Bodo Wartke

In the organizer's words:

Advance ticket sales for this event start on Thursday, December 5 at Capitol Vorverkauf on 0621- 40 17 14 20 or karten@capitol-mannheim.de and of course online and at all known advance booking offices.

Abera Kadabera! Fine linguistic wit, surprising rhyme culture and virtuoso piano playing - Bodo Wartke's seventh program offers entertaining musical cabaret and an acrobatic tongue twister slam. The entertainer and poet sets amazement against the power of habit and puts humor alongside old patterns. Lightness! - Why not?

Bodo Wartke gets to the heart of the matter!

In his seventh piano cabaret program, the musician and cabaret artist presents himself as a storyteller who extracts absurdly funny incidents from everyday life with all its inconsistencies and condenses them in both senses of the word. Bodo Wartke takes an extraordinarily playful, linguistically and verbally acrobatic, dancing look at the phenomena of our coexistence. In doing so, he draws on the rich fund of the German language and lifts many a vocabulary with a fine sense.

Problems with the printer turn out to be an identity emergency of the technical device stuck in the wrong body. The "egg hole" known from nursery rhymes triggers a hair-raisingly abstruse and at the same time philosophical stream of consciousness in the drowsy musician. And last but not least, the cabaret artist develops well-known tongue twisters into poems and short anarchic stories, which he raps and performs with piano or cajon in various musical genres - tongue twister slams full of rhythm 'n' poetry.

Once again, the stage artist proves himself to be a pop and highly culturally adept music entertainer who samples his way through our everyday lives both linguistically and musically. Sometimes comedically in the satirical exaggeration of unrestrained consumer lust, presented as a rap cover of a summer hit. Or provocatively sarcastic in the parody of the bad habit of "mansplaining", here as rock 'n' roll. But also lyrically in a classical adaptation, in which the pianist takes us up to the moon in a tender ode and quietly offers a change of perspective by looking back.

And so there are always serious tones mixed in with all the lightness. The singer-songwriter takes a thoughtful look at unhealthy patterns of behavior learned at an early age that can determine our lives. He takes a critical look at misogyny and the radical interpretation of religious dogma. But there is also a hopeful view: what could our world look like if the many sore points of humanity were overcome?

There will be many a slip of the tongue and stumble along the way. Bodo Wartke welcomes them, because they are part of getting to the point of wonder.

Organizer: Capitol Betriebs GmbH

*VRN combination ticket valid for this event:
Period of validity
2 journeys, one there and one back, for one person on the day of the event until 3 a.m. on the following day (please note the information on the combined ticket)

Area of validity
valid in the entire VRN network area in all buses and trains (DB: RE, RB and S-Bahn) in 2nd class and in the transition areas to the neighboring KVV and HNV networks

Price information:

*VRN combined ticket included