Besser werden!

The coaching scene is booming - at huge events or exclusive retreats, in online seminars, countless podcasts and thousands upon thousands of YouTube tutorials, we can learn to become »the best version of ourselves« - namely the successful version.

With »Besser werden!«, Felix Stachelhaus and his team get to the bottom of the neoliberal promise of advancement, obsessive self-optimisation mania and omnipresent performance imperative of the affluent society.
Five musicians from the Berlin new music ensemble LUX:NM, Hamburg singer and performer Lisa Florentine Schmalz and Richardchor Neukölln invite you to a unique counselling event. Located somewhere between motivational training, contemporary music theatre and cabaret, »Besser werden!« poses the question of what success really is, why we strive for constant improvement and what happiness actually means, with a mix of absurd humour and deep seriousness.