Mathias Tretter

"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Andy Warhol was indeed serious when he promised everyone this nonsense. Those 15 minutes have long since turned into 140 characters. While this doesn't necessarily make anyone famous, it can at least make one the President of the United States.

What began with talent shows has now reached its stormy peak in Donald Trump: The age of the amateur. Bloggers are the new journalists, hipsters the new brewers, AfD members the new CDU members. Singers receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, children raise their parents, and the Oval Office is the new hobby basement. And all around and underneath, the world is swaying so much that even the professionals feel unwell. The 2010s: Dilettantism on a volcano.

The experts, on the other hand, are called "Lügenbresse" and "verschisenes Estäplischment" (sic - when the right writes, it does not lead to correct spelling). Once, people concealed their shortcomings; today, they hide their abilities. Anyone who quotes Adorno is considered a pompous elite pig. But if you say, "Adorno? You mean the new five-door from VW?" - then you are in the conversation.

David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and George Michael simply had to die in the year everything became pop. Mathias Tretter is still here. More alive than ever, meaner than ever, with the program of the hour: Pop - political comedy without preaching. From a professional of oral presence.

With trivialities of the highest populism without modesty: 150 minutes of fame.

"Tretter manages to talk and perform about transhumanism, post-post-modernism, the retro phenomenon of windowing, and the curse of immortality while maintaining a consistently high intellectual standard in such an outrageously relaxed and nonchalant style and demeanor that one hardly drifts off in thought." (Südd. Zeitung)

"Polemic, self-ironic, intelligent, eloquent, entertaining, sophisticated. Tretter belongs to the very first rank of young political cabaret artists, those who would not sink in the footsteps of a grand figure like Dieter Hildebrandt. Outstanding." (Göttinger Tageblatt)