Wenn der Abend durch den Schronstein fällt – Ein Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-N'Abend!

"On the Lower Rhine, the riddles chase each other: Why is nothing going on here and yet everything is going on. And somewhere else everything is going on, and nothing is going on at all. The Lower Rhine, I always think, doesn't fool you. There is no calculated romanticism, but rather a music of forgetting and remembering, and from this arises the feeling of being at the end of the world, at the end of all days. If you want to study fantasy, you should come to the Lower Rhine for a few semesters and then go back out into the big world as Lohengrin." - Hanns Dieter Hüsch

He was one of the best-known and most popular cabaret artists of his time: Hanns Dieter Hüsch. A philanthropist and a keen observer, an astute clown and a political melancholic. Hanns Dieter Hüsch's programs always created a world of their own, in which the seemingly banal could shine philosophically and hilariously. This theater evening brings to life once again the most beautiful, funny and haunting texts and songs of the "traveling poet" and shows that Hüsch was much more than a cabaret artist.

We accompany the "Black Sheep of the Lower Rhine" and have the world explained to us in a profound way. We meet "Hagenbuch" in the Bless-Hohenstein asylum and explore the little word "WIE".

Songs and lyrics from four decades of an unmistakable original.

"(...) So there they are, at the lectern or organ, sitting on two chairs at the edge of the stage facing their audience, speaking, precisely coordinated, long, screwed sentences, transforming Hüsch's texts into duets, letting comedy, sadness, defiance trickle out of these stubborn cascades, an unequal pair who hit nuances together: Schäfer, who looks straight ahead, performs dryly and with a slight smirk; Küster, who likes to let his Hüsch lines crash with wry pathos. All of this is wonderfully skillful and stimulating: both speakers put their hearts into their work.(...)" - Thomas Morawitzky, Stuttgarter Zeitung

With: Christof Küster and Sebastian Schäfer
Text selection & direction: Christof Küster
Production takeover from Studio Theater Stuttgart