It could have been different, but Dieter Hallervorden just didn’t want to be called “Slabb”.
When you hear the name Didi, you almost always think of Dieter Hallervorden first. But how did the actor (“honey in the head”) actually come up with this nickname?
This goes back to his long-running TV show “Nonstop Nonsens” (1975-1980). “It works like this: The first episodes of ‘Nonstop Nonsens’ were all broken up by a slapstick story that ran through. And in the first, ‘Mr Slap and the missed rendezvous’, my name was Slap, so it was written SLAP, ”the 86-year-old told the German press agency.
This nickname should actually be pronounced in English – just like in the word slapstick. But after the TV debut in March 1975, things turned out differently, as the comedian discovered when he met on the street: “The next day everyone shouted: ‘Man, Hi, Slabb!'” Hallervorden obviously hadn’t expected the brutal German pronunciation . «And I thought: For God’s sake! Before I’m always called ‘Slabb’, I’ll call the guy Didi in the future. “
From next Thursday (8:15 pm) Hallervorden can be seen in double episodes in the ZDF series “My friend, disgust”. The series is a further development of a high-rated television film starring Hallervorden and Alwara Höfels. The actor from Berlin will also be releasing the studio album “80 plus” in November.
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