Man, over 50 and English only by hearsay: Veri lives in the job-related danger zone. He has to go to the office to determine his employability (EAF). In other words, he needs to find out whether he's an old hand or can still make the leap from a dial and typewriter to Industry 4.0 and virtual reality. Without a master's degree, Veri outwits Chinese surveillance drones, warns of networked spy toilets and tames nursing robots in retirement homes.

For today's young people, there's Curriculum 21 - and controversy. Whether Vreneli should travel from A to B with Hansli or from Libya to Lampedusa with Mustafa. And whether skiing, singing the national anthem or playing cards will be compulsory from the third grade.

UniVerity: Veri's cabaret response to gaps in education, shortages of skilled workers and pisa studies. Not always politically correct. But funny and träf.

The artist

Thomas Lötscher is born on a hot summer day during the cold war in 1960 in Entlebuch. For the midwife it's simply a Büebli, for the statistics a baby boomer. Despite the trauma of recorder lessons, he later earns several diplomas: trade, commerce, business informatics, organization and cultural management. As a last independent management consultant he comes to the realization that the transition from a bank internal project meeting to a cabaret is fluent.

The opinions on Veri

"Finest social cabaret" was the headline of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Romano Cuonz in the Obwaldner Zeitung wrote: "The fact that a cabaret artist is able to serve up one red-hot punch line after the other, to blaspheme authentically, cheekily and quick-wittedly about politicians and politics, is a phenomenon." When he won the Reinheim Satirelöwe, the jury called him the "master of the quiet punchline." And because he is "topical, intelligent and profound," he was also awarded the Silver Tuttlingen Crow.