"Faszination Bayern" - 2nd Extra Show

Maxi Schafroth
"Faszination Bayern"
2nd extra show due to popular demand
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Following his debut solo programme "Faszination Allgäu", cabaret artist Maxi Schafroth picks up his bizarre observational journey right where he left off. "Faszination Bayern" is the second chapter of his long-planned cabaret trilogy. The idea, as Schafroth tells it, came to him at age seven when he touched an electric fence in Gumpratsried near Eggisried. "That was mind-expanding!" says Schafroth, who rounded out his IHK banking apprenticeship with an equally solid cabaret education.

In "Faszination Bayern", the journey leads out of the structurally underdeveloped Allgäu region, across the Lech river, and into the celebrated university city of Munich. There Maxi Schafroth encounters the children of Starnberg dentists in SUVs, Munich's educated bourgeoisie in mustard-yellow corduroy trousers, and trendy couples in wood-effect glasses. From the BayWa store in Ottobeuren to the Manufactum rubber-boot shelf at Munich's Marienhof - Schafroth maps the diversity of Germany's largest state by area and positions himself as a nationwide cultural coach for tolerance and coexistence.

Drawing on solid historical evidence, he sheds light on Bavarian history and introduces the first Bavarian settler and forefather, "Eusebius the Spineless", from the 9th century, along with his 40-strong peasant army, the "Frusthaufen", which marched all the way to Damascus in what was known as the "hedgehog formation". Back on his converted farmstead, Maxi Schafroth offers relief to burned-out high achievers. His resocialization centre for dropout bankers and the glacier-hut seminar "Loslassen!" ("Let Go!") for overwrought helicopter parents earned him a nomination for "Entrepreneur of the Year" in his home village of Stephansried - and shot him overnight to second place on Wikipedia's list of the most prominent people from this 78-soul village.