As of: April 3, 2024, 10:00 a.m
By: Richard Lorenz
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He gave out, but never below the belt: Marco Kieferl knew how to convince the audience with his Lenten sermon that lasted around two hours. © Lorenz
Lenten preacher Marco Kieferl once again subtly took aim at Mayor Michael Krumbucher and Co. at the SC Tegernbach's traditional strong beer festival.
Tegernbach
– There is the Nockherberg in Munich – and there is the Pumpernudlberg in Tegernbach. There is a lot of drinking during the strong beer season on both, although in Tegernbach the density of political celebrities is not as high as in the state capital. However, there was no lack of bite in Tegernbach either, because this year Marco Kieferl once again took on the role of the Lenten preacher - and gave Mayor Michael Krumbucher a strong drink before he took a serious tone.
Kieferl calculates the community's debts to the local boss
The SC Tegernbach strong beer festival has a tradition - and slowly but surely it is also becoming a tradition for Kieferl to slip into the role of the Lenten preacher. “It should be a good mix – between laughter and some sore spots that you want to hit,” explained the Lenten preacher before his speech – and then got started. “Miche, do you know what framing is,” Kieferl asked the town hall boss and then explained it to him straight away. “A man listening to the citizens: Bring on the retention basin. Bad streets - take the main street in Tegernbach first. And a place in kindergarten? Michael is about to build a kindergarten center. And at the same time the debts are going down. That looks great - at least if you sell the story correctly!” Kieferl then calculated that the municipality's debts would increase enormously and that the per capita debt would skyrocket to a huge 3200 euros.
They took it with humor: SCT chairman Robert Hiesbauer (l.) and mayor Michael Krumbucher. © Lorenz
And Kieferl also explained to the mayor with a wink who really wears the pants in Tegernbach. And it goes like this: “Wellies hung it on the town sign so that everyone knows that the village belongs to the farmers. Of course not true! Everyone knows that we have to hang a few water wings on the town sign so that everyone knows that Rosi is buying from us.” To explain: Rosi Hofbauer from the sports club helped the Tegernbach lifeguards win the Bavaria-wide competition “The Good Example 2023” by calling the radio station Bayern 2.
“Statistically, I should now make myself unpopular with one in six people in the community,” said Kieferl, referring to the AfD voters, whom he couldn’t understand with the best will in the world. Of course, according to the Lenten preacher, not everyone in the AfD is Nazis, but “all Nazis in the AfD”. Kieferl, who struck a thoughtful tone here, was serious about his warnings. Or as he put it: “That has to scare us.”
“It doesn’t matter whether his name is Tom or Ivan or Vitaliy”
In his opinion, the shift to the right would do something to society, and right now we need to talk to each other and reduce fears. “Our most inconspicuous people from Tegernbach live in the town center and come from Ukraine and Africa. “They haven’t done anything to anyone – and they’re not lazy either,” said the Lenten preacher. And further: “At the sports club we also had Egyptians, Iranians, Russians, Poles, Greeks and Turks – it doesn’t really matter whether their name is Tom or Ivan or Vitaly.”
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What Kieferl achieved with his two-hour Lenten sermon: satire on a very high level that never went below the belt, but was never pleasing either. So it was far from the classic “Daufschlag”, but had something of Dieter Hildebrand, Gerhard Polt and Georg Schramm in its basic tone - a cabaret gem in the middle of the Hallertau with a great feel for the political adversities and pitfalls and the peculiarities of a sports club. And always with a lot of respect for the personality behind the politician and the club boards.
SC Tegernbach itself was not spared from the mockery of the Lenten preacher, for example when it came to ski trophy hunting. And here, too, Kieferl referred to the importance of “framing”, or in other words: the correct framing narrative. “We became community champions in the team – and in the individual we did it again and also came first, second and third. Sounds great – but there were only 18 participants and one woman was faster. But you can keep them out of the men’s ranking.”