STOFFEL 2026: Mathias Tretter - Souverän

At Günthersburgpark: Cabaret

“Sovereignty belongs to whoever decides on a state of emergency.” – Carl Schmitt was quite the loudmouth himself; otherwise, he wouldn’t have become Göring’s eggnog. Germany’s most notorious advocate wrote that famous line in 1928, and we’ve been mulling it over ever since. Barely a hundred years later, a state of emergency reigns on every corner—but who holds sovereignty?
Some say this, others say it’s the people—but as always, the truth lies somewhere else entirely. Mathias Tretter finds it once again with his friend Ansgar: “Being stoned is a state of emergency, and I’ve chosen it.” Democracy may gradually be losing its grip on power, but that’s no reason to lose your self-control. Unless, of course, you’re wetting yourself with laughter—but isn’t that the most sovereign thing of all? “You’ll be roaring with laughter,” says Tretter, who, since winning the 2023 Salzburg Stier Award, has now been honored with every cabaret prize there is. Nevertheless, he says his latest show is his funniest: “You’ll grin, snort, gasp for breath, and go home invincible in the end.” In other words: sovereign. The name says it all.

Web: https://mathiastretter.de/