Yes, yes, the little lights, they are burning: First one, then two, then three, then four, then the Christ Child is at the door. Well, not directly. Adventus domini, the arrival of the Lord aka Christkindl, is taking a little longer this year. Since the fourth Sunday in Advent fell on the earliest possible date (December 18), the period from the lighting of the fourth candle to Christmas Eve is a whole week this year. Of course, this also has its advantages: in the remaining days there are still plenty of opportunities to culturally and spiritually get your soul in the mood for the quietest and holiest of all nights – also in the district of Munich.
In the community center in Unterschleißheim, for example, Brigitte Hobmeier and the promise Nouwell Cousines on Thursday, December 22nd, a “beautiful gift in words and sounds”. The actress who grew up in Ismaning, who has had great success both on stage (at the Munich Kammerspiele or as a love interest in “Jedermann”) and in the cinema (most recently in “Weissbier im Blut”), reads frosty and heartwarming, bizarre and exciting – for example “about a goose powerful in the frozen state of flight”. It is uncertain whether the Christ Child will appear, but it seems quite possible that Santa Claus will be kidnapped that evening.
Hobmeier recently explained in an interview that “finding the magic within us and in togetherness” is the real Christmas task. Instead of grumbling, the 46-year-old relies on a happy hallelujah. She is flanked in Unterschleißheim by the Nouwell Cousines, a young quartet, three quarters of which “rose from the musical soup pot of the Well family” and offer a virtuoso crossover from folk music to cheeky songs and classical pieces. The event starts at 8 p.m.
Brigitte Hobmeier is preparing a “beautiful present” for the people of Unterschleißheim this week.
(Photo: Julian Baumann)
Sounds that touch you in a completely different way, or rather rhythmically provoke, will fill the Taufkirchner culture and congress center on Friday, December 23rd: At the “Motown goes Christmas” show, several singers and a live band will perform well-known Christmas Present songs like “Jingle Bells”, “The Little Drummer Boy” or “Driving Home for Christmas” in the groovy sound of the legendary record label Motown. The Detroit hit factory, founded in 1959, had, among others, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes signed and made stars with Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson Five. The Christmas groovy Motown evening begins at 7 p.m.
Amelie Diana and Andreas Bittl present “A Christmas Story” in Haar.
(Photo: Christian Brecheis)
Of course, there is still a lot of cultural activity in the busy Small Theater Haar in the final week of Christmas. On Tuesday, December 20, the cabaret artist Amelie Diana and the actor Andreas Bittl present Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” in the Bavarian version: “A Christmas Story”, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Instead of Ebenezer Scrooge, the old, cold-hearted businessman is called Eberhard Gschaftl. On Thursday, December 22, the actress and singer Cornelia Corba will present her Christmas show “Around the World with the Christ Child” – a family-friendly mix of songs, sketches and stories that will hopefully be well received. “The Festival of Love is taking place for the third time in a row under very difficult conditions,” explains Haar’s theater manager Matthias Riedel-Rüppel. “It’s all the more important to always do something good for yourself. Culture is such a good thing!” The resonance is not only in Haar partially still expandable.
In the community center in Unterföhring, singer-songwriter Pe Werner adds “a pinch of cinnamon”.
Tickets are also still available for the performance by singer-songwriter and cabaret artist Pe Werner on Thursday, December 22nd, at the Bürgerhaus Unterföhring, beginning at 8 p.m. In her program “A pinch of cinnamon” she follows German Christmas rituals and stories with a wink: last-minute gifts, compulsory snow shovels, stuffing of goose and fir trees between compulsory tinsel and fire protection insurance. Accompanied by Peter Grabinger on the grand piano, she strolls through the winter wonderland of pop, jazz and chanson from her own pen and also presents Christmas classics she has arranged.
In addition, there are other cultural events this week that are not so Christmassy, such as the concert by the Arcis Saxophone Quartet in Brunnthal on Thursday, December 22nd, or the show “The whole world is sky blue” in Garching on Friday, December 23rd December: Members of the Freies Landestheater Bayern perform “Popular melodies from operettas and films” here. And then? “I personally agree with Karl Valentin,” says Haar’s theater manager Riedel-Rüppel, “and when the stagnant time is over, things will calm down again!”
Tickets are available on the websites of the town halls, cultural centers and theaters mentioned.