Dr. Pop: Suspected Hit

Can you seriously earn a doctorate in pop music? Yes! And what do you do with it? Comedy and cabaret. Dr. Pop is a doctor for all things musical. He is established in radio, TV, online, and on stage. In his live program "Hitverdächtig" (Hit-Worthy), he treats audiences with music samples and curious, yet completely true, music facts. Did you know that termites eat through wood twice as fast when they listen to heavy metal? Or that there is a Barry White effect in evolutionary theory? The deeper the male's voice, the greater the chances of mating. This applies to both humans and koalas.

In "Hitverdächtig," music plays that can save a party, a relationship, or the motivation for sports or house cleaning. Whether it’s pop, rock, classical, schlager, jazz, hip-hop, or rap: Dr. Pop fires off familiar yet also unknown samples from music history. By the end of the show, everyone in the audience knows how to enrich their own lives a little more with music.

The program is constantly updated with current songs and new scientific studies, making each evening different – only the title and the host remain the same. Dr. Pop studied media science and pop music in the four pop music metropolises of the world: Manchester, Liverpool, Paderborn, and Detmold. He then earned his doctorate on the topics of terrorism and orientalism in pop music at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Dr. Pop performs on stage, appears in various TV formats, produces videos, and is heard as a weekly columnist on radioeins from RBB with the column "Dr. Pop's Recording Studio" (nominated for the German Radio Award in the "Best Comedy" category). As a host and comedian, he has already performed at the Waldbühne Berlin in front of more than 17,000 people. His book "Dr. Pop's Musical Consultation" (Heyne Verlag) has been translated into Korean and released in South Korea (Whale-Books).