On Friday (August 22nd) KIZ played the first of three sold -out shows in Berlin. So it was at the start of the weekend.
Civilian cannibal? Monastery students in celibacy? Carrot ginger onion? Nico Seyfrid, Maxim Drüner and Tarek Ebéné have never disclosed exactly what the abbreviation KIZ stands for. At the concert of the rapper on August 22nd in the Wuhlheide Parkbühne in Berlin as part of the “Görlitzer Park” tour, however, this is also more than secondary. This evening is all about strobolight, questionable lyrics and above everything: ecstasy.
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The show of the Berliner, who sold out the open -air stage in the east of the city three times this weekend, suspects unexcited. Suddenly the three men are simply on stage. Without any spectacular appearance or self -portrayal announcement. Strictly speaking, however, there are only two of them, because Maxim sits in a wheelchair with a thick rail on the leg. But one thing is certain: the party mood should not detract from this handicap.
Appearance in the living room feeling: KIZ and her fans in Berlin
The first sounds sound out of the boxes. KIZ begin her show with the song “Frieden”, one of her various socially critical hits. All 17,000 spectators: That evening in Berlin singing in the choir “Peace, we dream of peace”. It is not particularly peaceful. With the next song, the first moshpits open on the dusty bottom of the Wuhlheide Parkbühne, through which it now echoes “VIP in psychiatry” loudly. What follows is a series of party hits that can only bring the Berlin team onto the stage. It doesn’t matter how old or new the songs are – it seems that the thousands of fans have prepared for this show all their lives.
The taka-tuka ultras roar from all blocks of Venue, the fans of the group are mentioned, the sometimes questionable lyrics with a matter of course, as you would expect at a home game from KIZ. The group itself seems to be little impressed by the masses that have only taken the way to the concert for them. Perhaps the reason is that the formation alternately passes the champagne bottles back and forth. Nico, Maxim and Tarek are as calm as if they were playing in their own living room. The fact that this also corresponds to reality would not be too far.
Beer showers in Schlumpfhausen: KIZ bring Berlin to shake
A little later it gets really wet when the overpriced cups of the liquid gold fly through the crowd at the aggressive song “Bier”. The fans bring up so much jumping power that probably not much is missing up to a measurable earthquake. A little more solidness goes through the ranks when the rappers bring a selection of tracks of their latest record Görlitzer Park to the stage. The songs of the album are characterized by a lot of social criticism, autobiographical elements and less provocative irony. For the spectators: Inside, this means a short breather before celebrating an ecstatic party in the capital. “KIZ in Berlin can be seen like the smurfs in Schlumpfhausen” – more aptly than Tarek, the feeling and the atmosphere on this concert evening can hardly be described.
Homage to Brandenburg: KIZ celebrate Neuruppin in Berlin
And although the 17,000 fans have come together for the show in the capital, the state of Brandenburg also finds its own moment. For one of her older songs, Kiz in Berlin get the rapper drama Kuba on a small stage that is in the middle of the crowd. The group raps for five minutes and 23 seconds and their guest raps their soul out of their body with an ode to Brandenburg Neuruppin.
In the melody of the classic “House of the Rising Sun” you can hear it from all corners: “There is a house in Neuruppin. The house is quite old.” Not much is missing for a comparison with Oasis’ “Wonderwall”, because as hard the rap stanzas may be, during the chorus the entire Wuhlheide sways from left to right. With other tracks of her last album, a comparatively quiet moment returns. The formation performs with “2001”, “sensitive” and “Saturday is war” again a neatly curated mix from the LP.
Pure nostalgia: KIZ celebrate classics with the fans in Berlin
A little later it becomes nostalgic for the Taka-Tuka Ultras when one of the DJs of the drunken Masters sticks together a medley of old classics in the group. There are songs, the texts of which are usually not necessarily in public. Nobody is interested in this rather cold summer evening in Berlin. It starts with the “cannibal song”-the official-in-official hymn by KIZ classic such as “Ariane” and “Hahnenkampf” pushes the DJ afterwards. At the latest when the “department head of love” is played, all eyes glitter in the Parkbühne Wuhlheide with joy and nostalgia.
Berlin rap power: KIZ escalate to the final in the Wuhlheide
Towards the end of the show, it becomes more intense, which actually seems hardly possible, and yet the mood threatens to burst from all the seams when Nico Seyfrid hammered the first lines of “which is hammered into the microphone through the slide box”. Alone he stands on the smaller stage in the crowd and raps with such a scratchy voice the hit completely performed in the Berlin dialect that you almost want to worry about your vocal cords. With the successor “Undertheker”, the beats pop around your ears, in which a visit to the ear doctor would recommend the next day.
For the final tracks, jumps, runs, runs – and rolls – the Berlin trio again over the main stage in the Wuhlheide Parkbühne and continues to light the crowd, so that an end to the two and a half hour concert is not yet in sight. For “a monkey and a horse” KIZ drive all guns again in Berlin: The open-air location is immersed in pyrofuer, stroboscope light and confetti strands. The Berliners finally say goodbye to the song “Family Celebration” – because on this evening all 17,000 spectators were: inside a single big family.