Otto Waalkes

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Otto Gerhard Waalkes (born July 22, 1948 in Emden, Germany) is a German comedian and actor. He became famous in the 1970s and 1980s in Germany with his shows, books and movies. His perhaps most famous trademark are the 'Ottifanten' ('Ottiphants'), elephant-like comic characters of his own design. They featured on the cover of his first album release.[1]

He shares a close friendship with one of Germany's greatest female tennis players and a former worldwide tennis star Steffi Graf, who also makes an appearance in the movie Otto - Der Außerfriesische. He has one child ("Benjamin Karl Otto Grigori Waalkes") with his first wife Manuela Ebelt, and is now married to actress Eva Hassmann, who co-starred with him in Otto - Der Katastrophenfilm.

Contents 1 CD and DVDs 2 Movies 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] CD and DVDs

Year	Title	Chart Positions
		DE	AT	CH	EU
1973	Otto	1	-	-	-
1974	Otto (der zweite)	-	-	-	-
1975	Oh, Otto		-	-	-
1976	Das 4. Programm	1	2	-	-
1977	Das Wort zum Montag	-	5	-	-
1978	Ottocolor	-	4	-	-
1980	Der Ostfriesische Götterbote	-	11	-	-
1981	Otto versaut Hamburg	-	4	-	-
1983	Hilfe Otto kommt!	1	-	8	-
1995	Die CD - Das Allerbeste	55	-	-	-
1996	Das Live Album	11	14	12	-
1998	Einen Hab ich noch	28	49	41	-
2001	Ostfriesland und Mehr	40	-	-	-
2002	Only Otto	28	-	-	-
2003	Otto - Die DVD	40	-	-	-
2004	Otto - Die ersten 15 Jahre	71	-	-	-
2006	100 Jahre Otto	-	-	77	-
2006	"Zwergensong"	12	-	-	33*

[edit] Movies

• Otto - Der Film ('Otto - The Movie') (1985)

• Otto - Der neue Film ('Otto - The New Movie') (1987)

• Otto - Der Außerfriesische ('Otto - The Extra-Frisian') (1989)

• Otto - Der Liebesfilm ('Otto - The Love Movie') (1992)

• Mulan (1998) as Mushu (German voice cast)

• St. Pauli Nacht ('St. Pauli Night') by Sönke Wortmann (1999, guest appearance)

• Otto - Der Katastrophenfilm ('Otto - The Disaster Movie') (2000)

• Ice Age (2002) and Ice Age 2: Meltdown (2006) as Sid the sloth (German voice cast)

• 7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald ('7 Dwarfs - Men Alone in the Wood') (2004)

• Siegfried (2005)

• 7 Zwerge - Der Wald ist nicht genug ('7 Dwarfs - The Wood Is Not Enough') (2006)

[edit] See also

• German television comedy

[edit] External links

• (German) Official homepage
• Otto Waalkes at the Internet Movie Database
• (German) Website dedicated to Otto's Ottiphants