In the artist's words:

"Manfred Maurenbrecher translates what he sees into poetic rivers of text without banks - poems set to music that are always overflowing with moments of the greatest precision," writes Süddeutsche 2020 in a portrait of the Berlin singer-songwriter on his 70th birthday. A musician since the early 1980s, he successfully kept the mainstream at bay, as his manager at the time, Jim Rakete, remarked early on. Nevertheless, his melodious ballads were often sung by talented ladies: Veronika Fischer, Ulla Meinecke or Ina Müller. In addition to his music, Maurenbrecher is also active as a book author, a protagonist of the early reading stage scene, and part of the long-term success of the cabaret annual review together with (among others) Horst Evers and Bov Bjerg. In 1991, he won the German Cabaret Prize together with Richard Wester, in 1998 the Südwestfunk Song Prize and in 2002 the German Cabaret Prize as a member of the reading stage Mittwochsfazit. He has won the German Record Critics' Award five times and has been awarded the Liederbestenliste song prize twice. "His work is among the best that the German songwriters' guild has to offer", as the dpa aptly put it.