Matthias Ningel: Harmonie

In his fifth solo programme, Ningel explores the big picture: harmony in music and society. The ancient Greeks already had a bold idea: musical harmony and cosmic harmony are based on the same order. Ningel builds on this thought and asks himself how harmony fares in our present times. Why do contemporary times feel so out of sync? Isn't the pulse of our age more like atrial fibrillation? And why can all these enemies of humanity neither sing nor dance? Whether painful kidney stones, hidden tragedies beneath one's own laminate floor, or the omnipresence of screens in public spaces - through song, piano, synthesizer and various small instruments, he translates social phenomena into music.

Despite numerous awards for cabaret, Matthias Ningel unfortunately also doesn't know how to set the world right. But as a musicologist and cabaret artist, he attempts to order the chaos until a coherent whole emerges. He draws musicality from things, turns words into drum grooves, and even manages to make a screeching asparagus peeler into a solo instrument in the world orchestra. Harmonie is universal music cabaret for all generations and a love letter to music.