Alice Hoffmann: "Torschlusspanik" - Solo Programme

A show about age, ageing, and mortality. We live until we don't. Some, however, are already dead before that point. So it's worth asking: are there things you'd like to do, and why not just do them? A theme close to Alice Hoffmann's heart - and one that doesn't come easy, especially when you want to turn it into a thought-provoking "feel-good programme". Yet with plenty of humour, sharp wit, and clever wordplay, the laughs keep coming.

Alice Hoffmann became famous across Germany in the role of "Hilde Becker" from the cult ARD series "Familie Heinz Becker" - a naive, kind, but simple-minded housewife. Year after year, she has made millions of TV viewers laugh.

In "Torschlusspanik", Alice Hoffmann as a Saarland housewife reaches a point in her life where she asks herself whether she has really done everything she wanted to: get a senior driver's licence, take Ayurveda courses, learn a new language, or fall madly in love one more time. Of course, things turn out differently. Once again, it becomes clear that life is not a concert of wishes. Whether it's a tattoo saying "Better painted than scarred by life", a coffee to go, or the "wisdom" that in old age you regret the sins you didn't commit - Alice Hoffmann humorously explores all these thoughts through the eyes of her Saarland housewife character. Via the dating app Tinder, she encounters "Jesus", who wants 25,000 euros from her and comes from Lisbon. In the end, though, the 80-year-old biology student wins...

She weaves in women's issues and emancipation in a "disarming" way, always keeping pace with the times. So Facebook and co. also have their place.

Refreshments are served before the show and during the interval.