widthWhy does the national football player Thomas Müller have a treadmill for stallions? What does a search and rescue dog trainer need baby powder for? And where is the sea of love in Bad Reichenhall? The new episode of “Bezzel & Schwarz-Die Grenzgänger” clarifies these issues and presents Bavaria in a rare way.In the third season of the des series Bavarian radio Actors Sebastian Bezzel and Simon Schwarz took their RV on a road trip through the Free State.
In the film adaptation of “Eberhof Crime Fiction” also produced by BR, Bezzel played the best friend of the village police, private detective Schwarz and Eberhofer named after the series. The crime thriller episodes titled “Dampfnudelblues” and “Leberkäsjunkie” are a terrible satire on the Bavarian province. In their documentary series, two acquaintance actors also lead the audience from one place to another in a humorous way. In the four episodes, they traveled in the south, west, north, and east of Bavaria. On the way, they stopped in towns and villages. This created a multifaceted picture of the Free State.
To become a cross-border commuter, you don’t have to cross borders in this series: the actors visit “those who abandoned their old lives and now do things completely different.” In a metaphorical sense, cross-border commuters are also dropouts, visionaries and pioneers. At the same time, Bezel, who is a Bavarian, and Schwartz, who is an Austrian, tried to overcome the long-standing Auba hatred: the “transiters” also contributed to the international understanding of Bavaria-Austria.
Heiress with junkyard
The third season hopes (and therefore can be read in BR’s announcement) focusing on topics such as environment and animal welfare, sustainability and diversity. But not all interlocutors meet these assumptions. For example, some animal rights activists may be surprised that the first episode “Bezzel & Schwarz” led to the breeding business of dressage horses.
The two visited Lisa and his wife and Thomas MullerYou, the dressage rider, and he, the national football player, run a stud farm together. In the conversation, the Muellers presented themselves as a refreshing substitute, replacing the indifferent and influential football player couple’s stereotype. As transitors, they shuttle between the charm of international professional football and the rural life of Bavaria.
But it’s not just celebrities who show up on the camera. In the first episode, the audience also met a young heir to a junkyard from Munich, who modernized her parents’ business by herself. As a boss with 50 male employees, she is particularly opposed to gender boundaries. In the forest near Inwasserburg, Schwartz asked the mother-daughter team and their rescue dogs to look for him. Before doing so, they threw baby powder into the air to determine the direction of the wind. Two volunteer rescue dog handlers reported that the discovery of the dead bodies had pushed them to their emotional limits. We continue to Bad Reichenhall (Bad Reichenhall), where the two actors receive the art direction of the shaman ritual from yoga teacher Michi in the cave. The yogi walks on the boundary between the spiritual world and this world.
Quite dumbfounded
The most important question is: how is Bayern performing today? Bezzel and Schwarz continue to look for clues interestingly. However, sometimes, the fun seemed a little reluctant, and then the two fell into a farce. In this way, it will take up more space for the person you are talking to to show themselves. At some point, you want to learn more about the people presented and hear from them what moved them.
Various self-experiments by Bezzel and Schwarz, such as floating in a dark salt water bath or with Thomas Müller’s exercise unit on his stallion’s oversized training equipment, are fun, but they don’t necessarily bring you closer to the Bavarian soul. In addition, the series almost always uses child clichés on men. It is interesting to see whether two middle-aged men drive the excavator, in the eyes of the beholder. Nevertheless, the “Grenzgänger” episode shows Bavaria in a primitive way. The series arbitrarily removes common clichés. The scenery taken with the drone also provides panoramic photos of the Alps that are worth seeing. How are they now, Bavarians? Different from expectations.
“Bezel and Schwartz-transits”, It will be available in the BR Media Library of BR TV Station at 8:15 PM on Monday.
