Axel Pätz • MEHR! • Tastenkabarett
We made it. Welcome to the Anthropocene!
The Earth is at our command, we have everything a person needs, and what no person needs, we have in double and triple. We reach the most remote corners of the world, to the deepest depths, to the highest peaks, we go to the moon, to Mars, but there’s one thing we do not come to: the idea of taking a moment to pause and ask ourselves: Where is all this leading?
Because no matter what we have, we need MORE! Logically: "Bring it on" sounds much more dynamic than: "I've been doing just fine without it so far."
The growth dogma is unassailable, pushing us faster, higher, further on the open-ended must-have scale. Whoever rests, costs, and costs are the only thing we like to do without.
Banking crisis, lockdown, stock market crash – nothing can dampen the consumer climate index. Things our parents couldn't even imagine existing seem indispensable to us: computers, smartphones, unlimited data plans, leaf blowers, musical underwear, room spray with chicken soup aroma, and egg shell cracking facilitators. Don’t have them yet? Then off to the online shop!
Statistically, the affluent citizen owns two cars, four mobile phones, and one and a half riding lawn mowers. Yet only one in five has a garden.
Clearly, with such rapid progress, we have to accept contradictions: If you want to buy a new SUV every three years, you simply cannot pay more than €1.99 for a kilo of pork. We have detergents for snow-white shirts, but we just can't get the brown spots out of our mindset. And: does it really make a difference in quality technical products whether you blow away the leaves in front of your door with a leaf blower or blow away protestors in front of the government palace with heavy artillery?
The greatest fears of Germans are no longer hunger, poverty, war, but speed limits, running out of toilet paper, and the neighbor Syrian having the nicer garden gnome.
When it comes to rare earths, no one thinks about the uniqueness of our planet anymore, but about the increasing dominance of the Chinese. Terra is primarily a synonym for a whole, whole lot of storage space. "Creation" is just a suffix of "value creation."
And no one can escape the maximization trap. Therefore, Axel Pätz plays six-handed piano and accordion in his current solo program, simultaneously operates a life-sized ventriloquist dummy with his feet, and sings a six-part Gregorian overtone madrigal.
Doors open 1 hour before the start.