This is how it can go: just an editor, then Hartz IV, then the appointment.

Ralph Friesner (Axel Prahl), a slouchy ex-journalist, is hired as a substitute teacher at night school.

Those to be schooled form a colorful mix of the disadvantaged and those without a chance.

The miracle happens.

The new teacher has no idea about pedagogy or school material, but he is great at empathizing.

natural born teachership,

In any case, it was claimed four years ago in "Extraklasse", as well as in the second film, which is now being followed by a third and hopefully last edition with "Extraklasse - On Tour".

The recipe is the same: steal the essence of "Fack ju Göhte" and make it unfunny, adding a good portion of self-help and community warmth.

Struggling for relevance

This time, however, the result is particularly unpalatable.

Far from any indispensable comedic insouciance.

"Extraklasse - On Tour" is embarrassing and humorless, while desperately trying to be relevant.

This is mainly due to the characters cobbled together by Gernot Gricksch in the screenplay.

The film by Sinan Akkus (director) and Claire Jahn (camera) even has one of the students, Mirco (Niklas Bruhn), arrested when he has fulfilled his duty as a functionary of dubious views and actions.

The mystery of the screenplay remains why a misogynist and abuser of women, out of "revenge" on the female sex ("Incel"), gets among the serious cases of refusal to perform.

The new headmistress (Susanna Simon), a caricature of a paragraph rider, condemns Ralph Friesner to a "coaching boot camp".

In order to get things moving, which after the first few minutes of the banter between Friesner and his flatmate, the boss reminds him: She has five places for seven candidates of the future evening school class, at the end of the intensive preparation week in a youth hostel would have to go two.

The cucumber troupe is composed according to the principle "one of each".

There is hairdresser Ruth (Nadine Wrietz), good-natured, panic attacks, secret food addiction, overweight.

"Now I would like to retrain as an office clerk, because then I can at least tweak the balance sheets a bit," she says in the round of introductions.

Exuberant neighing, and so that everyone in front of the screen gets it, someone repeats “the balance sheets”.

Incel Mirco says she used to be bullied.

He now wants to "become a travel agent so that I can send you all to where the pepper grows".

Rarely not laughed so much.

Then there is Faheema (Belina Mohamed-Ali), intelligent but extremely shy and with a heavy stutter, the doll-loving Sunnyboy Nick (Gerrit Klein) and Keywan (Aram Arami), an escape from Iraq, an alcoholic and gay.

In the youth convalescent home, hostel manager Ole (Anton Weber) works, who thinks he is a disguised Native American and dances around the teepee at night.

The chaos troop tries to stick together in the climbing garden (among other things in a "dangerous" almost crash sequence), all sorts of obstacles arise, Friesner's roommate occupies his bed, and in the end everyone celebrates a nice party under the starry sky, at which even she ossifies Headmistress forgets and hangs around the neck of the others.

We all need a little love.

The actress Katharina Thalbach, who plays Karin, Friesner's abusive, kind-hearted roommate, has the worst foreign shame part, as a comic version of a folksy "Berlin Schnauze".

Particularly poignant, but in a bad sense, is the scene in which she mimes extensive farting and belching noises on the phone in order to demonstrate the condition of the pipe system to her next tenant.

Or the scene in which she hangs up his Unterbuxen in XXL in the middle of the room in the youth hostel.

Or the scenes in which she snores and snorkels at night in a shared room to the mercy of God.

In the end, everyone loves each other and Friesner's plans to move are put on hold.

A fourth "extra class" is spared the viewers.

If that's the view of "warm-hearted comedy talent" on ZDF shortly before the festival,

Extra class - On Tour

is in the ZDF media library.

In the linear program, ZDF will show the film on December 12 at 8:15 p.m.