The Distel cabaret theater is celebrating 70 years: craftsmen are demigods

Lastly know what left-wing politician Dietmar Bartsch does on his free evenings. That’s the first realization on the premiere of the cabaret theater Distel’s anniversary program “Tomorrow we’ll snigger about it!” He’s sitting there within the viewers. Similar to Ilja Richter and Dietrich Hollinder Bäumer, often called Ulrich von Heesen from the “heute present”.

Astonished to study that cabaret is like Jesus, that’s the second. “Each time it’s declared useless, it seems once more three days later in even larger glory,” claims the thistle. This isn’t a given given the vast majority of the viewers is over 50, which has gathered to rejoice the seventieth anniversary of the normal East cabaret.

Even when the political cabaret, for which nobody stood greater than Dieter Hildebrandt earlier than the triumph of comedy within the Federal Republic, has the status of being musty – wrongly, as was the case in September on the conventional West cabaret, The Porcupines, on the event of the premiere of “Steglitz – we’ve got an issue! “How Berlin Flew to Mars” revealed that there are additionally youthful folks there, even a toddler.

The Distel is now a non-public theater. Initially it was an official stage. It was based by the East Berlin Justice of the Peace in 1953 to be able to supply staff and farmers their very own, censorship-tested humor manufacturing, in a way the video games for bread. And to cease them in post-war Berlin from listening to the anti-communist humor propaganda of the island cabaret artists of the RIAS and the satirical applications of the “Porcupines”, which had existed since 1949 and simply crossed each sector boundary.

The truth that the SED comrades have been initially able to self-irony, which was to vary pretty shortly and later led to loads of bother with Walter Ulbricht, textual content deletions, title modifications and the cancellation of whole applications within the “Distel”, might be seen within the title of the from the primary program, which premiered on October 2, 1953: “Hurray, humor is deliberate”.

The truth that the director and inventive director of the home, Dominik Paetzholdt, didn’t resolve on a retro present for his birthday is a plus of the two-hour night, which takes place in entrance of a multi-colored glitter curtain.

The formative figures of the home’s historical past, such because the title of the cabaret artist, writer and director Peter Ensikat, are cleverly built-in into the present texts by Thomas Lienenlüke. And as an encore after the premiere cheers, the doorway track from the very first program will likely be performed.

Satire is in opposition to it, not for it

Initially, the Distel’s satire served to protect the system and to vent the frustration of battered GDR residents who have been something however eager on socialist repression after the Nationwide Socialist years.

A built-in weaving error that promptly created stress, as a result of satire is basically in opposition to it, not for it. A indisputable fact that has been threatening to be misplaced within the softened, affirmative laughter of the comedy neighborhood for many years.

Nonbinary geese dance ballet

And what about this within the Thistle of 2023, which has lengthy been renewed in each respect? Within the first half of “Tomorrow we’ll snigger about it!” this isn’t clear but. The present, skilfully interspersed with vigorous songs, self-reflections on one’s personal craft and numbers taken up once more as reprises, begins with jokes which have little influence. A joke “Swan Lake”, danced by “non-binary geese”, i.e. three cabaret artists in hen costumes. The unusual birds characterize the hassle to authentically mirror German society. “99 p.c of Germans haven’t accomplished ballet coaching.”

Complaining from the viewers

Immediately married {couples}, whose microphones instantly reveal them as insiders, complain in regards to the poor high quality of the start. They’re promptly invited to participate and shortly shine as Sahra Wagenknecht and Robert Habeck parodists.

The fundamental concept of ​​bringing individuals who query the position of cabaret onto the stage as sparring companions makes it doable to continually break the fourth wall. That’s good, however it doesn’t make for the harshly system-critical night that’s anticipated from political cabaret at the moment – as a type of legitimization of an outdated type of illustration.

After the break, the ensemble, which is in an awesome temper and likewise has robust vocals, with Caroline Lux, Nancy Spiller, Stefan Martin Müller, Rüdiger Rudolph, Timo Doleys and Frank Voigtmann, comes a lot nearer to its personal superb. After the very humorous quantity during which a warmth pump installer, who additionally works as an web hater, is judged by Sahra Wagenknecht as a type of proletarian insect, there are additional biting parodies of politicians. The imply tone of the AfD folks has the identical impact as socialism up to now. The laughter will get caught in your throat as a result of such absurd slogans are actual satire. Only a scary one. Regardless of the good presentation, the satire involves nothing.

It’s humorous that the thistle selected a hopeful, educationally useful ending for “We’ll snigger about it tomorrow!” The kid within the seat subsequent to him cheers and is completely satisfied, virtually like within the Grips Theater.