Only the tough come into the garden: the Starnberg Open Air is sometimes a tough test for the visitors. This also applies to the start of the new Eberhofer thriller “Guglhupfgeschwader”.
(Photo: Nila Thiel)
A warm summer breeze blows through the rows, the setting sun paints the sky red, and you can hear the water of Lake Starnberg rippling softly in front of the oversized cinema screen. That’s how it should have been, but even if open-air boss Matthias Helwig imploredly preached the “wonderful summer” – at the start of the open-air cinema on the lawn of the Starnberg seaside resort, it was mainly the rain that splashed.
The die-hard open-air cinema fans didn’t let that spoil their mood. True to the motto “There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes”, they had equipped themselves. For example the group in row one. The visitors laid the picnic blanket with the water-repellent side on the film festival deckchairs and built a real caravan with other blankets, rain capes and umbrellas. A few chairs further, “yellow bags” were rededicated as functional clothing. Slits for the head and arms and another sack wrapped around the feet – done. The remaining sacks on the roll were distributed generously on all sides. A few rows away, a few visitors with blue garbage bags did the same.
Helwig can be softened and invites you to the dry cinema
It had to be so much effort, after all, Helwig had promised a special film for the premiere of the open-air cinema. “Guglhupfgeschwader”, the eighth part of the Eberhofer thrillers after “Dampfnudelblues”, “Winterkartoffelknödel”, “Schweinskopf al dente”, “Grießnockerlaffäre”, “Sauerkrautkoma”, “Leberkäsjunkie” and “Kaiserschmarrndrama”https://www.sueddeutsche.de /muenchen/starnberg/. “They are the second to see the film,” explained Helwig. The strip had premiered in Munich the day before. It will officially hit the cinemas on August 4th. Before the start of the film, the actors Leopold (Gerhard Wittmann) and Franz Eberhofer (Sebastian Bezzel) aimed the shotgun and pistol at the audience on the still image of the Starnberg screen, next to them Lisa Maria Potthoff (“Susi”) swung the spade to the blow .
Around 9 p.m. dusk set in, it rained harder and puddles formed on the unoccupied chairs. Although the program said that the cinema would only be used in the event of technical problems, Helwig showed understanding and invited everyone who was too badly affected by the weather to the dry Starnberg cinema.
This is how it can be endured to some extent: open-air visitors in blue garbage bags.
(Photo: Nila Thiel)
The living “yellow sack” accepted the offer immediately, a few minutes later the “garbage bag” on legs and those who had only provisionally stocked up on whatever umbrellas and jackets had been found in the car. About 70 people stayed behind. Some had sat down with their chairs under the big trees, which kept the rain off a little, the others defied the weather with several warming layers, over which rain ponchos were pulled and umbrellas held. The popcorn was protected from the wet, the drinks were protected against watering down. After the greetings of the conductor Anton Bernhard from the amateur orchestra “Philharmonie Starnberger See”, whom Helwig had won as a film sponsor, the adventures from Niederkaltenkirchen began around policeman Eberhofer, his always insulted friend Rudi (Simon Schwarz), girlfriend Susi, the heating bungler Ignatz Flötzinger ( Daniel Christensen) in his inimitable underwear and the resolute grandma (85-year-old Enzi Fuchs). The audience celebrated the “newcomers”, the Lotto-Otto (Johannes Berzl) – winning the lottery is the theme of the film – and the three-legged dog “Hinkelotta” in the best of moods. The dog Joker, who played “Ludwig” in the film, died last year.
“Guglhupfgeschwader” runs five more times to the open air. The next date is August 4th, director Ed Herzog has confirmed that he will be there that evening. Info and tickets: www.fsff.de.