Ambush: artists and poetry slamers recall the attack on satire magazine
Created: 01/11/2022, 09:00 AM
From: Peter Herrmann
Poetry slammer Meike Harms dealt critically with the definition of freedom in an ambush.
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The attack on the editors of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" is and will not be forgotten in the ambush in Gelting.
Also this year it was remembered with an evening.
Gelting
- Radical Islamists stormed the Paris editorial offices of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" on January 7, 2015 and subsequently murdered twelve people.
An event that the culture stage Hinterhalt has been commemorating since then with political and artistic evenings on the respective anniversaries.
"It is still an important day for us, even if the wave of solidarity has noticeably waned over the past seven years," emphasized Assunta Tammelleo on Friday evening.
The chairwoman of the Isar-Loisach Cultural Association (KIL) had once again put together a program with various artists with the support of the Association for Freedom of the Mind, the Giordano Bruno Foundation and the “The Other Bavaria” association.
The beginning was made by poetry slammer Meike Harms, who required the full attention of the few admitted visitors with fast-paced poetry. She received a lot of applause for puns about the fictional zoo joker "Fink positive" as well as humorous parodies of the late literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki and the German rocker Marius Müller-Westernhagen. The latter once sang the song "Freedom", which the strolling Corona measures critics have taken as an anthem. Harms managed to bridge the gap to the motto of the evening. "Freedom of expression does not mean discriminating against and hating everyone who is different from you and does not fit into your worldview," warned the artist.
She was followed by cabaret artist HG Butzko, who even accepted the long journey from Berlin for his half-hour performance.
The satirist, who grew up in Gelsenkirchen, garnished his remarks on the “veritable imbalance” of a profit-oriented and rationalized health system with a choice of Berlin and Ruhrpott dialects as well as insane gestures.
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The musical highlight and the grand finale of the entertaining evening was the performance of the cabaret boogie-woogie pianist Martin Schmitt.
In an ambush he found a perfectly tuned Stutz grand piano that the Geretsried family of musicians, the Vollmer family, had given to the Kulturbühne a few months ago.
The instrument was particularly effective in the version of the Tom Jones classic "Sexbomb", which was then performed in Saxon dialect.
Here Schmitt, who lives on the Pilsensee, proved that he has what it takes to be a rampage and that in pre-pandemic times he had caused much larger venues to tremble.
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The 53-year-old is currently staying afloat with livestream engagements, as is the ambush culture stage, which has been using this variant for almost two years now and will grant the artists a small allowance for expenses in the coming months via PayPal donations.
