Biting and cynical in the moderation, poetic-melancholic in the songs: the musical roller coaster ride, enriched with ambiguous wit, forms the basis of Tina Teubner’s cabaret. She describes herself as a “gifted melancholic with a tendency towards humorous solutions”. As a cabaret artist and musician, she has been performing on large and small stages for many years. She comes with her current program “It was always so beautiful without you”. on March 3rd at the Lustspielhaus.
Monday: Poetic regulars’ table
Andrea Limmer performs at the Poetenstammtisch in the Theater im Fraunhofer.
(Photo: Joachim Gabbert)
When I read the word “Munich” in my tour schedule, my Cologne heart beats with joy: For me, Munich is not only one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but also one of the liveliest. Especially when it comes to the cabaret scene. I’ve been able to play here again and again since the mid-1990s and have met great people. You Bavarians can call us “Zuagroaste” a thousand times – if you welcome Zuagroaste in such a nice way, I’m happy to be one of them. At that time it was the Fraunhofer where I was up to mischief, sometimes for six weeks at a time – and so I am particularly pleased to read that the Poetenstammtisch takes place right there tonight at 8:03 p.m. What could be better in these times than people who put their hearts and brains on the table and do not need more than a chair and a microphone. How does the Cologne native say it? “There simmer with it!”
Tuesday: Hello!
As always with great physical effort: Sigi Zimmerschied at the premiere of his new program “Dopplerleben”.
(Photo: Oliver Hochkeppel)
When I’m on the road, I always have a folding bike with me. Because there is no better way to get to know a city than by bike. On my first day off in Munich, I race down Leopoldstrasse from my domicile in Schwabing, towards the city, past the university, in the direction of Marienplatz, Viktualienmarkt: catching scraps of language, loden hats count, eat white sausages as a part-time vegetarian. That’s pretty close to happiness. Especially since I’m really looking forward to tonight: I’ll go to the Lustspielhaus, where we’ll be torching our punch line fireworks next Friday. Today Sigi Zimmerschied plays his program “Dopplerleben”. I’m not exaggerating when I say that this man was a landslide for me as a young cabaret artist. I saw him for the first time in 1999 with his program “Ihobs”: a grandiose reckoning with the cultural scene, which deeply impressed and shaped me. Sigi – I adore you!
Wednesday: Reading, writing, meeting friends
The exhibition “Simone de Beauvoir & the opposite sex” sheds light on the importance of the writer and philosopher for the present.
(Photo: Gallimard/Collection Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir)
Whenever I’m in Munich privately, I always stay at the Mariandl on Goethestrasse. I like the creaky wooden floors and the beguilingly beautiful café, which reminds me of the coffee houses of my student days in Vienna. Today I will spend the day there: reading, writing, meeting friends, checking the quality of the complex cake buffet from time to time – a challenge I will face. At half past five I cycle to the Literaturhaus, where there is a guided tour of the exhibition “Simone de Beauvoir & the opposite sex” at 6 p.m. And because I can’t get enough, I make sure I’m at the clubhouse on Occamstrasse at 7:30 p.m. At “Reading for Beer” David Müller and Sophie Meinecke read texts that we bring with us: shopping lists, poems, instructions for use. The applause decides which was better: the text or the lecture. Whoever wins gets a beer. This will be fun!
Thursday: Melancholy with humor
Philipp Moschitz in the monologue “All the beautiful” in the Metropoltheater.
(Photo: Jean-Marc Turmes)
When I get to know new cities, I am always drawn to the side streets, I pop into remote cafés, comb through the suburbs, because you often get a better sense of the soul of a city in the remote than in the highly polished splendor. Likewise, the independent theaters often interest me more than all the Milan Scalas in the world. For this evening I will secure a ticket at the Metropoltheater. “All the Beautiful” is on the schedule: a monologue by Duncan Macmillan about depression, what makes life so despairing and what makes it so wonderful. As a studied melancholic with a strong tendency towards humorous solutions, I have to see that.
Friday: Guest performance in Schwabing
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Today is the day – I can make the audience happy. I’ve been on tour for more than 30 years and there are a damn few evenings when I’m not as happy as Bolle: to my audience, to the seething that only cabaret has in store, the fast, the crazy, the basic constructive. Which art form actually still bothers to wring punch lines out of our crazy world? At 8 p.m. we play in the Lustspielhaus our program “It was always so beautiful without you”, the world’s most beautiful theater, run by the world’s most warm-hearted, visionary team. Before that I can be seen live from 6 p.m. on the evening show of Bavarian television. And after the performance in the Lustspielhaus, I’ll stagger into the clubhouse and hopefully meet a few colleagues. Or I get to know YOU. That’s exactly how it will be.
Saturday: Adventures in the head
“Max Beckmann. Departure” is the name of an exhibition in the Pinakothek der Moderne. The photo shows Max and Quappi Beckmann on vacation (1934).
(Photo: Bavarian State Painting Collections, Max Beckmann Archive, Max Beckmann Estate)
My penultimate day in Munich. There is an exhibition in the Pinakothek der Moderne that interests me greatly: “Max Beckmann. Departure”. I love departures and travel – and if I hadn’t had the annoying experience early on that I was there myself on my travels, I would be on the road even more. Sometimes the adventures in your head or on paper can be the most successful. The night before I’m going to visit a theater that I’ve had my sights on for a long time. When I used to play in the laugh and shoot, my view from the guest apartment always fell on the TamStheater, which is opposite. Year after year I thought, “Man, that’s where you want to go.” Today the time has come: “A few people are looking for happiness and laugh themselves to death”. A reading based on a novel by Sibylle Berg. I hope I will laugh and stay alive. So that I can come back
Sunday: Enjoyment without regrets
Breakfast at Café Morso on Elisabethstrasse.
(Photo: Stephan Rumpf)
That’s the mean thing about this city: I already know that I’ll be homesick in the Rhineland for the next week. I will miss the Bavarian language, the warm-heartedness, the hearty, the splendor, the caraway bread, the knowledge of the mountains, the lakes. I will regret that I didn’t cycle through the English Garden again and instead saw all my friends again (I won’t regret that!). Now take everything with you again! Extensive breakfast at Café Morso on Elisabethstrasse (you can only find better coffee and tastier cornetti in Italy!). And because I still haven’t had enough, in the evening in the Herkulessaal I listen to Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, among other things, performed by the Neue Philharmonie München with Sophia Herbig. That really brings back a lot of memories, because I played this piece countless years ago, when I was studying violin for my exams. I’ll fall into bed a little wistful. Because the beautiful week is over. But then I’ll say to myself: “Nonsense! You can only come back if you leave.”
Tina Teubner studied music therapy in Vienna, later violin at the music academies in Düsseldorf and Münster. She gained her first stage experience as a musician at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. She began singing at the age of 25 and in 1993 in Berlin was awarded first prize in the “Federal Competition for Musicals/Chansons”. Since then she has written many of her own stage programs, which she describes as “songs, cabaret and nonsense” and with which she performs in German-speaking countries. Teubner received, among other things, the German cabaret prize and the German cabaret prize. She also wrote the educational guide “Men need limits” and has a weekly column for Hessischer Rundfunk.