After his first solo program "Faszination Allgäu", cabaret artist Maxi Schafroth seamlessly continues his bizarre journey of observation. "Fascination Bavaria" is the second milestone in his long-planned cabaret trilogy. According to Schafroth himself, he had the idea for it at the age of seven while touching the electric pasture fence in Gumpratsried near Eggisried. "That was mind-expanding!" says Schafroth, who also enjoyed a solid cabaret education as part of his IHK apprenticeship as a bank clerk. In "Fascination Bavaria", the journey takes him out of the structurally weak Allgäu region, across the Lech river and into the praised university city of Munich. There, Maxi Schafroth encounters dentists' children from Starnberg in SUVs, Munich's educated citizens in mustard yellow corduroy pants and hip scene couples with wooden-look glasses. From BayWa Ottobeuren to the Manufactum rubber boot shelf at Munich's Marienhof, Maxi Schafroth brings us closer to the diversity of Germany's largest federal state and, as a nationwide cultural coach, advocates tolerance and togetherness.
tolerance and togetherness. With the help of well-founded historical evidence
he raises awareness of Bavarian history and provides information about the first
Bavarian settler and forefather "Eusebius the Invertebrate" from the 9th century.
He explains about the first Bavarian settler and forefather "Eusebius the Invertebrate" from the 9th century and his 40-strong peasant army, the "Frusthaufen", which reached Damascus on foot in the so-called "hedgehog formation". Maxi Schafroth provides a remedy for the problems of burnt-out high achievers on his converted hereditary farm. The rehabilitation center for drop-out bankers and the glacier hut seminar "Letting go!" for overstressed "helicoptering parents" earned him the nomination for "Entrepreneur of the Year" in his home community of Stephansried and catapulted him overnight to second place in Wikipedia as the most prominent person in the village of 78 souls, right after the miracle healer Sebastian Kneipp.
Maximilian Schafroth spared no effort and no risk in developing his new program. He put himself in some pretty dicey situations, including several years of industrial espionage at a major bank, a three-day internship at a daycare center in Schwabing and participation in a seminar on breathing therapy for managers. Maxi Schafroth turns this biographical crossover into stunning cabaret, always underpinned by the rasping charm of his Allgäu accent. In "Fascination Bavaria", he is once again accompanied by his heart and mind and, above all, by his congenial guitarist and court neighbor Markus Schalk. Depending on availability, the children's choir of the Junge Union Miesbach will join the event.
PRESS RELEASES
"Lightness in the joy of playing - creativity in the approach. Musically a joy for the ears, playfully a feast for the eyes. Maxi Schafroth is a discovery. The young, critical, versatile cabaret of today, that's what it looks like. In the words of his characters, a win-win situation for cabaret." From the laudation for winning the Prix Pantheon 2013 "Schafroth dissects the rural and the petty bourgeois, peasant shrewdness, banker chutzpah and alternative pettiness in their comic banality without making them ridiculous.
making them ridiculous. And hit the bull's eye with the audience." Süddeutsche Zeitung
BIOGRAPHIC
Child. Born in 1985, his first insider insights into the nature of the Allgäu people came when he smuggled himself into a farm in the Lower Allgäu as an undercover agent. First successes: at the age of 8, illegal tractor rides across the fields near Ottobeuren (time-barred under criminal law) and rodeo in his home stable. Cabaret artist. Started as a cabaret artist in 2007 at the Munich clubhouse at the open stage "Blick- punkt Spot", with Michael Mittermeier playing in the supporting program: Michael Mittermeier. Then several sold-out evenings as a cabaret artist at Heppel & Ettlich in Munich, at the Commerzbank-Hochhaus in Frankfurt and on television at "Ottis Schlachthof" (February 2009). First cabaret solo program "Faszination Allgäu" premiere in April 2009 at Schlachthof Munich Second cabaret solo program "Faszination Bayern" premiere in March 2015 at Lust- spielhaus Munich. Awarded the Prix Pantheon Jury Prize 2013 and the Stuttgarter Besen 2014, among others.
Filmmaker.
Made his first experimental films as a child with titles such as "Abenteuer im Altenstift" or
"The Happy Family and the Geizer Family". His film shot at the age of 15
"Kneipp's Healing Effect" about the great Allgäu water healer Sebastian Kneipp was shown at the Kneipp Museum in Bad Wörishofen.
His wide-screen cinema spectacle Preußens Gloria Part 1 and 2 (both 2008, premiered in front of 600 visitors at the Gloriakino in Munich) is a no-budget historical war film comedy from East Prussia, shot with hundreds of extras in the Allgäu. Idea, screenplay, leading roles, co-producer: Maximilian Schafroth (together with Raphael Dwinge