Television: “Sesamstrasse”: Grobi cult spokesman is dead

He had one of the best-known voices on German children’s television, 30 years he was Grobi from the “Sesame Road”: the actor and spokesman Karl-Ulrich Meves is dead. That said the radio play director Heikedine Körting of the German Press Agency. The Hamburger had already died on May 20. He was 96 years old.

In the “King Lear” one became aware of him

Several children’s generations grew up with Grobi, most of them will probably immediately associate the blue shaggy figure with the rough voice of Meves. He has been there since the first episodes in Germany in 1973, and it was only replaced after three decades. “I saw the coarsei and I really liked it,” Meves recalled in the podcast “Haschimitenfürst – The Bobcast” of the trial shots.

One of the “Sesame Street” makers came to him at the time because he had impressively played the fools in a “King Lear” production. Grobi’s role description that Meves gave: always in full swing, always very chaotic and very naive. “And I thought about a moment, and as I could think of, I did the synchronization. And from all sides the technicians and colleagues who were there came:” Man, that’s great. “And then I did it for 30 years.”

He got fan mail at the middle of 90

He still got spost as an old man, he said in the “Haschimiten prince” interview by Andreas Fröhlich and Kai Schwind. “What I particularly liked: One really wrote that this roughly was always full of chaos and full of naivety,” quoted Meves. “And I think these two terms are very well hit for this figure of the Grobi, who always reacts spontaneously. Even if he has to serve this boring, nagging guest:” Charlie, he wants something else again. “It is not done, it is really full of vitality.”

Grobi waiter more frequently, but also explained to children the difference from near and far and here when he jeopardized the screen: “And now I run away. Feeeeers. And now start: naaaaah!”

However, the “master’s examination” for Meves was a multiple appearance: “He is once in a restaurant the waiter and at the same time the musician – he plays the guitar – and is also the singer,” says Meves. “After the” Granada “melody, he sings down the menu. That was my master’s examination as a voice actor.” Because the American doll that had to be synchronized was not in time.

He turned with Loriot and warned children of caries

Meves also often stood in front of cameras and on theater stages as a classic actor, he played in more than 115 productions – from “special department K1” to the “crime scene”. He was a food dealer in the Loriot comedy “Pappa Ante Portas”.

For fans of the radio play series “The Three ???” Meves remains one of the striking voices. He is the artist “The Unique Gabbo” in the case “The Black Cat” or Horace “Betefy” Tremayne in “The Magic Circle”. Heikedine Körting, head of the Audiolabel Europe, recalls: “With us, he has made countless wonderful radio plays.”

In 1980 Meves Karius was in the then very popular radio play “Karius and Baktus”, which was supposed to inspire children for dental care (Gernot Endemann was Baktus). Meves has benefited from this role for a long time: “When I come to any new dentist and start from” Karius and Baktus “, then the mood in the shop is always positive for me.”