Politics and cabaret are traditionally closely linked in Bavaria. That doesn’t mean that everything the state government and parliament do is particularly funny. For example, if a Green MP absolutely has to smoke a joint on the state parliament grounds, then it’s not that funny, it’s more childish. Even though the Bavarian state government is doing everything it can to provide comedians – nationwide – with a whole load of punchlines when it comes to the fight against cannabis legalization. Well, it’s more like jokes, it’s not particularly profound.
In Bavaria alone, generations of cabaret artists would certainly have starved without politics – mainly that of the CSU, even if Hubert Aiwanger (FW) has increasingly made his contribution in recent years. Conversely, being regularly exposed is part of the profile of a successful politician. A politician actually, women are underrepresented on one side and on the other.
Nockherberg, Maibock, Franconian Carnival, the audience has long expected that politics is suitable for humorous processing on such occasions.
Good for the politician who can do it himself and doesn’t have to subject himself to the comedic talent of others. Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich occasionally appears as a cabaret artist, as does Green Party parliamentary group deputy Johannes Becher. The SPD even used to have its own cabaret group. No, not because they had more to laugh about.
The former Finance Minister Kurt Faltlhauser achieved the greatest prominence. He didn’t need a cabaret artist at the legendary Maibock tapping in the Hofbräuhaus, he did it himself. And not worse.
Finance Minister Albert Füracker is not pushing forward like Faltlhauser once did, but as the only minister with his own departmental stage and a huge hall, he would be ill-advised to let this opportunity pass by. He didn’t either and at the recent Maibock tapping there were guests who laughed more at the finance minister than at the main comedian.
Hofbräuhaus owner Füracker left the traditional entry into the hall with a brass band to Prime Minister Markus Söder. That wouldn’t have occurred to him when he was still finance minister, he moved in himself. With the stage, no one can do it better.