Fritz Rau - Backstage 50 Years

Fritz Rau, Germany's most important concert promoter, celebrated his 80th birthday in March 2010. Marlene Dietrich and Jimi Hendrix, Madonna and Miles Davis, Udo Lindenberg, Peter Maffay and the Rolling Stones played at concerts organized by him. Together with his partner Horst Lippmann, who has since passed away, he organized the major tours of national and international greats from pop and rock, jazz, blues and entertainment for decades. Humorous and thoughtful, but always entertaining, Rau tells of his first steps in the Heidelberg jazz cellar Cave 54 up to his great successes as an internationally successful and recognized concert promoter. Rau recalls with pleasure his major projects with the greats of the German music scene, projects with Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Maffay and Udo Lindenberg. In doing so, he gives fascinating.