The wild hunt begins again: one woman, two men, 17 roles in Ratatata! The Really True Story of Bonnie & Clyde. With this excursion into the tabloid subject, Michael Altinger, Constanze Lindner and Alexander Liegl fulfilled a wish last year: a continuation of the Bonnie and Clyde myth that comes across as wonderfully crazy. Michael Altinger is currently rehearsing with his colleagues in the Lustspielhaus, because the comedy spectacle can be seen there again until mid-August.
Monday: Funny gangster trio
They shoot the bird off: Michael Altinger, Constanze Lindner and Alexander Liegl continue to tell the Bonnie and Clyde myth.
(Photo: Martina Bogdahn)
Great anticipation! It starts on Wednesday with “Ratatata!”. Together with Constanze Lindner and Alex Liegl, the three of us slip into 19 roles and bring a wild comedy spectacle on the stage of the Lustspielhaus. But we can redecorate it today and tomorrow into a dodgy crime scene or a “speakeasy”, i.e. a prohibition bar with smart and of course secretive waitresses, where you can enjoy “Spaghetti Capone”, “Black Jack Sandwich” but also drinks like “Bullets over Broadway “, “Shoot out” or “Slot machine”. And after the work is done? Monday is still cinema day. And what Marcus H. Rosenmüller offers us with “Welcome to Siegheilkirchen” is a wonderfully funny malice from the universe of Manfred Deix, in which there are no beautiful people, but all the more real ones.
Tuesday: Festival in Ebersberg
Evening atmosphere in the Ebersberg monastery building yard: the two-week, free festival “Kulturfeuer 2022” with concerts and gastronomy will be held there until the end of July.
(Photo: Peter Hinz-Rosin)
Today we meet in the redesigned comedy house for a run-through rehearsal. Better safe than sorry. Many Velcro fasteners want to be opened more quickly, so many stage performances have to be memorized again because colleagues are always attached to this one passage. I’m stuck somewhere else. And Gabi Rothmüller, our director, unfortunately notices all of this. And then she builds me a bridge. A suspension bridge. But then it’s off to the air. And why not to the Ebersberger Luft, the “Pearl of Munich East”? For there burns the two-week festival”Culture Fire 2022″. From July 20th to 31st, it offers an exciting open-air program for free and outdoors in the very atmospheric, venerable Ebersberg monastery building yard. To beer, spices and a fire bowl is playing today Jeremiah’s Life and Death Orchestra. Blues, rock, melancholy, world pain and sometimes the singer and guitarist Jeremy Teigan sounds more like Tom Waits than Waits himself.
Wednesday: Carousel of Thoughts
Let’s start tonight Ratata!”. Until the Lustspielhaus lights up and we glow, the same questions always go through our heads: Can we three fools play our 19 roles? Are we putting the wigs on the right way round? Is the middle door stuck? Will the heavy gun fall on my foot again? Do I have to laugh when Constanze grins? To calm the merry-go-round of thoughts, I walk through the English Garden again and try to resist any temptation to sit down at a beer table with a fresh beer. And at the latest when this evening you can hear this giggling at the Lustspielhaus tables, which bursts out and simply cannot be controlled, all questions will be answered anyway. Then there’s a special drink for us too, maybe the “shoot out”. Let’s see who from the audience dares to toast with us.
Thursday: In football fever
Alt-punk and football fan: Campino, the lead singer of Toten Hosen, wrote the book “Hope Street – How I once became an English champion”.
(Photo: Sven Hoppe/dpa)
Before the next performance I need a bit of distraction for my head. So I put it in the book. Even if Boris Johnson is “gone”, or perhaps because of it, Ian McEwan’s book “The Cockroach” is a great read. In it, the British ex-Prime Minister is almost deciphered described as a former insect. Kafka’s Metamorphosis the other way around. A wonderful, clever satire. Also as holiday reading for the coming big holidays. And while we’re on the subject of England: From Campino, the singer of the dead pants, the book “Hope Street” is still on my bedside table. Among other things, it is about Liverpool FC and the madness that only a real football fan can indulge in. This madness is great fun, especially for a fan of the Munich Lions.
Friday: Painting cartoonist
Rudi Hurzlmeier’s picture show “The wide field of unreasonableness” will be shown in the Buchheim Museum until September 25th.
(Photo: Franz Xaver Fuchs)
I’m going to the lake today! To the lake! To Lake Starnberg! And there I take the ship to Bernried. Because in the Buchheim Museum there Rudi Hurzlmeier, the painting cartoonist and cartoonizing painter, is exhibiting. The retrospective “The wide field of unreasonableness” is big and colourful, crazy and surreal and funny and scary. All very close to real life. A joy. You can let the many impressions sink in when you look out over Lake Starnberg from the terrace there. Probably with a cool drink today. It gets a bit bitter for me in the evening. Don’t get me wrong: I really enjoy being on stage at the Lustspielhaus today. But at the same time, Borussia from Dortmund is playing against my heart club in the Grünwalder Stadion. I even have a card. My son will get it today. I wish him that he experiences a historic high point in the history of the lion. And at the next DFB Cup final in Berlin I’ll be back with the sixties.
Saturday: Satire classics
The tragic comedy “India” by and with Alfred Dorfer (left) and Josef Hader has cult status. Director Heiko Dietz and Uwe Kosubek are staging the film in the Undsofort theater.
(Photo: imago images / United Archives)
After a nice breakfast and a thorough read of the newspaper (especially the sports section) in my favorite hangout, the “Café am Josephsplatz”, I’ll treat myself to a bit of rest today to be fit for the fourth and final performance of the week at the Lustspielhaus. If I weren’t on stage myself, I would probably be in the “Theater … and so on”, that’s where they play “India“. Some fans know the Austrian tragic comedy, originally from 1993 by and with Josef Hader and Alfred Dorfer, almost by heart. Director Heiko Dietz and Uwe Kosubek build their own India in front of us. Funny, touching and evil. This very likeable stage in the Hinterbärenbadstraße surprises me again and again with world premieres, rarely played pieces, but also with this satirical classic.
Sunday: Pub hopping
One of Michael Altinger’s favorite bars is “Agnes Neun” in Schwabing.
(Photo: Florian Peljak)
Actually, Sunday is a difficult day, because the wonderful pub “Agnes Neun” (that’s on Agnesstraße and has the house number… sorry, I just didn’t want to give rise to any misunderstandings.) isn’t open. But today I’m going to try hopping in the Schanigarten. It’s very relaxed on the Schwanthalerhöhe. There they are practically next to each other. And then Munich shines a little again.
Michael, called Michi, Altinger was born in Landshut in 1970. He grew up and lives near Wasserburg am Inn. The graduate social worker and father of two children has been a cabaret artist with various solo programs throughout the German-speaking world since 1995. The former member of the ensemble of the laughing and shooting society has been the host of the “Schlachthof” program on Bavarian television since 2013 and has appeared as an actor in various series and films, for example with the “Rosenheim Cops”, “Soko Munich” or the “Kaiser from Schexing”. Since 2013 he has been the host of the cabaret show “Schlachthof” together with Christian Springer.