Photo: Vera MarzinskiSinger Carsten Heinze knew how to immediately get the audience involved and heat up the atmosphere with his band members – Berthold Weber on the keyboard, guitarist Stephan Koopmann and the rhythm section bassist Thomas Große and drummer Michael Wolpers. As everywhere else, the women joined in and sang and clapped, Heinze noted. But his “Hör gut zu zu” wasn’t really necessary in Bielstein – the men also swayed and sang along. The audience also knew the words to Reinhard Mey’s song “Der Mann am Fenster”. The motto of the band “Abenteuerland” would now be “Ein graues Haar”, like the PUR song from 1995. The band “Abenteuerland” has been around since 2008. They haven’t been playing unplugged for that long. But they always have a lot of fun – and that came across.
When they started with “Abenteuerland”, they didn’t even know how many hits PUR had, Heinze revealed. It was amazing how many songs the concert guests could sing along to. They themselves have been to PUR concerts as part of an “educational excursion”. When everyone jumped up and sang along to “Frau Schneider”, it was clear that the song had to be included in their program. And so it was also part of the program in Bielstein. Over the nine years, they have changed their program from time to time. Ballads such as “Princess” were of course just as much a part of the program as “Hab’ mich wieder mal an dir betrunken”. The five boys of the original band PUR started out very small in 1975 in Bietigheim near Stuttgart in Swabia. However, success did not come until 1988 with the album “Wie im Film”. When “Seiltänzertraum” came out in 1993, PUR hit the big time. At the beginning of 2000, the new single “Adler sollen fliegen” was released to coincide with the ski jumping season – one of the few songs that “Abenteuerland” didn’t include. But many, many of PUR’s other great songs were. Including “Funkelperlenaugen”. Also nice to sing along to and actually to sit down to “Drachen sollen fliegen”. Totally touching, if only because of the lyrics: “Wenn sie diesen Tango hört” – sung with a lot of feeling. There is also a special version of this song, which Daniel Wirtz sang when PUR frontman Hartmut Engler took part in “Sing meinen Song”. And “Where have all the Indians gone?”, they are at Burghaus Bielstein. At least those who can sing along to this song and singer Carsten Heinze donned his feather headdress accordingly. One guest loudly demanded “Lena” several times, but instead they sang him “Weil Du bei mir bist”. But of course this PUR cult song also came – almost at the very end. Of course, the five musicians couldn’t leave without encores. “Ich denk an Dich”, “Geweint vor Glück” and “Bis wir uns wiedersehen” (to sing along to) were just as well received as the entire evening’s program.
Vera Marzinski
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