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Surrounded by a lot of green: Ludwig Schmid alias Brother Barnabas took aim at many politicians in his Lenten sermon.
The still somewhat barren New Center of Geretsried was also an issue.
© Hans Lippert
Twice full house: The Gartenberger Bunkerblasmusik and Brother Barnabas once again thrilled the audience at their 19th Strong Beer Festival.
Geretsried – In the strong beer festival competition between neighboring towns, Wolfratshausen performed well this year with a much-acclaimed Singspiel.
But the Gartenberger bunker brass band and Lenten preacher Brother Barnabas took up the template and followed up with a strong performance.
At the 19th edition of their strong beer festival (in the 20th year of its existence), the barley juice in large and small jugs and the mood from the stage quickly spilled over to the audience in the council chambers, which was (almost) full to capacity.
Boos for the mayor's cancellation
Only one person, who many would have been looking forward to, missed out on the happy spectacle.
The seat at the beer table in front of the stage reserved for town hall boss Michael Müller remained empty.
“Yesterday at noon, the last anteroom announced in response to the invitation from January 12th that there were some scheduling conflicts, but that the mayor wanted a nice event and nice evenings,” Brother Barnabas said later - accompanied by boos from the audience.
It was to be the only expression of displeasure that evening.
The Ratsstubensaal was fully occupied at the Gartenberger Bunkerblasmusik strong beer festival.
© Hans Lippert
At that point, Ludwig Schmid had already put down his clarinet and slipped into his brown habit and the role of the Lenten preacher Brother Barnabas.
The otherwise very large number of political celebrities from the surrounding communities and the members of the Geretsried city council provided enough material to expose them one after the other, sometimes more sometimes less harshly.
There's no need to sing so boldly in Wolfratshausen: There's no train to Geretsried.
It's not that certain in Wolfratshausen whether a train is coming.
Lenten preacher Brother Barnabas
There was a premiere, the visit of “a dashing, blonde woman”, Icking’s second mayor Claudia Roederstein, which meant “for the first time in 20 years someone from Icking was there,” as Barnabas noted happily.
The threatened “collected ridicule from 20 years, everything that moved us on the subject of Icking” was limited to a shrug of the shoulders from the preacher.
He didn't always find kind words.
“The second mayor’s job is: Don’t do anything wrong when the first one isn’t there,” he turned to Sonja Frank (like Müller in his absence).
“It's best not to do anything, just smile.
Sonja, you are a very good second mayor.”
Enjoying themselves: (from left) member of the state parliament and deputy district administrator Thomas Holz, member of the Bundestag Karl Bär, third district administrator Klaus Koch, Egling's mayor Hubert Oberhauser and his counterpart from Münsing, Michael Grasl.
© Hans Lippert
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Barnabas was already in his element.
Frot about Königsdorf shops with the Munich Christmas tree and mulled wine stand ("a real community effort of mulled wine. Drinking for the village community"), mocked the second deputy district administrator Klaus Koch about his loyalty to the strong beer festival: "You've almost been part of the inventory here, for decades so to say.
You can see that too.” When he saw the mayor of Eglingen, Hubert Oberhauser, he was reminded of a sliding puzzle: “Somehow I have the feeling that you just move your road construction sites and through-road closures in the municipality back and forth.
But keep it up.
Every barrier beacon you have can no longer be set up on Egerlandstrasse.” The audience responded with loud applause.
Comparison with Singspiel in Wolfratshausen
In general, the listeners were focused on the matter.
At the beginning Barnabas had discreetly pointed out how everyone could make the evening more enjoyable.
“Such a musical play naturally has more action, is striking and lives from emotion,” the success of the strong beer festival in Wolfratshausen did not go unnoticed by him.
But: “With a Lenten sermon like this, you have to listen.
And think for yourself so that you can understand it,” warned Barnabas.
“It’s clear that a lot of people were in Wolfratshausen, but they’re missing here today.” That’s why he tries to “present complex issues and connections as simply as possible.
So that the politicians also understand this.”
That was received.
“I found the sermon very pointed and to the point,” said a woman from Geretsried who did not want to read her name in the newspaper.
“I think the audience understood that very well and went along well.”
The audience demands an encore from the Plattler boys
The musicians on stage also made it easy for the strong beer festival fans to join in.
Roland Hammerschmied (who had explicitly pointed out at the beginning of the evening that the strong beer festival was a bunker brass music event and not a festival for the city of Geretsried) and his combo delivered the first musical one early in the evening with a lively Dixie block Climax.
Everyone who wasn't finished with their strong beer goulash, roast pork, schnitzel or sausage salad quickly put down their knife and fork.
Hearty Schuhplattler interlude: (from left) The three boys Simon Hammerschmied, Florian Chudalla and Marius Hammerschmied from the Gartenberger Bunkerblasmusik not only master their instruments, as you can see.
© Hans Lippert
There was almost frenetic applause for an early show performance by “Holzhackerbuam” Florian Chudalla, Simon and Marius Hammerschmied, who provoked the first shouts of “encore, encore” with a Schuhplattler performance.
With the Geretsried hymn “Dir Geretsried die Treue”, the band said goodbye to the sermon break, from which they returned magnificently with the stadium sing-along classic “Sweet Caroline”.
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When clarinetist Sarah Dreyer stepped up to the microphone at an advanced hour and acted as the front woman, there was no holding back: party classics like “Westerland”, “Ham kummst”, “He belongs to me” and “I will survive” weren't just the young ones People in the audience on the benches.
Things continued to get a bit more intense as the brass musicians rocked out with the AC/DC hammers “Yo shook me all night long”, “Highway to Hell” and Status Quo's “Rockin' all over the world” - before they hit the audience with the The Bavarian anthem was brought back from the benches almost exactly at midnight.
Quitting time!
A pity.
The best description of the evening was provided by a visitor who has lived in Geretsried for twelve years, but experienced the strong beer festival live for the first time this Saturday evening: “The whole thing is really cool.
It’s like Nockherberg at home.”
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