As of: January 29, 2024, 10:41 a.m
By: Ulrike Osman
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It's closed: Mayor Totzauer (r.) and Gerhard Gauck open the house.
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A dream has come true in Schöngeising.
The long-awaited community center is now complete - and was brilliantly inaugurated with a colorful, cheerful, even educational opening spectacle.
Schöngeising - The facade of the building, illuminated in many changing colors, left no doubt from the outside - it would be a festive evening.
In the foyer, visitors to the sold-out musical theater piece “Aufg'sperrt is!” crowded next to a beautiful decoration made of tulips and the branches of the tree that symbolizes new beginnings - the birch.
Before the doors to the cultural hall opened for the first time, Mayor Thomas Totzauer praised the community center as a “place for togetherness and encounters”.
After “decades of procrastination,” keynote speaker Wolfgang Grillmeier called for applause “for all those who fought for the house for so long.”
Not woke
This is where it is supposed to be lived, the Bavarian culture, which shortly afterwards drags itself onto the stage in the form of Michaela Stögbauer in ragged clothes.
She is not “woke”, feels ridiculed and disrespected.
But now she has arrived in an “indomitable Bavarian village where people never stop resisting cultural decline,” announces the voice of speaker Gerhard Jilka from the off.
And actually, Krescence, as the culture is called, finds itself in a cozy inn, is warmly welcomed by the landlady Barbara (Angelika Gruhne) and is soon sitting with the regulars Fredi (Barthl Sailer), Anderl (Wolfgang Stahl) and Franz (Hans Berhard) with a beer.
The landlady brings a basket of delicacies to the table.
The astonished group learns that it is an old custom that the first guests in a newly opened restaurant receive such a gift (“we only know restaurants that close”).
Bavarian culture
Author and director Martina Schnell has packed even more of these little-known facts about Bavarian culture into the piece.
For example, there were riots in Munich in 1844 when the price of beer was raised.
Or that while windowing, countless young boys once fell into pits and died miserably.
With a light touch, the piece links important stations and people in Schöngeisingen's history as well as local peculiarities.
The origins of the place as a Roman settlement come to life in the form of the “fine spirit” (Wenzel Gummer) – he has been waiting for the “culture temple” for a long time.
Heinrich Scherrer's great-great-great-grandnephew (Hans Riedl) appears with his imperious wife (Susanne Poller), Renaissance composer Orlando di Lasso (Gunter Schreier), who arrived in the Orlando mobile, has an excellent soprano (Anette Noah) perform one of his songs.
Clash of cultures
The piece also thrives on the humorous clash of cultures, plays with prejudices and calls for openness.
Two ladies from the Marienverein (Anna Emprechtinger, Eva Gauck) and lifestyle journalist Ava (Evelyn Wetzler) poke fun at each other.
One of the Maypole Boys (Markus Pröll, Peter Hofmann) can be heard coming from Hamburg.
The resolute cook (Hanni Göppel) serves modern cuisine.
The putti angels (Wolfgang Grillmeier, Philipp Schneider, Max Wenghofer) are joined by the yellow angels from Irschenberg (Christoph Stifter, Christoph Wenghofer).
The window ladder becomes a climate-neutral alcohol test.
And the ampernix Melusine (Gabriela Totzauer) complains that her “permanent residence permit” has been revoked.
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At the Farmers' Ball, the festive mood predominates
In between, the Schöngeising brass band marches onto the stage making music, the Brucklyn Heart Choir sings and Wenzel Gummer and Norbert Henz play magnificently on the piano keys.
There's a bit of shoehorning - and the secret of how Boandlkramer (Reinhard Wengel) got his thankless job is also revealed.
Last but not least, the great ensemble dances on stage and is enthusiastically applauded.
A name is now being sought for the 4.4 million euro building
No majority, no property, no money” – according to keynote speaker Wolfgang Grillmeier, that was the situation when the desire for a Schöngeisinger cultural center first arose in 1986.
There were “too many artists in town without a roof over their heads.”
However, because all the prerequisites for realizing the idea were missing, it disappeared into the drawer for a long time.
The local council approved the planning at the end of 2019.
It took almost two more years until the groundbreaking took place.
There were also delays during the construction project.
“We wanted to open in October 2023, but we had another door,” recalled Grillmeier.
The house cost around 4.4 million euros, financed largely from the municipality's reserves.
There was also a loan of 600,000 euros and state funding of 380,000 euros.
After the opening spectacle, Totzauer is planning an official inauguration ceremony in March.
And he would like to organize a competition to find a name - so that the building does not have to bear the sober name of community center in the long term.
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