News broadcast: Clueso speaks in the “Tagesthemen” about the state of the music scene

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Clueso speaks in the “Tagesthemen” about the state of the music scene

The singer Clueso is on stage for the production “Friends of Clueso” of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa

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Singer-songwriter Clueso was interviewed on the ARD “Tagesthemen” on the subject of Corona in the music scene. And there was also singing.

Live music and a pop singer in the “Tagesthemen”: Singer-songwriter Clueso was on Friday evening as an interview guest in the studio of the ARD news program. The topic: the situation of the music scene in Corona times.

The 41-year-old finds it difficult for concert organizers to decide whether to let visitors in according to the 2G system (vaccinated or recovered) or the 3G system (vaccinated, recovered or tested). That is “very ambivalent”. On the one hand, he doesn’t want people to get sick. On the other hand, the idea of ​​art and music is “after all, that everyone should come, that everyone can come”. It is very difficult “to push us the card that as an artist you have to make the decision, so to speak”, complained Clueso. It is also difficult because there are different rules in the federal states.

Clueso sings the song shortly before the show

As far as music and concerts are concerned, the artist emphasized that there is still a long way to go “until we are back where we used to be”. As a musician, things went well for him during that time, “I somehow got by, (…) but it is still going on.” Shortly before the broadcast he sang a song accompanied by a pianist and a saxophonist.

To videos of artists in which the official Corona measures were sharply criticized, Clueso said: “I didn’t get it, maybe you would have had to provide a small package insert.” That is a sensitive topic and must also be treated sensitively. “I didn’t think it was clever,” summed up the musician, who was born in Erfurt as Thomas Huebner (“Winner”, “Chicago”).

In October a year ago, the punk musicians of the band Die Ärzte were interviewees in the “Tagesthemen”. They appealed to politicians not to forget the culture industry in the Corona crisis. Before that, they had opened the “Tagesthemen” with a mini appearance – this was the first time there was live music on the news program.

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