There won’t be anything new in cabaret from the big establishments in the next few weeks. Some of them have already had their premieres recently. It is now mainly young people who need to be discovered, and once again they are Austrians. On Pentecost Sunday, May 19th, comedy house Dr. Bohl guest from Vienna with the German premiere of their second program “Anabohlika”.
Paulus and Benjamin Bohl have presented themselves as a kind of Austrian version of Lutz van der Horst and Fabian Köster with stunt comedy reports from the Opera Ball, for example, or completely faked surveys on topics of their generation such as “student vacation plans” or “best school memories”. gained a huge fan base in their homeland. This should and could now spill over into Bavaria, after all, kitchen scrapers as microphone replacements are funny here and there.
After that, also with one Germany premiere, Dave & Jan with their program “Ein Miststück” on the move. Behind this is, on the one hand, David Scheid, who is no longer completely unknown since his successes at the Grazer Kleinkunstvogel and Passau Executioner’s Beil with his unique DJ cabaret. On the other hand, Jan Frankl, who made a name for himself as the director of productions such as “We State Artists”, “Ostrowski goes on holiday”, “Die Tagespresse” as well as advertising and music videos for national and international artists and companies. And now directly involved with “Dave”. However, you can only see the two in the additional performance on May 23rd; the premiere on May 22nd is already sold out.
Let’s move on to the next Austrian David Stockenreiter, who secured the big executioner’s ax last December with a brilliant short appearance in Passau. In the Clubhouse You can see his complete program “El Disablo – A Cripple Game” on June 4th, in which the man from Villach deals with his physical disability in a confidently self-ironic, rousingly macabre, socio-politically overbuilt and, above all, hilarious way.
Right next door comedy house and for three days straight before that, from June 1st to 3rd, is the latest Insta and Tiktok phenomenon Connie From The Block to see. The Berlin administrative officer with an unknown real name had been so successful in creating office types using image filters during the Corona period that she can now bring it live to the stages of the republic. Experience-based civil service cabaret, which the title sums up well: “I’m not responsible for that, Mausi”.
Still young, but already established – as her appearance on the TV show “LOL” proves Tahnee. Now the Cologne native has teamed up with Juliette Schoppmann for a few evenings. You can “feel pleasure” together on June 6th Leo17 marvel. No longer a newcomer at all, but inexplicably still has insider tip status Michael Krebs. The Swabian, who has lived in Berlin for a long time and is also the musical director of Marc-Uwe Kling’s bands, will also be on May 24th slaughterhouse prove that he is one of the best musical cabaret artists in the scene.
Surprisingly, the insider tip status somehow also applies to Ulan Bator, although the leading absurdists (and winners of the German Cabaret Prize 2022) Frank Smilgies and Sebastian Rüger have already caused a sensation solo and as former members of the laughter and shooting ensemble. Long awaited by their fans, it’s coming up on May 25th comedy house finally the world premiere of their new program “Unsinn” is on the docket.