Heinz Erhardt Projekt

'Eyes open and through'

An evening with songs and chansons by Heinz Erhardt

With the NDR Bigband under the direction of Jörg Achim Keller and guests*: Annette Frier/FritziHaberlandt - Dietmar Bär - Stefan Gwildis

The very word 'entertainment' is ambiguous - how fitting for what Heinz Erhardt did and what he was all about. Hardly any entertainer before or after him mastered the subtleties of comic and often musical communication with the audience so perfectly in order to amuse and divert them. Even today, at least two generations after his death, the sketches, films, songs and witty poems of the "uncle of the nation", as the FAZ calls him, continue to amuse young and old alike. When Erhardt's granddaughter discovered numerous previously unknown songs and chants from his pen in his estate and had them recorded on the occasion of his 100th birthday with the help of some illustrious fans and the NDR Big Band, there was great joy on all sides. A good decade later, the first and so far only concert with these mischievous chansons followed, naturally on NDR, the Hamburg radio station where Heinz Erhardt began his career in the post-war years. More than just accompanied by the NDR big band and with wonderful arrangements between swing, Latin and soul jazz by their conductor Jörg Achim Keller, the wonderful program is now finally coming to concert halls all over Germany under the motto 'Augen auf und durch'. The fact that freshly blossomed evergreens such as 'Fräulein Mabel', 'Dann rege dich nicht auf' or 'Agamemnon' will be interpreted this time by Hamburg soul star Stefan Gwildis and actors Annette Frier, Fritzi Haberlandt and Dietmar Bär speaks for itself - and promises the best entertainment, clearly ambiguous.

* Subject to change without notice

Annette Frier: Hamburg, Hanover, Bremen, Düsseldorf
Fritzi Haberland: Berlin