People: From the alpusions to Malle: “Wackelkontakt” singer Oimara

From the Alm to Ballermann, from the kitchen on the stage: The Bavarian songwriter Oimara will play on April 24 for season opening in the prominent “Bierkönig” party on Mallorca. “Malle” is a home game for the 33-year-old Bavaria, who likes to appear in leather pants: he lived on the island for four years. “I did my cooking training. It is definitely a return home,” says Oimara, who is actually called Beni Hafner.

“I have been too rarely on the island since then.” At that time he cooked in “Tristán”, a renowned restaurant at the time, awarded two Michelin stars.

Hafner’s artist name refers to his origin in the Tegernsee Bergen. Oimara is Bavarian and is called Almerer: who comes from the Alm.

The sloping career of the songwriter fits his sloping hit “loose contact”, which conquered the top of the German single charts in the storm. The song for light, electricity and lamps was omnipresent in the carnival and après-ski.

“Not so the Ballermann artist”

“Actually, I’m not the Ballermann artist,” says the 33-year-old. The song now leads to the Ballermann appearance – “without me being overdoing it now.” So far, only one appearance is planned. There were more appearances, but: “We said we are doing one now. The rest of the year is already completely full.”

He himself is not the one “who flies to Ballermann every year”. “I have had enough party.” But he thinks it’s cool and funny. “I am not one who demonizes it because the mood has always been gigantic.”

Bavarian – is that on Malle?

Whether the Bavarian dialect arrives in Mallorca and is understood: “Good question,” says Beni Hafner. That is definitely “relative new territory”. “” Wobel contact “will arrive. Everyone already knows the song. And on the rest I’m excited myself.”

However, some could perhaps already need a translation aid for the background heading by Oimara’s current appearances “Kimm Ma ned on the tour” (don’t come to me on the tour).

Oimara’s music combines various genres: sometimes it sounds like rock, sometimes after blues, funk, techno and then folk music with a yodel in it – in any case catchy and well to sing along. He was finally a pop star, he joked at the concert a few days ago.

Multi-generation music and children’s concert

The trademark of his texts: ambiguity, weird word games and curious rhymes. He also inspires across the generations: 60plus celebrates as well as the youngest.

In November he plans a children’s concert in Munich. “There are a lot of children who listen to my music and regularly come to concerts,” he says. “Now we’re going to make a concert for children so that it doesn’t always get so late.” Apparently he has a “light slope” to write in a kind of children’s songs.

Perhaps it is also the word creations and creatively into the absurd texts, such as in the song about zebras and zebra crossing, for which he puts on a black and white zebra-striped hat: “Of course, the zebra strip horse triggers pictures. Or if you sing that you are a lamp-I think that stimulates the imagination of the kids.”

Cooperations and contact with Peter Wackel

Again and again the vertical starter reached inquiries from producer labels and artists after the “wobbly contact” success, “whether we make the song together”. “The argument was always: because the range then increases.” But the range was there anyway.

A cooperation with Ballermann artists is planned. Details: still secret. There is also good contact with Peter Wackel, but without a song together. Wackel celebrated as a guest at the concert in the Munich slaughterhouse last week.

New song next week

A new Oimara song comes out on Thursday, “a mixture of everything”. He is not trying to build on the “loose contact” success, he says. “I still do what I feel like.” And: “It will definitely be a surprise.”