ENNO BUNGER

In January, Bunger's fifth album "Der beste Verlierer" will be released, which he will present in March with a new band as part of a nationwide tour.

For 14 years, Enno Bunger has been providing the soundtrack for life's ups & downs. His songs are played at weddings and funerals, his linguistically adept song lyrics are often quoted. With a mixture of pop, poetry, politics and punchlines, the self-proclaimed "full-time fluffster" hits the nerve of a sustainably growing audience, which the former bar pianist has earned not only via the Internet, but especially live with more than 600 concerts played in clubs, halls, living rooms and at festivals. Bunger's concerts are an experience. A unique mixture of emotional-intellectual indie pop, in which head and heart balance each other throughout the evening. The sensitively told stories not infrequently move to tears or moments of happiness, are accompanied with attention to detail by rousing band arrangements and an impressive, aesthetic lighting concept. From the famous audible pin in piano ballads, to danceable euphoria in sing-along anthems, to complete escalation in post-rock or rave moments, there really is everything. Through his intrinsic drive to give his audience a good time every night, Bunger not infrequently breaks with the usual concert format and intersperses some self-deprecating, cabaret-style entertainment between songs, so that sometimes you do wonder: am I at a concert here, or perhaps a comedy night after all? So if you urgently want to feel and cry yourself out again, because of personal or social situations (#Weltschmerz) - at this concert, credibly performed by Enno Bunger, the "best loser", you are right.

The native East Frisian became known throughout Germany sometime between 2010 and 2012 with his melancholic songs about love, separation ("Regen") and friendship ("Ponyhof"), but in his lyrics he never shies away from more difficult topics.

Knowing that "the biggest shit can sometimes be the best fertilizer for art", he faces transience, social abysses like racism and, as a person affected by it himself, writes empowering hymns about and against the widespread disease depression, and sings sometimes motivating, sometimes cynically ironic, sometimes angry protest songs in times of the worldwide climate crisis.

So it is again with his fifth album, "Der beste Verlierer," on which Bunger remains thematically true to himself. Musically, Bunger combines indie, folk, rock and piano ballads with electronica and rap, but his new album also strikes new chords: the former bar pianist & church organist lets his love for the indie and rock heroes of his youth come through. Festival noses and fans of the sound of The Killers, Bruce Springsteen or Sam Fender should like this, as long as they don't have a problem with the abysses that Bunger addresses in his songs. And if he does, then only to bring some light into this big pile of darkness.

With his new live show, new songs and new arrangements of his best works, with a new band & new light design, Bunger is touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland on 17 dates in spring 2024. Great recommendation to all people who (want to) finally feel more intense in these times.

The tour is presented by taz., DIFFUS and SCHALL.