Der Problemlöser

Advent, Advent, a little light is burning—and PeterLicht is at the door. For the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Cologne pop icon invites everyone to the first edition of his new community-building initiative: the Problem-Solver Movement. Somewhere between improvisation, playfulness, and singalong; on the border between tradition and anarchy—featuring very old and brand-new songs. So come, little children, warm up your vocal cords, and bring your recorders along.

The defnition: “A problem occurs when there is a discrepancy between how you think something should be and how it actually turns out. This factual state only becomes a problem by thinking about it. Because people do a lot of thinking, they have a correspondingly large number of problems. Problems are often unpleasant, and one can observe a constant effort to ‘solve’ these problems. This state of affairs affects everyone.” Have you got problems you’ve taken to heart, that you’d like set to music so they can be solved? A letter from your landlady, a court order, a dismissal, a reference from your employer, a diagnosis, a divorce, a love letter, or something else? 

Send them to pop icon PeterLicht at problemloeser@schauspiel.koeln, who will turn your problems into music. PeterLicht is founding a new movement: the problem-solver movement. We are the problem, and we are the solution. 

Come along and join in. Because communal activities solve problems. Singing together solves problems. Three evenings by and with PeterLicht and guests, combining improvisation, fun and games and singalongs, on the borderline between tradition and anarchy, with age-old and very new songs, from Advent to Carnival.