Jan Georg Schütte's improvisational performances - Fresh installments featuring Tobias Moretti set in Tyrol
Following the hit improvised series "The Burial" (2022, six episodes) and "The Festival of Love" (2023, four episodes), Jan Georg Schütte (61) is now producing "The Wedding" (working title) in Tyrol. This installment of the popular ARD Mediathek series sees a different type of celebration taking place around the titular event in Austria. The six new episodes, each 30 minutes long, were filmed in just three days with 45 cameras.
Improvisation expert Schütte combines the Meurer and Hell families from Mecklenburg with the Pichler family from Tyrol. Well-known actors playing their roles include Anja Kling (54), Martin Brambach (56), Luise von Finckh (30), Devid Striesow (50), Lena Klenke (28), and Gustav Schmidt (28).
In this season, Austrian movie star Tobias Moretti (65) and his niece, Austrian actress Josephine Bloéb (31), along with Felix Kreutzer (31), Felix Oitzinger (24), and Sonja Romei (51) have joined the cast. Like the others, they were given only character descriptions for their roles. Filming in Itter once again happened without a written script.
According to Grimme Prize winner Jan Georg Schütte and producer and co-director Sebastian Schultz, the idea for the plot came from the desire to escalate another family gathering: "After the funeral in 'The Burial' and Christmas in 'The Festival of Love', we felt it was time to crank up the drama a notch by having a wedding where two very different families collide. On one side, the Mecklenburgers around our bride Jäcki, and on the other side, the Tyrolean hotelier family Pichler, who run a fashionable ski hotel in a picturesque location."
After the shooting was completed, Schütte and Schultz shared, "It was so much fun shooting yet another season with this fantastic group of actors and watching them improvise for over six days. We can't wait to see what gems we'll find in the almost 250 hours of material."
Christoph Pellander, head of the ARD Degeto Film department, reveals the reason for the show's incredible success: "Both predecessors had nearly 8 million views on the ARD Mediathek and were extremely popular with young female viewers and viewers." "Now, the 'charmingly nice family' from Mecklenburg meets the pool of respectable Pichler family from Tyrol - and there's a reunion with even more adored characters from the first season - the wacky improvised comedy series continues."
As of now, no release date has been announced for "The Wedding."
