Die Nowak & die Leute aus der Raucherpause

In the organizer's words:

A rain-soaked city. Nowak and the people from the smoking break enter the fog-shrouded stage of the shrillest and most worn-out club on the Kiez. A quick glance and Nowak's razor-sharp gaze transforms even an audience of wild-eyed hoodlums into well-behaved little lambs. She strums the keys like a diva from the Golden Twenties. Her voice sounds like hot mulled wine on silk pyjamas. Are you irritated now? All the better.

Together with Natasha Zaychenko on double bass, Daniel "Rändl" Randlkofer on guitar and banjo and Daniel "Ricky" Treimer on drums, she transforms gravel gardens into flower meadows, heals old lovesickness and finally takes you dreamers out of Neverland. With a painful bite to the mind, their music cuts through the jungle of consumer society like a resounding chainsaw and uncovers the truth about the state of our world. Their melodies between chanson, punk, pop and indie hurl lightning bolts into your heart and leave you with trembling knees, ready for more.

Nowak is different, idiosyncratic and a little eccentric, but that's what makes her music so fascinating. When she's on stage, you can't help but be swept away by her energy and charisma.

Quotes

- "The Nowak in the roof garden of KAP94: my concert highlight 2025." Katharina Stork (Donaukurier)

- "Bittersweetness at its best." 23.05.2023, Tobias Ruhland (Bayern 2)

- "Sometimes gentle, sometimes prickly. Above all entertaining" 26.05.2023, 3sat Kulturzeit

- "The Nowak. There's nothing like it again. This is an incredible voice with crazy lyrics and what she does doesn't really have a place anywhere, but everyone has to hear it. [...] A great master of the chanson." June 2023, Fiva alias Nina Sonnenberg (FM4)

- "Sweet, biting, melancholy ballads are Nowak's core business, so to speak. [...] I think Nowak would also do incredibly well in a punk band." 23.05.2023, Tobias Ruhland (Bayern 2)

- "Somewhere between Hildegard Knef and Schnipo Schranke. I like it." 20.05.2023, owner, Em Drügge Pitter in Cologne

- "Music that rises above everything, classical chamber pop, [...] outrageously original arrangements and sometimes insanely beautiful string backing. [...] Anyone who doesn't even get their eyes wet with exuberance when listening to this, well, I'm afraid they don't have a heart. June 2023, Heinz Lehmann, Kulturjournal Regensburg

- "we were still missing this one [...] "Mein Bester" is a snappy swan song to a shitty guy" June 2023, BARBARA (magazine by Barbara Schöneberger)