Andreas Thiel (satirist)

Andreas Thiel

Andreas Thiel (born February 2, 1971 in Bern ) is a Swiss cabaret artist and satirist .

biography

Andreas Thiel completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman and then attended drama school. In 1995 he graduated from the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theater in London .

Thiel performed his first program from 1997 together with Jean Claude Sassine under the title Einsames Literarisches Kabarett . Since then he has performed in several programs outside of the German-speaking area, for example in London, Milan , Rome , Bangkok , Hong Kong , Kaohsiung , Taipei and Taitung .

In 2003, Swiss television censored Thiel for criticizing Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon . The broadcaster brought him back in 2005, and he hosted Comedy im Casino until the end of the same year .

Thiel is co-founder and in-house presenter of Böse Monday in the Theater am Hechtplatz in Zurich, co-founder of ink baptism in Bern and godfather of the International Festival for Comic Arts in Winterthur . He is a regular columnist in the Berner Zeitung , Nebelspalter and Weltwoche . In 2012 he was a caricaturist and from 2015 to 2016 a columnist for the Swiss Month magazine .

Andreas Thiel is a member of the Solothurn school association GV Palatia Solodorensis . He is married and has lived with his wife in India and Switzerland since the end of 2011 .

Positions

Andreas Thiel sees himself as an anarchist orientated satirist. He also holds libertarian views. He describes social democrats as “ socialists ” who strive for power, calls himself a freedom-loving “anarchist” and is critical of state subsidies for the cultural sector. The artist emigrated to Iceland in 2009 because he no longer wanted to pay what he believed to be high taxes in Switzerland. He rejects taxes as "indecent".

Thiel is a critic of Islam . In his view, Islam is in need of reform because the Koran preaches hatred. On the occasion of a corresponding article by Thiel in Weltwoche , he was invited to the talk show Schawinski, broadcast on Swiss television SRF 1 , as a guest on December 15, 2014 . The broadcast received a lot of media coverage because the course of the conversation was perceived as irrelevant. According to the ombudsman of SRG Achille Casanova , the broadcast violated the principle of fairness. Most of the numerous complaints received complained about the conduct of the interview, which was perceived as polemical.

Awards

• 2013: German Cabaret Award
• 2008: Arosa Humor Filler, Jury Prize of the Arosa Humor Festival
• 2008: Swiss Cabaret Prize Cornichon
• 2005: Prix ​​Pantheon Jury Prize Early Ripe & Corrupted
• 2005: Prix ​​Walo
• 2004: Swiss Small Art Prize
• 1999: Salzburger Stier in Leipzig (together with Sassine)

Works

Books

• Immaculate demolition . Salis, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-905801-42-2 (The articles were first published in Nebelspalter between 2005 and 2010. )
• Humor. The hangman's smile . Werd & Weber, Thun 2015, ISBN 978-3-85932-771-9 .
• Intellects me. "The emperor is still naked" . Werd & Weber, Thun 2016, ISBN 978-3-85932-808-2 .
• Politics and Poetics. Deep sea mascara . Werd & Weber, Thun 2017, ISBN 978-3-85932-882-2 .

CDs

• Lavender staircase , excerpt from the mirror image and shadow program , by and with Andreas Thiel & Jean-Claude Sassine (music), 2003, KB-2005-2
• Political satire , by and with Andreas Thiel, recorded in February 2005, Casinotheater Winterthur, KB-2005-1
• Peter Stamm : Sister Erna & Herbert - hearts in storm. With Therese Affolter, Andreas Thiel and Annalena Fröhlich (music). Litera'thur, Winterthur 2006
• Politsatire 2 , by and with Andreas Thiel and Annalena Fröhlich (music), recorded in spring 2007, La Cappella Bern, KB-2007-1
• Political satire 3 , by and with Andreas Thiel, recorded in spring 2009, Theater am Hechtplatz Zurich, KB-10-1
• Macht - Politsatire 4 , by and with Andreas Thiel, recorded in autumn 2012, Theater am Hechtplatz Zurich, KB-AT-2013-9

Web links

• Andreas Thiel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Web presence of Andreas Thiel
• Yann Cherix: The end of a cabaret artist. In: Tages-Anzeiger / 12app.ch of December 2, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Tagesanzeiger from May 13, 2008
2. ^ Andreas Thiel. (No longer available online.) In: Künstlervermittlungshomepage kulturbau.ch. 2014, archived from the original on June 25, 2015 ; Retrieved August 4, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Swiss dispatch agency : Satirist Andreas Thiel moves from Iceland to India. In: Aargauer Zeitung . May 10, 2011, accessed August 4, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Christoph Lenz: “I'm not left, that's why”. In: The Bund . September 1, 2011, accessed August 4, 2015 . 
5. ↑ http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/region/bern/Andreas-Thiel-Den-Satiriker- suchts-nach-Island/story/ 19048328 (Article no longer available.)
6. ↑ David Eugster: The Satirist's Fear of the Whip. In: The weekly newspaper . July 3, 2014, accessed August 4, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Andreas Thiel: The shadow of the east. In: Weltwoche. Retrieved on August 4, 2015 (edition 48/2014). 
8. ↑ Schawinski violates the rule of fairness several times , accessed on January 29, 2015.