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 the double sense of the word. Bodo Wartke takes an exceptionally playful, language- and word-acrobatic look at the phenomena of our togetherness. He draws from the rich resources of the German language and, with a fine sense, elevates many a vocabulary.

Problems with the printer reveal themselves as an identity crisis of the technical device, which is 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 not least, the cabaret artist develops well-known tongue twisters into poems and short anarchic stories, which he performs in different musical genres – rapped and accompanied by piano or cajon – a tongue-twister slam full of rhythm 'n' poetry.

Once again, the stage artist demonstrates himself as a music entertainer well-versed in both pop and high culture, sampling his way through our everyday life both linguistically and musically. Sometimes comedically, in the satirical exaggeration of unrestrained consumerism, presented as a rap cover of a summer hit. Or provocatively sarcastic in the 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 shift in perspective when looking back.

And so, amidst all the lightness, serious tones also mix in. The songwriter reflects thoughtfully on early learned, unhealthy behavior patterns that can determine 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.