Bodo Wartke - Wunderpunkt
Butabracadabra! 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 sets wonder against the power of habit, placing humor alongside the old patterns. Lightness! – Why not?
Bodo Wartke brings it to the wonder point!
In the seventh piano cabaret program, the musician and cabaret artist introduces himself as a storyteller, eavesdropping on the absurdly comical occurrences of everyday life, full of its inconsistencies, and condensing them in the double sense of the word. Bodo Wartke playfully, linguistically, and acrobatically dances into a view of the phenomena of our coexistence. In doing so, he draws from the rich treasures of the German language and with a fine sense brings many a vocabulary to light.
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 not least, the cabaret artist develops well-known tongue twisters into poems and short anarchic stories, which he performs rapped and with piano or cajón in different musical genres – a tongue-twister slam full of rhythm 'n' poetry.
Once again, the stage artist shows himself to be a music entertainer well-versed in both pop and high culture, who samples linguistically and musically through our everyday life. Explicitly in his wink-at-the-eye ode to the “mixtape” and the love hits of the eighties. Provocatively sarcastic in the parody of the custom of “mansplaining,” presented here as rock ’n’ roll. Comically in his excursion into twelve-tone music, which the musician celebrates as an expression of democratic thought. But also lyrically in a classical adaptation, in which the pianist gently takes us up into his tender ode to the moon and quietly offers a perspective shift in a look back.
Thus, amidst all the lightness, serious tones always mingle as well. The songwriter thoughtfully reflects on early learned, unhealthy behavior patterns that can determine our lives. He critically sheds light on misogyny and the radical interpretation of religious dogmas. Yet, the hopeful gaze is not missing: What could our world look like if the many sore points of humanity were overcome?
On the way there, there will be some slips of the tongue and stumbles. Bodo Wartke welcomes them, for they are part of the journey as we reach the wonder point.
Doors open at around 7:00 PM.
Hallo, ich bin Maya.
