No, this is not a children’s birthday party. Božidar Kocevski unsuccessfully tries his hand at being a Putin parodist.
Photo: © Eike Walkenhorst
Alice Weidel starts. She scrawls around the stage in an AfD blue dress. Then Sahra Wagenknecht, her twin in red, comes along and does the same. The two women say the same thing here anyway, sometimes in sync. Most of the time it’s just about getting ahead of the other person. The AfD and the BSW as well as their two female leaders, we learn this evening at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, basically want and are the same thing.
“The Island of the Perverts” is the name of the play by gay icon Rosa von Praunheim, which has already premiered two theater evenings on this stage. The director, who took on this with little enthusiasm, goes by the name Heiner Bomhard.
As we all know, you can compare a lot, if not everything. You can also equate things. But if the gain in knowledge then approaches zero, you shouldn’t act as if you couldn’t do anything about it. Alice Weidel and her party are out of the question. There is a lot that can and should be criticized about Sahra Wagenknecht and the BSW. However, it is not at all obvious that one has to fear that Wagenknecht will set up camps and trigger a world war.
Anyone who hasn’t left the hall after the opening scene can learn that not only Wagenknecht and Weidel are one, but also Putin and Trump and – who would have thought? – Hitler and Stalin. And since the world is so beautifully arranged, it is not difficult to find out who the bad guys are – of course, the others – and who the good guys are – the artists and us, their enlightened audience.
The basic features of a plot that this “German musical play” presents can be quickly outlined: In the not too distant future, the AfD and BSW will achieve a majority in the country, and the pact with Putin will not be long in coming. Germany is populated by Russians, who are presented here in racist stereotypes; all other foreigners must leave. Political opponents are killed or interned. Ultimately, all men must undergo forced castration. On the titular “Island of the Perverts,” where things get surprisingly uptight, a few gay boys have retreated for protection.
After a melee with delicacies from the sausage department (some people can retain their adolescent humor well into old age), a musical performed by Vladimir Putin, the appearance of a black AfD member and other non-glamorous nonsense, everything takes its toll – you know not how – its satisfying ending. Wagenknecht and Weidel are now very old and housed in a retirement home for war criminals. The author of the evening speaks humorously about “porous pussies” and thus proves in a rather unelegant way the misogyny that can sometimes come from gay men of advanced age. Thomas Gottschalk then gives the two of them a lethal injection. All’s well that ends well in the two-dimensional parallel world.
Let’s not hide it: the audience was certainly cheerful and happy. It was an almost endless 90 minutes in which hardly anything happened, especially nothing that resembled a scenic idea or the beginning of a political analysis. It’s hard to say what the bigger annoyance was: that you were dealing with political cabaret without even a sparkling joke or that every fag revue in a medium-sized German city exudes far more esprit?
The Deutsches Theater has once again dared to do a little pseudo-provocation with only one goal: to pander to the audience. It can hardly get any shallower.
Next performances: December 20th and 27th, January 1st
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