Bodo Wartke - 7th Piano Cabaret Program - Wonder Point

Abera Kadabera! Fine wordplay, surprising rhyme culture, and virtuosic piano playing – Bodo Wartke's seventh program offers entertaining musical cabaret and acrobatic tongue-twister slams. The entertainer and poet pits wonder against the power of habit, placing humor alongside old patterns. Lightness! – Why not? Bodo Wartke brings it to the wonder point!

In his seventh piano cabaret program, 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. And last but not least, the cabaret artist develops familiar tongue twisters into poems and short anarchic stories, which he raps and presents with piano or cajón in various musical genres – a tongue-twister slam full of rhythm 'n' poetry.

Once again, the stage artist demonstrates himself as a musically versatile entertainer, adept in both pop and high culture, sampling his way through our everyday life 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 nuisance 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 in a backward glance.

And so, amidst all the lightness, serious tones also blend in. The songwriter thoughtfully reflects on early learned, unhealthy behavior patterns that can dictate our lives. He critically illuminates misogyny and the radical interpretation of religious dogmas. Yet, the hopeful gaze is not absent: What could our world look like if the many sore points of humanity were overcome?

On the way there, there will be many slips of the tongue and stumbles. Bodo Wartke welcomes them, for they are part of the journey as we go to the wonder point.