SCHMITZEFREI - Das aktuelle Bühnenprogramm von Ralf Schmitz

The comedian is coming to Hamburg with his program "SCHMITZEFREI" on 23 February 2024 in the Barclays Arena.

"Being on stage is like a vacation for me! Your laughter is my paella pan, your applause my infinity pool! Unfortunately, a real vacation is usually hard work!"

Well, that's how it is for Ralf Schmitz. Sometimes you just have to interrupt the longest vacation in the world for a few weeks to work really hard. For example, to gather inspiration for his latest stage program on a flight to New Zealand next to a group of drunken hobbits in rubber feet smelling of chemical accidents.

But at least Mr. Schmitzen's crazy vacation experiences help us to forget our tough week for a few hours when the electrifying comedy whisk whips up a potpourri of absurd but recognizable characters, mini sketches and improvised highlights in his incomparable way, improvised highlights and crass parodies, stringing together one merciless punchline after the next until we return to reality from our brilliant short trip to the end of human logic, laughing our heads off but wonderfully refreshed and tanned inside, saying to ourselves: "That was finally a welcome break in the merciless clockwork of time, just like back in school, heat free." And that's exactly why Ralf's current program is called "Schmitzefrei!" The friendly principal of insanity lets us escape the stress of everyday life for a few precious hours.

And one thing Schmitzefrei is definitely not is joke-free. Whether Ralf is talking about how he met the incredibly annoying waitress at his supermarket cheese counter on an adventure rafting trip to the Amazon, presenting the biggest "fails" of personal and worldwide vacation photography in a small slide show or reenacting the incredible scenes that occurred when he wanted to hire a suitable catsitter for his four-pawed roommate Hildegard. Once again, this program is guaranteed to be showered with a huge wave of cease-and-desist letters in advance, this time from budget tour operators, hardcore globetrotters, children's disco animators and horny ski instructors. In theory, a vacation always sounds like a pretty cool thing, but in practice it often reminds us of life after the zombie apocalypse: everyone wants to eat your brain.

No matter, an evening with Ralf is much cheaper than the most all-inclusive Malle tour anyway, and Ralf's merciless talent for improvisation in particular will once again be put to the test when individuals in the audience want to loudly fly the flag for camping trips with small children. In any case, we will all be laughing our heads off when Mr. Schmitz beats us up with his quick-wittedness. Verbally and figuratively, of course, just "Schmitze-free"...