Hagen Rether

Hagen Rether (born 8 October 1969 in Bucharest ) is a German comedian.

Life

Rether spent his early childhood years as a German origin of Transylvanian parents son in Bucharest, Romania and Sibiu. In 1973 his family moved to Germany and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau. Rether playing piano since the age of eight, now lives in Essen, where he studied at the Folkwang Academy in the early 1990s.

Since 2002, Hagen Rether is a member of the anti-globalization network Attac. He is also a member of the human rights organization Amnesty International and supported Medica mondiale, for which he advertises with booths at his concerts.

Cabaret

Before he went on tour with its own program, Rether worked among other things as a pianist in the program by Ludger Stratmann.

With his solo program "Love ," which he always updated and varied, he has since 2003 scharfzüngiges, especially political satire. He treats in his program even current political issues, but rather places an emphasis on socio-political issues such as religion, mass media, capitalism, consumerism and globalization.

For major projection for its thematic debates include the Catholic Church, whose scandals and the institution of the papacy and the complex political entanglements of the great powers, especially the United States. However, he also questioned the collection of representatives ostensibly left-wing politics by the power of capital ( " flagship linker" ) and other contradictions of social life. The parody ( for example, by Jürgen Rüttgers and Herbert Grönemeyer ) plays a role in his work. Persons of contemporary history and current political events are taken as objects of his satires on the grain, animal testing, factory farming and meat consumption are heavily criticized. In recent years, he deals with his television appearances, especially the growing Islamophobia, which he observed in German society, in politics and in the media.

A striking part of his performances is a black grand piano, which he beginning of his stage performances usually parallel to his lecture as " bored " as meticulously purified and used in the further course both for musical performances as well as to accompany his linguistic performance - can or even completely unplayed. As a prop for his performances that which always become more like Beckett figures à la Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot, are - besides the obligatory glass of water, a cleaning cloth and a spray bottle with detergent - often a baseball bat and a couple of bananas, every now and then slowly released a copy of the shell and enjoyable of which he consumes.

Hagen Rether is a regular guest in cabaret shows like the Midnight Lace (WDR), Neues aus der Anstalt (ZDF ) and the satire summit ( ARD).

Awards

  • 2003 Foals of Lower Saxony
  • Tegtmeiers heirs
  • 2004 Stuttgart broom in Gold
  • Prix ​​Pantheon - Jury Award Precocious & Spoiled ( shared with Somuncu )
  • Paulaner solo
  • Great Wood Festival Munich - Kleinkunstpreis
  • Passau executioner's ax
  • Zeck Cabaret Award - Newcomer price Fresh Zeck
  • 2005 Bavarian cabaret Price whiz
  • German cabaret prize award from the city of Mainz
  • Springboard ( Prize of the Handelsblatt )
  • 2007 Wilhelmshaven gurnard
  • 2008 German Cabaret Award in the category Cabaret
  • Nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize with love and with Hagen Rether ( 3sat/ZDF )
  • 2010 German Cabaret Award 2010
  • Swiss Cabaret Award " Cornichon "
  • 2011 North Rhine- Westphalian Kleinkunstpreis " Bocholt Pepperoni "
  • Naming an asteroid after him: ( 233653 ) Rether

Discography

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