The multicultural Berlin-based women’s ensemble FREE SPIRITZ was founded by Nigerian-German singer Angela Ordu. With an infectious joy for performing, the group transforms diverse musical styles, original compositions, and well-known songs into groovy, danceable music. Their repertoire spans soul, funk, pop, and jazz to African rhythms – always infused with energy, vitality, and a strong sense of togetherness.

In the 1990s, Angela Ordu collaborated with numerous renowned musicians and reached the U.S. charts with her song “Rhythm of Love.” In 2001, her career was interrupted by the autoimmune disease lupus and a stroke. Today, she is back on stage – music has become for her an expression of resilience and strength. She is part of the platform PINC-Music, which supports inclusive music projects, and is also actively involved in raising awareness about lupus.

Concert and vinyl LP release „Zur Mitte / hindurch / hinauf“  

Plädoyer zur Transgeschlechtlichkeit by Felizia Möhle
Deadline Season with Lucy Liebe and band

Felizia Möhle is the youngest member of the ZDF Television Council, which has now started its 17th term of office. She is actually a student of political science at the University of Erfurt and is an activist for the LGBTQIA* community, i.e. lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex and queer people. She is now also campaigning for their concerns and interests on the ZDF television channel and promoting a different representation and visibility of transgender people.

‘Deadline Season’ with Lucy Liebe and band
The musician Lucy Liebe is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer from Berlin who has worked in the fields of jazz and beat music for a long time and reinterprets these influences through a queer lens. Lucy Liebe deals intensively with topics such as queerness, transness and society, home, trauma and love; the style of the solo project can best be described as alternative R’n’B.

The bands in the Sounds concert series bring the opening day of Kommunale Kapitale to a festive close with a blend of experimental soundscapes, memorable lyrics, electronic beats, pulsating chords, and flowing rhythms. What makes this concert series unique is that all performers are active in both music and the visual arts.

Mary Ocher
Mary Ocher’s music exists in the charged space between pop and avant-garde, and draws on influences from folk, post-punk, ambient, krautrock, industrial and techno. Her works explore themes such as displacement, nationalism, and authoritarianism. Following a world tour, she returns to Berlin, her creative home, and shines a light on the erosion of creative freedoms.

Angela Aux
Angela Aux’s songwriting stylistically spans pop, underground, and avant-pop. He is known for eclectic live shows in which he performs as an alien. His latest album, “Spacelarking in the Age of Spiritual Machines,” brings together experimental compositions influenced by folk, ambient, avant-garde, and library music. The album sees Angela Aux adopt an astronaut’s perspective to explore humanity’s longing to escape planet Earth.

LATURB 
Bremen-based trio LATURB (Cordula Heins, Anne Reuper, and Tim Stapel) embodies an extraordinary revival of new wave and synthpop. In energy-packed live performances, they fuse 80s synthesizers with punky guitar riffs, driven by propulsive rhythms and exceptional vocals. The LATURB sound is defined by catchy melodies and unexpected musical accents, all brought to life in a dynamic stage show.