She’s is from Frankfurt, called Linda Bender and plays guitar, drums, marimba and percussion. He hails from Mannheim, named Chris Schillinger and plays guitar, bass, accordion and percussion. Together they’re Bender & Schillinger. Influenced by Wallis Bird, Frank Turner and Dota Kehr they founded the duo in Mainz back in 2010.

They are surprising with their atmospheric and sophisticated sounds as well as the variety of different instruments used. In a symbolic duo of voices they sing in German and English without losing the beauty of the melody. They describe their style as “singer-songwriter plus” The love to debunk the cliché that songwriter music belongs around a camp fire and not on the stage!