Stars such as Melanie C (Spice Girls), Kathy Sledge (Sister Sledge) and Marc Almond (Soft Cell), a guest at the “private concert”. On 1. February to launch the new editions of the second season.
Stephanie Stumph and Wigald Boning are the hosts of the new expenditure at the same time in the show, as a musician active. In the opening episode, the presenters welcome the British singer Melanie C of the recently re-United Spice Girls. She meets the German Singer-Songwriter Nico Santos, who was with his Song “Rooftop” four weeks in the Top Ten of the German Charts. “I was as a teen a big Melanie C Fan,” confesses the Mallorca-born Nico Santos in the show. Together, the artists have to sing an Unplugged Version of the Spice girls hit “2 Become 1”.
Furthermore, for the new season including Ray Wilson (Ex-Genesis) and Marc Almond (Soft Cell) from the UK, Kathy Sledge (Sister Sledge: “We Are Family”), Sophie B. Hawkins (“Right Beside You”) and Marla Glen (“Believer”) from the United States and the German Stars Max Mutzke, Sebastian Krumbiegel (die Prinzen: “Kissing is forbidden”), and the glass bead game (“good life”) is announced. Also the Ghana-German singer Y’akoto, and Ivy Quainoo as well as the Irish-American musician and composer, Angelo Kelly and his family.
Style icon of the architecture
Again, the venue for the “private concert” is that make-up the famous “house” in Löbau, Saxony. The family home in 1933 by architect Hans Scharoun built – in is considered to be one of the most remarkable private houses of the 20th century. Century.
Here there is no stage in large hall – singing. instead, in a living room on the Sofa or in the winter garden
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupMonument-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”.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupA 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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 mess, just moved the curtain.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupThe bedroom of the parents
About the winter garden to the bedroom of the parents. 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.
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Architectural Gem: The House Of MakeupPerfect 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.
Live music
Highlights of each episode are the “private concert”, the “coffee concerts”. The musicians sing together live Hits such as “Stand By Me” or the Marvin Gaye classic “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and make for unique musical moments with the goose effect. The in-house band “The Ruffcats” is back and plays like all of the guests live.
“After half an hour I had forgotten that I’m on TV,” says the Ex-Genesis singer Ray Wilson after the Show. Melanie C is thrilled: “What a Show! A super concept with live music and terrific musicians. I felt very comfortable!”
To see the Online concert is “private” in dw.com/musik
The English show “Night Grooves” is to be found in dw.com/music .