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Erika Pluhar
"Hope is not the conviction that something is going well, but the certainty that something has meaning no matter how it goes." (Václav Havel)
The singer, author and actress Erika Pluhar describes herself as a "critical social democrat", at the centre of her musical work are her own lyrics. But not at the beginning of her career as a singer, which was founded during her marriage to André Heller. The first song releases date from 1972, and with Es war einmal Pluhar also became known as a singer to a larger audience throughout the German-speaking world. Where Heller, there Pathos, so also with Pluhar. Heller is no longer at her side, and the pathos has also visibly disappeared in favour of an emotional intelligence. Pluhar in an interview in 2003: "I am of the opinion that emotionality and intelligence are never mutually exclusive. I cannot imagine my mind, which I undoubtedly have somehow, without my feeling at all. And my feelings don't make me stupid. I couldn't be sentimental without being a little bit smart." A statement, the characteristics of which are to a certain extent also found in the song Frau, run away, in which she sings: "Woman, run away, take yourself by the hand. / Woman, run away, use your mind. / Look around your country / Be your own musician and never your own informer again." Pluhar, the versatile one: Her continuous, concentrated work alongside music takes place on two other levels - she was an actress at the Burgtheater in Vienna for 40 years (Pluhar has given up the castle since she was 60); she is a highly successful author (more than 100,000 copies of her first novel 'Als gehörte eins zum anderen - Eine Geschichte' from 1991 were sold). Erika Pluhar's song lyrics, on the other hand, formulate "criticism of the small things as well", as Isabella Suppanz wrote in 2004, "as of the big ones and cleverly pairs them with humour". In Klaus Trabitsch she has also found a congenial music partner in recent years who is an indispensable part of the singer-songwriter scene. Chamber music classics, Viennese folk songs, folk-world mixes, soft jazz loans included, will be heard. She has long had the status of being able to do whatever she wants - no matter how it turns out.
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Various - songwriter in Germany
Vol.3, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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