Konzert: Lener | Café NUN Karlsruhe

"You're in the driver's seat, and you're driving me crazy."
Rescheduled date for the concert that was canceled in March

So when is it NOW?
Saturday, December 5, 2026, 8:30 p.m. (Doors open at 7:00 p.m.)

Where is it taking place?
Café NUN, Gottesauer Straße 35, Karlsruhe

Tickets: Advance sales: €13.00 | B.O.: €15.00 | Tickets are available in the NUN online shop

More about Lener: YouTube | Instagram | Spotify |

The fields glow in the last light of day, a dry wind whirling dust across the asphalt. Where the city ends and the emptiness begins, Lener stands in the open barn door. His Fender Strat hangs low, his jacket is too big, his eyes sharp. A figure like an echo from another time—or one that doesn’t quite exist yet. Raised on a remote farmstead on the outskirts of Freising, between the edge of the forest and a vast expanse of fallow land. For many years, her distorted guitars boomed through the empty barn, out through the old wooden shed and into the wilderness. At night, the adjacent forest chirped and howled. In search of witches and ghosts, Lener would sneak through the trees with her triplet sisters; later, she’d stalk the woods in search of magical material for her first songs. Today, the 26-year-old roams the city’s woods with her sketchbook—the enchanted urban spaces between the main train station and Schwabing. At 1.75 meters tall, she’s a natural observer; from an early age, she was drawn to the spaces in between—where words flow, lines blur, and music holds it all together. The songwriter looks through the noise of the modern world to the deep and sometimes banal essence of things. Calmly, she deciphers the dreams of her friends and fellow students—mosaics of soliloquies gathered in Munich’s cafés and clubs from a generation caught between optimization and punk. Her outsider position is self-chosen and a classic perspective in poetry: caught between two worlds, a stoic observer before collapsing walls of guitar. Her voice rolls over the riffs like a slowly gathering thunderstorm, somewhere between Barnett’s nonchalance and Patti Smith’s feverish restlessness. The melodies teeter between exhaustion and defiance; the lyrics are sketches on crumpled paper—raw, unfinished, honest. Lyrics like little comic-book oracles, written with a marker and heart and soul. Accompanying them is a glittering visual world of sketches—somber, intricate figures, often as fragile and fleeting as the stories she tells.

You’re in the driver’s seat and you’re driving me crazy.

A sentence, so simple and yet a whole myth in itself, spoken with a smile that’s half mocking, half desperate. You can picture it: the flickering neon light on the windshield, the blurred lights of a city disappearing faster and faster in the rearview mirror. A passenger seat full of doubt, a hand on the steering wheel gripping too tightly. Where is the ride headed? It doesn’t matter—the main thing is that it’s racing, the main thing is that it feels like something that can’t stand still. Lener’s songs are anthems to what was, what could have been, and to the courage to keep going anyway. “Maybe in another life,” she sings, while the drums bubble beneath her like a raging flood of thoughts. An anthem for all the decisions that weren’t made, for all the crossroads that led into the unknown. A line for those who lie awake at night wondering what would have happened if…—yet that is precisely where its power lies: in the realization that it doesn’t matter. That every direction is the right one, as long as it feels genuine. Lener doesn’t just sing this line—she gently hurls it out into the universe, accompanied by Max Wörle, who carves a new path through the evening with every strike of the snare. Her band isn’t just a pop sideshow, but a pulsating machine of rhythm and energy, a vehicle for what needs to be said. Lener’s guitar growls and roars along—sometimes with the force of Josh Homme, sometimes with the offbeat elegance of St. Vincent. Grunge has always been music for the seekers, for those who teeter between euphoria and loss of control. And that’s exactly where Lener comes in—somewhere between a new beginning and the abyss. She thus represents a new generation of songwriters who don’t filter emotions, but transform them—into distorted guitars, fragile harmonies, and lyrics that reverberate like an echo from a long-gone future. The road grows narrower and narrower. The engines roar. And then? Then comes the next song.

2026 Tour

Jan. 29, 2026 Stuttgart – Merlin (POP FREAKS)
Feb. 19, 2026 Weiden – Die Sünde (Klein & Kunst)
Feb. 26, 2026 Bamberg – “Morph” at Vereinshain
March 6, 2026 Karlsruhe – NUN Kulturraum
March 21, 26, Pfarrkirchen – Spitalkirche,supporting Suzan Köcher’s Suprafon
April 18, 2026 Passau – Zeughaus
April 22, 2026 Cologne – die Wohngemeinschaft
April 24, 2026 Hamburg – Hafenklang
April 25, 2026 Husum – Speicher supporting Stina Holmquist 
April 26, 2026, Leer (East Frisia) – Zollhaus
May 2, 2026 Freising – Freising Night of Music
May 22 & 24, 2026, Beverungen – Orange Blossom Special Festival
May 23, 2026 Göttingen – Nörgelbuff
July 3, 2026 Zittau – Lonesome Lake Festival
August 1, 2026 Breitenbach – Burg Herzberg Festival
October 21, 26, Dresden – Ostpol
Oct. 23, 2026 Regensburg – Alte Mälzerei
October 29, 2026, Langenberg – KGB
October 30, 2026, Rheinberg – Schwarzer Adler (Pflug & Segen)
December 5, 2026 – Karlsruhe NUN Kulturraum