Erwin Grosche - „PIPIFAX - Vom Nutzen der Nebengeräusche von und mit Erwin Grosche“

In the organizer's words:

Finally, after a 5-year creative break, there will be a new program from Erwin Grosche. It will be called PIPIFAX and will be Pipifax. If you look in the dictionary, PIPIFAX stands for "foolish stuff and nonsense." This is exactly what Erwin Grosche has been doing on stage for 50 years, hiding touching philosophical thoughts and serious insights in all the nonsense. Follow the world eavesdropper on his walk through his city and his settlement. What he sees there is human, cheerful and comforting. Intoxicated texts about poppy seed cake, the latest findings about cooked cheese and wistful descriptions of everyday life with cheers of encouragement can be found in the program as well as wrong decisions about the purchase of a hamster or what might speak against the use of a trumpet. Is that pipifax? Yes, but it would be a shame if this pipifax didn't exist. "He fires off his flashes of wit like comedy stars fire off their platitudes, and again and again you ask yourself: is it a clown standing there making jokes, or is it a philosopher? Is it de Saint-Exupéry's little prince, who has grown older and come back from his planet to open people's eyes to the wonderful, to amuse, touch and enchant them?" (Manuela Baumann 2024)

"Who is coming on stage now? Of course: the wonderful, the marvelous Erwin Grosche." Rainer Abraham Neue Westfälische 15.06. 2024

"Grosche is a word acrobat, a language artist, a man with a tremendous feel for the effect of words, sounds and gestures. "Here he, the most serious of our funny ones, explains the world to adults."

Elke Heidenreich, WDR 4

"Well done to the city that can call an artist like Erwin Grosche its son."

Wilfried Schmickler on Erwin Grosche on 23.11.2023 in Paderborn