Ulf Lindemann, alias Dunkelbunt, used to be drawn to faraway places. Today he loves his garden and Leopoldstadt. In the Volkstheater he invites you to the “Social Club” – together with the Balkan brass band that started it all.
A little bit, says Ulf Lindemann, comes full circle for him. When Dunkelbunt started in Hamburg almost a quarter of a century ago, that wasn’t even his stage name – it was his series of events. With his “Social Club” he now has something similar once more: a format in which he is not necessarily in the front row, in which he can present what he likes.
That can, he says, be music, but also cuisine or art. In any case, at the concert on Sunday in the Volkstheater he will present Fanfare Ciocarlia, a 14-piece Roma brass band from Romania and “perhaps the best-known and fastest in the world”. With her, a further circle closes, it was exactly 20 years ago that Lindemann began to sample pieces of Fanfare Ciocarlia – and thus create the cross-connection between Electro, Swing and Balkans, which was to become his trademark.
