They embody a married couple typical for Hessen that could turn up at a typical German talkshow on any afternoon: unrestrained, loquacious and forever quarrelsome.
Yet nonetheless, the apparently banal married bickering reveals a philosophical undertone of almost Beckett-like magnitude: man/woman are unable to exist without the other, but together it is a fiasco! But in contrast to the nihilism of Samuel Becket the typical Hesse always manifests indestructible optimism – life goes on!
The “Schwerdtfeger Family” has squabbled successfully for many years in ever-new episodes on the cabaret stage “Die Käs”.