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Comedyshow von Hans Joachim Hüttenrauch und Michael Pfleghar.
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"Klimbim ist unser Leben, Klimbim hat montags zu, Klimbim schmeckt nach Vanille und spielt gern Blindekuh. Klimbim ist unser Leben, und ist es mal nicht wahr, dann mach ich mir 'nen Schlitz ins Kleid und find' es wunderbar."
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So sinnfrei wie das Titellied war die gesamte Show: Sketche, Nonsens, Gags, Klamauk, Brüste, Sprüche und alberne Lieder reihten sich aneinander, einige davon viele Minuten lang, andere nach einer Zeile vorbei ("Viele Köche verfärben den Brei"), einige gefilmt, andere vor Publikum gespielt. Zum ständigen Ensemble gehörten Wichart von Roëll, Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger und Horst Jüssen. Diese vier waren es auch, die zu Beginn der Show das Publikum mit dem ausschweifenden Hinweis begrüßten, dass sie jetzt wieder wie immer "Guten Abend" sagen, obwohl sie doch wie immer eigentlich gar nicht "Guten Abend" sagen wollen, und das oben zitierte "Klimbim"-Lied sangen. Die Zeile mit dem Schlitz im Kleid gehörte natürlich Ingrid Steeger. Ab Staffel 2 war Helmut Holger dauerhaft dabei, dessen wesentliche Aufgabe darin bestand, zu Beginn der Show stumm vom Barhocker zu fallen, ab Staffel 3 ferner Peer Augustinski. Dieter Augustin und Manfred Jester wirkten nur in der ersten Staffel mit, Franz Muxeneder nur in der zweiten, Klaus Dahlen und Gundolf Willer nur in der fünften.
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Die Show war wie eine Nummernrevue aufgebaut, und das Nummerngirl war natürlich Ingrid Steeger, die ohnehin schon spärlich bekleidet war, für die sich aber in fast jeder Folge ein Anlass fand, die Bluse zu lüpfen. Sexuelle Anspielungen wurden haufenweise gemacht. In jeder Folge gab es etliche Running Gags. Über die Dauer der gesamten Serie beinhaltete jede Folge mehrere Episoden der Klimbim-Familie, einer Art Sitcom in der Show mit völlig überdrehten Charakteren: der militante Opa (von Roëll), der unterdrückte Papa (Augustin), die verwegene Mama Jolanthe (Volkmann), das Horrorkind Gaby (Steeger) und Onkel Poldi (Manfred Jester). Opas schlecht sitzende Glatzenperücke und Tochters auffallend aufgemalte Zahnlücke stellten sicher, dass die lustigen Verkleidungen auch als solche erkannt wurden.
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Nach jeder Staffel gab es bei den Klimbims Veränderungen, denn nach jeder sechsten Folge verschwinden sie auf unterschiedliche Weise. Beim ersten Mal lassen sie sich einfrieren, um im Folgejahr aufgetaut zu werden, Opa stellt jedoch den Wecker auf 1000 Jahre zu spät, wodurch sie erst im Jahr 2975 wieder zu sich kommen. Poldi hat die Zeitreise nicht überlebt, und der Originalvater ist gar nicht erst mitgekommen, weil Mama vorher den impotenten Onkel Poldi (Muxeneder) geheiratet hat. Ein späterer Liebhaber wird Adolar (Jüssen). Zum Ende weiterer Staffeln werden sie in den Weltraum geschossen, flüchten in die Familiengruft und ziehen ins Jahr 4000 und auf den Planeten Yxta, wo Gundolf (Willer) Mamas neuer Liebhaber wird.
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Mindestens zwei prominente Gäste waren pro Folge als Spielpartner des Ensembles dabei, darunter deutsche und internationale Stars wie Theo Lingen, Willy Millowitsch, Horst Buchholz, Gilbert Bécaud und Jerry Lewis (der gleich mehrmals mitmachte).
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Klimbim läutete eine neue Ära der Fernsehcomedy ein. In einer Zeit, als im Vorfeld noch der Hinweis erscheinen musste: "Es darf gelacht werden", löste Regisseur Pfleghar mit seinen frivolen Albernheiten den beabsichtigten Aufschrei aus. Er setzte Maßstäbe, was das Tempo anging, und benutzte schon früh die Bluescreen-Technik, die Darsteller vor gar nicht vorhandene Hintergründe projizierte. Ausgerechnet die Jury des altehrwürdigen Adolf-Grimme-Preises erkannte die Qualitäten und zeichnete Pfleghar mit einem Preis mit Silber aus.
| birth_place = [[Akyab]], [[Myanmar]]
Jede Folge dauerte 45 Minuten, jedes Jahr lief eine neue Staffel mit sechs Folgen, die im Abstand mehrerer Wochen dienstags um 20.15 Uhr gesendet wurden. Das Experiment wurde ein großer Erfolg. Aus den Hauptakteuren wurden Stars, deren Klimbim-Klamauk-Image noch Jahrzehnte an ihnen kleben blieb, wogegen einige von ihnen lange Zeit anzukämpfen versuchten. 2004 gaben Jüssen, Volkmann, Steeger, von Roëll und Augustinski auf und gingen mit dem Theaterstück "Die Klimbim-Familie lebt" auf eine zweijährige Bühnentournee.
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'''Hector Hugh Munro''' ([[December 18]], [[1870]] – [[November 14]], [[1916]]), better known by the [[pen name]] '''Saki''', was a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] writer, whose witty and sometimes [[macabre]] stories satirized [[Edwardian period|Edwardian]] society and culture. He is considered a master of the [[short story]] and is often compared to [[O. Henry]] and [[Dorothy Parker]]. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window" may be his most famous, with a closing line ("Romance at short notice was her speciality") that has entered the lexicon.

In addition to his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was the custom of the time, and then collected into several volumes) he also wrote a full-length play, ''The Watched Pot'', in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, ''The Rise of the Russian Empire'', the only book published under his own name; a short novel, ''The Unbearable Bassington''; the episodic ''The Westminster Alice'' (a [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliamentary]] [[parody]] of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''), and ''[[When William Came]]'', subtitled ''A Story of London Under the [[Hohenzollern]]''s, an early [[alternative history]]. He was influenced by [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Lewis Carroll]], and [[Kipling]], and himself influenced [[A. A. Milne]], [[Noël Coward]], and [[P. G. Wodehouse]]<ref>http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35149</ref>

==Name==
The name ''Saki'' is often thought to be a reference to the cupbearer in the ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam|Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam]]'', a poem mentioned disparagingly by the eponymous character in "Reginald on Christmas Presents" and alluded to in a few other stories. It may, however, be a reference to the South American [[Saki monkey|primate of the same name]], "a small, long-tailed monkey from the Western Hemisphere" that is a central character in "The Remoulding of Groby Lington" and that, like Munro himself, hid a vicious streak beneath a gentle exterior.

==Biography==
H. H. Munro was born in Akyab, [[Burma]] (now known as [[Sittwe| Sittwe, Myanmar]]), the son of Charles Augustus Munro, an inspector-general for the Burmese police when that country was still part of the [[British Empire]]. His mother, the former Mary Frances Mercer, died in 1872, killed, essentially, by a runaway cow. It charged at her and the shock caused her to miscarry. She never recovered and soon died<ref>[http://ajlangguth.com/work9.htm]</ref>. It was an incident that may have influenced the sometimes deadly animals of Saki's later stories. He was brought up in [[England]] with his brother and sister by his grandmother and aunts in a straitlaced household whose comic side he appreciated only later in life. He used the severity of these domestic arrangements in many stories, notably "[[Sredni Vashtar]]", in which a young boy keeps a pet [[polecat]] [[ferret]] without the knowledge of his spiteful and domineering female guardian who is eventually killed by the animal, to the boy's great satisfaction.

Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in [[Exmouth, Devon|Exmouth]] and at [[Bedford School|Bedford Grammar School]]. When his father retired to England, he travelled on a few occasions with his sister and father between European watering holes and tourist resorts. In 1893 he followed in his father's footsteps by joining the Burma police. Two years later, failing health forced his resignation and return to England, where he started his career as a journalist, writing for newspapers such as the ''[[Westminster gazette|Westminster Gazette]]'', ''[[Daily Express]]'', ''Bystander'', ''[[Morning Post]]'', and ''Outlook''.

In 1900 Munro's first book appeared: ''The Rise of the Russian Empire'', a historical study modelled upon [[Edward Gibbon]]'s [[magnum opus]] ''[[The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]]''.

From 1902 to 1908 Munro worked as a [[foreign correspondent]] for ''The Morning Post'' in the [[Balkans]], [[Warsaw]], [[Russia]] (where he witnessed [[Bloody Sunday (1905)|Bloody Sunday]]), and [[Paris]]; he then gave that up and settled in [[London]]. Many of the stories from this period feature the elegant and effete Reginald and Clovis, young men-about-town who take heartlessly cruel delight in the discomfort or downfall of their conventional, pretentious elders. In addition to his well-known short stories, Saki also turned his talents for fiction into novels. Shortly before the [[World War I|Great War]], with the genre of [[invasion literature]] selling well, he published a [[Counterfactual history|"what-if" novel]], ''[[When William Came]]'', subtitled "A Story of London Under the [[Hohenzollern]]s", imagining the [[Wilhelm II of Germany|eponymous German emperor]] conquering Britain. (The novel titled ''Mrs. Elmsley'', published in 1911 under the name "Hector Munro," is by a different author.)

At the start of [[World War I]], although 43 and officially over age, Munro joined the [[British Army|Army]] as an ordinary soldier, refusing a commission. More than once he returned to the battlefield when officially still too sick or injured to fight. He was sheltering in a shell crater near [[Beaumont-Hamel]], France in November [[1916]] when he was killed by a German sniper. His last words, according to several sources, were "Put that damned cigarette out!" After his death, his sister Ethel destroyed most of his papers and wrote her own account of their childhood.

Munro never married. A. J. Langguth in his biography produces strong evidence to support the hypothesis that Munro was [[Homosexuality|homosexual]]. Sexual activity between men was a crime, and the [[Cleveland Street scandal]] in [[1889]], followed by the downfall and disgrace of [[Oscar Wilde]], convicted in [[1895]] after ''[[cause celebre]]'' trials, meant that "that side of [Munro's] life had to be secret"<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35149] [[Dominic Hibberd]]'s essay in the [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]] </ref>.

In recognition of his contribution to literature, a [[blue plaque]] has been affixed to a building in which he once lived on Mortimer Street in [[central London]]. One of his social-climber young characters lived in a similar "roomlet which came under the auspicious constellation of W" <ref> from "Adrian" in ''The Chronicles of Clovis''</ref> (i.e. within the postal district of the [[West End of London]], where the fashionable set lived in [[Edwardian]] times).

==Controversy==

Some believe that Munro wrote [[misogynistic]] and [[anti-Semitic]] stories. See, for example, "The Unrest-Cure", in which Clovis perpetrates a hoax to the effect that the local bishop is going to [[pogrom|massacre every Jew]] in the neighbourhood. Compared with such contemporaries as [[Hilaire Belloc|Belloc]] or [[G. K. Chesterton|Chesterton]], Munro appears mild.

Rather than the blanket term 'misogyny', it might be more correct to say that he disliked and disapproved of childless women, probably from his own negative experience of growing up in the care of his strict aunts. Some stories give voice to his irritation with aspects of female psychology, such as the middle-class conventionality epitomised by the ceremony of [[afternoon tea]], or the inability to shop efficiently. He was persistently and derisively anti-[[suffragette]].

Despite his lampooning of suffragettes and aunts, several of his stories feature sympathetic portrayals of admirably cool and self-possessed schoolgirls. Others feature strong-willed, independent women in a positive manner. One of his best childhood friends was his sister Ethel, who also never married, and they remained close until his death - a sign of Munro's personal forbearance, as she had a powerful and difficult personality.

==Short stories==

Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but straightforward life-and-death struggles of nature. Nature generally wins in the end.

Saki's work is now in the [[public domain]], and all or most of these stories are on the Internet.

Some of his best-known short stories are listed below.

==="The Interlopers"===
"The Interlopers" is a story of two men, Georg Znaeym and Ulrich von Gradwitz, whose families have fought over a forest in the eastern [[Carpathian Mountains]] for generations. Ulrich's family legally owns the land, but Georg – feeling it truly belongs to him – hunts there anyway. One winter night, Ulrich catches Georg hunting in his forest. The two would never shoot without warning and soil their family’s honor, so they hesitate to acknowledge one another. As an “act of God,” a tree branch suddenly falls on them, trapping the men next to each other under the log. Gradually, they realize the futility of their quarrel and become friends to end the family feud. They call out for their men’s assistance, and after a brief period, they make out ten figures approaching over a hill. The story ends with Ulrich’s realization that the "interlopers" on the hill are actually wolves.

==="The Schartz-Metterklume Method"===
At a railway station, an arrogant and overbearing woman mistakes the mischievous Lady Carlotta for the [[governess]] she expected. Lady Carlotta, deciding not to correct the mistake, presents herself as a proponent of "the Schartz-Metterklume method" of making children understand history by acting it out themselves, and chooses a rather unsuitable historical episode for her first lesson.

==="The Toys of Peace"===
Rather than giving their young boys gifts of toy soldiers and guns, a couple decides to give their sons "peace toys". When the packages are opened, young Bertie shouts "It's a fort!" and is disappointed when his father replies "It's a municipal dust-bin". The boys are initially baffled as to how to obtain any enjoyment from models of a school of art and a public library, or from little toy figures of [[John Stuart Mill]], poetess [[Felicia Hemans]], and astronomer Sir [[John Herschel]]. Youthful inventiveness finds a way, however.

==="The Storyteller"===
"The Storyteller" is a cynical antidote to crude [[didacticism]]. An aunt is traveling by train with three of her nieces and nephews; a bachelor is sitting opposite. The aunt starts telling a story, but is unable to satisfy the curiosity of the children. The bachelor intervenes and tells a different kind of story which feeds their curiosity and imagination. The central character is unbearably good and in the end is devoured by a wolf, much to the delight of the bored children in the railway carriage.

==="The Unrest-Cure"===
Saki's recurring hero Clovis Sangrail, a sly young man, overhears the complacent middle-aged Huddle complaining of his own addiction to routine and aversion to change. Huddle's friend makes the wry suggestion of the need for an "unrest-cure" (the opposite of a [[rest cure]]) to be performed, if possible, in the home. Clovis takes it upon himself to "help" the man and his sister by involving them in an invented outrage that will be a "blot on the twentieth century".

==="Esmé"===
In a hunting story with a difference, the Baroness tells Clovis of a hyena she and her friend Constance encountered alone in the countryside, who cannot resist the urge to stop for a snack. The story is a perfect example of Saki's delight in setting societal convention against uncompromising nature.
:''The wailing accompaniment was explained. The gypsy child was firmly, and I expect painfully, held in his jaws.
The child is shortly devoured.
:''Constance shuddered. "Do you think the poor little thing suffered much?" came another of her futile questions.''
:''"The indications were all that way,' I said; 'on the other hand, of course, it may have been crying from sheer temper. Children sometimes do."''

==="The Open Window"===
A man with the unlikely name of Framton Nuttel comes to a country village for some peace and rest. He calls upon a lady his sister used to know; for a few minutes he is left alone with her niece, who has quite an active imagination. She tells Framton a story about the tragedy of the lady's husband and two younger brothers, who had gone hunting one day three years earlier and never returned. The bodies were never found, and because of this the window from which they left is always kept open. When indeed they do return that very night, Framton, who has suffered from nerves in the past, runs out of the house, and the niece explains his sudden departure to her relatives with an equally imaginative fiction.

==="Sredni Vashtar"===
The story of a young, sickly child, Conradin. His aunt, Mrs. De Ropp, "would never... have confessed to herself that she dislike Conradin, though she might have been dimly aware that thwarting him for 'his own good' was duty which she did not find particularly irksome." When she finds Conradin's beloved Houdan hen and pet polecat/ferret, which he reveres as "Sredni Vashtar", she calls the exterminator to get rid of the pets. On the morning of the dreaded visit, Mrs. DeRopp enters the shed in which the ferret lies in his hutch, in full view of Conradin. As the time slips by without a stirring from the shed, Conradin begins to pray to Sredni Vashtar &mdash; and receives his darkest wish.

==="Tobermory"===
At a country house party a visiting professor announces to the guests that he has perfected a procedure to teach animals human speech. He demonstrates this on his host's cat. Soon it is clear that he omitted to teach the animal to be silent about certain facts...

==="The East Wing"===
A 're-discovered' short story, previously cited as a play and therefore less well known. A house party with its typical social mix of bumbling Major Boventry, the precious Lucien Wattleskeat, the wordy Canon Clore and a breathless hostess, Mrs Gramplain, is beset by a fire in the middle of the night in the east wing of the house. Begged by their hostess to save "my poor darling Eva &ndash; Eva of the golden hair," Lucien demurs on the grounds that he has never even met her. It is only on discovering that Eva is not a flesh and blood daughter, but Mrs Gramplain's painting of the daughter that she wished that she had had and which she has faithfully updated with the passing years, that Lucien declares a willingness to forfeit his life to rescue her, since "death in this case is more beautiful," a sentiment endorsed by the Major. As the two men disappear into the blaze, Mrs Gramplain recollects that she "sent Eva to Exeter to be cleaned." Thus the two men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with [[Oscar Wilde]]'s novel ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''.)

==Quotes==
From "Reginald on Besetting Sins":
:''The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went.''
:''The stage, with all its efforts, can never be as artificial as life.''
From "Reginald on the Academy":
:''"To have reached thirty," said Reginald, "is to have failed in life."''
:''To die before being painted by Sargent is to go to Heaven prematurely.''
From "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham":
:''Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.''
From "Reginald on Christmas Presents":
:''People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religion that produced Green [[Chartreuse]] can never really die.''
From "The Square Egg":
:''A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.''
From "Reginald at the Carlton":
:''"Hors d'oeuvres have always had a pathetic interest for me," said Reginald, "they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like &mdash; and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres."''
:''The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations &mdash; that is why one should be so patient with them. But one never is.''
From "Reginald's Choir Treat":
:''I always say beauty is only sin deep. ''
From various other short stories:
:""There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with cream,’ he quoted, ‘but I’m not sure,’ he added, ‘that it’s not the best way."
:"Forbidden fizz is the sweetest."
:''He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.''
:''Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. ''
:''Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.''
:'' Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the [[prodigal son|prodigal's return]].''

==Books==
* 1899: "Dogged" (short story, appeared as written by H. H. M. in ''St. Paul's'', [[February 18]])
* 1900: ''[[The Rise of the Russian Empire]]'' (history)
* 1902: "[[The Woman Who Never Should]]" (political sketch, in ''[[Westminster Gazette]]'', [[July 22]])
* 1902: ''[[The Not So Stories]]'' (political sketches, in ''[[Westminster Annual]]'')
* 1902: ''[[The Westminster Alice]]'' (political sketches, with [[F. Carruthers Gould]])
* 1904: ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext01/rgnld10.txt Reginald]'' (short stories)
* 1910: ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext99/rgrus10.txt Reginald in Russia]'' (short stories)
* 1911: ''[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/clovis-table.html The Chronicles of Clovis]'' (short stories)
* 1912: ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext96/nbrbl10h.htm The Unbearable Bassington]'' (novel)
* 1913: ''[[When William Came]]'' (novel)
* 1914: ''[[Beasts and Super-Beasts]]'' (short stories)
* 1914: [http://www.rvpmp.talktalk.net/saki/EastWing.html "The East Wing"] (short story, in ''[[Lucas's Annual]]'' / ''[[Methuen's Annual]]'')
Posthumous publications:
* 1919: ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext98/toypc10.txt The Toys of Peace]'' (short stories)
* 1924: ''[[The Square Egg and Other Sketches]]'' (short stories)
* 1924: "[[The Watched Pot]]" (play, with [[Charles Maude]])
* 1926-1927: ''The Works of Saki'' (8 vols.)
* 1930: ''The Complete Short Stories of Saki''
* 1933: ''The Complete Novels and Plays of Saki'' (includes ''The Westminster Alice'')
* 1934: ''The Miracle-Merchant'' (in ''One-Act Plays for Stage and Study 8'')
* 1950: ''The Best of Saki'' (ed. by [[Graham Greene]])
* 1963: ''The Bodley Head Saki''
* 1981: ''Saki'' (by [[A.J. Langguth]], includes six uncollected stories)
* 1976: ''The Complete Saki''
* 1976: ''Short Stories'' (ed. by [[John Letts]])
* 1995: ''The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope, and Other Stories''
* 2006: ''A Shot in the Dark'' (a compilation of 15 uncollected stories)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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{{wikisource author|Saki}}
*{{gutenberg author|id=Saki|name=Saki}}
*[http://www.gwywyr.com/saki/index.html Uncollected stories] &mdash; six little-known stories from pre-war magazines
* Audiobook recording with accompanying text of [http://content.loudlit.org/audio/window/pages/01_01_window.htm "The Open Window"].

*[http://www.amlit.com/Munro(SAKI)/Munro(SAKI).html A Collection of Short Stories by Saki] at [http://www.amlit.com/ American Literature]
*[http://haytom.us Short Stories of Saki] &mdash; A very complete collection of the works of Saki in an easy-to-read format.
*[http://www.rvpmp.talktalk.net/saki/EastWing.html The East Wing] &mdash; a short story (mistaken for a play) which has been omitted from all previous collections, apart from later printings (1946 onwards) of the frequently-reprinted 1930 volume ''The Complete Short Stories of Saki'' published by John Lane The Bodley Head Limited.
*[http://www.users.bigpond.com/burnside/saki.htm Link to Works by Saki]

==Literary Criticism and Biography==
* [http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/march2004/birden.html Mappining London: Urban Participation in Sakian Satire] &mdash; by Lorene Mae Birden. Literary criticism focusing on the role of London.
* [http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/september%202004/birden.html "People Dined Against Each Other": Social Practices in Sakian Satire] &mdash; by Lorene Mae Birden. Literary criticism focusing on the social mannerisms.
* ''The Satire of Saki'' by George James Spears &mdash; A 127 page book encompassing a dissection of satire in Saki's works. Bibliography and overview of all of Saki's works in relation to satire.
* [http://haytom.us/showarticle.php?id=84 Biography by Ethel M. Munro] &mdash; A brief biography written by Saki's sister, giving basic information on his life.
* ''Saki: A Life of Hector Hugh Munro'' by A. J. Langguth &mdash; Includes six uncollected stories and various photographs.
* ''An Asp Lurking in An Apple-Charlotte: Animal Violence in Saki's The Chronicles of Clovis'' by Joseph S. Salemi &mdash; Literary Criticism about the recurrence of animals in Saki's "The Chronicles of Clovis", ultimately suggesting that the animals represent the characters' primal instincts and true vicious mannerisms. Available in Student Research Center of EbscoHost Database.

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Comedyshow von Hans Joachim Hüttenrauch und Michael Pfleghar. "Klimbim ist unser Leben, Klimbim hat montags zu, Klimbim schmeckt nach Vanille und spielt gern Blindekuh. Klimbim ist unser Leben, und ist es mal nicht wahr, dann mach ich mir 'nen Schlitz ins Kleid und find' es wunderbar." So sinnfrei wie das Titellied war die gesamte Show: Sketche, Nonsens, Gags, Klamauk, Brüste, Sprüche und alberne Lieder reihten sich aneinander, einige davon viele Minuten lang, andere nach einer Zeile vorbei ("Viele Köche verfärben den Brei"), einige gefilmt, andere vor Publikum gespielt. Zum ständigen Ensemble gehörten Wichart von Roëll, Elisabeth Volkmann, Ingrid Steeger und Horst Jüssen. Diese vier waren es auch, die zu Beginn der Show das Publikum mit dem ausschweifenden Hinweis begrüßten, dass sie jetzt wieder wie immer "Guten Abend" sagen, obwohl sie doch wie immer eigentlich gar nicht "Guten Abend" sagen wollen, und das oben zitierte "Klimbim"-Lied sangen. Die Zeile mit dem Schlitz im Kleid gehörte natürlich Ingrid Steeger. Ab Staffel 2 war Helmut Holger dauerhaft dabei, dessen wesentliche Aufgabe darin bestand, zu Beginn der Show stumm vom Barhocker zu fallen, ab Staffel 3 ferner Peer Augustinski. Dieter Augustin und Manfred Jester wirkten nur in der ersten Staffel mit, Franz Muxeneder nur in der zweiten, Klaus Dahlen und Gundolf Willer nur in der fünften. Die Show war wie eine Nummernrevue aufgebaut, und das Nummerngirl war natürlich Ingrid Steeger, die ohnehin schon spärlich bekleidet war, für die sich aber in fast jeder Folge ein Anlass fand, die Bluse zu lüpfen. Sexuelle Anspielungen wurden haufenweise gemacht. In jeder Folge gab es etliche Running Gags. Über die Dauer der gesamten Serie beinhaltete jede Folge mehrere Episoden der Klimbim-Familie, einer Art Sitcom in der Show mit völlig überdrehten Charakteren: der militante Opa (von Roëll), der unterdrückte Papa (Augustin), die verwegene Mama Jolanthe (Volkmann), das Horrorkind Gaby (Steeger) und Onkel Poldi (Manfred Jester). Opas schlecht sitzende Glatzenperücke und Tochters auffallend aufgemalte Zahnlücke stellten sicher, dass die lustigen Verkleidungen auch als solche erkannt wurden. Nach jeder Staffel gab es bei den Klimbims Veränderungen, denn nach jeder sechsten Folge verschwinden sie auf unterschiedliche Weise. Beim ersten Mal lassen sie sich einfrieren, um im Folgejahr aufgetaut zu werden, Opa stellt jedoch den Wecker auf 1000 Jahre zu spät, wodurch sie erst im Jahr 2975 wieder zu sich kommen. Poldi hat die Zeitreise nicht überlebt, und der Originalvater ist gar nicht erst mitgekommen, weil Mama vorher den impotenten Onkel Poldi (Muxeneder) geheiratet hat. Ein späterer Liebhaber wird Adolar (Jüssen). Zum Ende weiterer Staffeln werden sie in den Weltraum geschossen, flüchten in die Familiengruft und ziehen ins Jahr 4000 und auf den Planeten Yxta, wo Gundolf (Willer) Mamas neuer Liebhaber wird. Mindestens zwei prominente Gäste waren pro Folge als Spielpartner des Ensembles dabei, darunter deutsche und internationale Stars wie Theo Lingen, Willy Millowitsch, Horst Buchholz, Gilbert Bécaud und Jerry Lewis (der gleich mehrmals mitmachte). Klimbim läutete eine neue Ära der Fernsehcomedy ein. In einer Zeit, als im Vorfeld noch der Hinweis erscheinen musste: "Es darf gelacht werden", löste Regisseur Pfleghar mit seinen frivolen Albernheiten den beabsichtigten Aufschrei aus. Er setzte Maßstäbe, was das Tempo anging, und benutzte schon früh die Bluescreen-Technik, die Darsteller vor gar nicht vorhandene Hintergründe projizierte. Ausgerechnet die Jury des altehrwürdigen Adolf-Grimme-Preises erkannte die Qualitäten und zeichnete Pfleghar mit einem Preis mit Silber aus. Jede Folge dauerte 45 Minuten, jedes Jahr lief eine neue Staffel mit sechs Folgen, die im Abstand mehrerer Wochen dienstags um 20.15 Uhr gesendet wurden. Das Experiment wurde ein großer Erfolg. Aus den Hauptakteuren wurden Stars, deren Klimbim-Klamauk-Image noch Jahrzehnte an ihnen kleben blieb, wogegen einige von ihnen lange Zeit anzukämpfen versuchten. 2004 gaben Jüssen, Volkmann, Steeger, von Roëll und Augustinski auf und gingen mit dem Theaterstück "Die Klimbim-Familie lebt" auf eine zweijährige Bühnentournee.

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