If nomadic stage people like cabaret artists, who always live according to the motto “Today here, tomorrow there”, sit down in front of a stage on one of the few free evenings instead of putting their feet up at home, then something special has to be up there be loose Is also like that. Dagmar Schönleber is here, an artist who is somehow still underestimated and who has “only” been awarded the Bielefeld Cabaret Prize and the Obernburger Mühlstein.
She plays her new program “Fels*in der Surfung” in the clubhouse, and her colleagues Martina Schwarzmann, Franziska Wanninger, Sven Kemmler and Frank Klötgen also watch it on their free evening. Probably also because they know that they will take something away from this evening.
“Encouragement cabaret and stability comedy” is the subtitle of the program, and it sums it up quite well. A central topic this time is the current state of mind of Germans, the fear of the stranger, the unfamiliar, of change. After all, we are living at a turning point, if you want to believe the chancellor, even if that sounds more like a time change, as Schönleber thinks: “An hour ago or an hour back?”
“Hey Jude” becomes “More Anger!”
After she left behind the somewhat outdated part about the phenomena of mucking out/tidying up/cleaning at the beginning of the pandemic, the lecture gains relevance, she gallops down into the lowlands of angry middle-classism in the country hiking song “Mount Stupid”, whose motives she tried to explain in the most entertaining way. After all, anger in itself is a great thing, because when reason no longer helps, it is almost a civic duty to get angry in order to lead people back to the emotion. Consequently, she rewrites “Hey Jude” to “More anger!”
Which immediately leads to the second main topic: the task of women as rock in the surf or rock in the surf. “La roche, c’est moi!” as she says. The vision of the qualified social worker: to steer, shape, remain flexible, i.e. world domination with compassion, as a part-time, democratically elected queen, on Saturdays between eleven and one. Queen Dagi I of East Westphalia: a picture that we are happy to take home with us. She would definitely have our vote.