Bodo Wartke - Wunderpunkt

Abera Kadabera! Sharp wordplay, inventive rhymes and virtuoso piano playing - Bodo Wartke's seventh show is an entertaining blend of musical cabaret and tongue-twister slam poetry. The entertainer and poet pits wonder against the force of habit, placing humour alongside old patterns. Lightness! - Why not?

Bodo Wartke hits the Wunderpunkt!

In his seventh piano cabaret programme, the musician and comedian presents himself as a storyteller who listens out for the absurdly comic moments hidden in everyday life and distils them - in every sense of the word. Wartke casts a playful, linguistically acrobatic eye over the quirks of how we live together, drawing on the rich resources of the German language and unearthing many a buried gem.

A printer malfunction turns out to be an identity crisis of a device trapped in the wrong body. The nursery-rhyme word "Eierloch" triggers a hair-raising, absurd yet philosophical stream of consciousness in the half-asleep musician. And Wartke takes familiar tongue-twisters and develops them into poems and short anarchic stories, rapped to piano or cajon accompaniment across a range of musical genres - Zungenbrecher-Slam full of Rhythm 'n' Poetry.

Once again he proves himself a music entertainer equally at home in pop and high culture, sampling his way through everyday life in language and sound. Explicitly so in his winking ode to the "Mixtape" and the love hits of the eighties. Provocatively sarcastic in his parody of "mansplaining" - here cast as rock 'n' roll. Comic in his foray into twelve-tone music, which he celebrates as an expression of democratic thinking. And lyrical in a classical adaptation where the pianist takes us on a tender ode to the moon.