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Artist Mittermeier: Basic optimistic
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The comedian Michael Mittermeier, 54, is a fundamentally optimistic person.
“I'm the one who always sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
And if I don't see the light, I look for the light switch, "Mittermeier told SPIEGEL in an interview about the publication of his Corona chronicles, the title:" I think I've already had it. "
It was the end of October, politics had just decided on a new shutdown that made it impossible for artists to perform until further notice.
To this day, nothing has changed.
After all, the book became a bestseller.
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Michael Mittermeier
, 54, is one of the most successful German comedians.
He became known in 1996 with his solo program "Zapped - A TV Junkie Pops Through".
Since then he has won the German Comedy Prize six times, the Eins Live Krone three times and the Echo once.
The political scientist and Americanist wrote his master's thesis on "American stand-up comedy".
And now?
Does Mittermeier still know where the light switch is?
Or is he now treading through the dark too?
Mittermeier calls for concepts of cultural policy
"I'm just seeing a lot of colleagues perishing," reports Mittermeier.
Well-known artists like him are privileged because they can build up reserves and, more importantly, have a standing.
"When the stages open again, the draft horses will be left on immediately." On the other hand, all the little-known cabaret artists and cabaret artists, according to his prognosis, will first have to queue for half a year.
Stage jam.
"Many organizers will simply not be able to afford to book them and have them perform." An effect that might surprise many: the end of the pandemic may not mean the end of the slack in orders.
When he appeals, Mittermeier also thinks of his brother Alfred Mittermeier, who also works as a cabaret artist but is not so well known.
»Artists like my brother have to calculate that they will probably only be able to take place as artists again in spring 2022.
It's tough. «Mittermeier demands that cultural policy urgently needs to work on concepts for the time after the pandemic.
Mittermeier himself had his last regular appearance on October 20 in Zurich.
From June he is planning a tour to mark the anniversary of his TV parody program "Zapped!", With which he became famous 25 years ago.
“I've had the idea in my head for three years, and I'm not going to let the virus destroy it.
I play no matter where, no matter when. "
Mittermeier actually wanted to perform specifically on the stages where it all began back then: the Erding City Hall, Tivoli in Hamburg, Quatsch Comedy Club in Berlin, a few very small shops too, all of which have long been booked.
But whether indoor events will be allowed again in June?
Mittermeier insists on being able to perform at least open air if necessary: »I want and will have fun.
When the spectators sit far apart outside in summer, with a mask on their face, even Karl Lauterbach will surely find it. "
Debates with vaccination roles and lateral thinkers
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Title: I think I've already had it: The Corona Chronicles
Editor: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Number of pages: 128
Author: Mittermeier, Michael
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Mittermeier is currently spending the time with his online program "Open Mike", which he records without an audience in the club house in Munich and which he plays every Friday via YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
That doesn't bring him any money, but a lot of feedback - not only from fans, but also from vaccination roles and lateral thinkers.
According to its own information, Mittermeier personally answers a few hundred comments every week.
“I have time right now.
I've already banged up with a couple of very violent idiots. ”The other day a maverick even invited him to a demo.
Mittermeier laughs.
»Just because I make a critical joke every now and then doesn't mean that I deny the existence of the virus, reject the anti-corona measures, the system, the vaccination and Karl Lauterbach.
That's five wishes at once, that doesn't even work for an exercise egg. "
Mittermeier is working on a new book parallel to his online show.
"In February, when it was getting darker and darker around me, I realized: I need a goal beyond the possibility of being able to appear again at some point." You could say he needed a new light switch.
“I needed something to determine, not this virus.
No matter how much the virus puts in my face. "
Writing as a self defense.