Music and Talk: Stars up close at the “private concert”

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Did you know that best-selling author Frank Schätzing also makes music? He is in addition to the ESC-winner Nicole and violinist Lindsey Stirling is just one of the guests that occur for a private concert, and trade secrets.

The moderators Team Stephanie Stumph and Wigald Boning is looking forward to its guests

The host of the third TV season of the common Talk – and-music series of DW and MDR (Central German broadcasting), the actress, and songwriter Stephanie Stumph and comedian Wigald Boning, who are in the show, as a musician active. Seven new episodes and a “Best of”edition is it from the 2. November, once weekly give. The moderators have also loaded this time, high-profile national and international guests to the house to visit.

These Stars are a guest

The British Singer-Songwriter Albert Hammond (“It Never Rains in Southern California”), the German Eurovision-Song-Contest-winner Nicole (“A little peace”), a canadian Hollywood actor and singer, Kiefer Sutherland, and the East-Rock-based Band City. In addition, one of the party of the German bestselling author Frank Schätzing (“The swarm are”) with his Band Taxi Galaxi, the Danish Singer-songwriter Aura Dione (“Geronimo”), the canadian Band The Strumbellas (“Spirits”) and the American star violinist Lindsey Stirling.

Kiefer Sutherland can’t stage large – for a private concert, he sings on the Sofa

World hits in quite a different way

In the first episode the City-Rocker sing your Song “At the window” – with the well-known violin solo by the German rock history. Lindsey Stirling will be performing her Hit “Roundtable Rival” to the Best; on YouTube there are for the piece already, more than 220 million clicks. In addition, the American brings together with City-musician Georgi Gogow a violin Version of Leonard Cohen’s classic “Hallelujah” to be heard. Kiefer Sutherland will interpret Bob Dylan’s hit “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, and Albert Hammond wrote “One Moment in Time”, in 1988, for Whitney Houston, presenting.

In the first episode: the East German rock band City

Music in the intimate circle of

The venue for the “private concert” is that make-up the famous “house” in the Saxon town of Löbau, which provides for the special and intimate nature of the Show. In the private dwelling house in 1933 and designed by the star architect Hans Scharoun for a pasta manufacturer was built, is not talking on the big stage, but in the living room or in the winter garden, and the latter is performed – by the way, guaranteed to be unplugged.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    Monument-Protected Location

    The Schminke house in the Saxon town of Löbau is the place of the “private concert”, the new musical talk show in the program of the DW. The architect Hans Scharoun designed the house in the 1930s for a factory owner’s family. In the meantime, the monument is a protected building as one of the world’s four icons for the architectural style in the direction of the “New architecture” and the “International Style”.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Pasta Steamer

    Was built the house in the 30s of the last century. It is in the small Saxon town of Löbau between Görlitz and Bautzen, near the border to Poland. The Client was a make-up Fritz, whose father, the beginning of the 20th century. Century, the anchor-pasta factory bought “Loeser & Richter” in Löbau. Because of the ship analogies in the architecture of the house got the nickname noodle steamer.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Architect Hans Scharoun

    He even called it “the house, which was my favorite”. Its architecture is influenced by the visual impressions in his home in Northern Germany. Hans Scharoun was always striving to create a harmonious, lively and functional interaction of buildings and landscape. To make it also for the residents as suitable as possible, he studied make-up for weeks on the living habits of the family.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Owner, Fritz Schminke

    Here you can see Fritz Schminke (on the right in the picture with a bow tie and glasses) in the midst of the workers and employees of the “anchor-pasta”. From his father he had taken over the company at the age of 22 years. The parents house was too small for his own and the family of the brother, he had in the garden of the factory of Hans Scharoun, the “Schminke house” build.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    A house with a garden

    At least as important as the house itself was for the builders and the architects of the garden that surrounds it. This shows, among other things, by the large glass surfaces in the house, allowing a free view into the Green. In the pond near the house, the four children of Fritz and Charlotte bathed make-up frequently.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Family Make-Up

    In the garden of the house (v. l. n. r.): the youngest daughter, Helga, mother, Charlotte, Erika, father Fritz, and Anna Gertraude and Fritz Wilhelm Harald. So the four children are in the house, planned by Hans Scharoun directly to the entrance hall, a large game area.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Children’s Corner

    A game corner is centrally located in the house at the time was rather unusual. However, in the Schminke house, there was a large, integrated into the wall panel and in the window front, there are two Openings through which the children could outside hatch. If the children be unattended or the parents did not want to see the Chaos that has just closed the curtains.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Living Room

    Fritz is a modern house for two parents, four children, and occasionally one to two guests wanted to make-up””. The living room is the hub of the home and a meeting place for all. Place enough, it was on the long Sofa from all. From the Original to this picture, there is now an accurate replica.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Winter Garden

    At the end of the living room leads through a large sliding glass door directly into the winter garden. Here, the indirect ceiling lighting gives a very special light mood. The colorful holes in the doors were meant for the children. You make the views of the world a bit colored. It’s not just here, but also in other Places in the house.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The Kitchen

    At the other end of the house, the kitchen is in the style of the “Frankfurt kitchen”. It has been developed in the late 1920s by the architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. The optimization of work processes in the centre. The financial help should have it as easy as possible. The wooden door in the Background leads directly to the dining table of the family make-up.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    The bedroom of the parents

    About the winter garden to the bedroom of the parents is. The position of the beds can be explained by the different preferences of the spouses. Fritz Schminke wanted a free view on the Chimneys of his factory next door. Charlotte a green view of the rising sun wanted to be woken up.


  • Architectural Gem: The House Of Makeup

    Perfect venue for the “private concert”

    With its openness and transparency, the house’s make-up is exactly the right place for the programme “private concert”, and contributes to the way that the musicians feel very comfortable. At the latest, if all sitting together on the Sofa, to blur the boundaries between cultures and Genres, and there are very special musical moments.

    Author: Axel Primavesi


To see the Online concert is “private” in dw.com/musik.

The English show “Night Grooves” is to be found in dw.com/music to.