LACHEN MACHEN

MAKE LAUGHTER
The new stage program
by Arnd Schimkat aka Arthur Senkrecht

Why we laugh, what we laugh about.

From fall 2026, one of the most exciting actor-comedians will take to the stage again - and he has a confession
and he has a confession: comedy is no accident. It is a craft. And he is a master
of comedy.
Arnd Schimkat, also known as Arthur Senkrecht, takes you behind the scenes of laughter, humor
laughter, humor and comedy.
What happens when we suddenly burst out laughing? Which levers are secretly
secretly flipped - technically, psychologically, highly manipulative - so that we can't help but
to burst out laughing?
But is that possible? Laughing and understanding why you're laughing at the same time. Sure!
demonstrates. And then he reveals. Because he's not just an expert - he's an expert. An analyst.
Accomplice.
Does that sound like less fun? Not at all. Once you understand how comedy works
never laugh the same way again - but more heartily and more from now on.
MAKE LAUGHTER. Amazing, intelligent, generous, never vulgar and definitely funny.

ARND SCHIMKAT
Hilarious, uninhibited, captivating in his manner and full of humor from his little toe to the tips of his hair
full of humor - that's Arnd Schimkat aka Arthur Senkrecht. He has perfected the fine art of comedy
perfected in and of itself.
Trained in Paris at the legendary theater school of Jacques Lecoq and in New York at the
Actors Studio in New York, he didn't just learn how to laugh. He dissected it, distilled it and brought it to
mastery.
Film, television, thousands of stage performances, award-winning scripts, a novel. Eleven
countries. And a press that has long since capitulated: "So funny that the audience is in tears
laugh" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), or: "The incarnation of the comic" (Münchner
Abendzeitung).
He has already thrilled an audience of millions and is currently starring in the Grimme Prize nominated
nominated ZDF series "Schlechte Menschen" (Bad People). With his
the Perrier Comedy Award with his stage solo, the Grimme Prize with the WDR show "Zimmer frei!
Prize - and today teaches what others can only guess at: the dramaturgy of comedy, including at the
at the University of Film and Television Munich.
This man knows all about making people laugh. And tonight he'll show you how.