Theatre, World Music
Rio Reiser: The dream is over but I will give everything to make it come true
Sunday, 29/12/2024 / 06:00 PM - 12:00 AM / M*Halle
with Peter Schneider, Julia Zabolitzki & Band
Singer of the revolt, actor, political rocker, art whore, voice of a generation, romantic, founding father of German pop music, hate preacher, pop singer, muse, drinker, best rock singer of the republic, "useless for the anti-imperialist struggle" - Rio Reiser was all of this (and much more) and yet not at all. Someone who never remained true to his role, but always true to himself. Someone who fought with his alter ego. An artist with an unconditional urge to be on stage. Someone who lived and died there, only to rise again and again. Under mountains of ideological legacy and the consumption of the pop-cultural advertising machine. Between the iron hero monument and the colorful Bravo star cut: Who was this Ralph Christian Möbius from Traunreut in Upper Bavaria? On this evening we want to look for him and either we find him in his music or nowhere. Reiser on Reiser: "I'm not a guru, I'm not a politician, I can't tell you where to go. Bullshit! I tell fairy tales, stories, folk songs." The Leipzig actor and musician Peter Schneider approaches one of his great role models in his own way and transforms the poetry of the unforgotten songwriter into a scenic nocturnal figure full of pain, heart and love of music.
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