Bettina Wegner & Karsten Troyke - Konzert

In the organizer's words:

The German singer-songwriter and lyricist Bettina Wegner, known to a wide audience for her song "Sind so kleine Hände", numerous LPs and CDs, books of poems and song lyrics, went into artistic retirement in 2007. Wegner withdrew from the concert stage, which she had shared with Joan Baez, Konstantin Wecker, Angelo Branduardi and many other artists. In principle. However, her voice remains as strong as ever, and when Karsten Troyke asks her to do an evening together, she still performs from time to time, always accompanied by guitarist El Alemán (aka Jens-Peter Kruse).

In their program, the singer-songwriter and the singer-actor bring to life testimonies of a song culture that has become rare. Not "being cool", but showing yourself, not "wanting to have fun" as an expression of resignation, but open laughter and questions in song.

Bettina Wegner, with Berlin charm ("Ick probier et einfach mal") and with the sensitivity for which she stands, lets the various facets of melancholy touch a latently perceptible aggressiveness. The angry crescendo, heightened by powerful vocal vibrato, is broken by relaxed and even ironic moderation, which is based on a natural love of humanity.

Karsten Troyke knows how to strike a completely different, differentiated tone; even when the subject matter is oppressive, he still manages to combine the cynical with the comic, the horrific with the grotesque. Although his voice is less "beautiful", it is no less haunting and has an astonishing versatility.
Both are committed to a way of singing that initially presents beautiful songs, including folk songs, but is forced by political circumstances to sing political songs.