Cafe Populaire

“Studying or frying?”“Humor is a sharp-edged weapon.

The flux in the constant battle of humanism.” Svenja is a good person and a hospice clown by profession. However, she does not have an easy time finding her voice with her desire to improve the world. So she starts a second career as a YouTuber. Her topic: instructions for anti-discriminatory humor, the “humorism”, a mixture of humor and humanism. Unfortunately Svenja has only eight followers, four of whom have already died. At the moment of a meaningful live performance, “The Don” drives into her, a kind of alter ego, an evil split from herself. He resolutely despises poor people and losers – but as he speaks from her, the click-throughs increase. That’s where joy comes in! From the point of view of director Nils Braun, this humorous zeitgeist critique of social media and political correctness “... hits the nerve of a time that equates power with clicks.

Those who have the clicks and the power can speak, judge and form opinions, at least. But are we as a society already ready to deal with the flood of media content and its often manipulative effects? And are social media even a mouthpiece for all people?” Nils Braun’s staging concept provides for a multimedia implementation of the play. The stage event becomes a live vlog.