Artistic herring feast – celebrity casserole at the end of the carnival at the Deutsch-Wagramer Marchfelderhof

The Herring Feast of Traditional Artists was opened by the Music School's wind orchestra in colorful costumes. A veritable crowd of celebrities gathered at the Marchfelderhof to bid farewell to the carnival. There were also two birthdays to celebrate: As a surprise of the evening, the eternal “Mutzenbacherin” Christine Schubert, who had just celebrated her 80th birthday, and Am Kay comedy director Sisi Boran received a huge cake for her 70th birthday.

Among the celebrities, you can also see actress Gabrielle Jacobi, the Grande Dame of Vienna Birgitte Sarrata, medical couple Christina and Artur Wursig, cabaret artist and former dance star Dieter Chmillar, singers Toni Weigas and Gary Lux, and the famous actor Gerhard Ernst. Director Volker Grohskopf, cabaret artist Edith Lehrer, jazz veteran Jaz Getty, painter Maria Lahr, opera singer Thomas Weinhabel, cabaret artist Ingrid Demme, artistic oboist Cyrus Magderi, and actor Stefan Parrilla-Racki.

Christian Langer, head chef at the Marchfelderhof, has prepared a five-course herring feast menu, consisting of a range of herring salads, bouillabaisse, saffron risotto with Bouchute mussels, and catfish fillets with lemon butter, capers and sesame pak choi.

After the astrologer Eva Vašković-Weidelsberger pointed out Lent and the stars and the imitator Manfred A. Distel recited “The Best of Heinz Erhardt”, and Belen Edelmann, the youngest descendant of the Edelmann line, insisted on singing “Mambo Italiano” to create a song. A little “Carnival in Venice” atmosphere.

Towards the end of the evening, there was an unexpected event when Gerhard Ernst and Stefan Barela Racke supported the in-house musical group, which was actually supposed to end the evening and perform some Viennese songs with their powerful voices.