Mathias Richling: Real Reality - KI - Keine Identität - Programme 2026

A cabaret programme about digital double standards, artificial emotions, and real abysses.

In his new solo programme "KI - Keine Identität", Mathias Richling takes the audience on a rapid journey through the irritatingly contradictory world of artificial intelligence. He reveals above all one thing: the greatest confusion does not arise in algorithms, but in our heads.

What happens when chatbots seem more sensitive than CEOs? Why do we fear machines that allegedly take our jobs when we ourselves make appallingly bad decisions every day? And how much identity does a human being actually need when constantly layering filters, avatars, and digital masks?

With sharp wit, precise observation, and a healthy dose of self-irony, Mathias Richling dissects modern technological naivety - between data-protection panic and relentless optimization, between Siri loyalty and Google faith crisis. He philosophizes, parodies, and delivers punchlines until one thing becomes clear: perhaps we need less artificial intelligence... and a bit more natural.

"KI - Keine Identität" is an evening full of humour, pace, and surprising food for thought - a cabaret assessment of our digitalized present. For everyone who wants to laugh at AI before it laughs at us.

Richling, whom many critics celebrate as the finest parodist of the German cabaret scene, casts his latest observations as always in literarily ambitious form. Direction: Günter Verdin, author and SWR presenter.