Bodo Wartke & die SchönenGutenA-Band – In guter Begleitung / VERLEGT INS THEATER AM TANZBRUNNEN

!!!Please note - please note - please note
“We would like to inform you that the concert on September 2, 2026, featuring Bodo Wartke and the SchönenGutenA Band has been moved from the open-air venue to the Theater am Tanzbrunnen.
The tickets you have already purchased will, of course, remain valid for admission to the Theater am Tanzbrunnen. The theater is located on the same grounds, and the show times will remain unchanged. Therefore, nothing will change for you, except that you’ll be sitting dry and warm even if it rains or the temperatures drop.
We appreciate your understanding and hope you enjoy a wonderful evening at the concert.”

 

Bodo Wartke is coming to Cologne with his small, talented band. In the summer of 2026, open-air. SEATED and COVERED. We’re really looking forward to it!

Bodo Wartke – In Good Company with the SchönenGutenA Band

Bodo Wartke sings classics and brand-new songs. With the SchönenGutenA-Band, the piano cabaret artist presents new arrangements, rough drafts of songs, and lyrical experiments from the band’s workshop, alongside popular songs from his seven programs. Discover something new, enjoy the tried-and-true!

Bodo’s collaboration with the SchönenGutenA Band, his three-piece backing band—René Bosem (bass), Franky Fuzz (guitar), and Robert Memmler (drums)—has now lasted more than 15 years. In 2010, the three musicians accompanied Bodo on his Germany-wide tour for the program *Noah war ein Archetyp*, as well as in 2010, 2011, and 2023 to the largest singer-songwriter festival on the Klosterwiese in Banz, near Bad Staffelstein.

Under the motto “In Good Company,” the four musicians have come together time and again over the past few years, resulting in a repertoire in which, on the one hand, Wartke’s songs take on new dimensions through the band’s arrangements and, on the other hand, exclusive compositions are performed that exist only in this band arrangement. The repertoire ranges from “Gaffer,” one of the piano cabaret artist’s earliest songs, to his socially critical pieces such as “Heilige Schrift 2.0” —a highlight being the rapped articles of the German Constitution in “Das Grundgesetz”—all the way to formidable reinterpretations of arias and scenes from Mozart’s *The Magic Flute*.