Kreuzkirche Alt-Barmbek

Annika Blanke looks exactly where it hurts – and talks about it. In her brand-new solo show, Annika Blanke once again explores the boundaries between the tragic, the thoughtful, and the humorous. An evening blending cabaret, spoken word, comedy, and storytelling. Without a safety net or guitar, but with plenty of nuances and digs.

The doomsday mood cannon Johannes Kirchberg wakes up one morning as always, and this time he is sure: I'd like to have my problems. And since looking into the future can be more frightening than looking back, he looks back at all his cabaret programs to date. A special program for a special time, a surprise program for those who don't know Kirchberg, and a best of for everyone else.

It's ultimately only a narrow line between longing and madness, just as between cabaret and comedy. A line on which Vanessa Maurischat balances as if sleepwalking. Singing is the best medicine and the piano is the pacemaker for the soul. Confused hemispheres are elegantly untangled until we can see clearly again. A must for armchair psychologists and know-it-alls, scaredy-cats and hypochondriacs, amateur psychopaths and smooth talkers, wannabe Casanovas and pseudo-intellectuals.

Artificial intelligence is turning our lives upside down. Have the machines already taken over? By definition, AI can recognize problems and solve them independently. So the federal government is not affected. Artificial intelligence can only become as smart as those from whom it learns. So we offer it something – a resurgence of enlightenment. Let's coach AI so that it votes more sensibly at the ballot box than we do, so that the worst mistakes in world history are not repeated. Laugh and learn new things, because Schnoy makes you smart.