Kaffeeklatsch mit Jo van Nelsen - 75 Jahre "Die Hesselbachs" - Episode "Der Wahrsager"
The Hesselbachs invite you to coffee and cake.
"Kall, mei Drobbe!" Do you remember Mamma Hesselbach's legendary exclamation? Do you still recall the radio and television stories about the Hesselbach company "somewhere in Hesse"?
Jo van Nelsen, born near Frankfurt and well-known on all German cabaret stages, has unearthed two wonderful, now only available as rare books: "Babba" and "Mamma", written in 1967 by Wolf Schmidt, the creator and unforgettable actor of Babba Hesselbach, who transformed his favorite episodes into independent stories. Van Nelsen will now read from them: Indulging in bizarre entanglements and hidden jabs at politics, wonderfully still relevant today.
Thanks to van Nelsen's widely praised storytelling art, the audience will discover Wolf Schmidt, the radio and television veteran, for the first time as an ironically distant novelist, who manages to show the universal truths and absurdities of everyday life in the personal catastrophes of a Hessian petit-bourgeois family and condense them into cabaret dramas. Schmidt's sharp wit, as well as his deeply felt commitment to democracy and humanity, place him alongside the second great Hessian dialect poet, Friedrich Stoltze.
The Hesselbachs were the first television family in Germany, with viewership ratings of up to 94 percent that truly swept the streets. Because that's what we used to call "blockbusters" - street sweepers. But that was a time when people still complained about a "Dreckrändsche" and a "Röhrender Hirsch" adorned the living room. Similar acclaim was received by van Nelsen when he started the Hesselbach reading series in 2006 at the Stalburg Theater, Frankfurt am Main, where he read to sellout crowds every first Sunday of the month for over 3 years.
Let yourself be carried away into the Hesselbach universe full of peace and tranquility - and if you close your eyes, you will meet them all again: Babba and Mamma Hesselbach, the sons Willi and Peter, daughter Heidi, the Swabian accountant Münzenberger, the chief secretary Fräulein Sauerberg, the cleaning lady Frau Siebenhals, the apprentice Rudi, and all the other unforgettable characters of the successful series "Die Hesselbachs".
But if you keep your eyes open, there's only one: Jo van Nelsen. However, listening and watching him play everyone and everything in succession and in a jumble, is an experience you shouldn't miss!
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