IC FALKENBERG is one of the most successful and popular artists in East Germany... Star Meissen...
... a life in which rebellion and self-assertion were always the driving forces." (Markus Fitsch - mdr kultur)
"Once a teen idol, IC Falkenberg is now an admonisher and intellectual. A transformation in 50 years of music." (Schall Musikmagazin)
"Dreamy sounds of a creative poet: ideal fodder for the feuilleton... the man has enormous linguistic and musical possibilities, he should be heard. (Musikexpress)
"Hardly any other German singer writes so abstractly and associatively." (Berliner Zeitung)
"A poet who sings here, in pieces that are stylistically as far removed from ordinary rock songs as the moon is from the stars. Falkenberg combines the elegiac mood with the literary aspirations of Leonhard Cohen and Nick Cave." (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung)
"Unimpressed by the rules of the music business, IC Falkenberg delivers multi-layered, atmospherically dense compositions with very clever lyrics that need to be deciphered." (Das Magazin)
"The country needs songs like this." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
IC FALKENBERG writes and sings and plays the piano, he rubs up against the big issues and draws them into his real world beyond the party stronghold excesses. And he takes a stand. Openly and without excuses.
Over 50 years of stage presence and 27 albums speak for themselves, as does FALKENBERG's musical diversity.
IC FALKENBERG has been performing on stage since he was ten years old. In the eighties, he was the singer, composer and lyricist of Stern Meissen. He quickly became one of the most successful and popular artists in East Germany in the mid-1980s under the stage name
IC FALKENBERG and sold over 250,000 copies of each of his first two solo albums during this time.
IC FALKENBERG's concerts are unrepeatable moments, their open-hearted intimacy and touching melancholy interwoven with humorous stories.
Despite his challenging themes, he maintains an unobtrusive lightness. He masters the balancing act, sounding sensitive but never sentimental