Thomas Schreckenberger

Reading the news in the morning often gives you the feeling that you are the only normal person in the world. Then you meet your neighbor and suddenly you're even pretty sure!

Sometimes you could despair in the face of your fellow human beings: crazy extremists threaten democracy, greedy profiteers threaten the environment and contestants on "Bauer sucht Frau" threaten your sanity!

And the internet is increasingly becoming a place where people hang out who make Hannibal Lecter look like a nice gentleman with dubious food preferences. Agitators, conspiracy theorists and science deniers set the tone and you almost wish you were back in the days when you could just hand such people over to the traveling circus.

Many questions pop into your head:

Is the world one big madhouse? Why am I in it too? And what can I do?

To paraphrase Lothar Matthäus, put the sand in my head? But even that is already running out. Just run away from everything? But where to go when you can meet a German tour group of retired senior teachers even in the remotest corner of the Amazon? Even on Mars you're no longer safe, because Elon Musk could be waiting for you there!

So nothing helps - we have to roll up our sleeves and declare war on misery!

Thomas Schreckenberger, winner of numerous cabaret awards (e.g. Kleinkunstpreis Baden-Württemberg, Tuttlinger Krähe, and many more), takes stock of all the lunatics in politics, society and everyday life.

Of course, protagonists from our political and celebrity scene appear from time to time, which Thomas Schreckenberger brings to the stage as his usual deceptively real parodies, with some of them being part of the problem rather than the solution.

The fight against the world's loonies often seems hopeless, as they often have money, power and influence, but there remains one powerful weapon: humor! After all, as the great Werner Finck once said: "Smiling is the most elegant way to show your opponents your teeth!"

What will remain is the realization that although cabaret cannot change the world, it can at least change the mood of the audience and the artist's bank balance.
And that is at least a start!

Picture: Martina Bogdahn