Olaf Schubert und seine Freunde - Jetzt oder now!

That a towering intellect like Olaf Schubert has an answer to every question is considered common knowledge. But now Schubert is taking his next big step. He's asking 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.

Almost as a side effect, 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 open before him. Yet this exceptional artist stays loyal to his home crowd - he still plays concerts in Germany, not many, but around 745. That proves he has achieved what few manage: staying grounded despite enormous success. He wants to be an Olaf you can actually reach out and touch. 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's not the type to cross red lines. No - he undermines them. Yellow lines, on the other hand, 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 launched along the way.

So 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.