The award-winning cabaret artist Christine Eixenberger is performing her program “Einbildungsfreiheit” in November for a good cause in the Silver Hall of the Deutsches Theater. The proceeds from the cabaret evening will benefit the sunshine campaign, which has been campaigning for the inclusion of disabled children for more than 50 years.
This news does not come from a few days after people with disabilities took to the streets in Munich to demonstrate against the demands of AfD man Björn Höcke. In an interview with WDR, he called for inclusion to be ended in schools, saying it was “ideology” and slowing down the schools’ performance.
Eixenberger, who used to be a teacher herself, recently took on a sponsorship for a theater project, the “Mon-Theatre” of Aktion Sonnenschein. “Passion, individuality, curiosity, cohesion and the necessary mischievousness. I see all of this when I look into the eyes of the children and teachers who make the Mon Theater what it is,” she writes in the commemorative publication on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sunshine campaign. “You, dear Mon-Theater, write cohesion in spite of all adversities. That’s what it takes, especially in these wild times, in which hatred, agitation, fear and insecurity seem to have the upper hand.”
Advance sales for Eixenberger’s benefit performance have already begun. The program is about citizens and damsels, the power of the markets and Eixenberger’s search for the mystical, most Bavarian of all places: the “dahoam”. In their involuntary apartment search, they then ensnare real estate agents and homeowners, all of whom behave like the feudal lords of a bygone era. She fearlessly encounters the “would-be monarchs of modern times”. And the home she means is just as little backward-looking.
Christine Eixenberger: Freedom of imagination, charity cabaret in aid of the sunshine campaign Thursday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m. German Theater, Silver Hall