Karl Valentin was born on Valentin Ludwig Fey, 4 June 1882 in Munich – 9 February 1948 in Planegg and was a Bavarian comedian.
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10 Facts About Karl Valentin
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Karl Valentin starred in many silent films in the 1920s, and was sometimes called the "Charlie Chaplin of Germany".
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Karl Valentin's work has an essential influence on artists like Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Loriot and Helge Schneider.
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Karl Valentin came from a reasonably well-off middle-class family; his father had a partnership in a furniture-transport business.
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Karl Valentin first worked as a carpenter's apprentice, and this experience proved useful in the construction of his sets and props later in life.
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Karl Valentin took musical studies, learning the guitar with Heinrich Albert.
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Soon Karl Valentin was performing regularly in the cabarets and beerhalls of Munchen .
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Karl Valentin developed a reputation for writing and performing short comic routines, which he performed in a strong Bavarian dialect, usually with his female partner, Liesl Karlstadt.
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In 1923, Karl Valentin appeared in a half-hour, slapstick film entitled Mysteries of a Barbershop .
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Karl Valentin's art centered mostly around linguistic dexterity and wordplay—Valentin was a linguistic anarchist.
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