Memories of the full life

“I've already had a gig here, and I outnumbered my audience,” said Josef Brustmann in 2016 at the Freiburg Artists' Exchange.

What provoked laughs at the time is, five years later, bitter everyday artist life - and a challenge for the protagonist that should not be underestimated.

Planegg

- Josef Brustmann recalls his first solo appearance during the pandemic with horror.

It took place in front of empty chairs in accordance with the corona and was broadcast via livestream.

"As a comedian who addresses the audience, it's incredibly exhausting." It feels like hitting your head against a concrete wall, says the Ickingen cabaret artist and musician.

In the meantime, Josef Brustmann has become routine.

And for his next appearance in the Planegger Kupferhaus, the hall also has to remain empty, but on stage his “all-star troupe”, consisting of Luke Cyrus Goetze, Mathias Götz, Martin Regnat and Benni Schäfer, is loudly under the arms to grab.

Of course, he would have preferred to play in front of physically present fans - as planned - but that those responsible at the Kulturforum Planegg did not cancel the event next Thursday, April 15th, that makes him very happy, said the 66 year old.

"Brustmanns Lust"

The audience is likely to agree.

Because with his program “Brustmanns Lust” the award-winning solo cabaret artist awakens memories of the full life that we are all longing for at the moment.

It goes to the Isar, where a goldfish should discover its freedom.

He falls in love with a girl, experiences the most beautiful summer of his life.

In this way he becomes a flaneur through his previous life.

Always there: the music that accompanied him on his way from being a music teacher at a Munich high school to becoming a celebrated cabaret star.

Josef Brustmann grew up with eight siblings "with a lot of folk music" and made his first public appearances at the age of 15.

An educational leave gave him an insight into African soundscapes and gave rise to the decision to quit teaching.

He has never regretted the decision.

The range of his musical repertoire is huge.

It ranges from the aforementioned folk music to folk, rock, trash polka and Franz Schubert's winter trip.

The favorite songs of the last decades carry him through his memories and the audience through his program - including surprising encounters with musical highlights.

For this he has "recomposed" a few classics, such as "Highway to hell" for the zither.

The evening at the Kupferhaus is also something special in a completely different way.

It is the first joint appearance by Brustmann and his band since the beginning of the corona pandemic that they can finally dare to do again thanks to rapid tests.

Tickets for the live stream

of Josef Brustmann & Band for the performance on Thursday, April 15, 8:30 p.m., are available at www.kulturforum-planegg.de/4.cfm for 9 to 15 euros.

Margot Deny