By Claudia von Duehren
When she thinks of Berlin, she smells freshly baked cookies. The recording of the “Hitparade”, in which Mary Roos (74) was a permanent guest, took place in Tempelhof directly opposite the Bahlsen factory.
It was a long time ago and so the cheeky sentence with which Mary Roos’ stage partner will introduce the singer on September 5th and 6th is hardly surprising: Here comes Helene Fischer of the Bronze Age!
“It’s still a harmless variant of his many cheeks,” laughs Mary Roos in an interview with the BZ. Together with the cabaret artist Wolfgang Stepper (62), the Schlager legend presents the program “More hookers, more coke – fuck the strawberries!”. The provocative title refers to folk music icon Heino (84), who once claimed that he always has these three things written into his contracts.
“Of course that was meant ironically,” protects Mary Roos. So she’s the good one on the stage show, who remembers her hit career and sings some songs for the best, while staircase cholerically lashes out at the hit industry.
Andrea Berg is clearly one of his favorite victims, while Helene Fischer does quite well. It remains to be seen whether this has something to do with the fact that Mary Roos’ son works in Fischer’s management.
In any case, Mary Roos doesn’t have bad memories of the hit circus, “but that’s also because I’m a very positive person,” she explains. In any case, her departure at the age of 70 had nothing to do with bad experiences. “I finally wanted to have more time for family and friends. I’ve hardly ever been to christenings or weddings, I can do that now,” reveals the artist, who was born in Bingen am Rhein. Today she commutes regularly between her adopted home of Hamburg and Bingen, where even a car ferry to Rüdesheim was named after her.
After two marriages (the last with Gottlieb Wendehals), Mary Roos lives happily single in Hamburg Photo: picture alliance / Keystone .
Mary Roos will then talk about her childhood memories on October 15th in the Schlosspark Theater. There she reads from her biography “Aufrecht Geh’n – my dissolute life”. The singer particularly likes to remember her childhood and youth in her parents’ hotel in Bingen. “There I sang at 6 o’clock tea with my first band, that’s when I was discovered.”
Admiralspalast, 5 and 6 September 2023, 8 p.m., 55-59 euros, ☎ 01806-570070Castle Park Theater October 15, 8 p.m., 15-30 euros, ☎ 789 56 67 – 100