BlöZinger

Great cinema, no screen—you’ll only find that at BlöZinger. Robert Blöchl and Roland Penzinger, collectively known as “BlöZinger,” are the inventors and grand masters of the KopfKinoKabarett. A movie. Performed live on stage. With a minimum of props. And a maximum of ideas, with which BlöZinger inspire their audience’s imagination and laugh muscles to peak performance. The two stage artists bring their whimsical characters to life with acting finesse and a generous dose of “Schmäh,” switching roles in the blink of an eye and capturing each character so brilliantly that the audience is instantly drawn into the witty and entertaining world the two cabaret artists create on stage.

In their new show, “Wie im Zoo,” things get weird: A marten chews through a car’s wires. A man reaches for his Swiss Army knife. And somewhere in the forest, a tree named Bertl has been waiting for thirty years. From there on, it only gets weirder...
“Wie im Zoo” is an evening exploring the strange relationship between humans and animals. Between the observer and the observed. Between enthusiasm for technology and the longing to simply live in the woods. It’s about a homemade, electric-powered marten trap; a mail carrier named Hubert who went off the rails—but fortunately only briefly; and the realization that humans are probably not the crown of creation. In between: smoking fawns, philosophical cave paintings, and the honest admission that the audience is the most dangerous predator in the room.
In “Wie im Zoo,” BlöZinger combine precise observation with absurd consistency and a keen sense for the moment when the everyday suddenly tips into the surreal. And in the end, it’s no longer entirely clear who is actually observing whom here...