Dieter Hallervorden published new music at the age of 86.
Among other things, he celebrates his aversion to gendering.
Berlin - Cabaret artist Dieter Hallervorden has been in the business for decades - and that he still has the will to provoke at the age of 86 is shown by his new music.
The album "80 plus" will be released this Friday (November 5th) and could be a topic of conversation.
It's about getting older, about love rockets and gender-equitable language.
But also, and that's a particularly nice part, about the appreciation of life.
When you met Hallervorden in the past few years, he often seemed full of energy.
Sneakers on my feet, my hair a little disheveled.
He was just on stage at Florian Silbereisen's show "Schlagerboom".
There he appeared with his new song “Mein Leben”, which reminds a little of Frank Sinatra's “My Way”.
"My life, you weren't a pony farm", Hallervorden sings to the piano accompaniment.
“I provoked as a clown and as a philosopher.
I circled around God.
Around the ancient tower.
And I don't know if it's a hawk or a storm.
You know I live stormy and fast.
As a dreamer, a doer, a fanatic and a rebel. "
Hallervorden speaks out against gender on the new album
Hallervorden - the doer, fanatic and rebel.
In the 1970s he became known for television chains, later he made films such as “His Last Race” and “Honey in the Head”.
During the pandemic, Hallervorden is committed to culture and his Berlin Schlosspark Theater, which he has been running for several years.
The album sounds like a mixture of life review and après-ski.
In the song “80plus” he sings about getting older (“You were a womanizer, but there's not much left. The years have gambled away your sex appeal”).
In a song he criticizes the efforts to make women appear more in the language.
“For me, gender is martyrdom,” it says, for example.
Or: "Do I have to call the tap a tap now?"
“I am a friend of justice.
When it comes to gender, I feel sorry for mother tongue and father tongue.
Its sound is so beautiful, it is tricky, it is made up of asterisks, dots and lines ... (beep), ”sings Hallervorden.
His prognosis: it will never work out with gender.
Later he sings: "I know, I'm an old white geezer, but I'm still a sexy motherfucker in the pear." Hallervorden has already ventured into gender-equitable language in the past: He described gendering as "the rape of language" *.
New album: The marriage reminds Hallervorden of pasta salad
A song is dedicated to getting married. Marriage sometimes reminds him of pasta salad, it says, "first it tastes delicious, then it becomes bland". Marriage enforces "a celibate dementia". Towards the end, Hallervorden puts some of the sentences into perspective again. Marriage works where friendship wins. In the song “Stunt Woman” he sings about love. His partner Christiane Zander can also be heard - and of course, she was once a stunt woman.
You could argue about some of the songs, and that's probably how it should be.
What makes the music quite comforting after all are the serious tones.
When Hallervorden sings about death, for example.
Or just from his life.
“You taught me to float above everything,” it says or also: “My life, I owe you a thank you.
If I have my way, it can go on forever. ”(Dpa / red)
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