Bild – 13. September 2019

Often referred to simply as "The Hoff," actor, singer, and pop-culture icon David Hasselhoff has enjoyed over 40 years of fame for his starring roles in the classic TV shows Knight Rider and Baywatch. Along with his high-profile acting work, Hasselhoff has also built a loyal fan base as a pop singer, especially in Europe, where many of his albums, like 1984's Night Rocker, 1990's Crazy for You, and 2011's A Real Good Feeling, have found chart success. A globally recognized star, he has continued to work, often playing off his fame with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, such as starring alongside his daughters in the A&E reality show The Hasselhoffs, making a cameo appearance in 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and starring alongside Ken Jeong in 2017's satirical comedy Killing Hasselhoff.

In 1915 the Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán celebrated what certainly qualifies as his greatest pubic success in the operetta metropolis of Vienna with Die Csárdásfürstin. For his next operetta, which beheld the light of the stage world at the Johann Strauß Theater in Vienna on 21 September 1917, Kálmán and his librettists Alfred Maria Willner and Rudolf Österreicher drew on a work that had already been presented with success in Budapest and had even conquered New Yorks Broadway: it was thus that Zsuzsi kisasszony (Miss Susi) or Miss Springtime (Fräulein Frühling) became Die Faschingsfee (The Carnival Fairy) for the Viennese public of the war years. For it the three authors came up with a plot that is set in Munich during the Carnival season and in the twilight years of the monarchies in Bavaria and Austria-Hungary issued its appeal for the elimination of social strictures and the guarantee of the right to follow ones own heart.

"In Farbe" heißt das neue Album der beliebten A cappella-Gruppe Basta, das im Herbst 2018 veröffentlicht wird! Warum eigentlich "In Farbe"? Ein Zuviel an Grau musste man bei Basta schließlich noch nie befürchten. Aber das neue Album ist wohl so bunt und abwechslungsreich geworden, wie keines zuvor. Vom Ländler über Reggaeton bis Hard Rock ist alles dabei, was unser Globus an Musik so hergibt. Eine Wundertüte sozusagen. Und so sehen Basta das Leben eigentlich auch. Es ist nicht immer alles gleichermaßen toll, was man aus besagter Tüte zieht, aber wenn man es mit Humor sieht, ist es schon gleich ein gutes Stück besser.