OF AIR AND SONGS: Dota Kehr, Stefan Ebert, and LAMPE (Tilman Claas)

Since 2013, she has been touring and releasing music under the name DOTA—a name that encompasses both her musicians and herself.

Dota Kehr was born in Berlin, where she has always lived—with the exception of a few extended stays in South America. In 2020, the band released the album "Kaléko," featuring musical settings of texts by Mascha Kaléko. In June 2023, "In der fernsten der Fernen" was released—another album featuring Mascha Kaléko’s texts set to music, with which the band is touring major theaters and concert halls. At Luftschloss Tempelhofer Feld, several previously unreleased tracks will also be performed.

Hey Moment is the solo project of Stefan Ebert from Mannheim. He plays everyday anthems and subversive hits from a parallel universe. He performs a one-man show that refuses to choose between depth, humor, and rock ’n’ roll. Because “everything is fun with the right people.” He has a duo program with Fee Badenius, has toured as the opening act for ok.danke.tschüss and Lampe, and played in Max Prosa’s band for several years. Dota Kehr’s cover version of his song “Für die Sterne” has been streamed over 8 million times.

Lampe. That’s the name of singer-songwriter Tilman Claas’s band and solo project. Whether solo or as a duo—a band in name only—the Essen native has been singing and writing his way into the hearts of all fans of good entertainment since 2016. He consistently succeeds in transforming deeply personal stories into unpretentious, three-minute lo-fi pop songs, thereby illuminating a world full of humor, melancholy, and contradictions. The sound is uniquely captivating, and to say the lyrics are funny would be an understatement—the shifts toward melancholy are too subtle. You laugh, reflect, feel like crying, and then laugh again. At the end of an evening with Lampe, only one question remains: Why aren’t they already much more famous?