The diverse relationships between politics and pop have been discussed, illustrated and evaluated for years, no, decades, in the Popsalon by Balzer and Müller; both have experienced many relationship crises during this time, but also beautiful moments of romantic happiness.
They are now starting the new year with a real pop and politics relationship expert. Carsten Brosda is the Senator for Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - but above all a great connoisseur and lover of popular music, his favorite artists include Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Joni Mitchell, Richard Thompson and Massive Attack.
With the literary critic Rainer Moritz, he runs the event series Brosda and Moritz, a kind of Hamburg version of the Popsalon, in which Brosda only plays country music and Moritz only pop music, and then both have to talk about it. In a recent book, Mehr Zuversicht wagen (2023), he draws up visions for the future of democracy, drawing on songs by Springsteen, among others. In 2022 he released the album Nothing Comes by Itself and Little Is Permanent with the Hamburg band Das Weeth Experience.
He reads passages from his books to “krautadelic soundscapes,” the press release says, and continues: “Weird stuff & heavy German thinking. You will either love it or hate it,” which is of course also a very good motto for the Popsalon.
(IN GERMAN)
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February 2025
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