20 years following the end of “MA 2412”, Alfred Dorfer and Roland Düringer are bringing their characters back to television: a talk regarding aging clowns and officialdom at the ORF.
For twenty years it was quiet around the two civil servants Mike Weber and engineer Breitfuss. Well, not really: production of the ended in 2002 ORF-Sitcom “MA 2412”, created by cabaret artists Alfred Dorfer and Roland Düringer together with director Harald Sicherheititz. The episodes were broadcast for a long time: a total of 471 times, the ORF program manager calculated Stefanie Groiss-Horowitz recently before. She has correspondingly high expectations for the new edition of “Weber und Breitfuss”: “You are our Christkindln,” she said to Dorfer and Düringer. The two wrote two new special episodes, which no longer revolve around the fictional office for Christmas decorations, but entirely around their two characters, who are now in early retirement – and can neither with nor without each other.
Die Presse: Do you often sit together in the coffee house?
Alfred Dorfer: Never.
Roland Düringer: Well, never is nonsense. We sat in a coffee house once – a few years ago in Linz. And that was the starting signal for this project.
Dorfer: There was a group of students, boys from one HTL, who wanted a photo and said they are big “MA 2412” fans. And I said: That’s not possible because of age! That’s when we understood for the first time that “MA 2412” is obviously something that – like “Mother’s Day” – is passed on through generations.
Has your sense of humor changed since then?
Duringer: (pointing to Dorfer, laughing) Unfortunately, he has become very unfunny.
Dorfer: I’ve just matured!
Düringer: Mature means that you will soon rot. It’s the same with apples. . . Well, it actually stayed the same. It’s almost frightening that now – as an older gentleman – he still has the same old-school smack.
Messrs Breitfuss and Weber have also aged. Interestingly, Weber is now wearing a gray mullet, while Breitfuss’s toupee has become even stronger in color.