Tour with Polt and Well brothers: Campino bought leather pants

2023-07-15 08:48:07

Lederhosen for Die Toten Hosen: Campino, frontman of Toten Hosen, bought a pair of lederhosen. Reason: The tour with the Bavarian cabaret artist Gerhard Polt and the Well brothers as folk musicians entitled “Forever. A cultural impertinence” – initially planned as “cultural appropriation” – which started on Friday evening in Schliersee in Upper Bavaria.

Before the start of the tour, which stops on August 9th and 10th at Vienna’s Theater im Park, Campino (61) said he bought the garment in a traditional costume shop. What convinced him was that, according to Bavarian tradition, these items of clothing are passed on to children and grandchildren. So he will give his son these leather pants for Christmas in due course.

“If I’m walking through the streets of Schliersee in lederhosen and a Bavarian comes towards me, that’s no problem,” he reported on his first experiences with the unfamiliar piece of clothing. “But when a small family from Osnabrück points the finger at me and says: ‘There goes the Campino with lederhosen’ – that’s the moment when I feel stupid.”

The other band members ended up in the same costume shop independently of each other and stocked up on Bavarian clothing. “Kuddel” Andreas von Holst actually stood on stage in lederhosen and a traditional hat. Another suddenly appeared with “such strange shoes” – so-called Haferlschuhe, which have nothing to do with the “Haferl” drinking vessel, but with “half”, i.e. low shoes.

You don’t have to like costumes – but banning them is the wrong way, says Campino. According to the Düsseldorfer, carnival has always offered the chance to slip into a different role. “Carnival is there to do a role reversal.”

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