Hans-Werner Meyer and Manuel Munzlinger with band offer a humorous look at the Christmas season.
Hans-Werner Meyer, recitation
Manuel Munzlinger and band
"Peace, joy and Christmas cookies"
"A celebration of joy. Unfortunately, there is too little laughter." Jean-Paul Sartre.
The season of tinsel, visiting relatives and high-calorie feasting is not everyone's cup of tea - but it always comes back. We have to get through it. The best way to endure it is to sit back and relax. Hans-Werner Meyer and Manuel Munzlinger's music and radio play "Friede, Freude, Weihnachtskekse" (Peace, Joy, Christmas Cookies) provides some helpful suggestions for enjoying the Christmas season. A modern, relaxed look at the Christmas season with all its disasters and sentimentality - this is the promise of the new literary finds, which are complemented by surprisingly humorous music over the course of the evening and merge into a unique collage. A music/listening/play that is rarely experienced in this form. Hans-Werner Meyer, who took over the baton from Götz Schubert in 2024, presents himself in top acting form. Beyond a water glass reading, he moves through all the nuances of Christmas bliss on stage. He rants and rails, he feigns and touches - almost autobiographically, he plays his way through a dazzling tableau of modern Christmas madness. He is carried along by the exciting soundtrack of crossover specialist Manuel Munzlinger, who makes the emotions of the stories fascinatingly audible with a jazzy oboe.
Hans-Werner Meyer shows all facets of his ability here - from touching to lively, from contemplative to hilarious. The texts come to life and you have the feeling of experiencing the story first hand.
The oboist and composer Manuel Munzlinger and his band have been receiving rave reviews for years. Munzlinger sets the stories to music with a virtuoso fusion of classical music and jazz. Unique music for oboe and jazz band that never fails to captivate the audience.