Sarah Bosetti

In the organizer's words:

Those who are afraid should stay at home!

Poetry against populism

Sarah Bosetti puts forward a bold thesis: The greatest danger to humanity is not climate, war and disasters, but populism.

Mouse-slipped? Climate terrorism? Disinfectant against corona? Birthday party for 69 deportations? This is the level at which the powerful of this world talk about the important political issues of our time. Yet almost all crises could be overcome if we were to face them with honest reason - which we fail to do with impressive consistency. That is why, in the fight against fake news, discrimination and shifting discourse, Sarah Bosetti takes on some of the most beautiful, worst or most absurd populist statements by well-known personalities - from Alice Schwarzer to Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin - and responds to them with clever and witty poems. She fights populism with the sharpest weapon she has: poetry!

Sarah Bosetti is a satirist, author and reluctant feminist. For her weekly satirical show "Bosetti will reden!" (ZDF), she was nominated for the German Television Award in 2022. She has previously been awarded the Dieter Hildebrandt Prize and the German Cabaret Prize, among others. She hosts the extra3 podcast "Bosettis Woche" (NDR), in which she discusses political events with prominent guests, tours the German-speaking world with her live program and is a columnist for WDR2 and radioeins (RBB).

"So when the shit hits the fan ... it wasn't Sarah Bosetti's fault." - Marc-Uwe Kling

"Sarah Bosetti has developed an unprecedented form of cabaret and satire." - Jury Dieter Hildebrandt Prize

Sarah Bosetti is an invention of her parents. She has been around since 1984, half man and half woman, first studied film directing in Brussels and then moved to Berlin, where she has since warmed herself in the spotlight of the reading and cabaret stages to save on her own heating costs.

In addition to appearances on ZDF (Die Anstalt), ARD (Nuhr im Ersten, Ladies Night), 3sat, ZDF.kultur and WDR, she is a columnist for radioeins (RBB) and is currently touring Germany with her solo program "Ich hab nichts gegen Frauen, du Schlampe!". Her first novel "Mein schönstes Ferienbegräbnis" (Voland & Quist) was published in 2015, followed by the book "Ich bin sehr hübsch, das sieht man nur nicht so" in 2017 and this year's "Ich habe nicht gegen Frauen, die Schlampe!" (both published by Rowohlt Verlag).