Literaturfest: »FREEDOM IS A VERB« KONZERT MIT DANIEL KAHN

In the organizer's words:

Daniel Kahn live in concert: the multi-instrumentalist combines klezmer, pop and punk, texts by Bob Dylan and Kurt Tucholsky with Yiddish poetry to create a furious plea for freedom.

Daniel Kahn, born and raised in Detroit, made a name for himself as a musician, actor and songwriter in New Orleans and New York before moving to Berlin in 2005. Since then, he has toured the world with his band "The Painted Bird", released acclaimed albums ("The Butcher's Share"), performed at the Maxim Gorki Theater, worked as a director, author ("Genghis Cohn"), composer and songwriter. "Even the personal is political", says Daniel Kahn, his music is always "a channel for uncomfortable questions" (Deutschlandfunk Kultur), inspired by Brecht and Jewish working-class culture, full of anger and wit. His iconic song "Freedom Is a Verb" puts it in a nutshell: freedom must be practiced, defended and constantly renegotiated.

At the invitation of Dana Grigorcea, he comes to Munich to sing and play songs of exile and alienation, hope and solidarity on the piano, accordion and guitar. A furious evening between Yiddish tradition and red-hot anger - rousing, virtuoso, free.