Cabaret or concert appearances in the corona pandemic are not so easy.
Instead of just sitting around, Sara Brandhuber rhymed and drew a children's book.
Gegorf - 50 canceled performances, the promising career as a songwriter and cabaret artist choked off by the corona pandemic - the lockdown could have been really sad for Sara Brandhuber.
Instead, the 32-year-old has new adventures.
Her second son Jano was born in March, and she is currently building a house with her husband Thomas Sandner in Zusatzorf.
And shortly before the birth, Brandhuber's first children's book was finished: “Because Gustl finds happiness”.
Two months later, more than half of the first edition has been sold.
Heart project since graduating from high school
Rhyming and drawing were also lucky for the artist - “I worked on it from March to March”. The Bavarian hamster experiences adventures in the forest with his friends. And the author is realizing a project that is close to her heart, which she has been carrying around with her in Landshut since graduating from high school in 2008. Her specialist work in the advanced art course was a children's book - “Back then it was still in High German,” the 32-year-old remembers.
The Gustl is a traditional Bavarian “louse”, as the author affectionately calls him. Something else would hardly be conceivable with the singer-songwriter, who conquers the stages in the Free State and beyond with her guitar and cracked humor. After all, she promised to work to preserve the Bavarian dialect, writes the author in the blurb of her children's book - in March 2017, when she was awarded the Bavarian Dialect Prize, shortly after she gave birth to her Quirin and shortly before she received St. Prosper Won the cabaret award in Erding.
At this time, her daring not to return from parental leave to her job as a social pedagogue grows. Sara Brandhuber is right about the success of her stage program “I war des fei ned”. "Then Corona came, and I had endless time," she says today - as much time as you have as a mom. For this new creative work, the cabaret artist is based on her tour calendar. "Whenever I had a gig, I sat down." That was a clear agreement with her husband.
“At first I had a different style in mind.” First she wants to hire an illustrator, draws and then paints herself. First traditionally by hand, then Brandhuber switches to electronic drawing on the tablet computer.
The result is a children's book with cheeky Bavarian rhymes and pictures that are as brightly modern as they are lovingly natural.
Gustl - "according to insider information, his name is Gustl Bayrhamster", reveals the author with a laugh - is dissatisfied with himself. "Oans ko da Gustl ned vasteh: Why am I so little crazy?" Asks the hero at the beginning.
His journey to happiness begins when he sees a hunter aiming at a hare.
“A gscheida bite in the calf no, because Woid curses from Jaagagschrei.” The rabbit Manfred is saved and from now on Gustl's friend.
Together they free the beautiful Annamirl, a butterfly woman, from a spider's web, the mouse Xaver from a trap and the dachshund Waggl from his rope.
The four of them race away from the angry farmers "like the singing pig" and: "Even so great adventure is now time for a stupid celebration".
Praise from famous cabaret colleague
The dialect singer-songwriter enjoyed working on this story.
And Quirin also had his share.
“For example, the butterfly has a belly button because it said: It has to be like this,” says the proud mother.
The new children's book author also has a prominent advocate. The foreword was written by a famous cabaret artist, with whom the woman from the post is often compared: Martina Schwarzmann. As usual, her praise is subtle. The “Gustl” is neither a book that you “give to children whose parents you don't like”, or so boring that you fall asleep while reading aloud, nor is it so sad that as a mother you have to cry all the time. Rather, it is a “perfect children's book”. A pretty big compliment from the mom of four and cabaret artist with the bitter sense of humor.
And luckily it’s going live again now.
Brandhuber's first appearance is on Saturday, June 26th, at the “Neichinger Lachnacht” on the Ismair-Hof in Niederneuching.
She will probably run out of time to write another children's book anytime soon.
Timo Aichele
Available
is "Da Gustl finds be happiness" among other things in the bookstore on Schatzbogen in Munich as well as at Bücher Pustet and the Nikola bookstore in Landshut and online at www.sarabrandhuber.de.
If required, a standard German version can also be downloaded here.