“There is nothing worse on stage than a musician”, Johannes Ulrich Arndt once said. And he had to know. After all, he was the technician at the Fraunhofer Theater for 40 years. As such, in addition to numerous cabaret artists, he had seen enough musicians of whom he claimed: “It’s bad enough that they can’t hear each other,” they often brought way too many accessories with them. When asked about a third microphone, he would have answered the question with a decided “Hamma ned” often enough. After all, it is not asking too much of artists if they can prove their skills without too much “technical bells and whistles”, said Hans, as everyone called him, and pointed out: “What would they have done in the Middle Ages? “
Nevertheless, most of the artists who performed at Fraunhofer appreciated the Grantler. “If he liked you, he could be very helpful,” recalls the musician and filmmaker Michaila Kühnemann at the beginning of this year, for example Hans Arndt died at the age of 72. How close the death of the technician came to her, the Violist Evi Keglmaier had already attested “a very rough shell around a very delicate child’s soul” is meanwhile a song which Die Kühnemann, as Michaila Kühnemann calls herself as an artist, recorded months after Arndt’s funeral for the missing house technician. She was supported by other musicians such as tuba and trombonist Marion Dimbath, violinist Maria Hafner and accordion player Sandra Hollstein.
Boris Ruge also provided the song with a few guitar tracks. And all those involved had a video recorded one after the other in an empty Fraunhofer theater due to the corona. Only the Munich bar choir sang its part due to the space rules in the more spacious comedy theater. The result is the musical obituary “Ein Lied Für Hans”, which is now available as a video on YouTube. “It can’t go on without you, nothing will work here without you,” sings Die Kühnemann. Because that applies to many employees in the concert industry who are not in the limelight, Kühnemann dedicates the song to “all of the Hans Arndts of the cabaret”. And that is nice.