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FCK fan Forster with the 1996 DFB Cup: loving attention to detail
Photo: ProSieben / Florida TV / Anna Thut / dpa
One of the funky side effects of this show is that it gradually makes you softer and more generous as you watch it. You only have to have experienced one, two or three stolen show evenings, Bastian Pastewka's light-handed old show melange, Shirin David's sovereign thick pants event or now Mark Forster's walk-in Betzenberg altar, and you wish (really almost) everyone from the bottom of the heart that they like them Get the chance to celebrate a TV evening that is tailored to you and your passions.
Because "Who is stealing the show from me?" Is a great, very elaborately prepared, adult alternative to the motto birthday cake for children, which, depending on current interests, can be designed as a pirate scene or as a pony farm, with a greater amount of marzipan and fondant, and Mark just asked for a fat football cake, and he got it.
Last week, the always-on stole the format from the regular show owner Joko Winterscheidt right at the start of the season for one evening and, according to his moderation, has now fulfilled a heartfelt wish: If, as a native of the Palatinate and a big fan of the third division soccer team 1. FC Kaiserslautern, he was probably in this Life would no longer be destined to play as a player for this club, he wanted to at least simulate this experience as best as possible.
Palatinate Funzelfahrt full of dedication
So Forster drove up to the studio in the FCK fan bus, entered his stage with a flag cape and a red Otto Rehhagel memory jogger in a red Bengalo bill, sang "You'll never walk alone", with the real DFB Cup as decoration from 1996 on the piano, had the whole (and the rest of the show) commented on by Tom Bartels - and you didn't have to be a Mark Forster fan yourself to get away with this believable devotion, attention to detail and love for the worthwhile To make effort stir sincerely.
Perhaps in moments like this one is actually happy that television can still do that to you, even with all personal and worldly fermentation, if it is done well.
The high art behind »Who is stealing the show from me?« Can also be seen in the fact that the football motif remains as a red thread, but is not flogged to death.
That, too, is one of the show's strengths: the knowledge of the uniqueness and the unrepeatability of such ideas.
Instead, a guessing round is unnecessarily relocated outside on a covered wagon pulled by a tractor in order to simulate a so-called Palatinate funzel ride through the vineyards.
On the jagged way to the car Forster sings the beautiful song »Enreal Pälzer raacht ken Hasch« by folk singer Kurt Dehn, and surprisingly you really want a cover EP with other hit songs by this artist, preferably »Do worth the wuzz slaughtered ”and“ There is more Worschtmarkt in heaven ”.
A show cake for Anke Engelke, please!
During the Palatinate quiz round, advice team member Riccardo Simonetti in particular moved, who mistakenly thought of Forster's introduction "the famous Palatinate Handkäs, who doesn't love him?" As the question, jingled euphorically and answered with confidence, "Nobody!" Later, on another occasion, he had his colleague Anke Engelke explain to him that you could definitely become a member of a soccer club the size of Bavaria in Munich without having to play a game yourself.
In the finale, Joko Winterscheidt then gets his show back, which is of course the best solution in terms of dramaturgy. In the remaining four editions of this season, Anke Engelke only has to win once, who once again reminded us that she is the funniest woman ever: how she marched out of the studio to answer the succinct question of how the weather would be tomorrow to inhale the air, to feel the climate, how she effortlessly slipped into the role of a teleshopping cold lady in another group and after her departure finally went theatrically into the light, as if Ophelia was about to go into the water - you absolutely want to see what your personal show cake looks like.
