No more funny: Cabaret artist Monika Gruber says goodbye to the stage

Now she seems to be getting serious: On March 8th, International Women’s Day, the controversial joker will perform for the last time with her show “Without Words” in the Munich Olympic Hall. ServusTV broadcasts the event as a paid live stream and the recording the following day in its regular program. In autumn 2021, Gruber, who has toured Germany and Austria with a number of programs over the past two decades, announced that “Without Words” would be her last solo. This will now have its sold-out finale in Munich next Friday. The cabaret artist and actress leaves a loophole open to see if she will appear in front of an audience again at some point. On her homepage she writes about “laughing together and celebrating farewell”, but at the same time about the “last performance for now”.

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In any case, ServusTV takes the appearance as an opportunity to pay tribute to Gruber. The private broadcaster will broadcast the performance on Friday from 7.30 p.m., whereby a paid streaming ticket for 24 euros must be purchased. The next day, on March 9th, the farewell event can be seen as a regular recording (from 8:15 p.m.). The preliminary program with the songwriter and cabaret artist Roland Hefter as well as a “very special surprise guest” will be shown from 7:40 p.m.

“The Last Dance? Monika Gruber Personally” about the Bavarian’s career and her decision to draw a line under her stage career is already available as a stream on ServusTV. In the documentary, the 52-year-old says: “I’m just afraid that I’ll get worse and that at some point people will sit in the audience and say: ‘Me, Gruberin, it used to be funnier.'” You have to stop when it’s the best be – “and this is now”.

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Well known and controversial

Gruber is one of the best-known and most controversial cabaret artists in German-speaking countries. As a critic of Corona measures, she has caused controversy in recent years, as has her book “Welcome to the Wrong Film”, which was published in connection with a legal dispute with an X-user (formerly Twitter) who is mentioned by name in the publication , has also brought accusations of racism. Gruber had only recently been proven right in the first instance in the legal dispute with reference to satire.