A franco-german evening full of laughter to be remembered at the next European summit!
Klaus Spuerkel and Martin Graff performed a great moment of intercultural misunderstanding and the final get together between two cultures that are totally different in appearance, but not so different when it comes to personal interaction. While trying to organize a dinner with Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, the two actors stumble upon European differences, but finally find a way to agree and even a common language – Badisch for the german and Alsacien for the French representant. A franco-german evening full of laughter to be remembered at the next European summit!
How do deputies greet each other, one, two, three, or four kisses, a handshake? Are the French really polymorphic, and the Germans monomorphic? The punctuality, the eroticism, the gastronomy, all the clichés that spoil the lives of our two peoples are gone through with a fine-tooth comb with humour, sneer and tenderness. Even the French and the German voltmeter are incompatible.
MARTIN GRAFF
Martin Graff, born in Munster in 1944, theologian, journalist, film director, author of several books about Germany, France and his place of birth, the Alsace, has won the French-German journalism award and the prize for best film on economy. This Alsatian, word-acrobat has more than 200 movies and 20 plays in his repertoire and has been tramping for thirty years between France and Germany. The former pastor and teacher is always asking the same question: “How can you live with the mentality of several people? ,according to the phrase of Claudio Magris, the Danube poet.
KLAUS SPÜRKEL
Klaus Spürkel, a comedian renowned beyond the line of the Rhine, performs in the celebrated detective story Tatort. He has established and constructed a splendid private theatre in Riegel, near Fribourg. Almost 25% of the spectators come from the neighbouring Alsace to watch the Grenzkabarett.
