About this artist
Marc-Uwe Kling is a German songwriter, author, and Kabarett artist. He studied philosophy and drama at Freie Universität Berlin.
Since 2003, Kling regularly performs on various stages in Berlin. Frequently, he performs at literary and Kabarett events as well as poetry slams. In 2004, he founded a serial public literary event called Lesedüne. Since 2005, Kling tours with his program Wenn alle Stricke reißen, kann man sich nicht mal mehr aufhängen, which is also the title of his first album. Every first Tuesday of the month, he organizes and hosts the Kreuzberg Slam in the Lido location, and every first Wednesday the Poetry Slam of Studentisches Kulturzentrum in Potsdam.
Currently, he authors the weekly podcast Neues vom Känguru for Fritz, a Potsdam-based radio station, which deals with the same theme as his book Die Känguru-Chroniken: A "phlegmatic anarchist" who lives with a talking, "pragmatically communist" kangaroo as his roommate.
In 2017, Kling published a comedic dystopian novel titled QualityLand.
In March 2019, HBO announced that they would create a series based on the book, directed by Mike Judge.