NICHTSEATTLE

In the organizer's words:

Singer/songwriter concert at the KESSELHAUS

The narrative of honest, hard work is older than bourgeois society itself. Especially in Germany's economic miracle, we absorbed this idea with our mother's milk or Nestle milk powder. Welcome to the meritocracy! But there is also another narrative: that of happiness. The happiness of love, the happiness of the best dumplings in town or the happiness of a carefree walk on the beach.

In the modern world, many people are apparently finding it increasingly difficult to bring these two strands of life together in a satisfactory way. We seem to have completely lost a certain serenity. Or perhaps it never really existed?

Berlin songwriter Katharina Kollmann, alias Nichtseattle, has written us a song that tells us about this dilemma from her own perspective: "Fleißig". A song about the compulsion to self-optimize and the eternally creeping feeling of inferiority and a sense of ever-increasing pressure to perform. Inside and outside of precarity. But where does it come from, this leaden heaviness? From ourselves or just because of the bank loan we took out? Is it simply because we have never been taught otherwise? So how will we deal with the much-vaunted work/life balance in future?

"A mysterious Kafkaesque quest always resonates, which is perhaps strangely inscribed in people. In any case, a feeling of futility resonates from the very beginning, and in the end the realization that this urgently needs to stop, that the mistakes in the system need to be admitted, that one's own weaknesses and limitations need to be acknowledged, that one should connect or, to use Donna Haraway's even more beautiful word, "relate"," says the artist herself about the state of the world between shaky career ladders, promises of happiness, egoshooters, influencers and the resulting feeling of being overwhelmed by oneself.

"Fleißig" is the name of the latest release from Nichtseattle's new, very industrious double album "Haus", which Katharina Kollmann recorded together with her band and producer Olaf O.P.A.L. in Berlin on 12.04.2024. More on this in a nutshell. May it go through the roof.

Price information:

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