Lennart Schilgen – Verklärungsbedarf

In the organizer's words:

Lennart Schilgen - The need for transfiguration

Songs about painting black & white

Lennart Schilgen sees a need for transfiguration. In his second program, he poems and sings against an inadequate reality. And exposes between the lines where the world and he himself are lying to themselves. It's possible that a few uncomfortable truths will emerge. But don't worry: leaving your comfort zone has rarely been so comfortable! There are party songs for people who don't like going to parties. Break-up songs for people who don't like to break up. And audience participation for people who don't like to participate in things.

With "sparkling linguistic artistry" (AZ) and subtle, light-footed comedy, he mainly talks about the things he fails at: making decisions. Impressing girls around the campfire. Abolishing capitalism. In return, he succeeds in wresting new facets from the "guy with guitar and piano" concept. Musically adept, he plays with genre traditions and jumps casually between styles and moods: from beatlesque pop to tightly marching protest anthems, from comically creepy stalker ballads to "Reinhard Mey parodies to kneel down to" (Mannheimer Morgen).
This has already earned him a number of cabaret awards, such as the Prix Pantheon jury prize in 2019, the Stuttgarter Besen in 2018 and, most recently, the Tuttlinger Krähe in 2020. Of course, he knows that such prizes don't necessarily say anything about quality. But when he wins them himself, he can overlook this surprisingly well.