STEFAN JÜRGENS - LIEBE! (erstmal Dich selbst) - Vindobona - 2027

Theater Akzent, Wien

The New Concert Program

The acclaimed “Soko Donau” actor and audience favorite has found his second artistic home in Austria for many years now. In addition to his theater projects, the Nestroy Prize winner is finally returning to the stage more frequently as a singer-songwriter and entertainer. Now the actor and musician is coming back to Austrian stages! LOVE! is his antidote in an increasingly serious world. LOVE! And love yourself, too! We all have our own burdens to bear and want to find inner peace. Yet the world out there is becoming increasingly opaque and combative. Everything is changing; much of what seemed self-evident just yesterday is being cast aside. As a 62-year-old man, Stefan Jürgens knows the challenges of breaking away from old habits.

At the piano, Jürgens is accompanied by guitarist Matthias Kahra, who infuses the pure arrangements with a pulsating heartbeat. Viennese saxophonist Ilse Riedler, with her virtuosity, adds extra, special goosebump-inducing moments to the duo’s performance.

Look forward to a special evening. It will do you good. I promise.

Stefan Jürgens

As a founding member of the legendary RTL Samstag Nacht, “TATORT” and “SOKO WIEN/DONAU” detective, theater actor, and musician with seven solo albums to his credit, Stefan Jürgens confidently and joyfully draws from his rich reservoir of experience—accumulated over more than 30 years—during his stage performances. Jürgens offers his audience a constant rollercoaster ride of highly emotional songs with fantastic lyrics, profound poetry, biting stand-up comedy, and unsparing self-deprecating humor.

Ilse Riedler works as a musician and composer (saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute) in the fields of jazz, pop, and theater music.

She is a lecturer in saxophone at the Institute for Popular Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

She has performed extensively on national and international stages and has collaborated with, among others: Michel Camilo, James Morrison, the World Saxophone Quartet, Thomas Quasthoff, Frederic Morton, André Heller, Ethel Merhaut, Orjazztra Vienna, Willi Resetarits, Peter Simonischek, Christian Kolonovits, Gerhard Rühm, Russkaja (co-founder), Boris Bukowski, Euro Jazz Big Band Paris, Dusko Goykovich, Lee Harper, Richard Österreicher Big Band. In 2019, she gave a solo performance for VALIE EXPORT/Studio Anselm Kiefer in Barjac.

Matthias Kahra lives and works as a guitarist in Berlin. Since 2001, he has been active as a freelancer in various musical genres.

He has played with national and international acts, appeared on radio and television, and contributed to CD and theater productions.

In recent years, he has played over 1,000 concerts with artists including: Jimmy Somerville, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Roachford, Ute Lemper, Kate Ryan, Maite Kelly, Bobo In The White Wooden Houses, Maira Rothe, Lenn Kudrjawitzki, etc. Since 2011, he has been successfully touring Germany and Europe with Forced To Mode, “probably the world’s best” Depeche Mode tribute band. In addition to his work as a sideman, he shares his knowledge on his YouTube channel.