19.05.2025

DAVID STEFFENS | "Rausch“ - Recital with Josef Hader at the Vienna Konzerthaus

In his last comedy programme ‘Hader on Ice’ (2021), Austrian comedian, actor, author and film director Josef Hader explored the depths of society after the pandemic and presented a frenzied tour de force through all the abysses of post-corona society.

With texts and ‘drunken monologues’ by Helmut Qualtinger, Anton Kuh, Werner Schwab, Kurt Tucholsky, Anton Chekhov and Ingeborg Bachmann, he now explores the no less rich subject area of ‘intoxication’ and being intoxicated, with David Steffens providing the appropriate musical commentary and - accompanied by Yvonne Gesler on the piano - interpreting songs by Viktor Ullman, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss that revolve around the theme of drunkenness.

Josef Hader, reading
David Steffens, bass
Yvonne Gesler, piano

Viktor Ullmann
Songbook of Hafiz

Robert Schumann
Songs from the Book of Gifts in the Divan I op. 25/5 (Myrthen) ‘Sitz ich allein’ (1840)
Songs from the Book of Gifts in the Divan II op. 25/6 (Myrthen) ‘Do not set me’ (1840)

Hugo Wolf
Ob der Koran von Ewigkeit sei? (Goethe-Lieder Nr. 34) (1889)
Was in der Schenke waren heute (Goethe-Lieder Nr. 38) (1889)

Robert Schumann
Auf das Trinkglas eines verstorbenen Freundes op. 35/6 (Kerner-Lieder) (1840)

Hugo Wolf
Sie haben wegen der Trunkenheit (Goethe-Lieder Nr. 37) (1889)
So lang man nüchtern ist (Goethe-Lieder Nr. 36) (1889)

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Robert Schumann
Belsatzar op. 57 (1840)

Richard Strauss
Heimliche Aufforderung op. 27/3 (Vier Lieder) (1894)
Erschaffen und Beleben op. 87/2

Hugo Wolf
Wie sollt' ich heiter bleiben (Goethe-Lieder Nr. 45) (1889)
Trunken müssen wir alle sein! (Goethe-Lieder Nr. 35) (1889)