Von Harald Suerland
Westfälische Nachrichten, Samstag, 03.03.2

Sängerin Ute Lemper steht am 27.11.2015 in Düsseldorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen) vor der Verleihung des Deutschen Nachhaltigkeitspreises auf dem roten Teppich. Chansonstar Ute Lemper (54) findet 50 plus ein tolles Alter für Frauen. (zu “Ute Lemper: Mit 50 nochmal richtig losgeschossen” vom 15.09.2017) Foto: Monika Skolimowska/dpa +++(c) dpa – Bildfunk+++

Programm der 10. Musiklandschaft Westfalen
„Wo immer ich über die Konzerte mit Ute Lemper spreche“, erzählt Dirk Klapsing, „höre ich sofort die Frage, ob es denn noch Karten gibt.“ Es gibt noch welche, kann der Intendant der „Musiklandschaft Westfalen“ dann antworten. Indes: Der Vorverkauf für die Auftritte der Sängerin in Raesfeld (27. Juli) und Münster (25. August) hat begonnen – und für die anderen Konzerte natürlich auch…

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By: Regina Weinreich
Gossip Central, March 01, 2018

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“Music, champagne, dancing—wonderful things that make you forget, until you find something to remember,” Ute Lemper laughs dramatically perched on a barstool close to the Café Carlyle’s grand piano, skin showing through her skirt’s slit. She chides the audience, “Stop looking at my legs. They are not that good. I just know what to do with them.” This was opening night of Ute Lemper’s show at the Café Carlyle, “Rendezvous with Marlene,” this week, and many of her fans attended to hear the leggy redhead recount the history that forms this tribute performance to the legendary Marlene…

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By Paul Hansen
Charged FM, 1 March, 2018

The singer returns to the Carlyle with a tribute to Marlene Dietrich.

Although it is a word that is often overused, I think that it is safe to say that Marlene Dietrich was an iconic figure of the twentieth century. It is not for nothing that she is mentioned in Madonna’s iconic (there is that word again) song “Vogue.” Born in Berlin in 1901 and passing away in 1992 at the age of 90, Dietrich’s very presence radiated urbanity and sophistication.

The acclaimed singer and actress Ute Lemper opened a new engagement at the Café Carlyle this past Tuesday in a tribute to Dietrich entitled Rendezvous with Marlene. Lemper had some contact with Dietrich in the late 1980’s which included correspondence and a three hour telephone conversation. (Like Greta Garbo, Dietrich was reclusive in the last years of her life, largely interacting with the world through letters and lengthy phone conversations). It was entirely appropriate that Lemper would devote a whole evening to Dietrich at the Carlyle as Dietrich rose to fame in the celebrated 1930 German film Blue Angel in which she played a cabaret singer…

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by Alix Cohen in ‘Playing Around’
Woman Around Town, March 1, 2018

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German born Ute Lemper has intermittently channeled Marlene Dietrich for much of her career. This highly theatrical show is based in large part on a three-hour phone call between the ladies in 1988. After receiving the French Molière Award for her Paris performance in Cabaret, young Lemper sent a respectful postcard to the star essentially apologizing for media attention comparing the artists.

Much to her surprise, she received a telephone call in response. From that call and, one assumes, additional research, we hear Dietrich’s ‘first person’ recollection of the vocation she seems to disdain, passionate bisexual love affairs driven by pugnacious independence – with a nod to her open marriage, strong political views, and an enormously fraught relationship with her homeland. Performance is in English, German, and French…

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by: Aaron Hicklin
Out.com

Back at Cafe Carlyle after a long absence, the iconoclastic musician revisits a youthful encounter with the legend


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Ute Lemper is back in Weimar—psychologically, at least. The musician who came to fame playing Sally Bowles in the original Paris production of Cabaret, for which she won a Moliere Award, and then gained great acclaim with her immaculate renditions of Kurt Weill’s song catalog, is in residence at New York’s elegant Café Carlyle until March 3, where she’ll perform songs associated with Marlene Dietrich, from her early Weimar years to her experiences in exile, singing for American troops during World War Two, and her later collaborations with the great Burt Bacharach. Inspired by a three-hour phone conversation between Lemper and Dietrich some 30 years ago, the show unrolls as a series of musings on the legend’s life and philosophy, and the ways in which it has illuminated Lemper’s own journey. Although she has resisted various overtures to play Dietrich over the years, Lemper considers her 90-minute performance as an homage rather than an imitation in which that long-ago conversation between a mentor and an ingénue is center stage. The chanteuse took time out of rehearsals to talk about her relationship with the legend, and why it took Germany so long to move beyond its resentment to finally embrace one of its greatest artists…

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