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'Im Schutz der Nacht Open Air' - 08.08.2026

After a successful tour and releases in 2025, OTTOLIEN are now making a brilliant return with the announcement of their first own 'Im Schutz der Nacht' open air. On 08.08.2026, the indie pop duo will once again celebrate radical tenderness in a spectacular setting as part of the Summer Nights in the Garden Theater of the Herrenhausen Gardens.

After the debut album 'WIR TUN UNS SO GUT WEH' (2023) and the second album 'Bleib Lieb' (2025), the brothers have firmly established themselves in the German-speaking indie scene. Numerous festival shows, including at the Southside Festival, Reeperbahn Festival, c/o pop Festival, Nürnberg Pop, Blaumachen or KiezKultur Festival, support shows for soffie, Michél von Wussow, error or Trille and several home shows in the always packed Musikzentrum Hannover: OTTOLIEN are stronger on the map than ever and want more. More attitude, more feeling, away from genre boundaries.

OTTOLIEN are the brothers Leo and Jonas. One is a producer, rapper and beat maker and the other a cerebral lyricist and guitarist. In their lyrics, double rhyme structures meet a visual language that does not shy away from any pop cultural reference. OTTOLIEN fly inland by hanging from a windmill, manage to use the word "Jack Wolfskin jacket" lyrically and are always wonderfully self-deprecating. They almost casually write their Easter Eggs lyrics on great melodies that you never want to get rid of. OTTOLIEN take the listener into their family, whose musical family tree should consist of WIR SIND HELDEN, BOSSE and CASPER.