halt mich.

went to see herbert grönemeyer’s (probably the most famous german-speaking entertainer) concert close to vienna yesterday. To understand what he went through you have to go back to 1998, when, within four days, both his wife and his brother died of cancer. Grönemeyer ridden with anger and pain disappeared from public view. Four years later he re-surfaced stronger and better than ever before. And while one of the songs includes the line “life isn’t fair”, he introduced the song by a few simple words: “i’d like to say thank you with this song, cause it carried me over a bad time and i got back on track and life, after all, is fair”. Nothing to add.

I believe.

(pictures of the festival are here. oh, i’m on page three :-)