What an event, this Berni Wagner! Like a force of nature, the young Upper Austrian comes over the audience in the sold-out clubhouse. In row one you wish for an umbrella when the stage sports berserker up there like the hellhound gives Cerberus gas and the monkey sugar.
The 32-year-old ex-punker plays his program “Galapagos”, which is celebrated throughout Austria, with skin and hair and rightly so, which was awarded the Austrian cabaret prize last year. In general, the D’Artagnan lookalike is early on in terms of career: at 22 first cabaret program, at 24 the first award with the Grazer Kleinkunstvogel, at 25 appearances as part of “Hader & Friends”, at 27 winning the executioner’s hatchet, with 30 already the fourth solo program and with 31 Austrian cabaret prize.
He also studied biology on the side, specializing in “music perception in animals/bio-acoustics”. human/nature. A topic that he doesn’t have exclusively, of course, but the way he brings it to the people is quite unique.
In an urban outdoor poncho with a camouflage look, Schlaks is standing there, reporting on shopping in the organic market (vegan organic dinosaur nuggets!), which he has to do for his ecofluencer girlfriend. It’s not far from the nuggets to the nuclear structure of the universe and the other big questions: Of course we live in a relationship with nature, but what if nature breaks up with us? In addition to all the jokes and wild grimaces, Wagner manages to make you think about our existence, even with phrases like this one: Life is like a little economics student – he’s only interested in growth. It will be interesting to see in which direction this Berni Wagner will grow.