2005 |
| 41. | Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941) | October 6, 2005 |
| 42. | Otto Reutter (1870–1931) | December 11, 2005 |
| 43. | Herbert Bonewitz [de] (b. 1933) | July 7, 2006 |
| 44. | Dietrich Kittner [de] (1935–2013) | October 5, 2006 |
| 45. | Edgar Külow [de] (1925–2012) | October 5, 2006 |
| 46. | Martin Morlock [de] (1918–1983) | October 5, 2006 |
| 47. | Werner Richard Heymann (1896–1961) | October 5, 2006 |
| 48. | Kate Kühl (1899–1970) | October 5, 2006 |
| 49. | Karl Farkas (1893–1971) | October 5, 2006 |
| 50. | Peter Hammerschlag (1902–1942) | December 5, 2006 |
| 51. | Frank Wedekind (1864–1918) | September 11, 2007 |
| 52. | Helmut Qualtinger (1928–1986) | September 11, 2007 |
| 53. | Liesl Karlstadt (1892–1960) | May 6, 2008 |
| 54. | Heino Jaeger [de] (1938–1997) | May 6, 2008 |
| 55. | Rosa Valetti (1876–1937) | May 6, 2008} |
| 56. | Joachim Hackethal [de] (1924–2003) | May 6, 2008 |
| 57. | Paul Graetz (1890–1937) | May 6, 2008 |
| 58. | Rodolphe Salis (1851–1897) | May 6, 2008 |
| 59. | Ernst Busch (1900–1980) | May 6, 2008 |
| 60. | Werner Schneyder (1937–2019) | October 14, 2008 |
| 61. | Peter Ensikat [de] (1941–2013) | May 1, 2009 |
| 62. | Wolfgang Schaller [de] (b. 1940) | May 1, 2009 |
| 63. | Emil Steinberger (b. 1933) | June 8, 2009 |
| 64. | Loriot (1923–2011) | June 8, 2009 |
| 65. | Klaus Staeck (b. 1938) | April 13, 2010 |
| 66. | Rainer Otto [de] (1904–1969) | April 12, 2011 |
| 67. | Trude Kolman [de] (1904–1969) | April 12, 2011 |
| 68. | Hanne Wieder (1925–1990) | April 12, 2011 |
| 69. | Aristide Bruant (1851–1925) | April 12, 2011 |
| 70. | Peter Wehle (1914–1986) | April 12, 2011 |
| 71. | Jura Soyfer (1912–1939) | April 12, 2011 |
| 72. | Alfred Rasser (1907–1977) | April 12, 2011 |
| 73. | Franz Hohler (b. 1943) | April 12, 2011 |
| 74. | Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992) | May 6, 2012 |
| 75. | Gerhard Woyda [de] (1925–2017) | October 22, 2013 |
| 76. | Volker Kühn [de] (1933–2015) | October 22, 2013 |
| 77. | Ephraim Kishon (1924–2005) | October 22, 2013 |
| 78. | Dieter Hallervorden (b. 1935) | September 15, 2015 |
| 79. | Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) | September 15, 2015 |
| 80. | Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) | September 15, 2015 |