Because he speaks dialect on and off stage, cabaret artist Gerhard Polt (80) was awarded the “Bavarian language root” in Regensburg. “We have every reason to have great self-confidence with this language. It’s an ocean,” Polt said on Saturday at the Museum of Bavarian History. The cabaret artist has sympathy for all non-Bavarians, because of course they wouldn’t have it easy: “You have to have a bit of sympathy if you have to live with such a lack of language.”
The Bund Bavarian Language awards the prize to personalities who stick to their dialect in public. Gerhard Polt stands for satire with an unprecedented depth – and in Central Bavarian dialect, said the association’s chairman, Sepp Obermeier, and presented the 14-kilogram glass sculpture. The cabaret artist exceeded the award criteria.
The recipients of awards so far include director Markus H. Rosenmüller, cabaret artist Luise Kinseher and the former Pope Benedict XVI, who died in 2022.
