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At the heart of Rösinger’s chanson-pop music lies the word. Whether with a band, as a singer-songwriter, or through spoken word, beautiful melodies are wonderful—but there is something to be said. For example, about her lifelong artistic theme: love.

“Love is often overrated /
Love isn’t as important as people think /
Love is just one aspect of life /
And the other parts aren’t bad either.”

Together with her four-piece band from Vienna, Christiane Rösinger will be performing on stage at the Humboldt Forum for the first time – with songs from 1991 onwards and spoken word about love and family ideals. Everything is turned upside down, of course – just as we have come to expect from her. And she reassures everyone: couples, singles, and advocates of alternative family models. Because romantic love is often overrated anyway. The Berlin songwriter – creator of immortal lines such as:

“You think you’re in a fairytale /

but you’re just dumb couples.” –

has long suspected that it might be better to live alone. Or at least differently—beyond the traditional nuclear family.

Before the nuclear family comes the couple. And before the bourgeois nuclear family comes fire.
This evening at the Humboldt Forum is an invitation to remember what patterns of love already exist—and what might be possible if we radically rethink the idea of love.

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