Udo Jürgens (1934 – 2014)
Maybe start with this scene: In the autumn occ urred in the television gala to Udo Jürgens’ eightieth birthday Otto Waalkes and instead of “Greek wine” a musical parody entitled “Friesian wine “recited, as was thought at first but a little irritated to see Jürgens, as the camera zoomed in on him.
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It looked for a moment as he found the send-up of this his perhaps most famous song inappropriately, not compatible with the holy earnestness with which he himself stood before his audience, for decades. Then, of course, the moment was over and Jürgens thanked Waalkes, but surely also stirred with a smile, and.
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Udo Jürgens is a very serious singer and serious entertainer died that with this very expression “Merci Cherie” or “I know what I want” or large audience was loved, adored. At 80 he is actually once went on tour to play all those hits and chansons, a piece of West German contemporary history, especially in its broad appeal and the manner of its reception: from “honorable house” to give to that song about the wine that “the blood of the earth” is. It should be a song about the melancholy of guest workers, but it was rezipiert rather than drinking song that even noticeable on Jürgens made in the first television obituaries that have been sent on Sunday evening.
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Jürgens has always known this, he wanted to appeal to a wide audience, he did so not only at concerts, but also on television, the show became synonymous with his aesthetics: always great gesture, always Gala. However, anyone who sees only the years of maximum audience success, overlooks the hard work that had the artist in doing so: Udo Jürgen Bockelmann, who called himself since 1956 Udo Jürgens had to hoof it a lot and sing many songs that do not lay him until he 1966 Grand Prix won with the Merci song and then came to worldwide fame. Yes, he was even “Big in Japan”.
Due to the proximity in the private sphere, with the television Jürgens accompanied to the la st, he was a projection figure to millions as “homme à femmes” and sung in bathrobe additions did not appear despite their temporary reputation as rapt star, but as a human being like you and me, with a slightly different title Walter Kempowskis one might say, as “Our Lord Bockelmann”. Especially in his love songs are a lot of people found themselves, but for example also in the now-only-right-anthem “With 66 years.”
About the motto of his tour, “Real Life”, was heard last that it was flirtatious but for an octogenarian. Who talks like that, of course overlooking the holy earnestness, which is also in this motto: Media vita in morte sumus, which is the recognition of a monk from the ninth century, Notker the Stammerer of St. Gallen. In German it is known from Martin Luther’s translation of liturgical chant: “We are middle / embrace With the death in life”. In Real Life, on a walk in Switzerland, has now Udo Jürgens death overtakes him. If the man who has written well over a thousand songs, also from this event to a song could have make, he would have him perhaps the Memento mori title of an old, have grave award given: Today I, tomorrow you
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