Jazz Articles about Ute Lemper

Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny

by Scott Gudell
April 30, 2025

Germany's optimistic yet fragile Weimar Republic period was wedged between two brutal wars during the early 20th century. Extending from 1918 to 1933, it was proudly called the Jazz Age and the Golden Twenties and offered an abundance of free-flowing entertainment choices. It was also a time of inflation, chaos and conflict dominated by economic instability and political extremism. Although German cabaret had its origins at the beginning of the century, its true glory days reigned during those ...

Ute Lemper Returns for One Night to The Royal Festival Hall, London UK

by Adeline Addruse
April 4, 2003

Ute Lemper returned again to the Royal Festival Hall bringing with her onto the stage something more than ever before. Her repertoire was taken mainly from her new album But One Day, consisting of compositions from Astor Piazzolla, Kurt Weill, Jacques Brel and which, for the first time, features Lemper's own works.

The scene and ambience for an evening of Berlin cabaret songs, French songs and tangos were immediately set by her presence on stage, aided by her red-sequined ...