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“Do you have sounds” was the theme on which this cartoon was created.
© Forum Humor
As in Bernried, a “humor festival” is to be established in Stegen from this year.
The opening with “Humor Parcours” is planned for May 11th and the festival will last until the fall.
Stegen
– “Humour is an independent category.
It passes through society like a chord, in prosperity as well as in misery, in the banal as well as in the intellectual,” says Gerhard Polt.
In 2017 he was the driving force behind the founding of the Munich “Forum Humor and Comic Art”, which has been organizing humor festivals in Bernried since 2021 and this year also wants to gain a foothold at Ammersee, in Stegen.
The festival starts there in May with a “humor course”.
In collaboration with the municipality of Inning and Daniel Betz from the Groundlift in the Old Brewery, events are planned until autumn.
The topic will be on the LAG-Ammersee agenda next week when it comes to the allocation of funding.
The amount requested for Stegen is 2,500 euros.
The humor festival is one of ten projects for which funding is being applied for.
The Inningen district of Stegen is the focus of the planned festival, based on the previous festivals in Bernried.
The plan includes, among other things, a sign path with around 25 to 30 cartoons and a QR code attached underneath to the festival's website on the lakeside path from Stegen across the bathing area towards Inning and to the old brewery in Daniel Betz's Groundlift studios.
The opening is scheduled for Saturday, May 11th.
The cartoons, drawn by artists from all over Germany on the theme of “Summer, Sun, Sunburn”, are selected by a jury of experts and, with a gold frame, drawn onto metal plates.
The humor course will be accompanied by several humor-themed events until the fall.
“We are currently working on the program.
“We’re not quite finished yet,” says Dr.
Reinhard Wittmann, chairman of the forum, in conversation with the Starnberger Merkur.
He has in mind events that take place about once a month and that stand out from the program at Groundlift.
For example, a poetry slam or – this is planned for the opening – a live drawing with zither playing and dialogue, drawn by Peter Gaymann in conversation with Josef Brustmann.
Wittmann, who ran the Literaturhaus in Munich for 20 years, naturally also has a lot of literature on his mind.
For example with Jan Weiler.
“We still need 14 days before the program is finalized,” he says.
Wittmann was only re-confirmed as chairman of the club in 2021.
Other members of the board include Tini Polt, Claudia Knauss and the cartoonist and graphic artist Peter Gaymann.
Gerhard Polt works for the committee not as a patron, but as a “co-inspirer”.
The programmatic expansion goes back to him.
Together they had the idea for a “House of Humor and Comic Art” in Munich, which unfortunately could not be implemented for financial reasons.
However, a major project may be emerging in Bernried, where the Forum Humor has been organizing the humor festivals since 2021.
This was so successful straight away that there are considerations about giving the “Forum Humor” a home.
A funding commitment for the corresponding new building at the community center in the amount of 5.6 million euros has already been received.
First, however, concrete ideas are needed about how the operating concept could be designed.
A specialist office was commissioned for this purpose.
Bernried's mayor Georg Malterer announced this at a citizens' meeting at the end of last year.
He said at the time: “If it’s good for the village, then we’ll do it.
But we have to see first.” The Inningen mayoral troika will have a similar situation.
Wittmann is in close contact with Mayor Walter Bleimaier and his deputies Monika Schüßler-Kafka and Hubert Vogele.
The humor festival as such was launched in Bernried in 2021 and has taken place there every year since then.
Most recently in the summer of last year, when funny cartoons on the theme “Do you have any sounds?” flanked the path along the lake from the boat pier, past the Hotel Marina and the marina to the Buchheim Museum.
There were more than 40 cartoons and pictures lining the path, including those by Otto Waalkes, who proved to be a crowd puller with the parallel special exhibition in the Buchheim Museum last year.
“This year Bernried will take place again, but a little smaller,” says Wittmann.
This is probably not possible otherwise with the parallel event on Ammersee.
The chairman of the Humor Forum is enthusiastic about the preparation there: “It's fun to work with the mayors.
The communities play a big role in implementation.”