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Xavier Naidoo lets a success report tick. The (former) conspiracy meter, aluminum bearer and pop singer had already dropped more than 150,000 tickets as part of the “on my soul” tour. In any case, enough to announce a second Berlin concert. On January 21, 2026, the former “son of Mannheim” will be guest in the Uber Arena.
Xavier Naidoo
With my soul
- 16.12,2025 Cologne, Lanxess Arena – sold out
- 17.12.2025 Cologne, Lanxess Arena – sold out
- 06.01.2026 Zurich, Hallenstadion
- 08/08/2026 Munich, Olympichalle
- 09.01.2026 Munich, Olympiahalle
- 11.01.2026 Vienna, Stadthalle D
- 14.01.2026 Hamburg, Barclays Arena
- 01/15 2026 Hamburg, Barclays Arena
- 01/18/2026 Leipzig, Quarterback Immobilien Arena
- 01/20/2026 Berlin, Uber Arena
- 01/21/2026 Berlin, Uber Arena – Additional show
- 01/23/2026 Mannheim, SAP Arena
- 24.01.2026 Mannheim, SAP Arena
General Advance start Additional show Berlin:
Fri., July 18, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
Give the lost son a chance?
In December 2015, Marek Lieberberg gave the newspaper “Jewish Allgemeine” an interview on the “failures” of Xavier Naidoo at that time. The Mannheim singer had just lost his place as a German ESC candidate for the 2016 finals in Stockholm. His proximity to the Reich Citizens’ Scenery and a whole latte disturbing statements made doubts at the mind of the Kurpfälzische Soulbrothers.
Organizer legend Lieberberg (79), which today leads the fortunes of the German section of the concert giant Live Nation, jumped into the breach at the time: “I understand the discussion. But I stay with it: Xavier Naidoo is neither anti-Semitic nor homophobic. There are many misunderstandings and contradictions.”
Also on the repeated re -drilling of the “Jewish General” Stand -Lieberberg firmly to his long -time protégé: “Xavier Naidoo is neither an malignant person nor an enemy of Jews. He was in Israel, played there. I have known him for 20 years, and I have not noticed a single discriminatory statement during this time.”
Private roller coaster ride
The public picture looked different. Xavier did not give loose. He paid homage to various conspiracy theories until the Corona period. The mildest attempt at explanation for this mania was still the overly permanent consumption of cannabis-containing substances. A police THC raid had already existed in 2005. Hasch makes you stupid, says the vernacular. He just spins a little, was otherwise the tenor of his environment. Actually, he is a good boy, but you can’t take him politically.
But his private roller coaster ride was no longer private. Qanon-Statements or his song with the right-wing rocker-rickages Hannes Ostendorf (“Hooligans against Salifists”) were not provided. At some point the last companions could no longer do anything for him.
Live Nation, under the Aegide of Marek Lieberberg, organizes the big comeback concert in the Cologne Lanxess Arena on December 16, 2025. He never dropped his protégé.
Requirements for boycott or prohibition of performance are exaggerated
Naidoo’s “apology” video from April 2022 is still the end point of the violent rumpel route. “I was blinded by conspiracy counts and did not question them enough, some of them had it instrumentalized,” he announced in the video how a strange -determined one who wants to shake off his demons.
Even if it is hardly to be expected that Xavier Naidoo will return to the stage as a clarifying worker songwriter, demands for boycott or a ban on performing are covered. After four years in off, his chance to probation should be given. Perhaps the Naidoo craze is possible again without the extremes and without political capture. Simply like that; As a crazy artist over 50.
If the event in Cologne and the preparation time is reasonably accident-free until then, Naidoo faces an Oasis-like Renaissance as a live artist. The audience loves fallen heroes who get up again. His self -staging as a man of pain, who was only misunderstood (although there was nothing “wrong” to understand), welds the fans together. There was also this “United WE stand” effect in the Rammstein camp. And Marek Lieberberg would have brought his mission to a preliminary and conciliatory end as a loyal patron.