DOTA - "In der fernsten der Fernen" - Tour 2024

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In the farthest of the faraway - Tour 2024 - Concert

Kaléko for the second time. After the great success of the first album, Dota once again devotes herself musically to the poet's texts. Mascha Kaléko began writing in Berlin in the 1920s, publishing in daily newspapers from 1929 onwards; her early poems are trenchant everyday sketches in Berlin dialect. She made a name for herself, socializing with the greats of Berlin bohemia in the Romanisches Café. Her first book, "Das lyrische Stenogrammheft", was published in 1933 and was immediately well received. Her success as a writer came to an abrupt end when the Nazis came to power. As a Jew, she was no longer allowed to publish. She left Berlin in 1938, but the city remained a firm point of reference for her. In one of her last poems, Bleibtreu heißt die Strasse, she writes "40 years ago I lived here [...] My happiness was at home here. And my hardship. This is where my child was born. And had to leave. My friends and the Gestapo visited me here", she concludes with the question "What remained of it? [...] an old wound unscarred."

Dota Kehr is from Berlin, writes lyrics, sings and has been making music with drummer Janis Görlich and guitarist Jan Rohrbach since 2003. They have now recorded 16 albums and played countless tours at home and abroad. Dota hits the nerve of her time, or several of them, with her music, which jumps and dances, pauses, jumps off the quarry pond jetty, swims and dives to the bottom, which is also the title of one of her most beautiful songs. She mixes folk and indietronica and lets her love of Brazilian music shine through here and there.

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