RICHLINGS REAL REALITY

In contrast to virtual reality, which generates an apparent reality, satire exaggerates reality into REAL REALITY, which is teeming with culprits, just like in a crime thriller. Mathias Richling follows in the footsteps of madness at the crime scene in Berlin, but also on the international stage, in order to track down the roots of evil in politics and society with a detective's instinct. The perpetrators are known, but as in any crime thriller, the question arises as to whether the perpetrators are sometimes also victims. German politicians, but also Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, among others, are wanted in the new, constantly updated Richling program. But Richling also relentlessly analyzes the victim side: the voters who no longer know who or what to vote for; the taxpayers whose money ends up in the hands of terrorists via dark channels; the an-everything sticklers who lose sight of their goals...

Richling, who is celebrated by many critics as the best parodist on the German cabaret scene, brings his latest observations into literary form as always (there are already master's and doctoral theses on his texts). Author and SWR presenter Günter Verdin directs. One critic describes Richling's art of transformation as follows: "He doesn't even need a big mask to do it, the change of voice and posture and the use of a few gestures are enough to recognize who he is sketching and caricaturing through humorous and sometimes bizarre exaggeration."
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PRESS RATINGS
Dark punchlines, laugh-out-loud funny
In his new program, Richling, directed by Günter Verdin, takes stock of the current year in his usual fast-paced manner (...)Richling knows how to show, with a few gestural brushstrokes and a verbally cleverly imitated attitude, how populists and dictators are eroding morals, human rights and democratic achievements. A gloomy quintessence. However, it's funny to throw away.
(Berliner Morgenpost)

Satirical fireworks in a class of their own
The desire to break taboos is just as much a basic requirement for him as his razor-sharp analysis of the political landscape. Mathias Richling goes one better when he rattles off his sentences like a machine gun, making the audience dizzy just from listening. When he then slips into ever new roles and takes a lusty look at the political personnel, it quickly becomes clear that an absolute master of the satirical guild is on stage. Richling is one of the absolute heavyweights of the scene.
(Lahrer Zeitung)

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