A party ship on the river Spree, a wedding couple that is getting bored. But around them one of the dolls lets dance: Herbert Grönemeyer is good for some surprises with the second single from his new album "Tumult". "Doppelherz / Iki Gönlüm" is the lilting song that the 62-year-old singer and songwriter ("Mensch") sings in Turkish and German. "Everyone needs his vanishing point his place, 'a second home," it says in it, and on: Also you are so much more / Black and white in the change / You sometimes lives his place empty and then needs new puzzles ".
This is a strong political statement for cultural diversity - in the soul, as well as in the country. And a passionate rejection of the currently increasingly narrow-minded and populist debates about homeland and identity. Grönemeyer's song, which interweaves oriental rhythms with hip-hop and R & B beats and offers the German-Turkish Kreuzberg singer Andac Berkan Akbiyik aka BRKN as a ghost, wants to animate to dance with the many cultural influences and impressions that surround each of us go - and embrace the supposed stranger as new and exciting. Just like the bride in the video clip (directed by Zoran Bihac), who literally dares to jump into the fresh water.
Homeland for Herbert Grönemeyer is only in the plural, it is about longing for the faraway and the familiar alike, which we all carry in us, the one us. He used to sing in English and in French, then he thought, "I'll take Turkish." To show, of course, that's a language that has existed in Germany for a long time. " No German Turk should have to ask himself whether he heard here or not, the singer living in Berlin finds: "These are Germans, and they belong here, just like me." His own mother is not from Germany, but from Estonia. "This debate should not happen at all," says Grönemeyer: "I find that completely superfluous."
Herbert Grönemeyer's 15th studio album "Tumult" will be released on November 9th.