The restless band has been on permanent world tour for 36 years. Not a year goes by without 1-2 albums, a new program, theater productions and permanent worldwide tours. Dark and absurd theatricality are their trademark, and the dark cabaret genre, which became popular in the early 2000s, is based on them.
In 1998, the band experienced their international breakthrough with the musical hit "Shockheaded Peter" (the play is still performed worldwide today). In 2003, they were nominated for a Grammy with the album "The Gorey End" together with the "Kronos Quartet". They are a welcome guest on the world's theater stages, most recently their Shakespeare variation "A Macbeth Song" in Barcelona, where it played to full houses for 2½ months, at Schauspiel Frankfurt with "Franz Biberkopf" (2015), "Hamlet" at the Republique Theatre Copenhagen, "Edgar Allan Poe's Haunted Palace" at the "Centro Nacional de las Artes Delia Zapata" in Bogotá / Colombia, "Either Or" with the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center in Shanghai, in Austria the plays "Die Weberischen" together with Felix Mitterer and Stephanie Mohr for the Morzartjahr (Nestroy Prize 2007), "Little Matchgirl" with Christian Kolonovits, "Woyzeck" also with Christian Kolonovits and Ben Becker (Nestroy Prize 2012) and many more.
Most recently, they contributed parts of the soundtrack for Johnny Depp's film "Modi: Three Days on Wings of Madness", underlining their standing in the world.
With an international reputation as one of the most interesting avant-garde bands in the world, the TIGER LILLIES never cease to surprise, shock and entertain with their inimitable sound. And in doing so, they fuse the macabre magic of pre-war Berlin with the biting edge of punk.
The world of TIGER LILLIES is dark, peculiar and varied, with moments of black humor and immense beauty. This unique Brechtian street opera trio has been touring the world for 36 years with concerts and plays such as The Tiger Lillies Christmas Carol, The Ancient Mariner and the West End hit Shockheaded Peter.
With wry humor and sharp irony, the TIGER LILLIES point an implicitly reproachful finger back at us: what the hell are we doing, why are we laughing at stuff like this? The music is a mixture of pre-war and Weimar Republic Berlin cabaret, anarchist opera and gypsy music that also brings back memories of Bertolt Brecht, Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf.