Shooting starts for EXTRAWURST

The last item on the agenda at a tennis club meeting: a vote on a new barbecue. This is the starting point for one of the funniest and most successful plays of recent years! Now EXTRAWURST is making its way to the big screen. Shortly before Easter, the first take will be shot with Hape Kerkeling (Der Boandlkramer und die ewige Liebe), Christoph Maria Herbst (Der Buchspazierer, Der Spitzname), Fahri Yardim (jerks., Der Medicus), Anja Knauer (‘Pumuckl und das große Missverständnis’) and Friedrich Mücke (‘Wunderschön’, ‘Ballon’) as well as Gaby Dohm (‘Das Traumschiff’, ‘Die Schwarzwaldklinik’). Prejudice, everyday racism, religion – in this fast-paced comedy, all sides get their comeuppance!

Director Marcus H. Rosenmüller (Trautmann, Beckenrand Sheriff, Pumuckl und das große Missverständnis) is staging the delightfully wicked satire by comedy duo Dietmar Jacobs (Stromberg, Pastewka) and Moritz Netenjakob (Stromberg, Jadykracher) in North Rhine-Westphalia until the end of May. The film will be released on 15 January 2026.

It’s really just a formality: the general meeting of a tennis club somewhere in provincial Germany is supposed to vote on the purchase of a new barbecue for the next club party. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem – if it weren’t for the suggestion to also finance a separate barbecue for the club’s only Turkish member. As is well known, devout Muslims are not allowed to put their grilled sausages on a grill that has been used for pork. A well-intentioned idea that brings atheists and believers, Germans and Turks, do-gooders and hardliners into direct conflict – disrespectful and incredibly funny. It quickly becomes clear to everyone that this is about much more than a barbecue…

The play ‘Extrawurst’ has enjoyed great success throughout Germany in recent years and became the most performed play in Germany in the 2021/2022 season. The theatre hit by comedy writers Dietmar Jacobs (‘Stromberg’, ‘Pastewka’) and Moritz Netenjakob (‘Stromberg’, ‘Jadykracher’), acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, is now being filmed for the cinema with a great ensemble cast. EXTRAWURST is a production by LIEBLINGSFILM (‘Rubinrot’, ‘Beckenrand Sheriff’, ‘Trautmann’) and STUDIOCANAL (‘Woodwalkers’, ‘Der Buchspazierer’) in co-production with ARD Degeto Film and is funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, the Filmförderungsanstalt FFA, the Filmfernsehfonds Bayern and Nordmedia.