DOTA - "Springbrunnen" - Tour 2026

Dota is back with new songs - a new chapter that fits naturally into her existing catalogue, yet brings something fresh, as if an unknown ingredient had turned up in the song laboratory.

What's striking: this record could just as well be the very first DOTA album. Nothing you love about Dota is missing, but the music is even more minimalist, more bouncy - adults might say: richer in contrast. The lyrics cut even more directly to the heart of darkness, searching with greater devotion, and clearer even in the ambiguous. It may also be a product of her long engagement with the poetry of Mascha Kaléko, to whose musical realisation she dedicated two albums over the past three years.

DOTA - written in capitals for a reason, because the name stands for more than just the lyrical voice of Dota Kehr. It also encompasses the community around her, where the music has been taking shape for years: guitarist Jan Rohrbach, drummer Janis Görlich, keyboardist Patrick Reising and bassist Alexander Binder. Together with this band, Dota Kehr arranges and records the songs. Together they write the DOTA formula on the board: every word means at least its opposite too, question marks everywhere, almost no exclamation points.