An ode to the smallest toe: With the Monsters of Liedermaching, comedy and music merge into one performance.

“Zarathustra’s Roundelay” is a poem that appears twice in Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra). Here, singer Caroline Tudyka transforms the lines of the poem into lyrics, which she then imbues with profound sorrow.

After a performance in Karlsruhe, the Monsters of Liedermaching (“Songmaking”) bid farewell to their audience – but the fans don’t want to let them leave the stage!

They say that women are similar to the flowers they wear — but what if someone happens to be a little prickly? Caroline Tudyka sings "Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus" (My Little Green Cactus), one of the most famous songs by the 1930s German vocal ensemble known as the "Comedian Harmonists.”

This song by Caroline Tudyka in French and German is based on a poem by German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler, one of the greatest poets in German history. Lasker-Schüler fled from the Nazis and died in Jerusalem in January 1945. She always longed to return to the Berlin of her memories, before so much of it was bombed.

“Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht” (known as “Silent Night” in English) is one of the best-known Christmas carols on the planet, and the definitive Christmas song in the German-speaking world. It was first performed on December 24, 1818 in a Roman Catholic church in Oberndorf, a village near Salzburg, with a melody by Franz Xaver Gruber and lyrics by Joseph Mohr. Since then, the original German text has been adapted into 320 languages and dialects worldwide.

"Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" ("My Whole Heart Is Yours") is a 1985 song by German rock singer Heinz Rudolf Kunze. In this video it is sung by SINGinKA, a chorus based in Karlsruhe.

Singer-songwriter Kai-Uwe Kolkhorst dedicates a song to his old pink guitar and, in between verses, talks about being on tour.

The band Monsters of Liedermaching consider the various time-wasting realities of life.

The song "Für immer" by the Karlsruhe-based band Monsters of Liedermaching is about a boy's first big crush at school. Of course, the girl doesn't seem to know he exists!

The band Monsters of Liedermaching perform in Leipzig and tell us what we can expect out of life. What are you waiting for? Watch it for yourself!

The German band Monsters of Liedermaching sing the song "Nuclear-free Power Plant" — a serious topic performed with perfect charm!

The Monsters of Liedermaching are again coming up with the funniest lyrics out there, this time wishing for a horsey for Christmas — one that steals friends! Kopfhörer aufsetzen, Musik aufdrehen!

"Schneeflöcken, Weißröckchen" is actually a winter song, but it is also sung throughout Germany during Advent and Christmas. Learn the words here!

"Kuckuck, Kuckuck, ruft's aus dem Wald" (Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Calls from the Woods) is a children's song written by the German poet August Heinrich Hoffmann, also known as Hoffmann von Fallersleben. The song is about the arrival of spring and the call of the cuckoo.