Florian Scheuba

Florian Scheuba counters the crazy absurdities of the present with humor and proves that laughter is the best form of self-defense, especially on New Year's Eve – Cheers to the New Year!

Democracy, economy, environment, hope for a better future – everything is going down the drain. But who threw it in there? Can it be fished out again? Satirist Florian Scheuba takes a seat on the bank in a Bachwatch mission, keeping an eye out for lifeguards and dark sewage channels, wondering if this stream has already become mainstream, and confronting rampant apocalyptic tendencies with the defiant construction of humor dams.

Many questions arise for him: Should the "Yes, of course, little pig" become the Minister of Agriculture? Does Donald Trump have a "kitchen cupboard problem" – a crack in the bowl, a loose screw, not all cups in the cupboard? Do autocrats even have to pretend to tell the truth when they lie? And does the principle apply to perpetually neutral Austria: "One says this, another says that, we say: Oh really..."? Is empathy, as Elon Musk claims, "the decisive weakness of Western civilization"? Or is it that this civilization has become subservient to people like Musk? Are we really better off when others are worse off? And can one still say everywhere nowadays that one can no longer say anything anywhere?