Wachse oder weiche

In the organizer's words:

An evening with Raiffeisenbank, giant pumpkin and Allgäublues

Maximilian Schafroth, known for his sharp and loving eye, sees himself as a mediator of rural and urban contrasts. For his first ever theater work, he conjures up both agriculture and life in the state capital. To do so, he tips a field into the theater, invites people to the merger of two Raiffeisen banks and grows a giant pumpkin that heats things up.

The same applies in rural areas as in the capital: if you don't move with the times, you disappear. Either milk and skim - or give way. Everyone is suffering under this pressure, but while some are jumping on the bandwagon, others are entrenching themselves in order to resist displacement. Are the dramas of everyday life in the village and in the city not so different after all?

On this evening, the Kammerspiele ensemble merges with Maximilian Schafroth's team and invents an evening of musical theater between rough Allgäu blues and traditional triads from the old Bavarian outback.

In 1924, Adolf Kaufmann saved the Kammerspiele by hiring Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt. This established a tradition of combining drama and political cabaret, which Gerhard Polt and the Biermösl Blosn, among others, still characterize today. Maximilian Schafroth is now returning to the Kammerspiele, where he once began his stage career in the youth club. He now tours with his program, played the Lenten preacher at the Nockherberg from 2019 to 2025 and lends his voice to Pumuckl.

"If politics is increasingly based on opposites, driving the proverbial wedge into it, then it's the job of art - and that together, from cabaret to theater to music - to pull this wedge out again with bubbling creativity. And I have a great desire to do that."

- Maxi Schafroth