Two guys from Berlin, one from the East, the other from the West, one became the most successful German DJ, the other the most successful German conductor today.
Corona leaves traces from "Berghain" to Bayreuth.
I have known Christian Thielemann for two decades.
Dixon, or better: Steffen Berkhahn, for five years.
Both work in professions that are affected by the restrictions on freedom caused by the pandemic.
What do Covid lockdowns do with music, with art, with society, with us?
Dixon and Thielemann did not know each other and both found it immediately appealing to talk about it together.
The cultures in which the two move could hardly be more different.
At first glance, the only common denominator is music.
The similarities that emerged in the conversation surprised us all in the end.
Friendly connections make sober journalistic distance difficult.
We didn't want to hide that in the way we conducted the conversation.
Maybe that's why the evening became much longer ...