The TV stars Stermann and Grissemann made guest appearances at the Irschenberg Festival.
Their entertaining program also included gags below the belt.
Irschenberg - The start of the Irschenberg Festival 2021 with the German-Austrian satirist duo Stermann and Grissemann, known from the ORF, began as deep black and humorous fireworks and ended with a dramatic coitus interruptus.
Corona long-term consequences?
Dirk Stermann and Christoph Grissemann with their program “Gags, Gags, Gags” were postponed three times due to corona.
The fourth attempt at the Irschenberg Festival has now worked - according to organizer Tom Janko thanks to the “Neustart Kultur” funding project, with which the Free State of Bavaria covered the funding gap caused by the 200 instead of the usual 1000 spectators.
There was applause for the Bavarian state government as well as for the perseverance of the audience.
Below the belt: gags of well-known TV stars from the cult program "Willkommen Österreich"
Their expectations, especially after the long break from culture, towards the well-known TV stars from the cult program “Willkommen Österreich” were correspondingly high. Already during the supposed warm-up for the 1165th episode of the show, which was fraught with bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps - according to the concept of their stage program, with which they have been on tour since 2017 - Stermann and Grissemann knocked out their gags every second. Or rather: each other around the ears and below the belt.
They presented themselves to each other as a “bizarre mixture of Richard Gere and Johannes Heesters including a cauliflower hairstyle styled with ejaculate” - or, given Christoph Maria Grissemann's acne of age, as the “official face for the moon landing” and “Master Proper of the ORF”. As usual, the Austrian celebrities got their fat away from name dropping: Josef Hader, Jörg Haider's widow. The hairy Michael Niavarani, with whom they spent the evening before in the swinger club. Madonna. "Brangelina". Sebastian Kurz with his "Securing the outer border hairstyle". Or Markus Söder, the result of unique sex between Barbie and Ken and his “slim-fit gesture”.
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An abrupt end instead of a climax: audience at a loss - applause comes despite missing artists
In order to shorten the waiting time for the studio guests, who of course should never show up, found items from the Austrian "educational television" were recorded on Tuesday evening.
These were contributions that were so absurd that one had to doubt that they were actually broadcast in this way - be it snippets of the quiz show "Bingo" or the English-language "Russia Today" interview with the Tyrolean FPÖ spokesman Johann Überbacher.
Before the break, Stermann and Grissemann were sure to have a laugh from the audience, even if they would have liked a little more up-to-date references here and there.
But perhaps it was also due to the repeated postponement that the program had not been updated and that the dream team of black Viennese humor did not seem quite as well-rehearsed as usual.
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After the break, when no living, dead or almost dead studio guests let themselves be opened - after all, Tobias Moretti, Andre Heller and Josef Hader apologized by video message - the satirists looked back from a fictional point in the future at their careers and their failed suicide attempts. With a suicidal plastic bag on his head, Grissemann says goodbye to the perplexed audience, accompanied by the “Senza te” singing Stermann in the disco ball light rain and fog from the fog machine. Instead of the expected climax, there was an abrupt end, and it took a while before there was applause. The artists, however, were no longer seen.
Further performances
for the concerts of Kapelle So & So, D'Bavaresi, Cafe del Mundo, Andreas Kümmert and Django Asül are still available at all Münchenticket advance booking offices and online at www.crossgammy.de.
The concert starts at 8 p.m.
The events take place in the large circus tent with a maximum of 200 people.
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The audience review: Petra Eckardt-Köstler (57) from Munich enjoyed the "special atmosphere"
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Spectator Petra Eckardt-Köstler (57) from Munich.
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Eckardt-Köstler says: “As a native of Vienna, this appointment was simply a must, and I come from Munich especially for it. Since it has been postponed three times due to Corona and this virus has been blocking us for almost two years now, it's just great that the cabaret evening - and yes - the entire festival is now taking place. It's really great that the organizers enable us to do this. And the fact that there was such a special atmosphere here may have been due to the fact that we couldn't enjoy it for so long. But maybe also that only 200 people were allowed in. For me it is my third live event since the easing and I felt very safe here. But I have also been vaccinated twice and have done everything of my own accord to protect myself and others. "
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