Mathias Richling - Kabarett

Crime thriller atmosphere on the cabaret stage: Mathias Richling takes on the crime scene in Berlin, but also on the international stage, 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. Among those wanted in the new Richling program are Olaf Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, whose motives could not be more different.

The list of convicted offenders is long: Alice Weidel as a legal advisor, Cem Özedmir as a nutritionist, Greta Thunberg as a world enlightener, Robert Habeck as a dagger in a robe, Annalena Baerbock as a hairstyle model, Markus Lanz and Richard David Precht as the collateral damage of philosophy, Oliver Pocher as a self-pitying buffoon, and of course the legendary Swabian comedy duo, no, not Häberle and Pfleiderer, but Winfried Kretschmann and Thomas Strobl.

Richling is also unsparing in his analysis of the victims: 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. The author and former 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."