Bambi Awards 2019: Feels three years

A rather trivial rule of thumb of the Klotz-und-Klecker-Essence says yes: the trumpet-rich one emphasizes that a person or an event is insanely significant and very, very great, the more urgent is the suspicion that in truth may not be so.

At least it is not a stylish understatement when, as a pure slide-in musician, Bambi evening has to tell a few incoming guests how pretty everything will be, "the most beautiful evening of the year", says Breitner, "maybe THAT social event ", Kai Pflaume kaipfläumelt afterwards.

The memo does not seem to have gone out to all the invited, as every year in the following three years felt the urgent desire to offer an alternative television channel, the only recorded by the stage action the soundtrack and otherwise non-stop pictures from the audience shows - the proportion existentially emptier until I'm ready to go ennuyierter Einblendegesichter is again very high, a dear tradition.

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It starts in the Baden-Baden Festival Hall quite well. Sarah Connor sings abstrusely of some radio stations as explicitly blocked song "Vincent", puts itself a flag in rainbow and trans colors around the shoulders, the image directing misses a pretty little joke in which she sitting in the audience Jogi Löw at the Text with the "football star" fades in and not the keyword "beautiful hair", and Connor actually manages to move the rather mummified acting audience to get up. Then Thomas Gottschalk presents Frank Elstner a surprise bambi for his life's work, it is a pleasant moment of general emotion, there are no more reserves for such scenes, it's also nice.

Dog trainer Martin Rütter then awards the Comedy Bambi to Chris Tall, who in his eyes has something of a puppy, because he also has a big head and is so taps-playful, and shows with this comparison that he is from dogs then but not much can understand. Because dogs are never mean, but Chris Talls jokes always trample down. "Refreshing, politically incorrect and yet warm-hearted" calls this the unctuous off-voice, because who builds a school in Nepal, where people are all so nice and friendly, may also advise in his shows, whether women presented pregnant or simply fat are.

Chris Tall, says his buddy Rütter, is the "funniest and most likable comedian", and Chris Tall gives a thank-you speech in which he says "penis" about a dozen times without reason, because you can not cut that in a live show and that Funny is when you're seven years old, catch me, you egg hole.

Important topics, cramped show parsley

Already one is back in the middle in the well-known Bambi dilemma: The award wants to honor people who indisputably do good. This year, among others, Willie Smits, who is rescuing orangutans in Indonesia whose rainforests on Borneo and Sumatra are being burned for oil palm plantations, is the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, who fights for the rights of Yazidis persecuted and murdered by IS, "Silent Helpers" which relieves the parents of chronically ill children, Queen Mathilde of Belgium, who works for children, and young people who build boulevards for homeless shelters and otherwise tackle their immediate surroundings. All good, important, real topics. The Bambi evening will be even more convulsive this year, when it compulsively also the less altruistic award winners, the show parsley around it, must make meaningful, so that all not too dissociated.

So it is said that Shirin David, who has been honored as a "shooting star", has done "unbelievable things as a hip hopper," and is mistaken in saying that if a woman makes money, that's not automatically feminism. Wayne Carpendale also reinterprets Uschi Glas, Gabi Dohm and Michaela Mey as feminist luminaries in his honor-award eulogy: "They accompanied us in a time when society was becoming ever more free, fair and open, and I think they are have contributed quite a lot "- because hey, after all, sister Christa was finally allowed to become a doctor, even though she is a woman.

Ursula von der Leyen then frantically braces herself for the mythology she needs: Europe was a strong woman, because she was finally able to ride a bull - forgetting that the story in question does not describe a great moment of cattle training. but Europe's violent abduction by Zeus transformed into a bull.

Cumbersome and sprawling, rarely pleasantly unpretentious

European Commission President von der Leyen awards the Bambi to "Europe" in the more and more erratic "Millennium" category every year, it is accepted by students from ten European countries and it gets embarrassing when Max from Germany recites the scripted joke, he took the trophy with him to his flat, hihi, or else someone else falls into a more dignified place, whereupon von der Leyen puts her directly back in the EU Parliament.

It takes a very long time, almost all the speeches are insanely awkward and sprawling, and in general you just want to wrap this gala in a huge piece of kitchen roll to skim off the excess fat: At least "celebrated, loved, revered" are all winners, idols , Heroes.

Very pleasant are then the rare, unpretentious moments, such as Bjarne Mädel, who is awarded as the best actor and says in his speech, he had just been incredibly lucky, first of all, to have been born in Europe as a white man. Oliver Masucci makes a nice speech to the obligatory international jewelery person Naomi Watts, in which he explains how one can "lie very close to the truth" as an actor.

At the end Simply Red will be honored as "legends", one is already afraid that, despite the advanced hour, the categories "Giants", "Titans" and "Also have long been included", but then Peter Maffay appears surprisingly "Well, ladies and gentlemen" and wishes a good night - probably this was the planned end, but nice is the idea that he decided at some point decided to put an end to the whole, the most beautiful evening of the year.