“Breathless through the night, feel what love does to us…” Who could get enough of that? Helene Fischer maybe? In one of her rare interviews, she reveals how she feels about some of her own hits. And not only that.
Is there still an Oktoberfest, a company party or a carnival session where “breathless through the night” cannot be heard? No question: Even nine years after its release, the song is still Helene Fischer’s ultimate hit, which of course should not be missing from any of her concerts. But can she still hear the song herself?
“Indeed, yes,” explains the Schlagerqueen in one of her rare interviews. She gave it to the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” (NZZ) in Switzerland. Fischer adds: “I rarely listen to my own music at home now, but of course I often sing the song on stage. And I still have a lot of fun with it. When I notice that the audience feels the same in these moments as me, then my heart just melts. Even with songs that I’ve sung a thousand times.”
At the same time, the 38-year-old is also self-critical with her repertoire. “The older the songs get, the more often I think about whether I should still listen to this CD at home,” she admits and gives a concrete example: “One of my oldest songs ‘Und Morgen Früh Küss Ich Dich Wach’ has almost been heard to the classics. I might not necessarily listen to it in private, but I really enjoy playing it live.”
Today her songs are more personal than before, explains Fischer. “Maybe because I’ve matured. For me it was the next logical step to write more of my own songs. I let my personal experiences and stories flow in,” she says in the NZZ interview.
The singer, on the other hand, is less personal when it comes to insights into her private life – for example on Instagram. “Unfortunately, I treat that very neglectfully,” admits Fischer. “I don’t enjoy it as much as maybe others do,” she continues. There is nothing to be seen of her privately on the platform anyway. “Instagram also lives from the fact that you often get a look into your private life. But I draw very clear boundaries there,” says Fischer.
But even if she keeps a low profile when it comes to her private life, reports about her everyday life away from the limelight still appear in abundance. “Here and there it annoys me, because it always implies that people believe something like that in the end,” reveals the Schlagerqueen. Occasionally it is her “first impulse to get in touch and clarify everything”. But in the end it was too good a time for her. She would only take action with lawyers “against the most crass fairy tales”.
The fact that she had to partially give up her privacy is “actually the biggest price” she had to pay for success, says Fischer. “You hide yourself a bit in your own little world and try to live normally like everyone else,” she explains how she deals with it. But there are some things she just can’t do lightheartedly. “And then there’s this feeling of being watched everywhere.” However, she has almost come to terms with that.
After her mega concert in Munich in August, Fischer will be going on a big indoor tour again next year. And with a view to her Christmas show, which has now been canceled three times in a row, she still has good news for her fans. “At the moment we’re just sitting out,” she explains that a comeback of the show would be quite conceivable. She “hopes that we will resume it when the time is right,” says Fischer and assures: “The cancellations were (…) not adieu.”
