Kaléko for the second time. After the great success of the first album, Dota dedicates herself once again musically to the poet's texts with "In der fernsten der Fernen". There will be songs from the two Kaléko albums and some pieces with her own lyrics. Acoustic, concertante, rousing!
At one of the concerts, a fan slips her a booklet by Mascha Kaléko. Dota is thrilled by the directness of the poems and the succinctness of the language and decides to make music from the texts. She obtains permission from Kaléko's executor and asks songwriter friends if they would like to take part. Everyone is enthusiastic, and so this record features songs sung by Dota alone, but also duets with old and new voices from the German music scene such as Alin Coen, Hannes Wader, Max Prosa and Konstantin Wecker. The record is released in 2020 and stays in the album charts for 8 weeks, a success. Due to the pandemic, the tour will not take place until 2022, but will then be celebrated all the more by the audience.
And of course there was more to discover in Kaléko's poetry books, essays, mixed notes and diary entries. Enough for a second album, again with well-known collaborators. This time the music fits even better, Kaléko's lyrics move naturally and freely within it, sometimes in classic song form with verses and chorus, sometimes repeating a line evocatively until everyone has the phrase "How beautiful it is to be alone" pinned to their fridge
DOTA has been on tour since September 2023. With them: Dota Kehr (vocals, guitar), Janis Görlich (drums), Jan Rohrbach (guitar), Jonas Hauer (keyboards), Wencke Wollny (vocals, saxophone, clarinet) aka "Karl die Große" and Jörg Bücheler (trombone, vocals).
