FRIEDEMANN WEISE | »Satire suchen ein Zuhause« | HAMBURG

“If satire dies, humanity has only four years left to live,” Albert Einstein said to his cat, coffee in hand. “But if—to paraphrase Tucholsky—satire is allowed to do anything,” the cat purred, “then it’s also allowed to die.”“I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen, as sure as I’m a serial winner of the German Cabaret Award,” exclaimed Friedemann Weise, who dreamed up this scene on a regional express train on his way to a performance in Dingsbums. Finally, he knew what to call his fifth solo show: *Satire Seeks a Home*. A clumsy pun—just good enough not to stand out too much in the local cabaret scene, but above all bad enough to bring a smile to Friedemann Weise’s own face.So the Cologne-based author, satirist, and musical comedian is now setting out to show, in two 50-minute sets of satire, why life is worth living.

As difficult as this undertaking may be, together with his guitar, a screen, and his human mini-clone “Friedemännchen,” he’ll pull it off. And you get to watch him do it!

Friedemann Weise is a multi-award-winning cabaret artist and has been a permanent member of the “heute-show” ensemble since 2019. His radio comedy “History hautnah” has been airing weekly on WDR2 since 2021. His mini-radio plays can also be heard in nearly every episode of Germany’s most successful radio satire show, “Satire deluxe,” on WDR5. As a writer, he has written and continues to write for the heute show, extra3, Titanic magazine, and KROYMANN, among others. Friedemann Weise has a photo column in Cologne’s “Stadtrevue” and takes an average of 11,000 steps a day—many of them on stages across the state, where he performs year-round.

Photo credits: Marvin Ruppert