Christina Stürmer – MTV unplugged in Dresden

In the organizer's words:

A rebellious young singer from Linz, with an enormous drive for her own dynamics, makes an unconventional statement in the 2003 final of the casting show Starmania, which has a decisive positive influence on her future. She sings the song of her dreams, even if it means that she is prevented from winning. The result: an unprecedented success story that could not have been better written dramaturgically.

20 years later, Christina Stürmer looks back on a musical career that has spanned half her life. Christina has been on the stages of the German-speaking world for just as long. And in this half-life she has seven number one albums, 11 Amadeus Award wins (with over 20 nominations), countless other awards, many hundreds of sold-out concerts and: An MTV Unplugged album, recorded in Vienna's venerable Volkstheater, which, peppered with artists close and important to her, is a particularly emotional track of her musical talent. In this very special ambience, beautifully captured visually by Ingo Pertramer, prudently conducted musically by Tobias Kuhn, accompanied by her band, a brass ensemble, a 4-piece backing choir and also supported by a sensitive pianist and a delicate vibraphonist, her soaring songs create storms of enthusiasm among the audience.

Artists who are important and dear to her immediately responded to her call for a collaboration and so many friends joined Christina on stage: Ursula Strauß ("Unsere besten Tage"), Wolfgang Ambros ("Du bist wia de Wintasun"), Mathea ("Scherbenmeer"), Deine Freunde ("Keine Märchen") and of course - Sportfreunde Stiller ("Ein Kompliment").

MTV Unplugged in Vienna is Christina's current highlight, a 20-year song show, an acoustic gem of her cheeky, great, colorful, confident career. It is therefore more than logical that her current single, presented for the first time at the Volkstheater, can only logically bear this name: "Ein halbes Leben" ("Half a life"). To which an entire theater celebrated frenetically.

The new song "Ein Halbes Leben" is a reflection on and a grateful bow to her own work. But it goes on. On and on. And much further. Because, as Christina sings in her new song: "The best has only just begun!"