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Top class of slapstick in the monastery: Helge Schneider inspires Benediktbeuerer audience

2022-07-24T17:12:50.722Z


Helge Schneider thrilled his audience in the Maierhof of the Benediktbeuern monastery with his almost two-hour performance. Among the visitors were also prominent guests.


Helge Schneider thrilled his audience in the Maierhof of the Benediktbeuern monastery with his almost two-hour performance.

Among the visitors were also prominent guests.

Benediktbeuern –

A Steinway grand piano in the middle of the stage, surrounded by many instruments: xylophone, double bass, trumpet, drums and all kinds of rattles – and then punctually at 8 p.m. right in the middle: a thoroughly cheerful Helge Schneider, wrapped in a royal red one velvet coat.

The king of humor resided in the Maierhof of the Benediktbeuern monastery.

He leaves no doubt about one thing on stage: the surroundings and the monastery must have done it to him.

After starting with his classic “Die Wurstfachverkauferin”, he lets his assistant, expressive dancer, tea bringer and musician Sergei Gleithmann take off his coat and observes the surroundings.

He has the audience on his side from minute one - so the locals forgive him for one or the other joke at the expense of their homeland.

"Yeah, Benediktbeuern, that's one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen," he introduces himself, giggling a little.

And then he continues to knit his spontaneous jokes in the old Helge manner.

“Especially these beautiful plants in this rock garden here.

Do you see that?

Between the gravel, quite wonderful.”

Despite the rain and the threat of thunderstorms: Helge Schneider pulls through the performance coolly

Before his next hit "der Meisenmann" his guitarist Sandro Giampietro lays down a fiery jazz solo.

The audience is enthusiastic.

And the master of puns brought another refinement to the stage, which he proudly displays: "See that fog?

It comes from my fog machine, which I bought used from Tina Turner in Switzerland.” What Schneider cannot yet notice, however, is that dense clouds are not only coming out of his machine artificially, but that a gloomy, thundery sky is brewing over the stage.

There was something comical and dramatic when Schneider said when the first raindrops fell: “Well, it's raining now.

Luckily not here on stage.” Then you can already see the first sheet lightning in the distance.

Some spectators flee into the aisles of the Maierhof,

But the leading expert on nonsense doesn't let on and skilfully covers up the situation.

“Yes, when it rains, you have to get to safety quickly.

You can go home if you have to, after all you live around here.”

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Helge Schneider's performance with almost 500 guests in the Maierhof was not sold out, but well attended. 

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With "Fitze Fitze Fatze" he manages to attract the worried looks that were directed to the sky, and the Maierhof sings and applauds in unison.

Meanwhile, the gloomy clouds are gradually disappearing again.

Above the stage, with the joke virtuoso scurrying from one instrument to another, an imposing rainbow emerges.

Schneider doesn't notice any of this and walks up and down in front of his grand piano and looks ahead: "Oh no, I would also like to have such an onion dome," he admires.

"Someday I'll move to Benediktbeuern.

Ten square meters – that has to be enough.

But with a nice onion dome.

And then I sell onion soup.”

Helge Schneider in Benediktbeuern: Pete York and Martin Schmitt are in the audience

He sits down at the piano, plays the keys well with his left hand and plays the trumpet even better with his right hand.

But so that one could not take his musical talent too seriously, this interlude ends with what is probably his most famous song, the "Katzenklo".

Suddenly, a slanting, dull, drawn-out noise is heard.

Schneider saws around with a bow on a double bass until he wipes his forehead and states: "I just can't get it through." New instrument, new luck: "To Samba in the night" he plays a drum solo - more comedic than serious, he waves his sticks in the air.

In doing so, he makes one man in the audience laugh: the former drummer in his band, the world-famous drummer Pete York, who has made himself comfortable in the back row with his wife Mecky and the pianist Martin Schmitt.

However, Helge Scheider decided not to take the break that was actually planned.

"Normally I like to do something like that, with the breaks, but today we don't know if the weather will work," the 67-year-old informs his audience and rocks through almost two hours of program in one go.

After an announced encore, the king of slapstick disappeared again with the words "Thank you and bye".

Despite standing ovations and five minutes of applause and loud cheers, there was no second encore.

You can find more current news from the region around Bad Tölz at Merkur.de/Bad Tölz.

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Source: merkur

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