Lennart Schilgen - Abwesenheitsnotizen

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LENNART SCHILGEN
ABWESENHEITSNOTIZEN. LIEDER & GEDICHTE

Always being reachable is so last decade. Lennart Schilgen is back with his third show - and makes himself conspicuous by his absence. When he's not performing concerts or picking up cabaret awards (Prix Pantheon, Stuttgarter Besen, and plenty more), he's mainly doing one thing: disappearing. Off on a cycling trip, into a monastery, or to a communist summer camp. Or just into the depths of his own thoughts, which is often adventure enough.

What comes out are songs about detours and dead ends - in the world and inside his own head. Light and witty, but not shy about the darker corners either. This time Schilgen digs out things that have been swept under the rug for years: an old PUR cassette, primary school report cards, the story of a night-bus stop. Fortunately, he guides you safely over every abyss - carried by his accomplished piano and guitar playing, his voice, and his "alert mind, with heart, humour and treacherous punchlines" (citation for the 'Tuttlinger Krähe' award).

And if all else fails, there are always the poems: small linguistic lucky dips, profoundly silly and highly crafted at the same time. His recently published "Gesammelte Werke" are - if a little self-promotion is allowed here - something of a bestseller by poetry-collection standards. Still have questions? Feel free to email him any time. He just won't reply. Best to come to the concert instead.