Prime Minister double and fairy tale king

Created: 05/10/2022, 08:00

By: Hans Moritz

In front of a good 250 spectators, the cabaret artist Wolfgang Krebs, on the left in the role of Markus Söder, performed in the Stadthalle on Sunday.

The audience is still a bit reserved, Krebs has already played in front of more than 600 people in Erding.

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The cabaret artist Wolfgang Krebs in the Stadthalle Erding shows how much he missed the audience.

"Vergelt's Gott" is the name of his current program.

Matching in every way.

Erding – As a political cabaret artist, it's really not easy in Bavaria at the moment.

What the CSU delivers with illegitimate children, mask deals and copying Frisch general secretaries surpasses even the boldest thoughts of the artists.

It was not easy for the two years in which performances almost without exception fell victim to the pandemic.

Finally, both sides can approach each other again.

And that's what cabaret artist Wolfgang Krebs enjoyed in the Stadthalle on Sunday.

Visibly moved, he was happy to finally be back on stage.

"Vergelt's Gott" was therefore the right title for his two-hour program in every respect.

And he encouraged his audience to be happy, to laugh away at the pandemic and its consequences.

Actually, Krebs should have appeared in Erding in January, but then he broke his shoulder while skiing in Ischgl of all places.

250 visitors now experienced his fireworks of puns, deliberate slips of the tongue and his sometimes biting political cabaret.

A few empty rows of chairs in the back of the hall proved that the culture-loving don't quite dare to go back into the temples.

Krebs has also played in Erding in front of more than 600 people, recalls Stadthalle manager Jutta Kistner, who is also euphoric that culture is finally possible again.

Krebs slipped into the well-known roles of Minister Presidents Edmund Stoiber, Horst Seehofer and Markus ("Maggus") Söder as well as Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger.

The personality that connected the program was King Ludwig II, who made it clear right at the beginning that he did not intend to build a palace in Erding “because it is already so beautiful here”.

Wolfgang Krebs' prime role is and remains that of the wheel-breaking Edmund Stoiber.

He now appears as the special envoy of Angel Aloisius.

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Stoiber, who is known to have always struggled with the fact that the nearby airport is named after Franz Josef Strauss – and not after him, later added urban planning accents.

Well, it's better to have less than nothing: Stoiber recommended himself as the namesake for the Erding train station, because it has been known as the train station for over 100 years.

The fairy tale king asked why hardly any Bavarians and even fewer CSU members go to heaven.

And he also advised post-pandemic: “You must not become depressed.

I tell you that from the depths of Lake Starnberg.”

You could get depressed when you look at the CSU at the moment.

A stumbled CSU general and a ailing one after just two days in office: "Who's next, Benedict XVI, maybe," said Krebs.

In the guise of Seehofer, he said: "There are colleagues in the CSU who should be able to deduct from taxes - as an extraordinary burden." Perhaps many no longer wanted to go to heaven, "because there Söder sings the hosanna louder than everyone else and just yells," he lamented.

In order to then slip into the role of the reviled: Söder promised that an energy embargo would not harm Bavaria: "I produce enough hot air." And nobody should be afraid that the CSU will not change rudder until the election in autumn 2023 .

"We're now knocking out all the scandals so that next year there will be peace."

Krebs received a lot of applause in Erding.

At the end he said: "It felt good." Absolutely no contradiction.