2023-06-10 03:00:50
“If you can make it in the classroom, you can make it anywhere. You’re playing in front of the toughest audience in the world. I really think being a teacher is a very good school for show business,” says the cabaret artist Andrew Fernwho also teaches commercial subjects, laughing in the show “Wonderfully honest – people up close”.
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He actually always wanted to be a teacher, as he says. “I liked going to school, but mainly because of the social environment. I see my friends there every day, like a party during the day. Then I thought to myself: it would be nice to work there.”
Although, he himself was “a crazy scabies at school. I almost got expelled from school when I was 15,” he admits with a smile.
Lisa Trompisch in the “Wonderfully honest” interview with Andreas Ferner
© Image: COURIER/Jeff Mangione
“Up to fourth grade, I was a very ambitious and good student. I never lost my ambition, I still have it today, but puberty hit me hard.”
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Born in Vienna, he then decided to study business administration, career goal: “Wall Street Manager”. Nothing came of it, but he started doing theater while he was still studying and ended up becoming a teacher.
“Bad tongues claim that I’m a teacher and a cabaret artist and I do the same thing all day: I stand in front of people and talk stupidly.”
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He started cabaret just six months after starting school. He is currently touring through Austria with two programmes, “Chill amal, Fessor” and “Hour repetition”.
It is logical that he gets a lot of inspiration for his programs from his professional environment in particular.
education policy
“My lawyer said I can’t say that. No, of course an incredible amount is derived from reality,” says Ferner. “But it’s not just the classroom that offers great stories, but also the whole of education policy. There are so many people talking about education who have no idea but are then referred to as education experts. So there is always material. And the teachers who are inside every day are involved very little.”
By the way, his students really like what he does. “Many of today’s students have a strong connection to show business. Many want to become influencers or YouTubers or even stars.”
How Ferner deals with stage fright
And despite many years of stage experience (in November he celebrates his 25th anniversary) stage fright is still an issue. “Even if you know the program is great, you can do well, it can still go totally wrong. That’s why I have a lot of stage fright before every performance. I also have a lot of rituals to combat that.”
This includes meditation, then a kind of prayer and he also likes to watch videos of his German colleague shortly before his performance for inspiration Caroline Kebekus at. “To get into this emotional, but also very positive energy.”
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Also in November is Fern’s 50, which he’s already struggling with. “As an actor and cabaret artist you have a certain vanity and you want to look fresh and young for as long as possible. Well, it’s not that easy,” he says with a smile.
In the video above you can see how he creates the teaching job, why he would not want to go to “Dancing Stars” and how he deals with criticism.
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