Leo Da Capo spielt KAFKA

In the organizer's words:

LEO DA CAPO SPIELT KAFKA is an evening of texts by and about Franz Kafka, short prose, aphorisms, letters and diaries read by Matthias Paul, according to the RNZ "...one of the most listenable readers in the region". The texts are rounded off, framed and enriched with pearls of pop music, newly arranged by Oliver Kuka and Elisa Herbig and partly composed by themselves for cello and guitar and for the wonderful voice of singer Tina Kuka. The result is a Kafka evening: "frightening, dreamlike, treacherous and morbid, the most strangely haunting entertainment imaginable."

Thomas Mann wrote this about Kafka's works without knowing LEO DA CAPO's interpretation, but perhaps with prescient foresight.

Tina and Oliver Kuka and Matthias Paul, the founding members of the TUTU TOULOUSE ensemble, have been performing their musical and literary programs on cabaret stages across Germany for ten years now. For LEO DA CAPO SPIELT KAFKA, they have been joined by cellist and singer Elisa Herbig, who has traveled throughout Scandinavia, Europe and the USA as a musician, always moving between her classical instrument, the cello, and the world of pop and jazz. In LEO DA CAPO SPIELT KAFKA, words and sound sometimes merge, sometimes contrast, but there is always a relationship between the two art forms.

LEO DA CAPO mean it when they say: "Kafka can be fun!"

Elisa Herbig: cello, vocals

Tina Kuka: vocals

Oliver Kuka: guitar

Matthias Paul: reading

"Kukas unartige Kulturgesellschaft" is a member of the Freie Theaterverein Heidelberg e.V.