Dinner for One-The cult classic for the New Year's Eve in Germany!

Dinner for One-The cult classic for the New Year's Eve in Germany!

The sketch classic "Dinner for One" from 1963 is again an integral part of New Year's traditions in Germany this year. In this amusing piece, which is watched in almost every German household on New Year's Eve, the British comedian Freddie Frinton plays the drunken Butler James, who has to drink for four deceased guests on the occasion of Miss Sophie's 90th birthday. Despite his representation as a worse in the series, Frinton was described as alcohol -free in private life. "He just didn't like alcohol," said his son Steve in an interview that Oe24.at

a cultural phenomenon

"Dinner for One" was originally performed in Great Britain, but was only very well received in Germany and Scandinavia. The funny interactions between James and Miss Sophie led to a real cultural phenomenon that even led to the publication of cookbooks and a special letter. The show first ran on German television in 1963 and quickly became the main component of the New Year's Eve celebrations. King Charles recently mentioned the play during a state visit in Germany and made it joy among the guests when he said: "It is nice that they didn't leave me alone with a 'dinner for one'," as dailymail.co.uk reported.

The Comedy of sketch creates the behavior that is always freely and the repeated questions for Miss Sophie: "Will it be the same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?" Its often flaming answers and stumbling over a Tiger head carpet make up the charm. Despite its impressive popularity, the sketch was even banned in Sweden because of the excessive alcohol content until 1969. It is all the more astonishing that the representation of Miss Sophie's intimate relationship with the audience in Germany looks like a red cloth, since organizations such as the Gray Panthers were criticized because of the implied alludes to sexuality in the pension period. Nevertheless, "Dinner for One" remains an indispensable part of the German New Year's Eve, the repetitions of which attract numerous spectators.