Gerd Dudenhöffer — DOD - Gerd Dudenhöffer plays Heinz Becker

Cemetery bells. Sonor. Gloomy. Suddenly cold white light. Heinz Becker comes home from the funeral to the kitchen. In his black suit; 5 callas in his hand: “I forget to throw them in the grave.” Instead, they are now lying on the kitchen table. What do you want to do!?

“Want another beer? “Obligate-friendly question — in a previous life.

From now on, he must decide for himself. Familiar routine? Broke away. Nothing is the same anymore. His everyday life — collapses. Plus this grief. Sorrowful thoughtfulness. That clumsy helplessness. And slowly he starts to ponder, reflect, process...

For over 30 years, Gerd Dudenhöffer, the sensitized, pointed ear focused directly on bourgeois sensitivities, has played his satirical, grotesquely authentic art figure as a personified caricature of the narrow-minded, universal person like you and I, the average Otto consumer, whom he pointedly exposes, with perfect timing, sparingly set facial expressions, always with heart A joke that is often involuntary because it is “typical of Heinz”.

DOD — theatrical “cabaret noir”, stringently staged, black and white, chiaroscuro, cleverly maintaining the balance between tragedy and comedy. Just tragifunny. Because Heinz is Heinz. “Deadly sure.”