Jan Plewka singt Simon & Garfunkel

The Sound of Silence, Mrs. Robinson, Homeward Bound, The Boxer - a list that could easily be continued: songs by Simon & Garfunkel from the 60s that have etched themselves into the collective musical memory and become immortal classics. No decade was more musically fruitful than the 60s, no decade offers more dates that stand for both the dreams and the traumas of recent history and continue to do so to the present day. SOUND OF SILENCE, directed by Tom Stromberg, is therefore not only an evening of Simon & Garfunkel songs, but also an ironic reflection on this period and an encounter with our own pop-cultural past.

And who could be more suitable for this excursion into his own history than Jan Plewka: Echo and Nestroy award winner, singer, musician, actor and frontman of the rock band Selig. With his acclaimed Rio Reiser evening, also directed by Tom Stromberg, Jan Plewka has already impressively demonstrated that you can adopt the idols of your youth and still remain yourself. With emotion, his own charisma and an outstanding vocal presence, Jan Plewka and Die Schwarz-Rote Heilsarmee give the songs of the American duo a fresh cell treatment and make even the catchy tunes played dully on the radio shine again.