As of: February 1, 2024, 11:00 a.m
By: Raffael Scherer
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Fully in their roles: the Ottenhofen amateur theater group with (back, from left) Thomas Waldherr, Carola Werndl, Michael Weidel, Wolfgang Kaiser and Jürgen Martini as well as (front, from left) Hildegard Kaiser, Sabine Drobner and Melanie Schüngel.
The team behind the scenes is not in the picture: Ute Waldherr (organization), Peter Lang and Franz Drobner (technology) and Marion Ostermair (mask).
© Raffael Scherer
The Ottenhofen amateur theater group invites amateur commissioners to an amusing dinner theater.
Ottenhofen
- The sweets fan Thomas Waldherr has found the perfect role in his amateur play group in Ottenhofen's new crime thriller dinner "Murder in Café Hipgold": the corpse with the head in the Black Forest cake.
“He's just a sweetie,” jokes actress Sabine Drobner next to him as he suggests the gesture of the corpse in the Ottenhofen shooting home.
Since the beginning of the year, they have normally been rehearsing directly in the performance venue, the Camillo at Erdinger Straße 22, when the restaurant is closed.
But today there is a birthday party there, so they quickly changed for a rehearsal.
Otherwise usually also given a speaking role, Waldherr's appearance as the dead Alois Zipfel in "Murder in Café Hipgold" is very brief.
As the story quickly turns out, the sacristan Zipfel had an affair with almost every woman in the village and seems to have already made himself unpopular with one or two marriage scams.
Is that the reason for the murder?
Since there were four suspicious female roles, prompter Hildegard Kaiser was promoted to actress.
But this time too, the group doesn't have to do without a lyricist in case of an emergency, reassures director Waldherr.
It is now the eighth crime dinner by the Eichenlaubschützen amateur theater group - and probably the only one in the entire district, emphasizes the director.
People alternate between playing and eating.
Since there are now three acts instead of four for the first time, the sequence of the performance has shifted: the evening begins with the appetizer instead of with the first act. The third act after the dessert is then interrupted shortly before the end so that the audience can puzzle , who the murderer was.
“We stay in a certain position, then we hand out the pieces of paper, and when everyone is finished, we continue in exactly this position,” is Waldherr’s plan.
A bottle of champagne is traditionally raffled off for all correct suspicions from the amateur detectives.
This year, the focus will not only be on solving the case, but also on the comedic aspect of the bizarre characters.
This begins with the two detectives, played by Wolfgang Kaiser and Michael Weidel, who constantly act clumsy in their investigation and get into trouble in the process.
Pastor Korbinian Leutz also has many vices, from sweets to alcohol.
It was clear to Waldherr from the outset that actor Jürgen Martini was the perfect choice for this role; after all, Martini actually worked for the church throughout his life.
“In the Erding retirement home they always called me pastor,” he remembers and laughs.
The audience is actually in the fictional café in Ottenhofen and is constantly involved in the piece, reveals Waldherr.
Every now and then one or two actors sit down in the audience or speak directly to some viewers.
The motto is to be in the middle of it instead of just there.
Info & Tickets
Advance ticket sales will take place on Sunday, February 4th, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Ottenhofener Schützenheim at Meillerweg 5.
You can then purchase tickets by sending an email to theater@ottenhofen.de.
They cost 40 euros including a three-course menu with tomato bruschetta as a starter, veal goulash or vegetarian crespelle Florentine style as a main course and panna cotta with strawberry sauce as a dessert.
Performance dates are Friday and Saturday, August 8th/9th.
and 15/16.
and 22/23.
March.
Admission is from 7 p.m., starts at 7:30 p.m.