Harwath plays Harwath: actor, writer and director all rolled into one
Created: 02/10/2022 10:27 am
By: Ulrike Osman
Some rough monologues and in between songs by Bob Dylan and Elton John on the accordion: Andreas Harwath plays his self-written solo piece "Falscher Abgang" at the Neue Bühne Bruck.
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Mr. Harwath is no longer an actor?
But that would be a shame.
Fortunately, the statement is not true.
Fürstenfeldbruck - She is just the hook for a furious solo evening with the same actor who has been seen more often at the Neue Bühne Bruck (NBB) - but never like this.
Filling the stage alone, sweeping the audience, fanning out all talents.
That the 51-year-old can play the piano was known at least since his role as the (not really) bad wolf in the latest NBB children's play "Ein Schaf fürs Leben".
In his “biographically degradable cabaret”, the actor, director and singing teacher now shows that his real love is the accordion and that he is a virtuoso master of it.
He deserves applause for this witty subtitle of his one-man play "Falscher Abgang" alone.
The test station at the parking lot
The play's "Mr. Harwath" wants to give up acting.
Actually, he has already done that, but because his agent forgot to cancel an appearance and there is a risk of a contractual penalty, the mime shuffles one last time from the scenes onto the stage, which no longer means his world.
And he revealed to the "provincial audience" that he would rather work in the test station in the parking lot in front of the event forum for the next ten years than continue to listen to "sloppy applause".
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Harwath spelled correctly
And because it's no longer a question of making himself popular, he can finally really pull off the leather and fiddle with everyone's opinion - his colleagues ("they are just as conservative assholes like you"), the press (which has found a thousand ways misspelling his name) and above all the viewers, these enemies who flock to the mega-events of "singing robots" like Helene Fischer instead of supporting their "regional culture retailers".
Harwath tells his own story that evening.
How he dreamed of coolness as a provincial teenager in the 80s, how he got into acting and how he has struggled through the masochistic culture industry ever since.
The ingenious, occasionally somewhat rough text is interrupted by splendid musical interludes.
The man on the accordion crosses borders, combines what seems to be incompatible - Bob Dylan sounds like the original Oberkrainer with him - Sting, Elton John and Cindy Lauper prove to be unexpectedly suitable for the accordion and the instrument unexpectedly suitable for jazz.
When Harwath then also unpacks the harmonica, railway whistle and nose flute, he becomes a virtuoso one-man band.
The audience in the sold-out house hangs on his every word and enjoys himself royally.
Finally an (almost) normal evening at the theater again - after all, 50 percent occupancy is allowed, the bar is open and the performance isn't too long.
Enthusiastic applause, an encore and even more enthusiastic applause close the evening.
Performance Dates:
Saturday, February 12 and Friday, February 25, 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 20, 7 p.m.
Tickets are available on the website www.buehne-bruck.de.
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