Michael Schulte
Michael Schulte will be performing live again this coming winter season. Together with his band, the singer-songwriter will be making guest appearances at selected, atmospheric venues, deliberately aiming to create an intimate, warm concert atmosphere.
Michael Schulte has been one of Germany’s leading pop artists for years. His musical career began in the 2000s with cover versions on YouTube that were viewed millions of times. In 2012, he came third on the TV show “The Voice of Germany”. He became known to a wider public in 2018 at the latest, when he represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “You Let Me Walk Alone” and came fourth.
This was followed by numerous successful releases, including the tracks “Back to the Start”, “All I Need”, “Keep Me Up”, “For a Second”, “Here Goes Nothing”, “Remember Me” and “With You”. Later singles such as “More to This Life”, “Better Me”, the collaboration “Waterfall” with R3HAB, as well as “Beautiful Reason” and “Half of My Heart” with ÁSDÍS also achieved high chart positions. In total, 13 of his songs have reached the German radio Top 10. On streaming platforms, his tracks record millions of streams per month.
His new album “Beautiful Reasons” is due for release in April 2026, featuring new material for the first time in quite a while. Songs from the album are already being performed live as part of the “Sanfte Töne, besondere Orte Tour 2026”.
Marleen Lohse
Marleen Lohse is touring Germany in 2026 with her “WIDE AWAKE Tour”. As an actress and voice artist, she loves slipping into different roles. As a singer, however, she gets very personal on her debut album. She will be performing the songs from it live on stage during her headline tour “Wide Awake” in 2026.
The album “Wide Awake” is a warm, atmospherically rich work with indie charm and pop appeal, which tells a story closely following Marleen Lohse’s own life path, whilst above all celebrating the poetry of omission. In these wonderfully intimate minimal-pop songs, she sings of love without romance and of grand emotions in delicate detail. Here, the spotlight is dimmed to make way for stories that shine brightly even in the soft glow.
Marleen Lohse, who sings as well as playing guitar and ukulele, gained her first experience as a musician alongside guitarist Julius Hartog as part of the duo Unsereins. For the film “Cleo”, in which she played the lead role, she also performed the cover song “Wonderful Life”.
Together with musician and producer Andi Fins (Cäthe, Moritz Krämer, Juli Gilde) and producer Henrik Menzel (Udo Lindenberg, Till Brönner, Sasha), Lohse has now recorded her debut album “Wide Awake”, which is due for release on 24 October 2025 via Wagram Stories Berlin. “Losing Sight”, the first single from the album, has already been played on radio stations such as SWR 3, NDR 2, MDR Jump and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and has secured a place in the Top 100 of the Campus Charts.
More info in the Lust auf Leverkusen event calendar.
