A new program?

Helmut Schleich - Live. That much is promised and that much is kept. Helmut Schleich does what he wants. No two evenings are the same. His role model is the government. And so he says to himself in the Silbersaal: What do I care about yesterday's gossip? After all, we live in an age where reality outstrips cabaret day after day.

"Overtaking without catching up" used to be the name of the game under socialism. Back then, Russia was building the largest hydrogen bomb in the world. The so-called Tsar Bomb. It was so big that no carrier system was able to transport it. That was a peace initiative. The Americans were taken by surprise. They had not reckoned with intolerable pacifism from the "evil empire".

Good cabaret and politics have something in common: they both want to surprise people. Cabaret has to be like the Tsar's bomb. Incendiary and unbearable. The result is an extremely entertaining evening that is not lacking in attitude. The motto is: "I'm not serious!" Helmut Schleich copied this from the Chancellor.