Da sind wir aber immer noch

A special programme marking the 30th anniversary of the MAGDEBURGER ZWICKMÜHLE - featuring Marion Bach, Heike Ronniger and Hans-Günther Pölitz.

The MAGDEBURGER ZWICKMÜHLE turns 30. What used to be called a company anniversary is now framed as thirty years on the market - and on that market, everyone gets sold: either as a fool or at their market value. That value has its price, for instance the "Leipziger Löwenzahn", the "Cabinet-Preis", the "Reinheimer Satirelöwe" and the "Cornichon" in Switzerland. But awards, as everyone knows, are a tricky business. The wise philosopher V. Olksmund once said: medals and bombs always hit the wrong people. Whether the praise in the case of the Zwickmühle reached the right ones - nearly a million audience members across 59 programmes and eight thousand performances have had the chance to decide.

30 years of MAGDEBURGER ZWICKMÜHLE - that means, since the birth on 29 February 1996 at 8 p.m.: three years of Helmut Kohl, seven years of Gerhard Schröder, sixteen years of Angela Merkel, four years of Olaf Scholz and 42 weeks of Friedrich Merz. Assuming he lasts that long. Chancellors come and go - the MAGDEBURGER ZWICKMÜHLE, however, endures.

The 60th programme is a satirical journey through three decades. Kohl, Schröder, Merkel or Scholz: as Erich Kästner once put it, almost everything has changed and almost everything has stayed the same. Not just the cabaret - the problems, too, are calling out: "Da sind wir aber immer noch!"