Olaf Schubert und seine Freunde - Jetzt oder now! - Open Air
Junge Garde Dresden, Germany
Comedy
Olaf Schubert und seine Freunde
Jetzt oder now!
That a towering intellect like Olaf Schubert has an answer to every question is common knowledge. But now Schubert takes his next great leap: he asks questions. Important ones, like - "Jetzt oder now?". A question that itself raises questions. The fact that this makes the snake bite its own face is precisely the artist's deepest intention.
Almost as a side effect, he has created a programme title with an international ring to it. This tells us that Schubert has become multilingual - if not outright bilingual. Having reached the very tip of the globalization iceberg, the whole world now lies open before him.
And yet the exceptional artist stays true to his roots - he still plays concerts in Germany, not many, but around 745. Proof that he has achieved what few manage: staying grounded despite enormous success.
He wants to be an Olaf you can reach out and touch. Sadly, as he recently admitted to a major news magazine, almost nobody does.
On stage, Schubert reinvents himself completely - which is exactly why he remains entirely himself. He follows his own path without compromise, but he is not someone who crosses red lines. No - he undermines them. Yellow lines, on the other hand, he leaps right over. This allows him to shift boundaries - even invisible ones - in all directions at once.
How he pulls it off, he probably doesn't know himself. Watching him do it live is a genuine spectacle, with one well-aimed joke after another launched along the way.
That's why almost everyone (even his grandmother) who has ever seen him perform says, deeply moved: Thank you, Olaf!
His friends Jochen M. Barkas and Herr Stephan are of course on stage with him, as always.
Suitable from age 12
Photos: Amac Garbe











