Didi Sommer: Endlich Sommer!

Didi Sommer tells his stories in his dialect: rustic, authentic and honest. In german language.

Most men don't like to talk.
And not much.
Didi Sommer does.
And about very personal things, at that.

Dietmar was born in the winter as Dietmar Sommer. This was the first of countless tragic challenges in little Didi’s life (okay, he was never really little—he was already 4.30 kg at birth). Then he also had to grow up in the Mühlviertel region. What a start to a cruel, cold Upper Austrian world!

Despite these initial adversities, his life turned out surprisingly well. He has now lived and worked in Vienna for more than half his life. He found his way to cabaret through poetry slam, and after three successful shows, he’s now creating his fourth: “Endlich Sommer!”

Didi Sommer tells his stories in his dialect: rustic, authentic, and honest. Sometimes too honest. He shares secrets about growing up in the Mühlviertel: where children are “doped” with synthetic fertilizer and are forced to learn an exotic foreign language—German—as early as elementary school. Where 12-year-olds zoom off to middle school on mopeds without helmets, and no one thinks it’s strange when teenagers pick up their girlfriends from the disco in a tractor.

Dialect, as the language of humor, brings people together. And Didi Sommer embodies humor.