DOTA | Springbrunnen Tour 2025

In the noughties, the Berlin singer-songwriter Dota Kehr, drummer Janis Görlich and guitarist Jan Rohrbach began their musical collaboration, first under the pseudonym “Die Kleingeldprinzessin”, later under the name DOTA. The band tours nationally and internationally and releases 16 albums. They collaborate with Brazilian musicians such as Chico Cesár and Danilo Guilherme and receive awards such as the German Record Critics' Prize and the Fred Jay Prize. Keyboardist Patrick Reising and bassist Alex Binder join them. With “We call you, Galaktika” DOTA will enter the top ten of the German album charts for the first time in 2021. The album “In the Farthest of the Far” will be released in 2023 with settings of the texts by Mascha Kaléko, on which they bring together an illustrious group of duet partners, from Black Sea Dahu to Dirk von Lowtzow (Tocotronic) to Clueso.

Politically committed, DOTA is not content with having the “right” opinion and delivering slogans for those who are already like-minded. Instead, they confront themselves with their own helplessness. No answers, but songs in which you can surrender to utopia, at least for the duration of a chorus. In this way, DOTA always exposes its own point of view, mocks it analytically and does not take itself too seriously. This year DOTA will release their new album “Springbrunnen” and will go on a big tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Photo: Annika Weinthal