The request “Shut up and babble ned so stupid Zoisch” is actually unmistakable, but it would be fundamentally wrong in the case of Nobbi as well as in the case of Ebbi.

The two Hessians would much rather shout "than weider", it is a lot of fun to listen to this duo trying to present a radio show.

The window is simply opened for the weather report (“Fresh!”), The traffic news recommends the alternative route via Drosselgasse in Rüdesheim, because a garbage can has overturned on Sperlingstrasse in Mömbris and basically destroys every punchline of a joke, because Nobbi does not have a joke understands, but does not want to see this and talks about head and neck in his excuses.

Christian Riethmüller

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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Nobbi and Ebbi, however, are not a new team of presenters at Hessischer Rundfunk, Radio FFH or Radio Bob, but two of the characters who populate the wondrous cosmos of Radio Badesalz, conceived by the comedians Henni Nachtsheim and Gerd Knebel and listened to on the weekly Internet radio Format and Podcast Radio Badesalz. "The idea came to us in the summer of last year when it became clear to us that we would probably not be able to perform live for a long time," says Henni Nachtsheim in an interview with the FAZ: "Gerd is very Anglophile and a fan of the BBC. He raved about a certain radio show and we said to each other, we'll do that too. "

However, the plan had a small catch: “We didn't know how to set up and operate an Internet radio,” admits Nachtsheim: “So we asked Volker Rebell, who is still active with a program that is also played over the Internet will.

He recommended Volker Pietzsch and Michael Hassinger, two radio makers from Mainz, and then it went very quickly. "

Cellar converted into a studio

In the basement of Nachtheim's house in Rödermark, an unused room was cleared out and a small studio was set up there under professional advice from Mainz, from which the first broadcast was broadcast live on September 24, 2020. With great expectations, as Nachtsheim cannot hide, after all, the comedy duo, which has been active for almost 40 years, has a loyal following. “When we asked our producer during the first show how many people were watching the show and he replied: 188. We had to take a deep breath,” Nachtsheim recalls a moment of shock. He, Knebel and the producer didn't know that the server had simply fallen to its knees because so many interested people had activated it.After a bit of jerking, the first broadcast could be continued and thus established a successful format. According to Nachtsheim, the program, which can be accessed via the Duo website badesalz.de and is available as a free podcast on popular portals, now has a good 200,000 subscribers.

A cross-section of everything that could be heard in the first 14 episode season is now also available as an album. "Radio Badesalz Vol. 1", which will be released this Friday on its own label, Frau Batz Records, offers street surveys ("Knallhart nachgefragt"), business news ("What went well today?") And culture (fabulous: "Der knorke Filmtipp "), Lebenshilfe with Swami Weichei Wischnu, beautiful uneventful series (" Die Äpplerstraße "), the female Nobbi & Ebbi counterparts Uschi and Rosi and - indispensable for a radio format of stature - of course music from the Sprinkle Pipers or Bernd and Babette, who also have bath salts behind them. As Nachtsheim says, many of the short skits are the result of improvisation: "Only the longer contributions such as the film tips are required,for others, keywords are enough. Some of the music tracks are also created live. There are instruments standing around in the studio, which we then start using. "

Radio and stage programs remain separate

However, the radio sketches will not be included in the Badesalz stage program, nor will the stage characters appear in radio format.

“They should stay separate from each other,” says Nachtsheim, who wants to play the “Kaksi Dudes” tour, which has already been postponed twice, with Knebel over the next few months.

It will also continue with Radio Badesalz.

The format is so much fun for both of them that Nachtsheim even sees the longest-lasting of all bath salt projects here.

In view of the large number of subscribers, the podcast is now also interesting for advertisers, he says.

However, a current cooperation with a brewery in Darmstadt has come about in a different way.

Nachtsheim and Knebel want to start a comedy rock band under the name The Batschers, which is embodied in videos by puppets.

What they will look like can be seen on special beer bottles that can be bought in the regional beverage trade between Darmstadt and Offenbach.

And that's kaa stupid Zoisch.