A sadistic headmaster who is suddenly dead, a bone-dry commissioner, her naive employee – and four friends who seem to be connected by a dark secret: the eight-part mini-series “Days That Didn’t Exist” has potential for addiction. It is wonderfully black, full of Austrian wit and played convincingly. Among others by Franziska Hackl. The Viennese actress has been living in Munich for three years belongs to the ensemble of the Residenztheater. Friends of Büchner can experience her there in the long-running theater hit “Woyzeck”, friends of bizarre comedy should come watch the TV series in the media library.
Monday: Off to the countryside
Some love it, others hate it: wild garlic is also known as wild garlic.
(Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa)
Easter week will be a busy one for me, so I’ll take it all the more leisurely. Probably in the countryside, most likely in the Nymphenburg Palace Park. There I finally get around to collecting something green, namely wild garlic, which usually ends up in my kitchen as pesto. After that I drink my beloved “Beaver Coffee” in the beloved Café Westend, before I go for an ice cream with the bigger of the little people entrusted to me in the “Punto Gelato”. The most delicious that I know here in Munich. Sun or not.
Tuesday: Homage to a Feminist
Tirelessly writing: Simone de Beauvoir 1945.
(Photo: Collection Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Gallimard/Collection Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir)
After a rehearsal in the Residenztheater for the revival of a fantastic classic – I won’t reveal more here – I’m pretty sure I’ll treat myself to a fish soup “to go” from Pegasus at the Viktualienmarkt. I love this place very much anyway, I (mostly) enjoy the hustle and bustle, the delicacies and often a liver patty. This time, however, it will probably be the fish, to celebrate work. After that, I walk a wide berth around the Kustermann housewares store, since the kitchen is already full of wonderful and wondrous things, and better still make a detour to the House of Literature to see the exhibition “Simone de Beauvoir and the Second Sex”. She has initiated so much, the great one, so much is still not finished.
Wednesday: Art that touches
Charlotte Salomon: “Gouache from ‘Life? or Theater?'” (1940-1942), Collection Jewish Museum Amsterdam.
(Photo: Charlotte Salomon Foundation)
After I’ve recited enough text on Wednesday morning (admittedly quite great ones), I won’t leave it at that and just spend my afternoon at home, but in the Lenbachhaus, where there is an exhibition of the wonderful and so shamefully murdered Charlotte Solomon gives. Your work touches me deeply. And because it’s close by then and as a Viennese I need nice coffee houses like others need their treadmill, there’s coffee and cake in Café Jasmin. Coffee and cake, however, is very German.
Thursday: Dizzying return
After a two-year break, it’s back at the Residenztheater: “Woyzeck” with Franziska Hackl.
(Photo: Sandra Then)
Today, a long family walk to the small but fine weekly market on Georg-Freundorfer-Platz in the Schwanthalerhöhe will and should do. I usually buy fish, apples and fantastic quark balls. Now I’ll also reveal my cultural program for this evening: After a two-year break, we’re taking up “Woyzeck” again at the Residenztheater. I play Marie and will, as always, fervently hope that my rope will hold. The height, the music and the upper bodies of the colleagues are dizzying. TOI Toi Toi! For me too.
Good Friday: Bright joy in Hellabrunn
Meerkats are curious fellows. Two years ago, they were among the animals that were allowed to take part in the traditional Easter egg hunt at Hellabrunn Zoo. There will be no egg hunt this year, but there will be other Easter promotions.
(Photo: Marc Müller)
Towards the end of the week and because it’s a public holiday – by the way, the first of only two a year when the theater is closed – things get more comfortable again. Although, is that really the right word? I would like to go to Hellabrunn with the whole family. It would also be cowardly to go there when everyone has to work or go to school. In the evening then again demanding and historical: The St. John Passion by JS Bach under the direction of Ton Koopman in the Isarphilharmonie. Formally so closed that it’s weird again. What a wonderful thing for lovers. My mom is like that, she gets the second card.
Saturday: Rest in the abstract
Many colors, abstract forms: works by Cy Twombly.
(Photo: Florian Peljak)
Ever since we moved to Munich, I have wanted to visit the Brandhorst Museum. Lots of colors, abstract shapes, calm: Cy Twombly will be just the right thing for me and the smaller of the little people entrusted to me this Saturday. After that, a traditional Swiss braided dough wants to be kneaded for the next day. Everyone has to do it, and if you feel creative today, you might make a rabbit out of it, which then looks like a pig again anyway. In the evening, the grown-ups go to Resi and approach Büchner again.
Easter Sunday: egg hunt and Valentine
The “Valentiniade” at the Residenztheater: scene with Nicola Mastroberardino and Isabell Antonia Höckel.
(Photo: Birgit Hupfeld)
For me, the highlight of Easter week has always been Sunday. Brunch and egg hunts fill most of the day, especially now that I have kids to take on the latter. The first item on the program, brunch in peace, is shortened enormously. Wait, maybe we’ll just reverse the plan this year. I’m still pondering, everyone should finally get their money’s worth. Or everything, brunch and eggs are packed and come to the Isar as a picnic. That’s often not far in Munich. Lucky. For the evening (because I’ll finally be spending it at home again) I still have a warm recommendation, I’ve already watched it enthusiastically myself: The Valentiniade with my great colleagues in the Residenztheater. Either way, a really special week ends there in a special city that I still get to know every day.
Franziska Hackl was born in Vienna and trained there at the renowned Max Reinhardt Seminar. After stints in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, she moved to Munich in 2019 and is a member of the ensemble at the Residenztheater. Her successes in theater are complemented by roles in film and television. Hackl can currently be seen in the ARD series “Days that didn’t exist”, in which she plays one of the main roles.