Bodo Wartke

Abracadabra! Fine wordplay, surprising rhyme culture, and virtuosic piano playing - Bodo Wartke's seventh program offers entertaining musical cabaret and acrobatic tongue-twister slams. The Berlin entertainer and poet counters the power of habit with wonder, placing humor alongside old patterns. Lightness! Why not?

In his latest work, the musician and cabaret artist presents himself as a storyteller who listens to the absurdly comical events of everyday life with all its inconsistencies and condenses them in a double sense. Bodo Wartke playfully and acrobatically glances at the phenomena of our togetherness, drawing from the rich resources of the German language and skillfully elevating many a vocabulary.

Problems with the printer reveal themselves as an identity crisis of the technical device stuck in the wrong body. The "egg hole," known from children's rhymes, triggers a hair-raisingly absurd and simultaneously philosophical stream of consciousness in the sleep-drunk musician. Last but not least, the cabaret artist develops familiar tongue twisters into poems and short anarchic stories, which he performs in various musical genres, rapped and accompanied by piano or cajón - a tongue-twister slam full of rhythm and poetry.

Once again, the stage artist demonstrates his expertise as a pop and high culture-savvy music entertainer, sampling his way through our everyday life both linguistically and musically. Sometimes comedically, in a satirical exaggeration of unrestrained consumerism, presented as a rap cover of a summer hit. Or provocatively sarcastic in a parody of the habit of "mansplaining," here as rock 'n' roll. But also lyrically, in a classical adaptation, where the pianist gently takes us up in a tender ode to the moon and quietly offers a change of perspective as he looks back.

Current album: "Favorite Songs. Live" (2023), Rhyme Culture
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