Hans Unstern

Biography

Hans Unstern makes songs, texts, musical instruments, performances and theatre. His debut album “Kratz Dich Raus” was released in 2010. Playing concerts in theatres, Unstern appeared with four to six other musicians. The songs on the album were combined with free improvisation. The staging also included a light and shadow show consisting of curtains, visuals, scanners, and flickering workshop lamps. In 2012 the poetry book “Hanky Panky Know How” was published by Merve Verlag in Berlin. For his second album, “The Great Hans Unstern Swindle,” producer Nackt and Unstern worked even more intensely than before on compositions, arrangements and sounds. For the following concerts he collaborated with Simon Bauer to build six harps and other string instruments that were played by a five-person band, performing in 2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2012 Unstern appeared in the pre-programme for Schorsch Kamerun at HAU1. In recent years he has been working with the groups Talking Straight and Gintersdorfer&Klaßen. In 2016 he performed with Gintersdorfer&Klaßen in the productions “Der Botschafter” and “Not Punk, Pololo” at HAU Hebbel am Ufer. In 2016 he founded the BOIBAND along with Tucké Royale und Black Cracker. Unstern is currently working on his third studio album.