“The Festival of Love”
Almost contemplative continuation of the successful improv series
“The Festival of Love” with improv newcomer Oliver Wnuk.
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“The Funeral” in Mecklenburg is followed by the sequel “The Festival of Love” in the Ländle. This is what the audience expects in the improv series.
After the success of the improv mini-series “The Funeral” (2022, six episodes), which revolved around the funeral of the head of the family and was set in Mecklenburg, the Christmas one is now underway Continuation of “The Festival of Love” with the Swabian part of the family. The first shows the four new episodes, which were again directed by Grimme Prize winner Jan Georg Schütte (61), on Saturday (December 23rd) from 5:15 p.m. in the early evening program.
A socket connects East and West
This time the North German brothers Mario (Charly Hübner, 51) and Thorsten Meurer (Devid Striesow, 50) set off for the countryside with Thorsten’s daughter Jäcki/Jaqueline Hell (Luise von Finckh, 29) with thick sausages in a jar and a bucket of potato salad . There they want to celebrate Christmas together with their sister Sabine Meurer-Streuble (Claudia Michelsen, 54) and her wealthy business family.
And while Alexander Streuble (Oliver Wnuk, 47) almost takes over the Christmas preparations – there are savory goose, sweet macarons and lots of alcohol – the remaining family members uncover a scandal. At the center is a sleeve connecting east and west pipes. Master plumber Mario invented this solution to an apparently big problem in the plumbing trade – but unfortunately he didn’t patent it.
The southern German part of the family in the beautiful large house includes some new additions to the improv dream team: Andrea Sawatzki (60), Nicole Heesters (86), Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger (81) and Lena Klenke (27), who is a spoiled child Rich, but full-time working parents always neglected and recently no longer felt so comfortable in the USA. Out of this grief a crazy idea, or in this case better a champagne idea, is born…
Jan Georg Schütte – also seen in front of the camera as the soul-comforting Ben – and his colleagues once again serve successful improv entertainment with ideas ranging from funny to absurd and peppery dialogues in a Christmas atmosphere.
What family event could be improvised next?
And what could happen after the funeral and Christmas for the extended family that connects East-West and North-South in a potential sequel?
“In my family, I still have my parents’ diamond wedding in my head. We all stood around the two old people, my mother beamed a bit sadly at everyone around and made sassy sayings. Very funny and very touching. Her last appearance before her death,” improv star Schütte answered the station’s question. And he adds: “A wedding as a film or series has been in my head for a long time. Something is brewing…”