DOD Life is the end
Cemetery bells. Sonorous. Somber. Sudden cold white light.
Heinz Becker comes home, from the funeral to the kitchen. In his black suit; 5 Callas in hand: "I forgot to throw them in the grave." Instead, they're now on the kitchen table. What's a guy to do?
"Willsche still'n beer?"
Obligat-loveable question - in a former life. As of now, he has to decide for himself. Familiar routine? Broken away. Nothing is as's been. His daily routine - collapsed. Plus this sadness. Grief-stricken pensiveness. That awkward perplexity. And slowly he begins to ponder, to reflect, to process.
For more than 30 years Gerd Dudenhöffer has been playing his realistic, grotesque-authentic art figure as a personified caricature of the narrow-minded, universal man like you and me, the Joe Normalverbraucher, whom he pointedly exposes, with perfect timing, sparingly placed facial expressions, devoid of any political correctness, always, of course, with heartfelt, often unintentional, because "Heinz-typical" wit.
DOD - the 18th programme, theatrical "Cabaret Noir", stringently staged, black and white, light and dark, skilfully maintaining the balance between tragedy and comedy. Tragicomic. Because Heinz is Heinz. "Todsicher".
www.gerd-dudenhoeffer.de
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