Ronja Maltzahn

Music sounds between homesickness and wanderlust.

Yes - Ronja caused a huge media frenzy in 2022 because she was refused a gig due to her hairstyle. A year earlier, Udo Lindenberg awarded the music poet his Panic Prize for German newcomers. This was followed in 2023 by the Hanns Seidel Foundation's prize for young songwriters.

Ronja plays the cello, ukulele and piano and uses her music to tell stories of being on the road and poetry. While she sets Hermann Hesse to music and quotes Astrid Lindgren, she floats from one instrument to the next, her distinctive voice invites you to cry, her stories to laugh, her band family to dance.

They all change instruments, from piano, drums, bass and polyphonic vocals to the electronic island of various synthesizers. A circular projection screen floats above the stage, on which moving images, words and colors accompany the music. Each song becomes its own work of art in this highly animated, highly moving show.

After Ronja met her Argentinian music partner Fede in Italy in 2018, they traveled together through more than 20 countries and set foot on more than 400 stages in various band constellations. Their three studio albums bear witness to their long musical journeys, whose songs they translate into multilingual variations.