Kira Hummen & Der Täubling

Kira Hummen

Kira Hummen offers a refreshing new take on alternative pop. Her multi-layered sound is a blend of indie and art pop, with elements of soul and hip-hop – music that defies easy categorisation. Having grown up in the Lower Rhine region, she now calls Düsseldorf home and is a well-known figure on the city’s music scene. She composes, writes the lyrics and produces her songs herself. With a guitar, drum machine and her voice – at times elfin and delicate, at others powerful – she creates impressive soundscapes. Kira Hummen has already recorded two albums; her latest EP, »Her Legacy« (2025), is dedicated to the female legacy. Her songs tell of the women who came before us and paved the way, passing on stories and wisdom, but also pain and trauma. Kira Hummen’s immense talent has not gone unnoticed: in 2021 she was nominated as Best Newcomer by popNRW, and in 2022 she performed at the c/o pop Festival. In 2023, she opened the Tampere Jazz Happening in Finland and forged new connections with other European artists through the Playground Residence 2024. In 2024, she was a recipient of the City of Düsseldorf’s Band Professionalisation Award, and in 2025 she was nominated for the popNRW Award in the »Outstanding Artist« category.

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Der Täubling

Der Täubling – whose full name is Amadeus Magnus Ephraima Täubling – shatters the conventions of the rap genre. The self-proclaimed professor of applied, radical misanthropy plays the role of a loser on stage, someone who barely knows how to express himself but tries all the same.
In doing so, he switches incessantly between two fictional characters: Täubling, responsible for performance and spoken word, and the pianist Jean-Baptiste Réval, a specialist in tenderly perverse piano chansons as well as the professor’s partner and lover. Täubling always conceals his face behind a nightmarish rabbit mask; otherwise, he is distinguished by an extremely well-groomed appearance. Oscillating between boundless self-aggrandisement and bottomless self-loathing, Täubling proves himself a gifted storyteller whose performances develop a hypnotic charm. »Behind the provocations lies highly dramatic, traumatised and traumatising music that is unrivalled in Germany,« states the Kölner Stadtrevue. Or, to put it in the words of a concert-goer: »I was so aggressive that I wanted to hit him. It was brilliant!«

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What the press say about Kira Hummen:
»Her music is thoughtful, warm and sparkles«
Radio Bochum

What the press say about Der Täubling:
»Every word hits the mark; we dance and shudder simultaneously«
komplex kulturmagazin

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