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Hagen Rether (Born October 8, 1969 in Bucarest) is a German cabaret artist.
Rether was brought up by his parents of German descent in the Romanian Bucarest and Sibiu. In 1973 his family moved to Freiburg, Germany. Rether, having played the piano since age 8, went on to study at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen, where he lives to this day.
Prior to touring with his own solo program, he played as a pianist in Ludger Stratmann’s program, among others. Since 2003 he keeps performing with his solo program ‘Liebe’ , which is constantly being updated and varied. His program — consisting of him often eating a yogurt first, then accompanying his performance with the piano — is primarily political. The catholic church and the pope, George W. Bush as well as Herbert Grönemeyer are among the important projection screens for his sarcastic mockery.
Scheibenwischer-Gala
Since 2005 Hagen Rether is doing an annual speech about the elapsing year in the gala of TV cabaret show Scheibenwischer. He critisises especially the media, church, politics but also the German society as a whole in an ironic, partly aggressively exaggerated fashion.
In his annual review of December 29, 2007 he reproached several news magazines, especially the Spiegel, with their tendentious and biased coverage of the Koran and islamism. Among others, he called Ralph Giordano a “bitter and poor hardliner”, who be “brimful of rage against the Islam that he gets applause from the nazis by now.” Especially the following statements are critisised controversially:
“Honour killing? We’ve had honour killings all along, we call it differently though: ‘Familiendrama’ we call it. And we get that for Christmas. Twofold.”
Rether was brought up by his parents of German descent in the Romanian Bucarest and Sibiu. In 1973 his family moved to Freiburg, Germany. Rether, having played the piano since age 8, went on to study at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen, where he lives to this day.
Prior to touring with his own solo program, he played as a pianist in Ludger Stratmann’s program, among others. Since 2003 he keeps performing with his solo program ‘Liebe’ , which is constantly being updated and varied. His program — consisting of him often eating a yogurt first, then accompanying his performance with the piano — is primarily political. The catholic church and the pope, George W. Bush as well as Herbert Grönemeyer are among the important projection screens for his sarcastic mockery.
Scheibenwischer-Gala
Since 2005 Hagen Rether is doing an annual speech about the elapsing year in the gala of TV cabaret show Scheibenwischer. He critisises especially the media, church, politics but also the German society as a whole in an ironic, partly aggressively exaggerated fashion.
In his annual review of December 29, 2007 he reproached several news magazines, especially the Spiegel, with their tendentious and biased coverage of the Koran and islamism. Among others, he called Ralph Giordano a “bitter and poor hardliner”, who be “brimful of rage against the Islam that he gets applause from the nazis by now.” Especially the following statements are critisised controversially:
“Honour killing? We’ve had honour killings all along, we call it differently though: ‘Familiendrama’ we call it. And we get that for Christmas. Twofold.”
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