ANDREAS DORAU Konzert: „WIEN“ / Support: Ola & Lars

In the organizer's words:

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Urleiwand! The Hamburg pop artist sets Vienna to music - badly asleep, but with bouncing synth beats.

On the new album "Wien" by pop charismatic Andreas Dorau, Vienna is a very unspectacular capital city. No cliché track of classical music, coffee houses and broken-down bohemia, instead songs with melancholy synth-pop beats about the number "431 42" of the Viennese telephone helpline or the Viennese computer that automatically switches the lanterns to "45 Lux" at night. At the end of the day, Dorau on the Danube is and remains a "tourist that nobody misses" and who can't sleep in the hotel at night. Dorau's pop cultural trademark has always been to describe the facades of people, cities or things in simple, artistic language with catchy harmonies - with his first hit in 1981 as a schoolboy from Hamburg-Jenfeld, on a total of 14 studio albums to date, or with the Hamburg musical Der König der Möwen at the 2018 summer festival. However, behind the facades, there are always monsters lurking with Andreas Dorau, such as the fear of heights on the "Runde um Runde" on the Prater Ferris wheel. Accordingly, his "Vienna" is also a pop-literary look "behind (the) blinds" of a city from which formative summer festival artists such as Nesterval and Florentina Holzinger come; and about which there are now 13 more extraordinary, Dorauesque songs (plus bonus album). In addition, there will be a conversation with the "Wiener Flâneur" journalist Alexandra Folwarski and the world premiere of the German-Italian disco pop duo Ola&Lars, consisting of ex-superpunk Lars Bulnheim and the mystical singer Ola, who can also be heard on Dorau's "Wien".

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Hamburg's legendary pop maverick sings about Vienna - shimmering with synths.

On his 14th studio album "Wien", Andreas Dorau trades Vienna's clichés for quirky poetry. He sings melancholic synth-pop odes to things like the emotional support hotline "431 42" or the Viennese computer that switches on the streetlights to exactly "45 lux" each night. At the end of the day, Dorau remains in Vienna what he's always been: a tourist whom no one misses, lying awake in his hotel room. Since his 1981 cult hit "Fred vom Jupiter," the Hamburg-based musician has mastered the art of describing the facades of people, cities, and things in simple, poetic language wrapped in catchy melodies. He allows the uncanny to shimmer through, like the fear of heights on the Giant Ferris Wheel in the Prater. His "Wien" becomes a pop-literary glimpse behind the shutters of a city that has birthed seminal Summer Festival artists like Nesterval and Florentina Holzinger - and now, thanks to Dorau, has 13 new eccentric songs (plus a bonus album) to its name. Support comes from a Viennese duo performing live for the first time ever.

Price information:

VVK 25 Euro / B.O. 28 Euro (50 % discount with festival ticket)