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Philipp Weber - Power to the Popel

Friday, 11/15/2024 at 7:30 PM

Philipp Weber - Power to the Popel

Friday, 11/15/2024
at 7:30 PM

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Ruhrtalstraße 345
45219 Essen

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Philipp Weber's program "POWER TO THE POPEL" is an exciting expedition through the fauna and flora of the state system. In times when representatives and distorters of the people repetitively invoke the crisis of civil society, the cabaret artist practices the most valuable democratic virtue with his audience: humor. Because isn't comedy, wit, and esprit the most dazzling weapons of a resilient democracy? And those who can mock their thinking and actions with the necessary irony will not fall victim to their own narrow-mindedness. True democrats primarily laugh at one thing: themselves. So laugh along and protect democracy.

2008 German Cabaret Award
2007 Salzburg Bull (with the First German Forced Ensemble)
2004 Cabaret Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg
2002 Passau Executioner's Axe

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Philipp Weber - Power to the Popel: Demokratie für Quereinsteiger

Admit it, you just read "Power to the People" and internally hummed the wonderful song by John Lennon. But this title is not a typing error, because Philipp Weber's cabaret piece revolves around the small "Popel," which according to the Duden refers to a "insignificant and pitiful little human." However, it is actually the task of democracy to shape the isolated tiny beings into a self-controlled people, the sovereign sovereign. But how quickly does the Popel also become the Pöbel? According to unofficial surveys by the federal government, 75 percent of Germans believe that three-quarters of Germans are total idiots. But who really has the say here? The People, the Pöbel, or the Popel?

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Photo + Design: Inka Meyer / Simon Büttner

WEB: weberphilipp.de
Philipp Weber's program "POWER TO THE POPEL" is an exciting expedition through the fauna and flora of the state. In times when representatives of the people and people-twisters repetitively invoke the crisis of bourgeois society, the cabaret artist practices the most valuable democratic virtue with his audience: humor. For are not comedy, wit, and esprit the most dazzling weapons of a robust democracy? And those who can laugh at their own thinking and actions with the necessary irony will not fall victim to their own narrow-mindedness. True democrats primarily laugh about one thing: themselves. So laugh along and protect democracy.

Photo + Design: Inka Meyer / Simon Büttner

WEB: weberphilipp.de

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Philipp Weber - Power to the Popel: Demokratie für Quereinsteiger

Philipp Weber // Power to the Popel: Demokratie für Quereinsteiger

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Admit it, you just read "Power to the People" and internally hummed the wonderful song by John Lennon. But this title is not a typo, because Philipp Weber's cabaret piece revolves around the little "Popel," which according to Duden refers to an "insignificant and pathetic little person." However, it is actually the task of democracy to shape the scattered tiny beings into a self-governing people, the sovereign sovereign.

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Awards

2019 Gaul of Lower Saxony

2018 Prize of the Leipzig Laughter Festival ("Leipzig Dandelion")

2016 tz-Rosenstrauß of the Year 2016

2010 German Small Arts Prize (with the First German Mandatory Ensemble)

2009 Bavarian Cabaret Prize: "Rising Star"

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2007 Salzburg Bull (with the First German Mandatory Ensemble)

2004 Small Arts Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg

2002 Passauer Executioner's Axe

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