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Everything revolves around the garden gnome (from left): Florian Collet, Manuela Rothe, Sandra Helmer, Jakob Dissinger, director Hubert Dietl, Alfons Högner, prompter Silvia Geiger (in a deck chair), Monika Regensburger, Christine Penzenstadler and Thomas Dietl from the Unterbrunner Theater at one Sample.
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The Unterbrunner Theater is currently rehearsing a story about two feuding families who are at war over a garden gnome.
Unterbrunn
– That’s right, the garden gnome as such is polarizing.
Some love him, but others hate him.
But in such a way that he has to be murdered?
There must be more to it.
And that's exactly what the Unterbrunner Theater's new play is about.
“The Garden Gnome Murder” by Gudrun Ebner will premiere next Friday, March 1st, and the theater artists are currently busy rehearsing.
“A great piece,” says director Hubert Dietl.
The organizer is once again the men's singing club “Harmonie” Unter-Oberbrunn.
At its core, it's about a bitter neighborhood dispute somewhere in Bavaria.
On the one hand, there is the more traditional Obermeier family.
Father Herbert (Thomas Dietl) is a bus driver, easily excitable - and loves garden gnomes.
His wife Gerlinde (Christine Penzenstadler) really doesn't have it easy with him.
On the other hand, the Holzapfel family, who are currently on an esoteric level.
At the beginning of the play, Karl-Heinz Holzapfel (Jakob Dissinger) and his eccentric wife Inge (Sandra Helmer) have just returned from India.
Inge, who also calls herself Indira, and the choleric neighbor have a particular dislike for each other.
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The underlying argument escalates because of the extremely different musical tastes.
Obermeier only loves marching music (at the beginning the visitors hear a hearty Bavarian parade), while “Indira” only loves the delicate tones.
One day Obermeier's dwarf ("I still decide what's in my garden") broke under mysterious circumstances.
Of course, he immediately suspects the hated neighbor.
“Indira’s” particular anger hits her husband, who constantly tries to mediate.
Finally she doesn't let him in the house anymore, the poor guy has to spend the night in the garden.
Luckily, because this prevents the catastrophe.
The schemer Berta Ratschenbichler (Monika Regensburger), who sees everything and knows how to spread everything to the people, causes additional confusion.
Obermeier's daughter Evi (Manuela Rothe) wants to keep her love for the tax officer Peter Fernblick (Florian Collet) secret from her - in vain.
And Kurt Bleibtreu (Alfons Högner) can only be amazed at Herbert and Karl-Heinz.
He usually plays cards quite peacefully with both of them.
The stage and scenery are by Hubert Dietl, Jakob Dissinger and Alfons Högner, the stage design by Fritz Hirsch, direction and stage by Hubert Dietl.
What spoke for the joke “Garden Gnome Murder”: “I once again wanted a piece that took place outside, not in a farmhouse,” said Dietl.
In fact, the setting of the action from beginning to end is the garden between the two houses.
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The piece will take place under normal conditions for the first time again.
Because the fire protection deficiencies in the multi-purpose hall have been remedied, around 270 visitors can enter the hall again.
The comedy will be played eight times in the next two weeks, namely on March 1st (premiere), 2nd, 8th, 9th, 10th, 15th, 16th and 17th March, every Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. on Sunday at 7 p.m.
Admission with catering is from 6.30 p.m., one hour earlier on Sundays.
Seat reservations are possible from Manuela Minzapost on weekdays from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. by telephone (089) 8 50 32 08. Something special is planned for the premiere: The men's choir sings Udo Jürgen's "Greek Wine" before the curtain rises - with choir director Ulrike Leitl-Haag coined the text to Unterbrunn.
“A world premiere,” says board member Hermann Geiger happily.
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