How Kirchberg provides information about the writer Kästner is worth listening to. and worth seeing ... and because he has a lot of acting talent, the music is accompanied by scenes of great impressiveness " // Süddeutsche Zeitung //
Erich Kästner wrote his first poems in Leipzig's coffee houses. Today, a chansonnier from Leipzig meets the Dresden poet. Under the motto "A man gives information", the singer and the chronicler of his time meet on stage. Many of Erich Kästner's sharp observations are part of everyday vocabulary today: "There is nothing good unless you do it", for example. People often speak Kästner without knowing it.
In his homage to Kästner, Johannes Kirchberg makes a deep bow to the poet, presenting his own compositions of his contemporary and socially critical poetry. "Ein Mann gibt Auskunft" (A Man Gives Information) links Kästner's texts to his biography and finds references that are the basis for such well-known poems as "Sachliche Romanze" (Factual Romance) or "Der Mensch ist gut" (Man is Good).
