Enviable what this woman can look forward to. How touched she is. How often she affirms “to be honest, I have to say”. How much she feels How devotedly she thanks. The band, the dancers and acrobats, the technique, the team. And of course the audience, again and again the audience: “Thank you Berlin, for the sun you brought with you today, also for the sun in your hearts.”
Have the sun in your heart, whether it’s storming or snowing, whether the sky is full of clouds, the earth full of strife. It’s a stanza from a poem that was written long before the 17 years that superstar Helene Fischer’s exceptional career was already lasting. But it fits brilliantly for a pop star who’s far too professional to be grumpy for even a second.
“I’m such a positive person” Helene Fischer rejoices towards the end of her more than three-hour hit marathon, which was only interrupted by a break, “in this beautiful hall”, by which she means the arena at the Ostbahnhof, which has never before attracted attention with its aesthetic qualities.
But before the first chord of the start of Helene Fischer’s five concerts, which she plays on her “Rausch” tour in Berlin, her marketing put the cinema advertising for the concert. For the tour partners Lidl, Aida Cruises, Deutsche Vermögensberatung and the superstar’s own products.
When the selling via LED wall is over, an intro with stylized heartbeats booms through the well-filled circle. And from a jewel of fabric that dangles over the stage, Helene Fischer descends and opens the dance party in stroboscopic thunderstorms with “Null auf Hundred”, a driving dance floor number from the 2021 album “Rausch”. With “Exactly this feeling”, “Flawless” and “Herzbeben” the party continues happily.
A few shades more serious
Proper booth magic á la Friedrichstadt-Palast, staged and performed by Cirque du Soleil, a battery of dancers, a full-on-the-twelve-band and a powerful-voiced singer, whose hard-trained fitness also enables vocal heights when she is upside down trapeze hangs. So nothing new from Bootcamp Fischer? No, that’s not how it is now. Compared to her last tour stop in Berlin in 2018, when an extremely sunny singer celebrated New Year’s Eve and a children’s birthday at the same time in the Olympic Stadium, the million-seller born in Krasnoyarsk in 1984 and her show come across a few shades more seriously.
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Pandemic, wars, crises, the world has changed, also for Helene Fischer, who keeps emphasizing how wonderful it is to “be back”. She had taken a baby break, replacing the moderator’s linnet at her side with an artist whose well-defined upper body received applause from the scene when he hung on a rope over the stage with the singer like Tarzan and Jane once did.
And on the album “Rausch”, which gives the tour its name, Fischer’s radiant soprano on stage, as ever, suddenly sounded like a stab at Bonnie Tyler. Ballads like “Luftballon” and “When do we wake up” tell of loss, the climate crisis and a lack of social cohesion. At least Fischer’s sentimental prose suggests this interpretation.
It almost seems cynical when the attentive singer combines lines like “How can we destroy ourselves like this” with a swinging ladder acrobatics number that distracts the audience from an overly tormenting self-questioning.
It is only logical that Helene Fischer, who likes to cheer on her team like a Zumba trainer with “Let’s go” calls, presents her super hit “Atemlos” towards the end of the second half as a living machine disco – strapped to a robotic arm that lifts her up and thrown around. Serial production, pop hit production line, hype effects and merry-go-round – everything becomes one with this exhaustively perfect show star.
Even the two little girls up front, who have been jumping and clapping throughout the evening, are floored and sink into their seats with a blank stare during the encores of “Blitz” and “Alles von mir”. The father comfortingly puts one on his lap. Only the wiry mother type Helene hardcore fan continues to dance. go girl go
Source: Tagesspiegel
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