Götz Widmann

Götz Widmann is a singer-songwriter, but one who would rather raise his middle finger than wag his index finger. Specimens of this species are exceedingly rare, which makes an evening with the punk among the song poets such a special experience.

It is mostly highly amusing, sometimes shocking, but always extremely refreshing to listen to this truly independent spirit, who is allergic to muzzles of any kind, won’t be harnessed to any political bandwagon and simply sweeps aside thought bans from whatever direction with his wit.

Honesty was always more important to him than polite manners; his choice of words is a nightmare for every German teacher. Nevertheless Götz Widmann’s songs have their very own linguistic elegance. And for all the malice, what runs through his body of work, now spanning 20 albums, is above all a radical love of humanity, a never-tiring call to independent thinking, heart-warming humour and in the end also a life-embracing depth that you hardly find anywhere else in our borderline-daft world.