Martin Frank - It's Probably My Fault

The young Lower Bavarian cabaret artist Martin Frank shot up like a rocket into the cabaret sky and now travels through the satire orbit like a comet. … What he sees there is summarized in the title of his third solo program, which premiered in the fall of 2020. Do you want to know what my new cabaret program is about? I have to disappoint you. I can’t tell you today what number I will perform tomorrow. Maybe I’ll mock milk alternatives today, and tomorrow I’ll be diagnosed with lactose intolerance. Maybe I’ll make fun of gendering today, and tomorrow I’ll feel like a hydrangea in the body of an orchid. Maybe I’ll publicly glue myself to the federal highway today, and tomorrow I’ll go on a private cruise through the Mediterranean with my mom.

But I should issue a trigger warning just in case. Because something in this program will definitely hurt feelings. Whether it’s my absurd observations from everyday life, conveyed in my rural-rustic style, or the one Italian aria that reminds you of your forceps delivery. If you ask me, cabaret and comedy are more like a choice of person anyway. Either you like me, and we spend a nice evening together, or you don’t like me, and you send me your mother-in-law. No matter how you turn it: It’s probably my fault!

Martin Frank or Frank Martin? Whether on television or live on stage, the young man who goes by the first name Martin has become an indispensable part of the Bavarian cabaret scene. Born in 1992 as a summer child amidst the barn work in Lower Bavaria, he was shaped early on by the tension between art and the cow shed, which smoothly transitioned into the pendulum between rural and urban life.

Martin is a cabaret artist, author, actor, and a singing student rejected by all music colleges. He has received several awards, including the Bavarian Cabaret Prize (2018), the Prix Pantheon in Bonn (2019), and the Great Small Arts Prize in Berlin (2019). Starting in the fall of 2023, Martin Frank will tour the German-speaking region with his current fourth cabaret program "It's Probably My Fault."