Lucy van Kuhl

We live in a time in which the packaging often seems more important than the content: every simple chocolate bar is turned into an exclusive taste event through advertising, the janitor is given the exclusive title of facility manager instead of a pay rise and love no longer leaps into our lives with Cupid's random arrow as it used to, but rather tailor-made and algorithm-based via Tinder and Parship.
The German Heinz Günter suddenly wraps himself up in a striped shirt and beret while on vacation in France and is surprised that he is not seen as Jean Pierre despite having a baguette under both arms...packaging isn't everything.
Lucy van Kuhl also packages her insights in her fifth program extremely cleverly:
Ludicrous observations are wrapped in gentle piano sounds, tiny marginal observations are given a large poetic magnifying glass and the dreariness of an old people's home is suddenly transformed into a rousing over-80s party by a cloak of fantasy.
Delicate melancholy meets crashing mischief, classical piano meets boogie woogie, and if you think these things don't harmonize - Lucy's exuberant imagination is a strong, luminous gift ribbon with which she easily holds it all together and - very cleverly - wraps it up.

Co-author: Thomas Lienenlüke