A few days ago in Oberhausen, at the first of her five concerts there, Helene Fischer responded to a fan who said on a large cardboard sign during the concert that he had come from Vienna. “Man, we’re also coming to Vienna,” Fischer is said to have addressed him from the stage and then asked: “Why are you going to Düsseldorf?”
She wasn’t entirely wrong, the two cities aren’t that far apart, Dortmund is also close by, Fischer was there before Oberhausen. But Düsseldorf was not and is not on the program of Fischer’s “Rausch” tour, as always one finds it in Düsseldorf.
It is understandable that Germany’s popular national pop artist gets mixed up on her tour, which lasts until October: in every city in which she performs, she plays five shows, that was the case in Hamburg, in Leipzig, in Dortmund, in Bremen and in Stuttgart, and after Oberhausen it’s finally, finally Berlin’s turn until next Sunday, purposefully and stylishly shortly after the Carnival of Cultures.
In fact, Fischer’s show has carnivalesque moments. As in 2017, she is traveling with the Canadian Circque du Soleil. Simply presenting his own hits with a dance group has not been Fischer’s intention for a long time. It’s no longer possible without artistry, theater, heart tremors and other overwhelming tralala – Fischer doesn’t seem to trust himself and his universally eclectic pop and dance art that completely. More celebrations, more joy, more fishermen, to paraphrase the discounter Lidl (whose commercial with her isn’t too bad).
After the Corona and baby break, the “Rausch” tour is Fischer’s comeback, so to speak, and most of the shows in the ten-thousand halls are sold out. Fischer set the motto with her “Rausch” song “Now or never”: “Now or never/Tomorrow it can all be over/Now or never/ This will be our time, oh”. Pick and enjoy the moment, that’s what it’s all about, against which nothing speaks at first. Caution should only be exercised if Helene Fischer says that she particularly loves Berlin and that the audience here is particularly great. You could also mean Oberhausen or Dortmund.
Gerrit Bartels prefers to hear Kraftklub’s “Blue Light” than Helene Fischer’s “Breathless through the night”.
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