Philipp Weber - Power to the Popel: Demokratie für Quereinsteiger

Admit it, you have just read "Power to the People" and have been singing John Lennon's wonderful song in your head. But this title is not a misprint, because Philipp Weber's cabaret piece is all about the little "booger", which, according to the dictionary, refers to an "inconspicuous and pathetic little person". Yet it is actually the task of democracy to form the self-governing people, the sovereign sovereign, out of the isolated tiny people. But how quickly does the booger become the rabble? It is not only since yesterday that political scientists have been warning us that more and more Germans are becoming increasingly weary of democracy. How can that be? Isn't democracy the fairest of all forms of government, because only it can guarantee that citizens are not governed better than they deserve? According to unofficial surveys by the German government, 75 percent of Germans believe that three quarters of Germans are total idiots. But who is actually in charge here? The people, the rabble or the boogers?

The answer is simple: Philipp Weber. At a time when representatives of the people and shysters of the people are constantly invoking the crisis of bourgeois society, the cabaret artist practices the most valuable democratic virtue with his audience: humor. After all, aren't comedy, wit and esprit the most dazzling weapons of a defensive democracy? And those who can smile at their own thoughts 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!

Awards:
2019 Gaul of Lower Saxony
2018 Prize of the Leipzig Laughter Fair ("Leipziger Löwenzahn")
2016 tz Rose Bouquet of the Year 2016
2010 German Cabaret Award (with the First German Forced Ensemble)
2009 Bavarian Cabaret Prize: "Senkrechtstarter"
2008 Leipzig Löwenzahn Laughter Fair Prize (with the First German Compulsory Ensemble)
2008 German Cabaret Prize
2007 Salzburger Stier (with the First German Forced Ensemble)
2004 Kleinkunstpreis of the state of Baden-Württemberg
2002 Passauer Scharfrichterbeil