Tobias Mann - Ein ganzer Mann

Tobias Mann has been performing for 35 years - nearly 20 of them as a solo cabaret artist with seven full-length programmes to his name.

Abendzeitung München says he "overflows with linguistic wit, spirited aggression and musical virtuosity". Westfälische Nachrichten call him an "anarchist in a suit", Hessische Allgemeine Zeitung sees him as a "potential successor to Dieter Hildebrandt and Matthias Belz", while Frankfurter Neue Presse describes him as "funny, sharp and ruthlessly honest". Fränkische Nachrichten, for their part, call him a "goblin with the air of a teenager". Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

This anarchic, combative goblin now brings a full-scale Best-Of show: "Ein ganzer Mann - Das Beste von gestern, heute und morgen". He packs the best texts and songs from all his previous programmes, but current affairs are never far away - Tobias Mann simply cannot help satirising the news and dissecting everyday politics in cabaret style. The classics get polished to a shine, then updated and boosted with fresh material.

Whether he's marrying Goethe with German rap, singing about hardcore DIY enthusiasts and garden-shed chaos, exposing tree-frog conspiracies, explaining why the afterlife has streams of expired yoghurt, or skewering opposition and government politics with cabaret flair - Tobias Mann makes a compelling case for humour as a remedy for the world's madness. True to himself, yesterday, today and tomorrow: EIN GANZER MANN.