Cabaret artist Michael Altinger told of getting older and everyday absurdities in the Dorfener Jakobmayer.
He was at his best.
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Michael Altinger thinks he's getting old now, maybe even already.
There was no trace of the midlife crisis: The cabaret artist was more dynamic and spirited than ever on the stage in the Jakobmayer Hall on Saturday evening.
The Lower Bavarian grumbler, who turns 50 in November and thus mutates into a best-ager, shone with his non-stop power show “Schlaglicht”, getting everything out of himself that could be used in a cabaret manner.
Altinger comes on stage and lets himself be celebrated first.
With outstretched arms he bathes in applause, animating his audience to clap even more.
There can only be one: Altinger, the rampage pig.
Who is surprised that the seasoned man was hit particularly hard by the lockdown?
“I didn't get any applause for loading and unloading the dishwasher,” he complained.
Altinger's ego urgently needs this.
Because too often he has had to move himself into the family focus since March.
For example, when he “sorted” all the photos of his wife - with the best of intentions, of course - on her cell phone, deleting everything that seemed unimportant to him in order to lovingly give her a photo book with his portraits.
Altinger changed topics faster than some could wipe the tears of laughter from their faces.
From the hated internet to getting older, from sex to brushing your teeth with dental floss - and from today's fast pace to democracy, with which something cannot be right if “the ballot paper is longer than a toilet roll”.
In between, his imaginary barbecue party guests appeared again and again, which he had to put off again and again because his guest of honor was late.
Helmut Lux was the name of the alleged figure of light, an inventor and great thinker, whom Altinger claims to have met in a car accident.
The guests at the grill party then serve as examples for the cabaret artist for his comical, critical view of society.
“Grilling is a hunting ritual from a certain age,” Altinger explained to the audience.
And already it was in the middle of the home village Strunzenöd, a fictional place between the Danube and Chiemsee.
Altinger targeted the brainless muscleman Pauli behind the grill, who always had the same slogans ready.
And the esoteric Daniela with the constant pout, who actually has everything, but is never really happy.
Altinger is always best when he ponders the absurdities of everyday life, such as the true and only Bavarian potato salad recipe, misspelled menus or grill Pauli's “planks”, a type of push-up that Altinger parodied while standing.
Also really good are the songs to his wife, who is now working again and whom the Landshut man “misses soooo”.
Or the song about aging: When a man says "young things" to women at 40, or friends say to you: "But it still looks good for your age." When getting older looks like the BR slaughterhouse presenter Altinger, then it will definitely be a good, funny time.
MICHAELE HESKE