Alfred Mehnert

As a musician, he has played with the greats and demonstrated incredible diversity, from jazz to Latin American to electronic music. As a performer, conferencer and lyricist, his horizons range from the nightly poetry slam in the Kreuzberg Kaschemme to the grand stage of the Deutsches Theater. As a teacher, he manages to transcend age and social boundaries and bring fantastically performing professionals on stage with ex-audience members who are as clueless as they are presumptuous, and engage them in a jam that never lets anyone go.