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Gerhard Polt's Italian journey: cabaret and guitar music in the Jakobmayer

2021-10-13T07:09:01.382Z


Cabaret holiday impressions and guitar music - an acclaimed combination. With 3G plus, the Jakobmayer Hall could be occupied as it was before Corona.


Cabaret holiday impressions and guitar music - an acclaimed combination.

With 3G plus, the Jakobmayer Hall could be occupied as it was before Corona.

Dorfen

- A very special evening at Jakobmayer: The Dorfen cultural center has been in existence for ten years, and on the opening evening in November 2011, among others, the Bavarian cabaret legend Gerhard Polt performed.

In the anniversary year it comes with two different programs.

This week, Polt started the new series of events “The Blue Monday” with the Duo Converso.

“A treat”, promised cultural manager Birgitt Binder before the event, at which the two Neapolitan guitarists took turns with their music and Polt with his gnarled reflections on traveling in general and Italy in particular.

This artist combination does not exist in series, said Binder: "An absolutely unique appearance."

Polt wouldn't be Polt if he just “sits here like a parasite, listens and enjoys the music,” he moderated himself.

That's why he verbally strolled through Italy.

The industriousness of the Germans wants to be rewarded once a year, namely "flat rate and tutto completto per favore".

Unfortunately, however, annoyances lurk everywhere that denigrate the whole well-deserved cause: Lots of foreigners who do not speak German, parking problems in the completely built-up medieval cities, diarrhea halfway through the journey or something like "a jetlag - one day that you pay but you don't get it ”.

He shared these holiday impressions and drew his legendary conclusion from them: “This year we went on a trip around the world.

But I'll tell you how it is right away: You never go there. "

Before the event, Polt took the time to talk backstage with the local newspaper: “What Birgitt has put together over the past ten years - that's something really special,” he said.

And: "It's not the size of a stage that matters at all, but the artists who stand on it - and above all the audience."

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Behind the stage, old cabaret master Gerhard Polt (2nd from left) raved about the Jakobmayer program;

in the picture (from left) Raffaello Converso, Birgitt Binder and Franco Ponzo.

© Birgit Lang

And that was sitting shoulder to shoulder on Monday evening in the normal-seated hall. Around 200 spectators were waiting for the great maestro of Bavarian cabaret. Just like before the pandemic. "At first we planned with some distance, but then we opened spontaneously," said Jakobmayer boss Binder. “Blue Monday” took place according to the 3G plus rule - recovered, vaccinated or PCR-tested. “Unusual after the long restrictions, no longer familiar but liberating through and through. To see people suddenly laughing straight away again - just wonderful, ”said Binder happily.

"Today after Corona it is a bit like it was back then after the great plague in Napoli," said Polt's intro. “Vedi Napoli e poi muori - see Naples and die” is a household word for great enthusiasm. The two Italians started on their guitars with just such joie de vivre and musical expressiveness. They presented old folk songs and modern rhythms. Rousing music that left your stomach tingling - a feeling of vacation, sun and sea.

He and his wife Christine Raffaello Converso met in an Italian restaurant on Lake Tegernsee, the cabaret artist said behind the stage. "We heard him play there with his father." A noisy group of people at the next table disturbed the musical enjoyment, recalls Polt. He spoke enthusiastically to the two Italians: “Grandissimo, I've rarely heard such gifted music.” The foundation stone for this special evening in the Jakobmayer Hall.

The tenth anniversary is a reason for very special guests, said Polt, who will officially celebrate the anniversary with the Well brothers from Biermoos on November 12th.

On Monday, the 79-year-old gave the Jakobmayer boss, whom he has known for over 40 years and “who was still amazingly young at the time,” he joked, with another birthday present with this alternative to the established Polt Well program.

MICHAELE HESKE

Source: merkur

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