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Barbara (1930 - 1997) is an icon of French chanson. With her incomparable voice, her piano playing and her deeply moving songs, she has risen to the Olympus of chanson, on a par with Edith Piaf, Juliette Greco and Jacques Brel.
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Meret Becker & Dietmar Loeffler - BARBARA: NACHTBLAU
Barbara's chansons are without exception autobiographical and allow a glimpse into her innermost self and at the same time into her own soul. Whether it is about the night with her dreams in "Au couer de la nuit", the dark side of life when losing an important person in "Nantes", or the topic of "loneliness", which suddenly appears in person on the doorstep. And of course her longing for love, as in "I love you, I can't say".
These are feelings, images and fears that everyone knows. This unites everyone with Barbara, the woman in black, and it seems as if no one before her had ever described these feelings so aptly and poetically.
Meret Becker and Dietmar Loeffler, also ardent admirers of Barbara's art, share the vision of using "NACHTBLAU - Chanson für eine Abentee" to bring back to mind this great artist who sang in both German and French.
With Meret Becker, an artist takes on these special chansons who, through her imagination, creativity and singing, manages to make Barbara's essence tangible in a visual and sensual way without copying her. She creates texts and images that bring the world closer to her in the chansons.
Dietmar Loeffler, her pianist companion, has been fascinated by Barbara for decades and has already performed various of her chansons in theater evenings. For him, as for Barbara, the beloved grand piano represents the possibilities of the sonic representation of limitless imagination, fragility, emotional intensity. And love.
With
Meret Becker (singer, artist, acting, concept)
Dietmar Loeffler (pianist, singer, arrangements, concept)
Marie Claire Schlameus (cello)
Uwe Steger (accordion)
