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The Toten Hosen donate over one million euros for earthquake victims after a benefit concert in Düsseldorf

2023-02-25T12:20:53.241Z


Instead of mourning, frontman Campino called for action: "We fight with you for every donation." At the end of the benefit concert, the Toten Hosen and the fans had collected one million euros for Turkey and Syria.


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Under the motto "Three chords for your donation", the Toten Hosen around singer Campino gave a benefit concert for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria on Friday evening.

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Six radio stations broadcast the concert from the Düsseldorf Arena nationwide, it was streamed live;

Donations poured in without a break.

In the end it's 400,000 euros.

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The Toten Hosen had already transferred 600,000 euros from ticket sales to the aid organizations Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and Medico International.

All musicians waived their fees for the fundraising campaign, the city of Düsseldorf made the hall available free of charge, children donated their pocket money, football clubs tens of thousands of euros.

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Frontman Campino (with bassist Andy Meurer) was happy that the goal of raising one million euros for the earthquake victims was achieved.

"We could alternatively sit in front of the television, consume the news and just think we're helpless," he said.

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In their set, the Toten Hosen concentrated on high-tempo classics such as "Bonnie and Clyde", "Alex", "Wannsee", "Auswartspiel", "Liebeslied" and didn't bother with slower songs at all.

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"It's a terrible event that brings us together here," Campino called out to more than 10,000 fans.

“And it's not a mourning night, it's going to be a fight night.

We fight with you for every donation.« Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst had announced his coming.

He described the Toten Hosen as “role models that go far beyond music.

They are strong ambassadors of solidarity in and outside of North Rhine-Westphalia."

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The punk rock band Donots (the picture shows their frontman Ingo Knollmann) and the singer Thees Uhlmann were also there as supporters.

The encores featured Sammy Amara from The Broilers as a surprise guest;

At the end, the gathered punk rock celebrities smashed the doctors' hit »Scream for Love«.

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"It's hard for all of us here to somehow endure this perversion, that in a country a dictator who doesn't seem impressed by the death toll is raging with war and destruction, and 2,000 kilometers away people are fighting death because of a natural disaster," he said the 60-year-old Campino thoughtful.

“And all this money that is now being pumped into arms and defense from all sides, how badly we could use that in Syria and Turkey.

It crushes your heart.” At the end, Campino dedicated the minute's silence to “all the dead across Europe”.

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Source: spiegel

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