From
Alexander Menden
Oh yes, one thinks: Gerhard Schröder was once something other than a stubborn Putin understander and the most embarrassing member of the SPD. On the stage of Depot 1 of the Schauspiel Köln, admiring crowds gather around a huge, enlarged cardboard face of the former Brioni chancellor, who is being carried around on a pole like a fetishistic lollipop. “Because of the office of Federal Chancellor, he seemed four times as voluminous physically and about forty times more attractive in terms of charisma,” explains the industrialist’s wife Kate Assperg languidly. Anja Laïs plays this character with borderline hysterical dominance, who in her soirees, dressed like Queen Mum, subtly redistributes the manager hierarchies of Assperg AG again and again. But with Schröder she becomes weak. That power!