No "encore" calls, no big cheers: Helene Fischer spectacle is too much of a good thing

Created: 08/27/2022, 04:45 am

By: Armin Roesl

Schlagerqueen Helene Fischer gave a big concert in Munich.

But the size of the music spectacle with 130,000 fans was too much of a good thing.

Munich – If you want to emphasize the importance of major historical events, the question is often asked: "Where were you when...?" For the question "Where were you when Helene Fischer celebrated her biggest concert on August 20, 2022 before 130 000 people played in Munich?” Germany's hit superstar offers the answer himself in the refrain from “zero to 100”.

It was her last song after almost two and a half hours of concert at the exhibition center in Riem, the lines go like this: "And the sky breaks up / Come on, we'll really turn it up / And the clouds will shine brightly in neon colors for both of us / One day we will say: You and I, we were there".

Helene Fischer concert at Messe Riem: fans cheer, dance and jump to the songs

Tens of thousands sang it shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, happily jumping, dancing and then cheering.

Short.

Like the whole evening - during a song there is a little mood here and there, the song is over, applause, silence.

next song please

Something is missing.

With 130,000 spectators sold out, the organizer reports the only Helene Fischer concert this year.

Undoubtedly a brilliant one-woman show, the singer hovers over the audience in the front area using a slewing crane or cable hoist (the latter sometimes at a breathtaking speed), sometimes singing upside down at lofty heights, back on stage she dances to perfection with her ensemble .

Helene Fischer flies through the air at a concert in Munich: more hits are not possible

Schlager superwoman Helene flies for the first time in the second song “Now or Never” through the fading drizzle and somehow through two worlds: in the west of the concert area, the sun blinks out after hours of rain, the clouds tear up.

In the east, a rainbow has formed in front of the withdrawing dark clouds.

Under which Helene Fischer is floating at this moment.

More hits are not possible.

She turned 38 on August 5th, after Corona and baby break she sings, dances, runs and flies as fit as ever.

"I always take my hat off to her, I'm a big fan of hers," whistles her ex Florian Silbereisen, who announces the hit queen as a surprise guest on stage a few seconds before the start.

Later, after the Queen has sung the song "Full Speed ​​Ahead" in which she is processing the breakup, she breathes a "I'm glad you're here, Flo" into the microphone.

Helene Fischer concert in Munich: the spark does not jump over

One thing is undisputed: a gold medal for Helene Fischer in the discipline "Schlager sport with acrobatics" if it were at the European Championships taking place at the same time.

Only: It doesn't work.

No matter how great she can perform dance routines with her team that are choreographed down to her little toe, no matter how heavenly she can soar through the air, no matter how wonderful she can sing about love and passion, there can still be so much fireworks and laser shows immerse the stage in different lights - the sparks don't jump over.

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The best example at the end of the regular set: Helene Fischer leaves the stage with the artists and band, followed by: nothing.

No "encore" calls, no sustained cheers.

Instead, many flock to the subway, the rest waits and talks, as is so often the case for the two and a half hours.

That was it: Everyone hears Helene Fischer for themselves rather than as a whole.

Because this big whole is way too big.

Helene Fischer concert in Munich: "You haven't seen much"

Not every superlative is really great - for example for those who are sitting in the VIP stands at the very back, opposite the stage, and have paid almost 600 euros for them.

A small figure is dancing and singing somewhere in front, and afterwards a woman tells about her impressions.

"You didn't see much." It's a good thing that huge screens were set up on which the Helene Fischer show was broadcast.

That's what the mega concert feels like: like a nice evening in front of the television.

Sentences like "I'm just here for you today!", "This is an epic evening!", "This is the most incredible show for me ever!" Or "Munich, I will never forget that!" Little help Helene Fischer calls bravely into the microphone in between.

Sure, someone's dream has come true here.

But this gigantomania is too much of a good thing.

Helene Fischer plays a concert in Munich: there is no shared ecstasy in the audience

Sometimes it is reminiscent of a drive-in cinema, only without a car: the great community moment is missing, the shared ecstasy with the artists on stage.

When Fischer thanks the organizer Klaus Leutgeb by name during the concert for this opportunity for the big show, there are more boos than applause.

The boos would probably have been even louder if many thousands of visitors had already known what chaos awaited them on the way home, especially in front of the subway stations.

Nevertheless: The "circus Helene" on stage delivered.

Flawless singing, flawless body, flawless dance and other interludes, flawless music: Schlager superwoman Helene Fischer offers one-A television glamor on stage.

At the end of the day, this includes the question “Munich, are you ready?” before she climbs back into the basket of the slewing crane and sings “Atemlos”.

But here too: The energy does not reach the last fiber of the body during such a major event.

Especially since not every song has what it takes to be ecstatic.

But that is another topic.

Helene Fischer concert in Munich: Next performances in Bavaria's state capital next year

Hopefully it was a one-off Giganto guest performance of this kind. Better a guest performance by “Zirkus Helene” on five consecutive evenings at a smaller venue, where everyone experiences a much more intense live concert feeling.

There will be an opportunity for this next year between September 26th and October 1st in the Olympic Hall.

Closing word: Anyone who answered the question "Where were you when Helene Fischer...?" with "I spent a cozy evening watching TV at home and watched an old episode of the Helene Fischer show" didn't do everything wrong.

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