Songwriter Werner Schmidbauer appears in front of 70 spectators at the KKK in Lenggries and delights his audience with “Bei mir”.
Lenggries - At first the appearance in the beer garden of the Arabella-Brauneck-Hotel was planned, but with prudent foresight Sabine Pfister had secured a hall after all. And in fact the wet, rained beer garden was orphaned, while the creaktivum was as densely filled as the Corona guidelines currently allow. "Werner Schmidbauer in front of 70 people today - instead of 3,000," said Pfister. She feels honored that under these circumstances he came to Lenggries anyway. As is now customary, there were two concerts in a row, so that in the end there were 140 listeners who enjoyed Schmidbauer's solo program “Bei mir”. For a good 90 minutes (without a break) he sat on stage with his guitar, sang and talked. "Hello, how nice: real people," he said enthusiastically.The fact that he enjoyed the direct contact and feedback from his audience was evident over and over again during the course of the performance. It was amazing how the lyrics of older songs changed almost all by themselves during the Corona period, noted the songwriter and TV presenter. Today he brought “only songs from the heart” to Lenggries.
Songs of the heart and touching stories
And so he sang about the "moment collector" who realizes that it is the beautiful, small, everyday moments that make a good life ("Nothing is so schee wia the moment where ois so is, wias g'heert") , criticized musical capitalism ("I don't believe in money, I believe in music and in you") or paid tribute to his love for the mountains. The father awakened this love early on, said Schmidbauer. But during puberty the enthusiasm when the father stood by the bed at five in the morning on the weekend to warn them to leave was noticeably reduced. "For him, the rule of thumb was: if you don't reach the summit before nine o'clock in the morning, you have to pay for it," says Schmidbauer. He keeps coming back to his father. He went up the mountain with him for the first time when he was in his mid-twenties.The dates had prevented the musician, who was now in demand, from the next planned tour. The father went alone - and had a fatal accident.
Songwriters usually out and about in the mountains with celebrities
That this left a trauma in the son became clear from the stories.
Unlike his companions, Schmidbauer continued to seek advice from his father when he was pubescent.
And in his inimitable way he always meant: “Only do what you do.
You're doing it right anyway… ”These words have flowed into a song dedicated to the father.
Schmidbauer can also live out his love for the mountains in his TV series “Summit Meetings” on BR, in which he conquers a Bavarian summit with celebrities from all sectors and interviews them.
He also chatted about the experiences on the fringes of the shooting in the KKK.
At a concert in Garmisch, for example, he once said how much he would like to play his favorite song up on the Zugspitze.
But climbing up there with the guitar was too exhausting for him.
But in lockdown he got the offer to go up with a material trip.
“Alone on the Zugspitze: just my cameraman and me,” he praised the incredible experience.
And the song he sang up there, he now performed in Lenggries as well.
It describes the unbelievable feeling of happiness that comes over the hiker after the exertions of the ascent on the summit.
Bavarian version of U2 songs included
In addition to his own compositions, Schmidbauer also performed a few numbers by admired colleagues for whom he found his own Bavarian versions, such as “Oans” based on the hit “One” by the Irish rock band U2. He heard the song at brutal volume in his first ancient car, in which only the stereo system was new. In the version by Johnny Cash, who turned the rock number into a delicate ballad, he later became fond of it again. “Men only sing love songs when they are newly in love - or have broken up. But a love song about the middle of a relationship is something very special, "said the singer and began:" Mia san oans, but not the same. Mia missed us… ”. Incidentally, he also had a corona lament with him. And the old favorite song that goes back to the saying of the then two-year-old daughter:"You are lucky: you see horses!" How wise his little daughter was to look for happiness where it can be found, he said again during the pandemic. (Sabine Näher)
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