Great review for "Thoughts! Go!"
To coincide with the Baden-Württemberg Kleinkunstpreis, you can read a great review from Müllheim im Breisgau here. On March 5, René Sydow was a guest there at the Söhnlin-Keller and the Badische Zeitung was kind enough to write us an anthem that we don't want to withhold from you.
"Let the stage be a circus"
Cabaret artist René Sydow makes a guest appearance with his program "Gedanken! Go!" at the Söhnlin-Keller in Müllheim.
MÜLLHEIM. René Sydow, a cabaret artist whose sharpest weapon is language, took to the stage in the Söhnlin-Keller last Thursday. His program "Gedanken! Go!" is demanding, requires constant concentration from the audience and shows the 34-year-old in a wide variety of roles.
He has long been a household name on the scene: René Sydow's program has won numerous awards, in February he appeared on the satirical show "Die Anstalt" and now he has also been awarded the Baden-Württemberg Kleinkunstpreis. And what's more, as Elmar Breuer said when announcing the artist, he is the first person from Baden to perform in the rustic cellar vault since the Querdenker event series was introduced more than ten years ago.
Sydow, wearing a plain jacket and glasses, begins innocuously and focuses on the functional principles of the global economy, which is kept running by consumers. "Not only do we need a cell phone app that shows us the nearest phone booth, we even need waterproof cell phones so that we can take photos of sagging family bellies in the swimming pool."
Sydow is very worried about such things, and because he is, he is in therapy, as he says himself. He slips into the role of his therapist and asks if he has no children. The answer: "I don't know, it's all done by my wife." He mentions collecting "beautiful German words" as a hobby. He had a few great puns at the ready: Annette Schavan's honorary doctorate was a "special lie" to her, IT girls make a career out of coitus and the airport in Berlin should not be built in Schönefeld, but "in-solvenz".
Language seems to have taken a liking to him. He turns words like a Rubik's cube, but the pages are still not the same, he explains. Language distinguishes normal people from Til Schweiger. He would also like the prefixes in Schweiger and Schweighöfer to be read as an invitation by the two actors. The cabaret artist from Lake Constance is rhetorically adept, constantly changing the way he speaks and the dynamics in his language are captivating. You can tell that he has experience in poetry slams, and Sydow also gets serious on some topics: he sharply criticizes Germany's role as a major arms exporter and calculates: "For two tanks, you can also get four kindergartens and a hospice in Germany." And in keeping with the motto "seriousness aside", he then lets it be known what he thinks of the television program in general and Tatort in particular: "Two overpaid dumbasses eat currywurst and solve cases that even TKKG would have rejected for lack of interest." In between, he stages a dream in which he meets Rudi Völler, who gives him hair care tips. He then goes to the job centre, where he self-ironically justifies his work as a cabaret artist and is nevertheless sent to a self-optimization seminar at the end.Sydow's show is not something you watch on the side. In order to follow his original language games, sometimes literary allusions and abstract contexts, the audience has to stay on the ball. Sydow achieves this with his lively manner and, above all, by reacting dynamically to external influences and the audience: "And there are people in the audience who all eat cheese...", he states and draws attention to a unique selling point of the Söhnlin-Keller: here there is always a large selection of delicious cheeses to accompany the top-class cabaret. "Let the stage be a circus", Sydow demands - and puts his statement into practice consistently and virtuously on this evening.
via Badische Zeitung