A stand-up comedienne, poetry slammer and psychologist, Anna Bartling is one of the rising stars of Germany’s comedy scene. The Hamburg native has been performing on stages throughout the German-speaking world since 2013. She hosts events, writes commissioned texts, runs workshops and co-organises the weekly comedy event “Stand Up Komitee” at the Centralkomitee venue in Hamburg. In the podcast “Das Ding ist ...” [The Thing Is, ...] she talks to Lena Schmidt about social dynamics, which the two of them skilfully dissect.