Stefan Leonhardsberger and his comedy family

“Before I had children, I didn’t know that you could feel such boundless love,” said Stefan Leonhardsberger. Postscript: “And so boundless rage.” The actor and cabaret artist from Lasberg used his first solo program “Ja” (director: Paul Klambauer), which premiered in Upper Austria on Thursday in the sold-out small hall of the Posthof in Linz, to uninhibitedly rail against himself and his family. His daughter suffers from a rare hereditary disease, he reported: “She only hears noises that she feels like listening to.”

• Upper Austria today: Leonhardsberger with his first solo program

Leonhardsberger’s show was always particularly funny when, thanks to his precise observation skills, he imitated his family members. Like his wife’s Spanish accent. Or when the son gets bored on the holiday trip – and he changes “from whining to supersonic aircraft”: “Volume: Rammstein concert, first row.” The partner also got her fat if, for example, she did not adequately defend her loved one when talking to friends about the length of their lovers’ penises. Leonhardsberger is hilarious when he pulls himself together and demonstrates his amazing disco dancing or running styles. Sometimes he reached too deep into the cliché box with all this. The audience liked it anyway – they laughed from the first to the last minute.