...vom Hocker?! mit MINA RICHMAN

In the organizer's words:

"Nothing but touching truthfulness"

Honest. Queer. Self-determined. It is the search for a perspective and direction in life that drove the queer German-Iranian Mina Richman to music at an early age. Born in Berlin but raised in the small town of Bad Salzuflen, she commuted between worlds and discovered treasures such as Joan As Policewoman and Nina Simone in her aunt's CD collection. Soul and blues, hip-hop culture and the revolt of the great female singer-songwriters are her inspiration as she works on her debut EP Jaywalker (2022), with which she is nominated for the PopNRW Award as best newcomer. Raised by her father to be a feminist "by mistake" - as she once put it in an interview with Die Zeit - she used the famous Cher quote "Mom, I am a rich man" for her artist name.
The solidarity song Baba Said went instantly viral during the revolution in Iran and enabled her to make a contribution to the fight for freedom and human rights with her music. She sees combining activism with music as a duty and a necessity.
In her debut album Grown Up, which was released in March 2024 on the Ladies&Ladys label, Mina Richman confronts growing up. With great honesty, she returns to her childhood and deals with quarrelling parents, cultural uprooting and the social and personal treatment of her body. Named album of the week by DLF Kultur and FluxFM, she has been touring Germany with her band ever since.

On 28.03.2026, Mina Richman comes to the Foyer im Alten Theater with her "artful songs and lyrics that produce nothing but touching truthfulness through their oversharing" (Linus Volkmann, Musikexpress).

Sat, 28.3.2026 - 8 pm
Old Theater/Foyer
Tickets on sale soon!

Press reviews

"She lets her clever and, despite the depth of content, always wonderfully amusing thoughts flow into ultra-catchy folk-pop numbers in a way that cleverly juggles with all kinds of set pieces and therefore sounds immediately familiar, even though they are practically unreferenced, especially in this country." Guestlist.com