Anne Vogd - "Gegendert wird, was auf den Tisch kommt"

Her specialty: the 'hot-button issues' of our time. Sustainability, body culture, mobility, ageing, love, and 'the new moralism'. She takes on the defining phenomena of the zeitgeist, the heated socio-political debates swirling around them, and the human search for perfect coordinates in one's personal solar system.

The absurdity of the everyday and the ordinariness of the absurd are 'carved up' on stage - sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, but always with sharp wordplay, unexpected punchlines, absurd angles, and a life-saving dose of self-deprecation. Looking at things with humour without mocking them - that is the ambition of this lively literary performance.

What is right today may be wrong tomorrow - and the day after, completely wrong. The author takes on this daily game of 'hot and cold' on a minefield. Anne Vogd casts a wry eye over a world order in constant flux and asks herself what one should hold higher in times as bewildering as these: one's head or one's middle finger. With heart, conviction, and humour she navigates between demands, contradictions, and acquittals, nonchalantly fighting off reserves of self-doubt that far outlast any statistical life expectancy.

When life is once again too true to be beautiful, this fresh brand of 'literatainment' is the ultimate all-purpose weapon. But it works at other times too. The witty take on contemporary phenomena offers plenty beyond sheer entertainment value: it invites you to reconsider your own position, opens up new ways of seeing, and brings a sense of lightness to an overloaded daily life that so often leaves us without bearings.