A production of the Stalburg Theater in cooperation with the Hessischer Rundfunk
Even after more than 500 performances by now, still the perennial favorite in the repertoire: "Wer kocht, schießt nicht" by Michael Herl, cult author and once co-host of the Late Lounge on HR television, trained journalist and once restaurant critic in California on behalf of a renowned publishing house. Herl now sent the hapless molecular biologist Dr. Theodor Kögel (played by Ilja Kamphues) out into the world. Dr. Kögel, the son of an innkeeper from the Sauerland region and a gifted hobby cook, is in the midst of a deep life crisis. No job, no wife, no parental home - and now the employment office has sent him to the Schnell & Lecker company to introduce himself. Schnell & Lecker, of all places, a manufacturer of fast food and convenience products!
Kögel has no choice, he has to go there. His task: He is to demonstrate to a "selected test audience" how tedious and unhealthy conventional cooking is - and how convenient, nutritious and time-saving it all is with the products of Schnell & Lecker. Kögel holds his own at first - but soon his demonstration gets out of hand and unintentionally turns into an absurd-realistic lecture about the abstrusities of modern food intake, about Italian gastronomes and their pepper mills, about pressed chickens in America and formation-flying pineapple in Wanne-Eickel - and not only that. As he whips up a deliciously stuffed chicken leg with homemade fettuccine before the eyes of an astonished audience, while comforting aromas waft through the theater auditorium, Dr. Kögel slips and slips and slips.
"Whoever Cooks Doesn't Shoot" - a must-read for gourmets and for gourmands, for amateur cooks and for professional chefs, for delis and for deli buyers, for butchers and for vegetarians - and for anyone with a sense of good food and wicked humor. A merciless reckoning with everything that has to do with fast food, convenience products and cooking without time and leisure - at the same time a sensitive-sarcastic description of the madness around cooking, eating, drinking, thinking, acting and being in modern times. Dr. Kögel's conclusion: you can's also exaggerate - and in both directions. Or, more philosophically:
Where are we coming from, where are we going - and what wine best fits the bill?
Duration approximately 110 minutes including intermission.
Text source and more information about this event:
http://www.stalburg.de/veranstaltung/WER-KOCHT-SCHIESST-NICHT
