Hagen Rether – LIEBE

That must be love

“We can’t save the world? Yes, who else can?” Hagen Rether doesn’t serve his audience classic cabaret, but rather an associative game, a thought-provoking offer. He returns in 2025 with his program LIEBE.

Much more than classic cabaret

The cabaret artist refuses to reduce complex contexts and social and political absurdities to mere punchlines. The slaughtering of scapegoats and the satirical firing of the usual media straw men are also not his thing, because ultimately it is not just “those at the top” who bear responsibility.

In great detail, Rether links the current with the forgotten, the close with the distant, questions, disputes, doubts. He thoroughly shakes up central tenets of Western “civilization” and exposes so-called constraints to laughter as collective fictions.

A different view of the world

With surprising comparisons, he entices the audience to change their perspective – to take a different look at the world, into the future, into the mirror, even to face uncomfortable truths. And he calls on us to free ourselves from our often instrumentalized fear and anger.

Rether’s LIEBE is tragic, comical, funny and infectious: the constantly mutating program with the same title causes lasting dissatisfaction with simple explanations and encourages us to think and act for ourselves. For up to three and a half hours, the cabaret artist makes a passionate plea for enlightenment and compassion, against double standards and consumerist sausages: change is possible – if we want it.

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