Vier Kerzen für ein Halleluja
- Location:
- Theaterhaus, Siemensstr. 11, 70469 Stuttgart
Every year, from the end of November until the presents are given, Jess Jochimsen performs a Christmas review of the year - including a "nativity play".
In the midst of gluttony and stressful resolutions and afflicted by political depression and private melancholy, Jess Jochimsen wants one thing above all: to give love back to the festive season.
The gift basket contains the legendary "Krippenspiel", but also a wistful look back at the past year. Also: brand new songs, necessary outbursts of anger and terrible slides of train stations and other underground sights. The Freiburg author and cabaret artist will not spare the audience a close look at the prevailing conditions, but as compensation they will be given relaxation, deceleration and a moment of unheard-of happiness. Just as it should be, at the end of the year.
"With his end-of-year program "Four Candles for a Hallelujah", the cabaret artist, author, photographer and musician Jess Jochimsen combined literature, slide shows and music in a completely relaxed and decelerated manner and offered all visitors a funny, witty and completely convincing evening. It was the small, subtle observations, the tips of which Jess Jochimsen excellently and seemingly completely unspectacularly put into words, and presented to the enthusiastic audience sometimes thoughtfully, sometimes with an ironic wink, but always wittily, without clumsily rummaging in the furthest corners of the bottom drawer and at the expense of others." (Schwäbische Zeitung)
"Jochimsen's stage programs are far more than cabaret: they are tragicomic road movies, very touching, very clever and wonderfully laugh-inducing." (AZ)
"Jochimsen lives up to his reputation for making furious cabaret of quiet tones with his caring program for all Christmas victims therapeutically, hilariously and with brilliant language: he reads his own texts, plays Western guitar masterfully, evokes memories of childhoods with tights and mittens and sings of sad Christmas encounters." (Hessische | Niedersächsische Allgemeine)