Yes, musicians, they do it easily. Meet, play with each other, see that instruments and voices harmonize well, choose a few titles, and the program is ready. You have to feel something similar with the guitarist, actor, cabaret artist and Nockherberg-Söder double Stephan Zinner and first with Kofelgschroa, now introduce successful accordionist and songwriter Maxi Pongratz on a solo path. The Trostberger and the Oberammergauer were quickly on the same wavelength, and then Pongratz had “Barbara” in the program, this wonderful Georg Kreisler song about the advantages of the dream world. “I liked that so much that I said, let’s collect other Kreisler items,” says Zinner. And the Kreisler evening, which the two now presented in the Lustspielhaus, was finished.
Almost reassuring that it’s not that easy after all. Many Kreisler songs are linguistically so demanding and so pianistic that they were ruled out for both of them from the start. And they voluntarily renounced the best known, such as “pigeon poisoning”. Some things then worked well. For example alternating with “My wife wants to leave me”. It was wise to incorporate pieces such as “Sport is healthy” or the “Capitalist song” into anecdotes by Zinner. The buddy principle also worked: Zinner was the verbose conferencier, Pongratz the taciturn counterpart – but who then gave the quick-talk tongue twister “My freedom, your freedom”. Other things didn’t work out like that, for example the unmotivated “Macky Messer” before the break. And finally, that must also be said, you noticed a certain drop in some of the interspersed pieces of your own when they directly followed a Kreisler song.