Dense & gripping

Two-country triangle tour 2026.

The Dichtis' new album will be released in the fall of 2026 and is already causing not just a stir, but outrage. While some people are hugging each other with exuberant joy after years of waiting, others are throwing up their hands in shock. What's going on?

After their album trilogy in dialect, Dutti & Urkwell are opening Pandora's box of fables. Whether this step will inevitably lead to the loss of their cult status, or whether they will open up new dimensions in the triangle of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, remains to be seen when the album starts to rotate. From now on, not only the Lower or Upper Bavarian, but even the East-Westphalian or the South-North Frisian can find a new home in the subversive Dichtis irony.

"Dicht & Ergreifend sell their soul to the mainstream and inevitably lose all credibility." A headline in the arts section could read something like this, but the following interpretation would also be conceivable: "More linguistically powerful than ever: Dicht & Ergreifend overcome linguistic boundaries and even gain in power and truthfulness in the process."

"Das Zweiländerdreieck" has a lot going for it, especially as it is the Dichtis' first concept album and at the same time, once again, you have to expect a gnackwatschn, pardon the pun: a high German neck slap. Half of the songs are in the familiar dialect, the other half in High German. What seems like a loss of identity turns out to be a general attack on blind traditions and finally includes those who have previously only nodded along to the beats.

If the "bilingual" concept album hits the mark, the Dichtiverse may also expand outside the Free State. If the album flops, they will probably be mercilessly deported from Bavaria. For the anti-local patriotic Berliners by choice, that would be a round thing either way, or rather a mown meadow, wa!

Current album: "Das Zweiländerdreieck" (tba 2026)