Götz Widmann is a singer-songwriter, but one who prefers to raise the middle finger rather than the index finger. Specimens of this genre are decidedly rare, which is what makes an evening with the punk among song poets such a special experience. It is usually highly amusing, sometimes shocking, but always extremely refreshing to listen to a truly independent spirit, who is allergic to muzzles of all kinds, does not let himself be harnessed to any political cart and simply sweeps aside prohibitions of thought no matter from which direction with his wit.
Honesty was always more important to him than a cultivated tone, 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 his nastiness, what runs through his now 18-album oeuvre above all is a radical love of humanity, a never-tiring call to independent thought, a deep bow to the right of the individual to fight back against the stultifying one-dimensionality of our time.
He founded the duo Joint Venture with his partner Kleinti 25 years ago. 15 years ago his surely most influential album "Drogen" was released. Time travel - a loving look back, many many songs from the past, still strikingly current.
Guest: Markus Sommer
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