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She likes stuffy Sundays: Helene Fischer gives unusual insights into her private life
She likes apples and tomatoes: Helene Fischer, here at her appearance on “Wetten, dass …?” last weekend, gives unusual insights into private matters
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The TV station Sat.1 is dedicated to Helene Fischer on Friday evening. In the evening a concert and an interview with the German music queen will be broadcast. The 37-year-old gives unusual insights into her private life.
When Helene Fischer talks about her private life, she sounds a bit like the good neighbor next door. The 37-year-old is Germany’s most successful singer. A few years ago, the business magazine “Forbes” counted her among the best-earning musicians in the world. And some fans have followed her for years. Fischer has now given a lengthy television interview.
The program will be shown this Friday at 8.15 p.m. on Sat.1. For the show “Helene Fischer – An Evening in Rush” she recorded songs from her new album in a Cologne music club. (Read a review of the album here) She is on stage with a velvet blazer and boots. And sits with moderator Steven Gätjen, who asks her questions.
Helene Fischer eats apples every day
The conversation is about nervousness on stage, about her training at the musical school and about her mother’s Russian dishes. But also about musical idols and their favorite type of fruit. Outrageous sentences are then uttered like this: “In fact, not a day goes by without an apple.”
When Helene Fischer tells that she likes tomatoes and asks about them in the hotel, some viewers in the Berlin cinema chuckled enthusiastically. The TV production celebrated its premiere there on Wednesday evening. There are a lot of fans in the hall. A man comes with a “Helene Fischer” T-shirt. At the entrance control you get a fabric ribbon around your wrist. “The ribbons are not bad,” says one woman. “As reminder.”
Helene Fischer and her fans – that’s a great love. Some viewers clap along in the cinema and cheer Helene Fischer, even though she is not there. When you watch the television production, Fischer reminds you a little of her role model Celine Dion. Is it the hand movements? Or the new songs?
The new album “Rausch” was a process for her, she said in the TV interview. In the past two years you have had a lot of time to listen to yourself. She asked herself where she was actually going artistically. As a musician, she wanted to be even more authentic and honest.
Pregnancy is not discussed
In the TV show, on which entertainer Stefan Raab worked, Fischer says that she likes to go for a walk on Sundays (“totally bourgeois”), likes chocolate lava cake and doesn’t need music to fall asleep. There is little talk about her pregnancy. The fact that Fischer is more cautious about this was already evident when she appeared on the ZDF program “Wetten, dass …?” to see.
In any case, on the TV show she sounds refreshingly self-deprecating in some scenes. For example, when old photos are faded in that show what they looked like at the beginning of their hit career. “Things went uphill from 2013,” she comments. Or when she is asked whether her partner Thomas Seitel was actually a fan of her before. “Yes, actually,” replies Fischer. “He said, exactly. Yes, yes. He has to say.”
But there are also more serious issues. Your own limits, for example. There were times when she worked like a workaholic, says the musician. But you are only human and not a machine. You have learned to cancel or not accept something now.
What advice could she have done without? A well-known entertainer once told her to keep her hands off this industry. That was still during her training, she says. Maybe he wanted to warn her, but maybe he didn’t quite believe in her. When asked who that was, she replied: “Tony Marshall. At this point, my best regards.” She got a lot of great advice from her mother.