Axel Hacke wants to be a cheerful person, but finds it difficult. This is surprising, as the bestselling author has been successfully entertaining his audience with cheerful stories for decades. In conversation with Barbara Bleisch, he gets to the bottom of cheerfulness as a way of life. Topics in this episode: 00:00 How do we deal with dark times? 11:01 Cheerfulness as a way of life: How does it work? 20:45 How do you achieve a humorous distance from the world? 36:37 The art of laughing at yourself 44:13 What role does imagination play in cheerfulness? ???? Subscribe to SRF Kultur Sternstunden on YouTube now ???? https://www.youtube.com/srfkultur?sub... We would really like to go through life calmly and in a good mood. But given the many crises of our time, many people find this difficult or even seem inappropriate. In his new bestseller "On Cheerfulness," the award-winning columnist and author Axel Hacke reflects on how to create a tender distance from oneself and the world that leaves room for relaxation. For Hacke, cheerfulness is not to be confused with roaring laughter, telling jokes, and slapping one's thighs. Rather, he is concerned with an attitude of serenity, as was already praised in ancient philosophy as a means of the art of living, and with the insight that people are all the same in their efforts to get through life. "Sternstunde Philosophie" asks how one can remain cheerful without making fun of everything, and take the heaviness out of life without slipping into cynicism. It turns out that things can actually continue cheerfully. Sternstunde Philosophie from December 24th, 2023 ____________________ Program responsible: Director: Monika Odermatt, Editor: Martina Kuhn, Producer: Sandra Roth, Management: Judith Hardegger, SRF 2023 ____________________ SRF Kultur Sternstunden on YouTube ???? https://www.youtube.com/srfkultur?sub... More culture on Facebook ???? / srfkultur More culture on Instagram ???? / ​​srfkultur More culture on Twitter ???? / srfkultur More culture on srf.ch ???? https://www.srf.ch/kultur ____________________ The “Sternstunde Philosophie” cultivates the in-depth and critical exchange of ideas and gets to the bottom of the burning questions of our time. The “Sternstunde Philosophie” draws a broad arc from socio-political topicality to the fundamental questions of philosophy: Who is responsible for what, what does human freedom consist of, what determines the meaning of our life? Guests include personalities from science, culture, politics and business - voices that stimulate thought and reflect and classify our current events. ____________________ Moderation: Barbara Bleisch: / barbarableisch Yves Bossart: / bossart_yves Wolfram Eilenberger: http://www.wolfram-eilenberger.de/ ____________________ Social Media Netiquette from SRF: ► https://www.srf.ch/social-netiquette #SRFKultur #SRFKulturSternstunden #SRFSternstunde #Philosophie #Heiterkeit #Positivität #SRF #Kultur