Timetable 2025

Andreas Dorau, an artist and musician from Hamburg, has been releasing recordings on an irregular basis since 1981. One theme that runs through his entire oeuvre is animals and nature. He will be a guest at the Asphaltsprenger for the third time, presenting and commenting on pieces about the North German animal world. An audiovisual tour in five stations awaits you. Specialist animal experts will also have their say. Be there!

Technical management: Marcel Gein

Mariam Kiria, the Georgian singer, enchants with soulful chansons and traditional folk songs from her homeland. A diverse mosaic of stories and songs that transports you to the magical world of Georgia - a concert that touches you.

Übersee is a Hamburg band whose music always echoes a sense of longing. For the beautiful south, which perhaps no longer exists, for the mountains and the sea, places where nothing distracts you but the stars.

Cowardly bimbos, how cowardly they are! They don't dare to say which genre they want to be put in, nor do they dare to reveal who or what they are singing about! The songs about forbidden love, chases in the park or the nice neighbor Holger - who turned up one day with glasses and changed the lives of Messer and Lili Flittchen considerably - naturally arouse curiosity. So one of the big questions we certainly ask ourselves is: Who actually pissed in the cup? Questions upon questions, bimbo upon bimbo. What's left for you to know: How can you be extra close to the bimbos?

When we fax the fig bimbos with this urgent question, they only reply briefly and concisely: "Come to our concert!

The 12 m² project organizes utopian walks through Hamburg: What would it be like if we looked at the city through different eyes? Our interactive tours allow us to imagine that the world we live in could be completely different! Ana Amil's lecture on the Asphaltsprenger takes us on a virtual exploration tour of Hamburg to see what alternatives exist to the car-oriented city.

Ana Amil is a culture and community manager and founder. The focus of her work is on justice issues. "All everyday and public areas of life, such as mobility, work, health, education, housing, participation, ... must be thought of intersectionally and become fairer and more equal."

Here you can find Ana Amil on her Website and Instagram.

The Hallo: Verein is a platform, a framework for diverse projects and initiatives, embedded in a neighborhood in the east of Hamburg. We work as an open and self-organized structure. We open up private and public spaces and turn them into communal places. Our means are artistic, performative, mediating, negotiating, formalizing and connecting.

The kiosk is a neighborhood contact point where people develop and implement a meeting space and offers together - at PARKS, the community open space project at the old recycling yard in Hammerbrook, which the neighborhood has been developing and operating together with Hallo: and atelier le balto since 2019.

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The "Wild Throats" are a musical-literary performance by Carsten Kluth and Xaver Römer on bird-human relationships. We trace the 'wild throats', record the songs of yellowhammers, tits, reed warblers and others, make music with them, write and compose their stories. We slip into their perspective to become a little wild ourselves.

"FARN" - The offer from the "Fachstelle Radikalisierungsprävention und Engagement im Naturschutz" of the Naturefriends of Germany and the Naturefriends Youth of Germany

Ecology from the right: The workshop sheds light on the historical and current links between German nature conservation and environmental protection and extreme right-wing concepts. Participants will be sensitized to recognize inhuman thought patterns in nature conservation and environmental protection.

Interactive reading on the book "Travel guide for animals" by Inga Marie Ramcke

Come with us on animal travel routes! Animals know no borders - and our friend Dilhan, the dugong, is visiting us in Hamburg to tell us about his journey. You don't know what a dugong is? And don't know the dugong song yet? Then come along and travel with us to the other end of the world. Dilhan, in the form of a hinged-mouth puppet, is up for any kind of nonsense. Depending on what Inga Marie Ramcke, his puppeteer and children's non-fiction author, allows ...

Thus Problem is a band from Hamburg that can be located somewhere between indie and post-punk, loud and quiet tones, soft songs and loud screams. The band was founded as a duo in 2019 and has been performing on smaller stages in the Hanseatic city since 2020. They released their first EP in 2022, followed by their second EP "A Sun that never shines" in 2024.

With dark guitar sounds, the alternation of serious themes and fun-punk attitude, experiment and improv, the bass/drums/guitar trio can be found wherever there are still concerts with cheap beer.

Hamburg-based musician Hannah Grosch focuses on hand-played, homemade and finely felt. On her new album "BODYPARTS", she breaks with classic song structure in a convinced avant-garde-alternative manner, focusing on playful and versatile vocals and deciding anew from song to song which instrumentation should accompany the voice in a warm and soft-groovy way.

Everything is allowed to be brittle, creaky, in tortured lightness, always in favor of emotion and dynamics. With "BODYPARTS", Hannah Grosch combines a whole range of different influences and moves in the space between PJ Harvey, Björk, Joanna Newsom and Fever Ray. As a FLINTA* trio with Niko (Junokill) and Stina, Grosch manages to translate the songs, recorded entirely solo, into a polyphonic band experience. Raw, touching, intense.

John Winston Berta & Oliver Wissing: The duo that reinterprets the 80s. The magic of the 80s comes back to life - in an unforgettable acoustic performance.

Olli & Johnny are more than just a guitar duo. They are time travelers who bring the best of the 80s to life on two guitars. With a unique blend of virtuosity and nostalgia, they bring the hits of this legendary era to the stage, while relying largely on technology and instruments from the era.

"Our aim is to bring the timeless magic of the 80s back to life in an intimate atmosphere," says John. "By focusing on the technology and instruments of the era, we're creating an authentic connection to the music that touched the hearts of so many people."

The duo Olli & Johnny are ready to thrill the audience with their rousing performance and incomparable energy.

Jazz duo Mona and Alex Florin is so Beautiful the debut of Ukrainian jazz singer Mona and Hamburg virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer Alex Florin.

Mona is a Ukrainian jazz singer from Ukraine (Kyiv) who fled the war, immigrated to Hamburg and immediately began to interact with the Hamburg funk scene, members of Mighty Mokambo led by Björn Wagner and Mona with Ms Fame united in the project "Mona & Hammerbrook Sound Machine" combining Ukrainian culture with Hamburg funk and released two vinyl singles on Mocambo Records that have already won the hearts of the break community and recognition from Kyiv to California.

Alex Florin is a guitarist and composer who is well known in the German jazz and music scene. He is a member of several bands and leads the trio Pale Blue Dot. His style combines improvisation and thoughtful composition and ranges from jazz to folk to ambient. In 2024 he released the concept album Sourdough Dog/Rex. Florin studied jazz guitar in the Netherlands and is known for his unique approach to music and storytelling on the guitar.

Wosto was born in 1980 in Geseke (a small town in "Wostfalia"). As he would call himself an animal lover, he released all of the animals from Geseke in 1995 and rode a donkey through his hometown. The police came and arrested Wosto and his animal gang into a seperate district, where he still lives with them and plays records for them. To this day, many visitors come to see him playing and dancing and feed him with new music by throwing the records over the fence. It is said that there is a secret tunnel, so Wosto can escape from time to time and play some secret gigs outside.

In 2013 Wosto and his best friend Kluentah founded FALLBEIL. So far they released many records on different labels all over the world. In 2017 Wosto and the two members of NOSTALGIE ÉTERNELLE started the trio SAUERSTOFFF. Wosto is also releasing solo records and is running his own vinyl label - TEERPAPPE

THE BIG BROUGHT - under your feet

A story about living creatures in the soil and the true gold of our earth: humus!

For all people aged 4 and over

In this ESD theater performance, young and old audience members learn about the fascinating world of soil creatures in an imaginative and musical way: woodlice, millipedes, spiders, springtails and bacteria. Together with earthworm superstars, they ensure healthy soil. And this is also extremely relevant to the climate. By building up humus, carbon dioxide can be returned to the soil.