Stella Jürgensen (vocals, ukulele) specializes in world music and chansons. Her trademark is her deep alto voice, which she uses with a narrative expression. She also sings blues, swing and folk. In addition, she is also a presenter for TV and radio productions. In 2017, she premiered a composition for Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s texts with the orchestra Musica Assoluta conducted by Thorsten Encke. In 2021, the audiobook “Letter to Breslau” by Maya Lasker-Wallfisch was published with her as narrator.

Daniel Kahn was born and raised in Detroit/USA. He studied theater and poetry at the University of Michigan and has lived in New Orleans and New York. In 2005 he moved to Berlin and founded the cult klezmer band “The Painted Bird”, with whom he produced five albums and received many awards (including the German Record Critics’ Award).

Other music projects include The Unternationale, Semer Ensemble, The Brothers Nazaroff, Bulat Blues and The Disorientalists. He has worked at the Gorky Theater as a director, composer, lyricist, music curator, writer and actor. In New York he played Pertshik in Yiddish in Anatevka and Biff in Death of a Salesman. He was part of the all-star program “From the Shtetl to the Stage” at Carnegie Hall.

In 2016, he was Ashkenaz Foundation’s first Theodor Bikel Artist-in-Residence. In 2018, he received the Chane and Joseph Mlotek Award for Yiddish Continuity. He is co-founder of the Jewish cultural festival Shtetl Berlin, now lives in Hamburg and works on a ship in Hamburg harbor.

Andreas Hecht (vocals, guitar) studied classical guitar in Hamburg and first specialized in flamenco and Spanish-oriental genres. He later devoted himself to Latin American music and toured with Chilean singer Patricia Salas. Andreas Hecht is equally skilled in genres such as folk, blues, tango, Latin and country. This, combined with his classic playing technique, has become his trademark.

prof*merose is a passionate Israeli singer-songwriter, illustrator and painter living in Hamburg and Tel Aviv.

Christian Dawid is a well-traveled and internationally sought-after clarinetist. He is classically trained, but has acquired and performed countless styles from jazz to Tyrolean music, and specializes in Yiddish and Eastern European folk music. He leads Trio Yas and Ukrainian hipster-brass band Konsonans Retro, and has shared a number of international stages withartists such as Boban Markovic, Frank London, Socalled, Arkady Gendler, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, Brave Old World, OPA!, Shura Lipovsky, Theodore Bikel, Alan Bern, Yuriy Gurzhy, Lorin Sklamberg, Forshpil, Paul Brody’s Sadawi and The Other Europeans.

Jake Shulman-Ment from New York is one of the most recognized klezmer musicians of our time. He tours internationally as a soloist and performs with Daniel Kahn, Joey Weisenberg, Abigale Reisman, Pete Rushefsky and others. He has worked with The Painted Bird, Di Naye Kapelye, The Brothers Nazaroff, Frank London, Sanda Weigl, Adrian Receanu, Duncan Sheik, Francesca Ter-Berg, Laurel Premo, Ali Dineen, Michael Alpert, Fleytmuzik, MetroFolk and Romashka.