Bodo Wartke

Bodo Wartke is the gentleman entertainer on the wing. The audience appreciates him as a chansonnier and virtuoso pianist as well as a versatile actor and charming conférencier.

At the age of 19, on 16 November 1996, the cabaret artist gave his first full-length concert and looks back on a career as an artist that had lasted almost 20 years.

After the four piano cabaret programmes Ich denke, so' ich (1998), Achillesverse (2003), Noah war ein Archetyp (2006) and Klaviersdelikte (2012) and the solo play König Ödipus (2009), the programme Swingende Notwendigkeit with The Capital Dance Orchestra followed in 2013. In September 2015, the fifth piano cabaret programme "Was, wenn doch? Premiere.

In 2004 Bodo Wartke received the renowned German Cabaret Award in the category "Chanson" in the Mainz House of Commons. This is one of a number of prestigious prizes and awards that the artist has received so far, including the "St. Ingberter Pfanne" with the Audience Award, the "Stuttgarter Besen" and the 1st prize at the "Bundeswettbewerb Gesang". Bodo Wartke studied piano and singing at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2000 to 2005. He already took part as a conférencier in a variety show in 1998. In the same year he was composer and musical director in a production of "Unter dem Milchwald" (Dylan Thomas) directed by Sven Schütze, with whom he has worked since the beginning of his career. In 2002 the artist wrote a new German libretto for "Orpheus in der Unterwelt" (J. Offenbach), which premiered in Norderstedt in 2003. From 2006 to 2011, he hosted the annual Liedermacher-Open-Air "Songs an einem Sommerabend", which is broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk on radio and TV. He has been a regular guest at the 3satfestival since 2007 and at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival since 2014.

Piano cabaret in rhyming culture - this is how Bodo Wartke describes his art of entertainment: lively songs with excellently rhymed texts full of witty words, to which he accompanies himself sovereignly at the piano. "At the same time and not one after the other", as he never gets tired of emphasizing, because "otherwise it would take twice as long". His set stories are charming observations of our everyday life and of the complications that interpersonal coexistence raises.