Shahak Shapira Live

On the evening of 6 December, Shahak Shapira will be delivering some bitterly funny punchlines at the Schauspielhaus theatre. The stand-up comedian, author and artist grew up in Israel and immigrated to Germany with his family in the early 2000s – to a small town in eastern Germany, of all places. He caused an international stir with projects such as YOLOCAUST and the exposure of over 30 right-wing Facebook groups. In his shows, he addresses internet culture, German humour, mental health crises and, of course, right-wing extremism and war – after all, he is an Israeli living in Germany. He travels around the world doing comedy for people who are nothing like him, in the hope that maybe, in the end, they’ll be a little bit like him after all. From an Indian restaurant in Tokyo to a South African motorcycle gang in a garage outside Cape Town, he takes a microphone from anyone stupid enough to give him one. Even from the Munich Kammerspiele.

Munich newcomer Natan Bilga will be performing as the support act. Natan Bilga is the perfect mix of young and old. Young enough to understand TikTok and old enough to be afraid of it. Too edgy for television and just edgy enough for the internet. He has been performing on Bavarian stages for years. In Munich, he has his own weekly comedy show called ‘Stuss mit Spargel’ (Nonsense with Asparagus). He was part of the ensembles around the ProSiebenMAXX show ‘eFernsehen’ and the ZDF magazine Royale. On stage, he’s basically like a dog in the office: he doesn’t necessarily belong there, but everyone loves him.

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Andrew Max Levy

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Andreas Huber

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