Hagen Rether - LIEBE
"We can't save the world? Well, who else will?" It's not classical cabaret that Hagen Rether serves to his audience, but rather an associative game, an invitation to think along. The cabaret artist refuses to reduce complex connections and societal as well as political absurdities to mere punchlines. He doesn't engage in scapegoating or the satirical burning of the usual media straw men because ultimately, the responsibility is not solely on "those at the top."
In great detail, Rether links current events with forgotten ones, the near with the far, questioning, denying, and doubting. He thoroughly shakes up central beliefs of Western "civilization," revealing so-called constraints as collective fictions to laughter. With surprising comparisons, he entices the audience to shift perspectives – to a different view of the world, the future, the mirror, even confronting uncomfortable truths. He calls for us to free ourselves from the fear and anger that is often instrumentalized.
Rether's LOVE is tragic, comedic, painful, contagious: The constantly mutating program with the same title causes lasting dissatisfaction with simplistic explanations, leading to self-reflection and action. For up to three and a half hours, the cabaret artist passionately advocates for enlightenment and compassion, against double standards and consumerist mediocrity: Change is possible – if we want.
"Fact is: after an evening with Hagen Rether, one is no longer the same person they were before." (ak-kurier.de)
"No cabaret artist takes Immanuel Kant's concept of the enlightened individual more seriously than Hagen Rether." (Osnabrücker Zeitung, Ralf Döring)
"Hagen Rether is not an entertainer hunting for punchlines, his cabaret is not a form of absolution. He appeals to the responsibility of the individual to change the world where one can." (zdf.de)
"With high linguistic precision and sharpness, he unveils society's shortcomings, hypocrisies, and ethical contradictions – 'no one can later claim that we did not know,' was his main message of the evening." (waz.de)
"As expected, Rether presents himself as a superb, boldly political cabaret artist, a nonconformist who argues extensively and directly." (General-Anzeiger Bonn, Hagen Haas)
"He once said he is not cynical but rather sees things realistically. Such bitter realism hurts – especially because this cabaret artist serves it up so virtuously and vividly." (Allgemeine Zeitung / Rhein Main Presse, Gerd Blase)
"It's almost surprising that his audience hangs onto his every word for such a long period. (...) In the end, it is indeed his content that ensures him the deserved attention." (Aachener Zeitung, Hendrik Buch)
Doors open: 7:00 pm
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