
Also known as Edmund Rüdiger Rudi Stoiber
German politician
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Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber (born 28 September 1941) is a German politician who served as the 16th minister-president of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. In 2002, he ran for the office of Chancellor of Germany in the federal election, and in one of the narrowest elections in German history lost against Gerhard Schröder. On 18 January 2007, he announced that he would step down as minister-president and as party chairman by 30 September, after having been under fire in his own party for weeks.
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Edmund Stoiber is a Bavarian stand up comedian often compared to Karl Valentin. His performances are usually improvised and exhibit a unique quasi-dadaistic timbre which became a connecting thread behind his entire work. Over the years, Stoiber perfectioned his delicate technique by combining poor comparison, pointless deviations, and illogical reasoning, to purposely leave his audience in a surreal state of perplex dither. In his late career, he gradually included onomatopoetic sound poetry hea
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