Not only have they both been among the most popular and successful cabaret artists in the country for many years, they are also pioneers of television humor: The Upper Bavarian Luise Kinseher, for example as the first penitential preacher and “Mama Bavaria” at Nockherberg as with many other formats. And the Franconian Frank-Markus Barwasser aka Erwin Pelzig as a member of the first ZDF “Anstalt”, but also with his cabaret talk shows. Now both return to the screen almost quietly and secretly with new formats.
“Three-to-one“is the motto of Luise Kinseher, and unlike in the male-dominated cabaret scene, women are in the majority here. Kinseher invites two female colleagues to the 45-minute program projected with four episodes per year (two are already in Box), plus a male surprise guest whose identity no one else knows, neither the audience nor her female guests.
Each of their guests gets a solo performance, after which they chat together. Almost a female “Ottis Schlachthof”, so to speak, if the program hadn’t been recorded in the “Alm” in Munich-Riem and if it weren’t for the slots that Kinseher has stipulated for itself. For one of her most popular characters, the always slightly fancy “Mary from Bavary”, and for the new character of the stationery dealer Renate Lallinger. This is fed into the recorded programs: “It was very important to me that the opportunity to go into the latest news remains,” says Kinseher.
Otherwise, a rather timeless topic provides the framework. The first episode is about digitization, about incapacitation from one’s own car or the hopeless dependence on the smartphone, for example. In addition to the male surprise guest, who is only known to be from Vienna, the guests are the Oberhausen grande dame of German cabaret, Gerburg Jahnke, known for her duo “Missfits” and thanks to her long-term program “Ladies Night” in the first , and the Bavarian bundle of energy Constanze Lindner, popular as a member of “Die Komiker” and as a presenter from the clubhouse. The episode will be broadcast on Thursday, December 9th, at 9 p.m. on BR TV. Like the following, it will be kept in the BR media library for a year.
In the episode “Shit Future”, an avatar robot at the University of Bonn copies all the movements that Erwin Pelzig shows him.
(Photo: ZDF and Cathy Guilleux / Group 5 film production)
The media library, more precisely that of 3sat, is also the place where you can discover the latest prank by Frank-Markus Barwasser alias Erwin Pelzig. Or rather, since the producing ZDF has created the three-part series “At Pelzig’s on the bench“Deported to 3sat and sold far below its value. How much was made clear a few weeks ago by the subsequent awarding of the Dieter Hildebrandt Prize to Frank-Markus Barwasser. Laudator Oliver Welke praised him as Germany’s best talk show host and lamented painfully, that Barwasser has given up the corresponding formats “Attention – Pelzig is entertaining” (from 1998 on in BR) and “Pelzig is holding” on ZDF in 2015. A successor is a real desideratum, he concluded – and like most of them did not know that it was There is one: Just “Bei Pelzig auf der Bank”, where Barwasser straps a folding bench with a mobile punch set onto his men’s bike and cycles through the republic to listen and ask questions. Inspired by the so-called “friendship benches” in Zimbabwe where wise women sit ready for people with worries.
The goal: to bring out what is bare of the guests
“Mind you! I’m listening!” is now on a board next to Barwasser’s bench. He cycled three episodes, with both arranged and spontaneous conversations on three topics: “Fucking Corona”, “Fucking Democracy” and “Fucking Future” – all of which were sent on 3sat on December 1st, one after the other. At least all of them can be seen in the media library for a long time. And you should definitely treat yourself to fun, exciting and educational fun. Because this time again, Barwasser uses his apparently harmless and less well-equipped furry as bait, in order to lure the bare-bones out of his guests. Even if less confrontational than before. Neither with celebrities like the cook and MEP Sarah Wiener, the theologian Margot Käßmann or the scientist and TV presenter Harald Lesch. Even with the “completely normal” people represented here in large numbers, including one of the first German Covid patients, a student who sees her generation being forgotten by politics, or a stand builder whose company went bankrupt due to the virus – but which is now extremely high successfully burns gin.
In the rain on the bike: Frank-Markus Barwasser alias Erwin Pelzig gives himself nothing.
(Photo: ZDF and Adnane Korchyou / Group 5 film production)
Pelzig even lets a corona denier take a seat and explain his (wrong) path. When, when asked about the many dead, there was denial, Barwasser / Pelzig said goodbye to him immediately and let him “move into the dark realm of madness” unmoved, as it says in his new stage program. The format also allows him to incorporate research, studies and statistics – for example on women in politics when he speaks to the young SPD candidate for the Bundestag, Rasha Nasr. And he affords himself a very personal review at the end of the day. TV as it can be and should be much more often.
“Dreizueins”, Thursday, December 9th, 9 pm, BR television; “When furry on the bench”, three episodes, 3sat, www.3sat.de/kabarett/beim-pelzig