Masha Qrella

In the organizer's words:

If you ask Masha Qrella where she has been over the last few years, she can simply say "somewhere else" with the utmost conviction. Her 2021 album with Thomas Brasch settings, an accompanying award-winning radio play and countless live concerts left her fans with the impression that the Berlin musician with the inimitable voice was only subscribed to Brasch.

But of course that's not true. In addition to her private and family life, the musician has pursued countless other projects. She has set Bremen's city musicians to new music, produced another radio play, composed film scores and sometimes simply reinterpreted her favorite songs on the guitar.

In March 2025, "Songbook" will be released on the Berlin label Staatsakt, an album that provides an insight into the diversity of her musical work since her last long-playing record.

There is a stunning cover version of the Jeremy Spencer Band ("Cool Breeze"), which was originally created for a film, she has recorded great minimalist cover versions of world hits and resurrects the dog, cat, donkey and rooster of the Bremen city musicians for a dystopian singspiel by Martin Heckmanns.

She makes Novalis sound like Saint Etienne and Manfred Krug like Thomas Brasch. Or rather: like Masha Qrella. Because it is truly amazing how she makes all these songs her own. How every song, whether baroque or indie pop, whether performed in English or German, always sounds above all like Masha Qrella.

This artist simply doesn't need exuberant concepts or any special occasions. Everything she does ends up being music anyway.

An extensive tour is planned for the album, during which the musician - including the latest album "Songbook" - can draw on a repertoire of seven albums from more than 20 years of her work.