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"In this country we, the citizens, systematically misled about left and threatening developments in the dark. On the political stage mock battles are staged and conflicts in the spotlight that are only for the distraction from the core of the German misery. "(Georg Schramm)

Georg Schramm is an institution for many. The well-known political satirist and author of Badenweiler is for several months once per month in the ZDF in "Neues aus der Anstalt" to see; together with Urban Priol and changing invited guests, which can each deliver for an evening in the "Asylum". The program uses the trick, as the "Ship of Fools", as madhouse, represent the world; thereby enjoy the "occupant" or crew on board free rein, they also exploit heartily, until even the last audience dawns that the alleged lunatic who are in the "institution" only reasonable and would let himself out there actually deliver ...

An analysis of the comments on Schramm's television and stage performances and you look at yourself, who sits with him in the audience, it is striking that Schramm arrives in all generations. Because it offers people something that is now denied them consistently by politicians and the media: He sets his audience beautiful juicy chewing bones instead of pudding and mashed potatoes; want to say, Schramm has a very distinct, often politically incorrect language and not talking around the bush. He is filled with holy anger. The regularly creates a frustrated contemporaries refreshment and relief.

This is Schramm, although "occupant", a kind of therapist - no wonder he has studied psychology in real life after high school and military, where he brought it to the officer of reserve and spent 12 years in a neurological rehabilitation clinic ...

Schramm is an anomaly in the field of political cabarets. His acting versatility, his wit and pace, he submits, calling his audience and are astonishing. At the same time he manages to remain high standard and not slipping into the lowlands as some people Blödel show.

He is a "homo politicus" of the analytical sharpness a pepper. Probably why he spared us could come to good with criticism, which have a political party Lastigkeit or even any party. This is due to the fact that Schramm with his "alter ego", to the Prussian pensioner Lothar Dombrowski, August, the old Hessian Social Democrats, Colonel Sanftleben and Rüdi, the Rhenish cheerfulness nature exerts much more systematic and radical critique. In this critique, it is not only against "up there", but the audience is also included, by reproaches him multifaceted mirror. This Schramm helps his versatility with which he slips into his self-chosen signature roles, such as the phonetically correct imitation of dialects, the actors from senility or the convincing representation of social milieus.

With the way he sharpens our sense of political grievances, injustices, infamy and ridicule, he makes quasi-democratic grassroots work. Because our public life suffers probably the most that we address the real problems that we have in our country and our system either does not recognize the one, or if we've recognized you in spite of all misinformation and diminutive but they know not to put into words. This grievance does Georg Schramm efficient remedy. He transformed through his shows and his biting analysis us of edentulous, patient and extremely capable of suffering Biedermännern- and women in more impatient, bit more joyful, mentally fitter citizens - least for some time thereafter - until he, thank God, again makes political yoga with us .

One can easily imagine that Schramm so some mighty occurs quite violently on the toes. Just in the last few episodes of the show is meant for the cabaret and its always worth seeing colleagues to be able to find a bold increase ... On the other hand, his shows have also a kind of valve function: millions of people can with its help a lot of steam, frustration and anger at the states in this country our drain. Schramm is therefore perhaps even become a factor of stability for our system? Or is it just the other way around? If we Georg Schramm listen as long as he can still be seen on stage?

Decide for yourself! Below I have a few highlights from the shows from 20.10.09 (episode 28) and from 17.11.2009 (Episode 29 logged. All episodes of "Neues aus der Anstalt" you can retrieve in the ZDF media library.

From episode 28
About the Chancellor
"If Merkel did that out of opportunism, what the people want, then we would indeed be comparatively well off. Then we would soon be the nationwide minimum wage, we should phase out nuclear power, we would speed limit, withdrawal from Afghanistan and a prohibition for the investment adviser of all German banks. Understand the people's further than they. She wants only yes no speed limit at full throttle back into the dead end; full steam again go back, she says, where we were before the crisis. And where we were before the crisis? Before the crisis! Full front to get involved in the train of the lemmings over the cliff!
. The people, for example, the people would love to play the banks reputation they once had when they were still 'moneylender' called, a dirty craft that did not want to pursue an honorable Christian; as had the arable men and Nonnenmacher this country at court still take the servants' entrance, instead of sitting today as Duzfreunde the rulers at the table next to them. That they may in fact only, since they up there the powerful finance the election campaign and have asked for a monopoly of silver dollars - and also get! That - that they know everything, is not it. If she were opportune to the people, then they will lose the favor of the powerful. Their power is only borrowed. If she is chosen as the most powerful woman in the world by the media, then that's a clumsy farce. It is not even the most powerful woman in this country. This is Liz Mohn and Friede Springer: IMAGE and Bertelsmann - the vociferous heralds an ailing system that wriggles on the threads of the moneylenders world, is not it! Only a coup by Friede Springer would be enough, and their ink servants write the Chancellor from the throne down and throw them their own party to be eaten before. The truly powerful, that is certainly, the favor of the people have long since lost. That is why this woman is so valuable to them. As long as the woman has the favor of the people, she has the favor of power. In biology, one would call this a symbiosis. And when it comes at the expense of the host animal, then it is called a parasitic symbiosis. And the host animal - that's us. "

From episode 29
About the language of political parties and the Chancellor:
"That has system, the lack of content, you do not understand? You [to Urban Priol out] gets the Chancellor always so `ner Vorpommern Platitüdenmamsell to as` ner Mecklenburg country girl that never got beyond the soup bigger one Heringsdorftrampels and nothing else has in mind to compensate as the inferiority complex of a meaningless pastor's daughter by that she sits with the powerful at a table and allowed to eat from their plates and is worshiped by 80 million subjects as Queen Cinderella. "

About the Crisis:
"'We're going on the crisis in sight'. [Volker Kauder] This has the Titanic did. But there is one important difference: Who determines the speed and course of the unsinkable Titanic? The majority shareholder. And sitting in London, in the dry. "

About political language:
"The whole government is talking so strange; that language is used for opposite of what it actually is there: to communicate among themselves. It is specially formulated so that we do not understand what they actually want. "

From Schramm's book "Let me say this"
"Even in my rumbles evil. I too have fantasies of violence. In bad nights I go down into the torture chamber as Grand Inquisitor. Then I throw my minions Kai Diekmann with all his BILD editorial front, and I exorziere the devil of sedition out of them. "

"With the live broadcast, news from the institution 'in the ZDF, the second public broadcaster has recognized the signs of the times, after 27 years of reflection: The escalation of the national and global conflicts cries out for political satire."

Read for you:
Georg Schramm, "Let me say it this way. Dombrowski indicated the signs of the times " , Karl Blessing Verlag.
The book gives all Schramm fans a good overview of the policy issues and scandals in recent years and also serves as amusing Refresher and political memory test. However, missing with this painful but the voice and the sight of Schramm in his various roles ...
Fortunately, there's also still the recorded in September 2008 Double Audio CD "Thomas Bernhard would have shot" , a live recording from cabaret solo from the Pantheon in Bonn.

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Tags: Angela Merkel , Bertelsmann , Bild-Zeitung , Friede Springer , Georg Schramm , Liz Mohn , Neues aus der Anstalt , political cabaret , Urban Priol

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