Olaf Schubert & seine Freunde - Jetzt oder now!

Olaf Schubert & seine Freunde live in Hemer!

That a thinker of Olaf Schubert's calibre has an answer to every question is common knowledge. But now Schubert takes his next great leap - he asks questions. Important questions, like this one: "Jetzt oder now?" A question that itself raises questions. The fact that the snake is biting its own tail here is entirely the artist's intention.

In passing, he has created a programme title with an international ring to it. This tells us that Schubert has become multilingual - if not outright bilingual. Having reached the very tip of the globalization iceberg, the whole world now lies before him. Yet this exceptional artist stays loyal to his home crowd and still plays concerts in Germany - not many, but around 745. Proof that he has achieved what few manage: staying grounded despite enormous success. He wants to be an Olaf you can actually approach. Sadly, as he recently admitted to a major news magazine, almost nobody does.

On stage, Schubert reinvents himself completely - and that is precisely why he remains exactly the same. He follows his own path consistently, but he is not the type to cross red lines. No - he undermines them. Yellow lines he simply jumps over. This allows him to shift boundaries, even invisible ones, in all directions at once.

How he pulls it off, he probably doesn't know himself. Watching him do it during his show is a fascinating spectacle, with the occasional joke-rocket fired off along the way.

That is why almost everyone who has ever seen him live (even his grandmother) comes away deeply moved and says: Thank you, Olaf!

His friends Jochen M. Barkas and Herr Stephan are of course along for the ride, as always.