Mary's song

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Maria's song
(you are beautiful even when you cry)
Ilona Schulz
publication 1986
Genre (s) musical
Author (s) Birger Heymann , Volker Ludwig
Label Polydor

Marias Lied (You are beautiful even when you cry) is a song from the musical Line 1, which premiered in 1986 in the Berlin Grips Theater . The composer Birger Heymann wrote the music and Volker Ludwig wrote the text . The song was sung in its original musical version as well as in the film made two years later based on the musical by the actress Ilona Schulz ; In the more than 30 years that followed, during which the piece was played, the actresses and thus the singers changed several times.

Theatrical performance and publication

Marias Lied (You are beautiful even when you cry) is a song that was sung in the musical Line 1 , which premiered in 1986 in Berlin's Grips Theater . The singer and actress of Maria in the play was the actress Ilona Schulz , who performed the song in the Berlin dialect accompanied by the ensemble band No Ticket. Like the other songs in the musical , Marias Lied was composed by Birger Heymann ; the text is by Volker Ludwig . A record with the musical was also released in 1986 and appeared on the Polydor record label .

In 1988 the musical was made into a film by Reinhard Hauff , who also wrote the script based on the original piece. Ilona Schulz played the role of Maria in this film and sang Maria's song here as well . In the same year, the film soundtrack was released by Polydor with all the titles sung in the film. The musical subsequently developed into the most successful and most-performed German stage play.

Music and lyrics

In Maria's song is a quiet ballad with restrained accompaniment of piano, guitar, percussion and jazz saxophone at which the Actress of the sad and crying Sunny tells her life story. Sunny came to West Berlin to meet her dream prince, a rock star, and is disappointed by him. She is on subway line 1 and is addressed by Maria in Berlin slang, who looks at her sadness and hopes to console her with her story:

"Hey you, hey you,
listen to me ma, listen to me ma.
I want to tell you something about me.
I've never done that before, except for you.
Maybe it'll bring you something, I don't know you.
I just see how sad you are ... "

Unlike Sunny, Maria is ugly and has never been lucky in her life:

“I've always been such a warthog.
Full of pimples, too sweaty, too fat and too small.
A tramp, half blind, bitter and flabbergasted.
And I didn't even manage to finish ninth.
My mother who drinks, I was ick of her greatest misfortune.
I hate them as much as they hate me. "

She is at odds with her mother, she has neither a boyfriend nor a pet and she also sees no perspective in her life, her future is “an eternal, endless shaft, full of goo and mud and black as the night.” In the chorus, she clarifies that Sunny's sadness will pass because she is "beautiful even when [she] cries." The song ends with her stating:

"How good that sometimes an angel appears
to me like you - and weeps for me."

Cover versions

Maria's song was covered by Beatsteaks in 2002 under the title Hey du on their Living Room EP . They also played the song in 2008 while recording their live album Kanonen auf Spatzen at a concert in St. Gallen .

Chart placements
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Singles
Sido - Hey you!
  DE 4th 2009 (16 weeks)
  DE 12th 2009 (14 weeks)
  DE 21 2009 (11 weeks)
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In 2009 Sido used the basic melody and the chorus of the song for his also as Hey you! published song on the album Aggro Berlin , which was also released as a single. The song became one of Sido's greatest hits and rose to number 4 in the German single charts and stayed in the charts for 16 weeks, and it was also able to make it into the charts in Austria and Switzerland. Sido received an Echo for the music video for the title and received a Comet for best song of the year.

In 2010 Sido also played the song together with the German satirist Kurt Krömer as part of his MTV Unplugged concert MTV Unplugged Live from MV . Krömer and Sido performed Hey you! also performed live in the Admiralspalast in Berlin as part of Krömer's program Kröm de la Kröm , which was released on the DVD of the same name in the same year .

supporting documents

  1. ^ Ensemble des Grips Theater Berlin and No Ticket - Line 1 - The Musical at Discogs .; accessed on August 24, 2021.
  2. ↑ Grips-Ensemble - line 1 - film soundtrack at Discogs .; accessed on August 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ “Get in, please!” In: Die Tageszeitung (taz) , April 29, 2006
  4. ↑ Beatsteaks - Living Room EP at Discogs .; accessed on August 24, 2021.
  5. ↑ Beatsteaks - Kanonen auf Spatzen at Discogs .; accessed on August 24, 2021.
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
  7. ↑ Sido - Aggro Berlin at Discogs .; accessed on August 24, 2021.
  8. ↑ Sido - Live aus'm MV at Discogs .; accessed on August 24, 2021.
  9. ↑ Kurt Krömer - Kröm de la Kröm - Live from the Admiralspalast at Discogs .; accessed on August 24, 2021.

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