This summer, a “festival of humor and comic art” will be celebrated for the third time in Bernried, on the idyllic shores of Lake Starnberg. With cabaret evenings, readings, exhibitions and all kinds of outdoor activities. The Munich initiative “Forum Humor” gave the initial impetus for this, because at home on the Isar, despite prominent support from Gerhard Polt, for example, there has not been much progress with the plan to give humor a permanent home in the old cattle bank in the slaughterhouse district for years set up.
The latest attempt is now being sought together with like-minded people from the circle around the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum, but in Bernried the focus is of course on completely different exhibition locations. The “Buchheim Museum of Fantasy”, for example, with which the Forum Humor has teamed up for great fun at the lake, as well as with the municipality of Bernried and the Höhenried Clinic. The festival opens on July 1st.
Music & Cabaret
The summer cellar of the municipality of Bernried is a high, impressive brick vault. Three women appear there on three evenings, who usually elegantly combine cheerfulness and cleverness in their programs. Be the first to step Monica Drasch (Thursday, July 20, 8 p.m.) with “Nix is gwiss” on stage there. The green violin and her red hair are the hallmarks of the virtuoso folk musician, regardless of whether she is playing with Hubert von Goisern, Hans Well or, as is now the case in Bernried, with her Monika Drasch Quartet. On their schedule are songs, pieces, little stories – and surprise guests from the Bernried musicians’ scene.
the next day is Louise Kinseher with her program “Paint walls, set sails! (Friday, July 21, 8 p.m.). It has nothing to do with a little trip across the lake. Rather, she tells of a woman whose floor suddenly It’s funny, but also a bit melancholy, especially when the sweetheart sits down and opens a bottle of champagne to think about what it was like before the ground opened up under her feet.
Christine Eixenberger takes over the podium on Saturday, July 22 at 8 p.m. with “Freedom of imagination”. The cabaret artist is also known as the fire brigade commander from the series “Marie catches fire”. In her program, the native of Tegernsee spreads her observations about the power of the markets and about the behavior of modern feudal lords – today called real estate agents and homeowners.
Under the open sky
When the sun is shining, you can also giggle in the open air. For example on the humor course, which is nothing more than an open-air cartoon exhibition of more than 40 works. The works line the way from the Buchheim Museum to the Bernried Monastery. This year, artists from Austria, France and Switzerland are also taking part. The series should be younger and more feminine compared to previous years, whose title: “Have you tones!”.
From now on you can permanently experience the laughing forest in the Höhenried spa park. Anyone who has ever been to the humor festival in Bernried already knows the principle. You walk past a tree and you hear roaring laughter. It can come from Eckart von Hirschhausen, from Axel Hacke or from one of the doctors at the clinic. In any case, it is contagious, this liberated, happy laugh – and thus has the potential to also have a healing effect. The designer of the Laughing Forest is therefore happy to move him to the park of the clinic, where he will stay now. It is freely accessible to the public.
Otto show
The large exhibition in the Buchheim Museum about Otto Waalkes entitled Otto. The exhibition takes place on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the East Frisian. It opened in June and has been a crowd puller ever since. Many people know his briskly drawn Ottifanten, but only a few know that Otto studied comedy at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg before his career. He always remained true to painting. The exhibition is a cross-section of his life’s work, including videos and childhood documents.
joke duel
George Cadeggianini addresses young audiences in particular when he asks “Can I send laughter?” on Wednesday, July 26, at 4 p.m. in the community library. The joke book author, SZ editor and father of seven brings his “joke bell” with him and challenges to a “live joke duel”. He designs postcards with self-made swear word puzzles and more with the participants. And, yes, they do end up being mailed.
bachelorette party
The love story between the Simplicissimus draftsman Olaf Gulbransson and his second wife Dagny Björnson provides the basis for an evening at the “Drei Rosen” inn. Because there in the Salettl is the 100th anniversary of the bachelor party of the two (September 7th, 8 p.m.). Gulbransson biographer Gerd Holzheimer revives the events of that time, which are inextricably linked to Bernried’s art history. And the local brass band plays to make the party as fun as it used to be.
Humor Festival Bernried, Saturday, July 1st to November 5th, 2023, various places in the community will be featured, including the Buchheim Museum, tickets via www.muenchenticket.de