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By: Peter Herrmann
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Convinced with a varied repertoire: Claudia Fenzl and Dominik Plangger.
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Dominik Plangger and Claudia Fenzl performed at the well-attended culture stage Hinterhalt at the weekend.
The duo was reminiscent of famous songwriters.
Gelting - love songs accompanied by violin sounds, combative cries against war and refugee misery as well as Italian ballads - it was a large field that Dominik Plangger and his wife Claudia Fenzl played on Saturday evening in the well-attended Kulturbühne Hinterhalt.
Dominik Plangger and wife Claudia Fenzl play at the well-attended culture stage Hinterhalt
In between, the 44-year-old told anecdotes about stays abroad lasting several months and formative encounters with famous musicians.
So Plangger decided to pursue an artistic career when he was still a teenager.
The native of South Tyrol dropped out of school without a qualification (“It was the best for both sides”), was laid off after short stints working on a construction site and financed his living as a musician temporarily as a tourist guide in Canada.
Plangger and his wife Claudia Fenzl have now been running an alpine pasture regularly in the summer for many years.
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The man from Vinschgau also wrote a song about it.
But glorifying homage to South Tyrol is not his thing.
Because he relentlessly dealt with bigotry, nationalism and protectiveness in the songs “Heimatland” and “Das Dorf”, Plangger even received death threats.
There was loud applause in the ambush.
Quite a few were reminded of the socially critical songs of Hannes Wader or Konstantin Wecker.
Plangger maintains a long friendship with the latter, which was strengthened through joint appearances.
Performance at the Ambush cultural stage: Italian ballads and appeal for peace
The Tuscany lover Wecker was particularly impressed by the Italian sung ballads, which Plangger of course also presented in ambush.
The virtuoso violin playing of his partner Claudia Fenzl gave the cover version of the peace appeal “Generale” by Francesco de Gregori and the well-known partisan song “Bella Ciao” even more poignancy.
The songwriter took a clear position in the piece “Nameless”, which recalls the fate of the refugees who drowned in the sea.
Just like his role model – the US protest singer Woody Guthrie, who died in the original “Deportee” in 1967 – Plangger gives the forgotten dead a name.
Finally, an Italian bedtime song and a declaration of love to daughter Mavis helped to loosen things up.
The six-year-old girl decided to go on tour with her parents and sat happily humming along in the front rows on Saturday evening.
“I hope we can come back,” said the proud father after the two-hour performance.
The ambush audience gave him a clear answer with a standing ovation.
PETER HERRMANN
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