Glonner Gaudi – Of knights and councilors – Ebersberg

Just imagine it: the clatter of wildly galloping hooves on the asphalt of Glonn’s market square, a horde of horses in a race around the cemetery and the church. Past Steinberger’s Marktblick, through Steinbruchweg, past the Gabriel upholstery shop and into Münchner Strasse, the racing horses would storm. Absurd? Absurd. But why not? In a “guaranteed untrue story”, daredevil riders can appear in a Glonner Palio, or knights fight against windmills that look like modern wind turbines.

For the first time since the beginning of the corona and after two postponements, the Steinsee theater troupe has come together again and is bringing a new piece to the stage. On a wooden stage this time, almost like in the early days 53 years ago, when the theater-loving amateur actors from the stables at Steinsee huddled up on a hay wagon to play. The provisional arrangement from June 1968 soon became an association, the performances were moved from the riding arena first to Oberpframmern zum Neuwirt, then to the multi-purpose hall, on a real stage and finally celebrated at Gut Georgenberg. But this time everything is different, the rehearsals could only take place in small groups so far and the performance on the rarely used wooden stage in the adjoining room of the Gasthof Niederseeon is almost a little provisional.

But after many discussions in advance, says author and theater man Albert Finkenzeller, even after all the individual rehearsals that the members of the ensemble attend in the workshop of his Hohenbrunn factory for wall cladding, in the Vaterstetten Win-Verlag by fellow campaigner and press man Hans Grohmann or in Studio of the keyboard player responsible for the background music – the performance now meets all, but really all corona requirements. So much so that never more than four people are on stage at the same time. And that when a whole town council, namely von Glonn, debates in a play about what can be done to breathe a little more life into the place again.

Just like in real life, the council consists of black, red, yellow and green, and just like in the real corona world, the necessary measures are discussed in hybrid fashion. A mayor, a clerk and two councilors sit on the stage, two others in the home office. A huge television set in the background makes the trick possible. You can also argue this way and do it properly and until the break. Of all the proposals with their pros and cons – the lack of dynamism probably speaks against a street festival with a flea market, against the Glonner Palio, well, you can imagine – the jousting finally wins the race. They go on stage after the break. Counts and chambermaids, knights and villagers appear, all inspired by stories about the Zinneberg monastery, which is just outside Glonn and which sparked Albert Finkenzeller’s imagination. “I always try to be a bit up-to-date,” explains the now 83-year-old. The fact that there are no village jerks and no court jesters during the whole knight’s fun is not a concession to modernity, but to the sensitivities of the imaginary municipal councils: none of them want to take on the role. Maybe it wouldn’t be any different in a true story.

The ensemble is a bit smaller than in previous years, with a few young people and a few old ones. Due to the restrictions, a completely new form of stage representation had to be found, explains the author: Many small scenes alternate and merge, so that the protagonists only ever meet in small groups – as does the audience, who this time are not in Rows, but at the right distance between tables. They haven’t even practiced the piece together, “that was a bit difficult this time, but we’re also an amateur theater company, and we have the huge advantage that nobody knows what to say,” jokes Finkenzeller. There will be significantly fewer spectators because of the distance regulations – 39 for each of the three performances, and so it is not that easy to manage financially. After all, the only two professionals, the musician and the technician, should earn something. Special circumstances, then, but the Steinseer did not want to let the tradition fall asleep under any circumstances. “There won’t be too much going wrong.”

“The Knights of Glonn” of the Steinseer Theater will be played on Friday, October 29th, Saturday, 30th and Sunday, October 31st in the adjoining room of the Niederseeon restaurant. Start is on Fridays at 8 p.m., otherwise at 7 p.m. There is entertainment before and after the performance, tickets can be ordered from Inge Balk, (089) 670 12 51 or [email protected].

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