Franz Kain - A Fine Pike in the Non-Swimmers' Pool

A Fine Pike in the Non-Swimmers' Pool
Franz Kain's Tenth Solo Programme

60 years old and far from quiet - that's how you could accurately describe Franz Kain. His milestone birthday has rather reignited the "Spitzclicker" to bring yet another solo programme - his tenth - to the stage. He belongs to the group of ageing people (51-60) and is on the threshold of the older generation (61-75). Well, what can you do - in any case, leave the category of "old and very old people" aside and focus entirely on the "long-lived" (from 100 years onwards). Life on stage belongs to that. There the ur-Woinemer flourishes - naturally authentic as ever in Kurpfalz dialect.

He's in good spirits on the subject of "Growing old without getting old". After all, the sixties are the new forties. He still feels like a fine pike - entirely in keeping with the motto: because I look so young, it can't be that I'm already 60! But what happens to these people now classified as the older generation? Suddenly they're jubilees, receiving gift baskets with vouchers for walkers, able to buy discounted senior tickets. Cold horror grips Kain at the offer of "holidays for seniors" with woodcarving workshops, linocuts and aqua-fun with a swimming noodle. After all, he still feels like a fine pike - even in the non-swimmers' pool!

In any case, water - along with his ever-maintained spa time - has brought him an extra dose of fitness. Bathing and swimming or aqua-zumba right up to diving from the pool's edge. What is David Hasselhoff compared to Franz Kain, who founded the new lifeguard unit "Baywatch Woinemer Waidsee" at the DLRG.

Franz Kain has so far managed to outrun old age, because jogging extends life by many years. But what happens - such is the anxious question - if the all-weather jogger ultimately burns more years of life than he gains in life years? A tragic