Alles. Außer Kontrolle.

A new political-satirical cabaret programme for the 2026-2027 season with Thomas Müller and Hans-Günther Pölitz. Directed by Matthias Schwarzmüller.

Once we had nothing. Except control. Today we have everything - but nothing under control. Politics used to be the art of solving problems. Now it looks more like the art of renaming them: a tax hike becomes a "revenue-side adjustment measure", debt becomes a "special fund", and the arms industry becomes the "defence economy".

Everything is out of control: public spending, rents, infrastructure, waiting times for a doctor's appointment, the culture of debate. But somewhere there's always someone in front of a camera saying: "We'll manage." Which increasingly resembles someone falling from the tenth floor who shouts from the fifth: "So far everything is going according to plan." A plan nobody has seen. Because plans are so yesterday. Today there's an app that offloads the problems to the cloud - i.e. cloud-cuckoo-land - before it crashes itself.

But let's be fair: not everything is out of control. Our democracy is stable. Every four years, citizens get to decide afresh who they want to be disappointed by. Germany is a country where almost everything spins out of control - except politicians' conviction that they have it all under control.