SIMON & JAN UND IHRE LIEBLINGSLIEDERMACHER /// KULTURSOMMER IM GARTEN /// ZECHE CARL /// ESSEN

In the organizer's words:

Cultural summer in the garden

With Fortuna Ehrenfeld and Enno Bunger

Thursday, 29.08.24 | Zeche Carl | Admission: 19:00 | Start: 20:00 | Open Air

VVK: 27€ plus fees | B.O.: 35€

Simon & Jan and their favorite songwriters - the 2024 festival!

The singer-songwriter duo from Oldenburg invites you again. For the sixth time. And when they invite
invite, the crème de la crème of the German singer-songwriter scene will be playing the guitar
or whatever other instruments are needed.
Simon & Jan (Prix Pantheon 2014, Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis 2016, Bayerischer Kabarettpreis 2016, Salzburger
Kabarettpreis 2016, Salzburger Stier 2019) lead through an evening with a selection
of their favorite songwriters. They play their songs for each other, board
the stage together, accompanied by the sofa band, melt away together or
tear down the stage - you never know beforehand.

Fortuna Ehrenfeld

The devil invented the accelerator pedal And now we're doing our laps
And fill up with a little more gas
In just a few years, Martin Bechler, head of the Cologne indie cult band Fortuna
Ehrenfeld, led the band from a lousy pub concert to a sold-out
Philharmonie.
When he sits down solo at the piano - as on the recently released double vinyl from
Cologne's Kulturkirche - the minimalist versions reveal their true depths and edges.
edges.
"Once the left ventricle poured out over the keyboard and the right one furiously
thrown behind it," says Martin.
For fans of floating Fortuna piano ballads, this record is (second)
heaven! Bechler doesn't ask any questions, but gives answers line by line to the lead in the bones
bones and the pressure in the chest and head after two disciplined
years of slow motion. A soul jacuzzi to rinse out all the brainfuck of a life of scrapes
of a scraped life - including the usual Fortuna trapdoors.

Enno Bunger

Enthusiastic, moving, emotional.
Enno Bunger has been providing the soundtrack for life's ups and downs for 14 years.
His songs are played at weddings and funerals, his linguistically
lyrics are often quoted.
Bunger's concerts are an experience. A unique mixture of emotional-intellectual
indie pop, in which head and heart are in balance throughout the evening.
in the course of the evening. The sensitively told stories often move to tears or moments of happiness.
moments of happiness. From the famous audible pin in piano ballads, to danceable euphoria in
danceable euphoria in sing-along anthems to complete escalation in post-rock or rave moments.
rave moments, there really is everything. So if you urgently want to really feel yourself
and want to have a good cry because of personal or social situations
(#Weltschmerz) - at this concert, credibly performed by Enno Bunger, the
"best loser", is the right place for you.
The native East Frisian became known throughout Germany sometime between 2010 and 2012
with his melancholy songs about love, separation ("Regen") and friendship ("Ponyhof").
friendship ("Ponyhof"), but in his lyrics he never shies away from more difficult
themes in his lyrics.
In the knowledge that "the biggest shit can sometimes be the best fertilizer for art
can be the best fertilizer for art", he confronts transience, social abysses such as racism and
and, as a sufferer himself, writes empowering hymns about and against the
depression, and sings sometimes motivating, sometimes cynically ironic, sometimes angry
protest songs in times of the global climate crisis.
Highly recommended to all people who (want to) finally feel more intense again in these times.
feel more intensely in these times.

Price information:

VVK: 27€ plus fees | B.O.: 35€