Bodo Wartke - Wunderpunkt

Prinz-Eugen-Straße/ Ecke Plößlgasse

1030 Wien

 

Abera Kadabera! Fine linguistic wit, surprising rhyming culture and virtuoso piano playing - Bodo Wartke's seventh program offers entertaining musical cabaret and a word-acrobatic tongue twister slam. The entertainer and poet sets amazement against the power of habit, placing humor alongside old patterns.
Lightness! - Why not? Bodo Wartke gets to the point of wonder!
In the seventh piano cabaret program, the musician and cabaret artist recommends himself as a storyteller who eavesdrops on the absurdly funny events of everyday life with all its inconsistencies and condenses them in the double sense of the word. Bodo Wartke takes an exceptionally playful look at the phenomena of our coexistence, dancing with language and word acrobatics. In doing so, he draws on the rich fund of the German language and highlights many a vocabulary with a fine sense of intuition.
Problems with the printer turn out to be an identity emergency of the technical device that is in the wrong body. The "egg hole" known from nursery rhymes triggers a hair-raising, abstruse and at the same time philosophical stream of consciousness in the sleep-drunk musician. And last but not least, the cabaret artist develops well-known tongue twisters into poems and short anarchic stories, which he raps and presents with piano or cajon in different musical genres - tongue twister slam full of rhythm 'n' poetry. Once again, the stage artist shows himself to be a music entertainer with a taste for pop and high culture, who samples his way through our everyday lives linguistically and musically. Sometimes comedic in the satirical exaggeration of unbridled consumerism, presented as a rap cover of a summer hit. Or provocative and sarcastic in the parody of the bad habit of "mansplaining", here as rock 'n' roll. But also lyrical in a classical adaptation, in which the pianist takes us up with him in a tender ode to the moon and, looking back, quietly offers a change of perspective.
And so serious tones are always mixed in with all the lightness. The songwriter looks thoughtfully at unhealthy behavioral patterns learned early on that can determine our lives. He critically examines misogyny and the radical interpretation of religious dogmas. But there is also a hopeful look: What could our world look like if the many sore spots of humanity were overcome?
On the way there, there will be some slip-ups and stumbles. Bodo Wartke welcomes them, because they are part of it when we go to the miracle point.

(Source: theaterimpark.at)