Philipp Weber

Does the term "political zoology" mean anything to you? It was Aristotle who once taught us that man is a "zoon politikon", a political animal. And isn't it precisely the animal in man that we should listen to more often ...? Let's take environmental protection as an example. All animals are uncompromising energy savers from birth. One example of this would be the sea squirts, which are capable of amazing things: in their youth they swim through the sea, stick themselves to a rock somewhere, and because they no longer need their brain, they simply digest the superfluous organ. If that's not a form of radical recycling! In contrast, many people find the issue of sustainability much more difficult. Along the lines of: "I'd ride my bike to work, but unfortunately the damn thing doesn't fit in the trunk!"

Philipp Weber's program "POWER TO THE POPEL" is an exciting expedition through the fauna and flora of the state. 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 defensible 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 join in the laughter and protect democracy.

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Awards
2024 Stuttgart broom in wood
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

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