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hit potential - the annual review

Can you seriously get a PhD in pop music? Yes! And then what do you do with it? A music comedy stand-up show.


dr Pop is a doctor for the musical. He treats with music samples and fascinating music facts. In his live program "Suspected Hit" Dr. Pop, with which music you can save a party, a relationship and also a life. The audience gets amazingly funny answers to questions like: Which music boosts the libido or the motivation to exercise? Which music makes you smart and which makes you mentally deaf? Why do termites bite through wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal? And why are there ten people sitting at the laptop for a hit these days and not one at the guitar?


dr Pop completes the last missing Spotify playlist and musically rebels against the threat of WiFi failure. In his show, he fires off samples of familiar and new hits from music history - from hip-hop, rock, pop, hits to classical music and jazz. dr Pop makes it audible: there is the right hit for every situation in life.


Hit Potential - The music comedy stand-up show for all music lovers.


About the person: Dr. Pop studied media studies and pop music in the four major pop music metropolises in the world: in Manchester, Liverpool, Paderborn and Detmold. He then did his doctorate on the topics of terrorism and orientalism in pop music at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He was under police protection for six years. At first he thought because of the explosive force of his theses, but it was because Angela Merkel's private apartment was door to door to his music institute. dr Pop is on stage, produces videos and can be heard as a radio comedian on WDR2, SWR3, 104.6 RTL and as a weekly columnist on radioeins from RBB. Appearances at NightWash, Quatsch Comedy Club, Wühlmäuse cabaret theater and at the senior center in Charlottenburg, among others.

(Program in German)

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December 2024
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