Otis Mensah. DURCHLÜFTEN – 2025 Live Konzerte & DJ Acts im Schlüterhof

In the organizer's words:

Free, outdoors and under palm trees: this summer, the DURCHLÜFTEN music festival will once again transform the Humboldt Forum's large Schlüterhof courtyard into a lively meeting place for sound, rhythm and culture.

Over four weekends, music from all over the world will radiate from the stage: from the raw energy of Mexican cumbia punk to the hypnotic groove of Kenyan dodo blues, from the electrifying syncopation of Congolese soukous to the powerful messages of Afrofuturist big bands. Japanese folk with a Caribbean influence, soulful jazz, hip-hop and the joy and resilience of the Frafra gospel round off this celebration of sound - boundless, multi-perspective and irresistibly danceable!

Otis Mensah (Sheffield, Berlin)

Otis Mensah is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Berlin. Mensah weaves language and melody into delicate portraits of body, family and home. Drawing from a rich tradition of Black musicality, Mensah's poetic and sonic practice combines archival material with reflections on dream and nature. Otis Mensah experiments with language, queering and subverting biblical parables to merge memory and myth in his exploration of the Black Diaspora. Mensah draws inspiration from abstract painters such as Norman Lewis and Jack Whitten.

As Sheffield's first Poet Laureate, Mensah published Safe Metamorphosis with Prototype London, performed at Glastonbury Festival and shared stages with Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz. Otis Mensah has built a powerful presence in the combination of poetry and music.

- free of charge

- no ticket required

- Schlüterhof

- Belongs to: DURCHLÜFTEN - 2025