Marie Diot - "Unwahrscheinliche Hits" Cologne Comedy Festival

In the organizer's words:

Marie Diot - "Unlikely Hits"

Cologne Comedy Festival

Marie Diot is a singer-songwriter. Her music is a mixture of catchy indie pop, elegant chanson and lots of fun. At her concerts, you can enjoy wacky, funny announcements and songs that could be hits. It may be unlikely that they will actually be hits, as they are about things that are not immediately hit-worthy. For example, they are about intercoms, lost front door keys and fishing without a hook. But Marie succeeds in singing about even such curious topics with her unbiased view and her cheerfully witty manner, so that in the end everyone in the audience can find themselves in the songs. Because you always understand what Marie has to say straight away, but then think about it anyway.
Marie Diot released her debut album "Pinguin im Tutu - Weiß nicht, ob er Tänzer ist" in 2017. The follow-up "Apfel im Strudel der ewigen Liebe" was released in November 2020, on which the singer-songwriter presents herself as musically and thematically versatile, deftly balancing melancholy and silliness, indie pop and chanson, all united by her unique style. Supported by the fabulous multi-instrumentalist Fabian Großberg, her concerts have already taken her all over Germany and Switzerland.
In 2014 Marie Diot was a prizewinner at the Treffen junge Musik-Szene, in 2015 at the "Nahaufnahme", another sponsorship award of the Bundeswettbewerbe Berliner Festspiele, in 2017 she was in the final of the German Song Contest "Troubadour".
In 2019, she won the Plattsounds Contest and was nominated for the Prix Pantheon in 2020. In 2021, she took part in the Celle School (master class for lyricists) as a scholarship holder of the GEMA Foundation and was awarded the Hans Bradtke Prize and the Liederbestenliste Prize.
Since 2022 she has been co-director of the songwriting school SAGO. 2023 she received the Walther-von der-Vogelweide-Prize. In 2024, she was awarded the Tuttlinger Krähe (2nd place) and the Hamburger Comedy Pokal (3rd place).
"Marie Diot was reminiscent of a young and female Helge Schneider, especially in her self-deprecating speeches between songs. She quickly had the audience on her side with her wit." (Südwest Presse)
"Her mission: to discover the lyrical and ingenious in the trivial. [...] Wordplay spoilers will unfortunately have to wait outside." (HAZ)
"Funny and cheeky, with their hearts in the right place and on their tongues, with a lot of fun with the finest sentence acrobatics." (Cellesche Zeitung)
"Sly, to the point and against the grain, of pragmatic poetry and serene presence" (Edith Jeske, laudation Hans-Bradtke-Förderpreis)

www.mariediot.com

Price information:

B.O. 28,- € / 24,- € (reduced) / VVK 24,- € / 20,- € (reduced) (+ fees).