Linda Marlen Runge: "What happens on stage is 100 percent real"
Linda Marlen Runge (32) has turned her back on the RTL series "Good Times, Bad Times". The 32-year-old wants to concentrate more on her band Lejana in the future. And last Friday the band around the actors and the Mexican musician Eder Perales took an important step: they released their second album "XII Bestias". The news agency spot on news spoke to Runge about the reasons for leaving GZSZ, the new album and her fascination for Mexican culture.
Ms. Runge, you recently announced your exit from "Good Times, Bad Times" so you can focus on the music. When did you make that decision?
Linda Marlen Runge: A daily series means many pros. Among other things, a regulated income, which is deluxe as an actor. As well as regular teamwork, family relationships on set, everyone knows everyone and a cozy atmosphere. But it also involves a serious contra-my: lasting and very time-consuming commitment. From the beginning, I have seen a problem in being unable to be spontaneous and working with it until I missed it so much that I had to quit my job for the time being. I made the final decision at the end of last year.
"GZSZ" has long been a big part of your life. Do you think you will miss it very much? And could you imagine ever returning?
Runge: At the moment, I enjoy the recreated free time, but I can imagine returning someday, but not tomorrow.
What do the music and acting have in common?
Runge: For me, one has nothing at all to do with the other. The only thing that can help me as a singer of a Mexican band in acting, is that I - when a scene uses the stage fright - say: "Girl, you toured in a van all over Mexico and had no idea what happened THAT was exciting, so do not cry around and stop being nervous about a camera now. "
Really, although everyone always says that experience in performing on stage as a musician helps with drama, I can not sign it. For me acting is played and what happens to me on stage is 100 percent real - with mistakes, with edges, with outbursts and without directing. That's what I love about it. On stage, everything is scheduled, you become part of the whole and no one has the right to tell you that it was not enough, because there is no script, it's actually pure chaos ...
Do you think that you were part of "GZSZ" has a more positive or negative influence on how the band will be perceived in Germany?
Runge: Well, I'll put it this way: It's not like I did not even think about that one or the other. Who as a music lover hears our album, it may, then pointed out that I am "the Olle of 'GZSZ'" and therefore no longer finds it good, please give it back in the store and get back his money, because then he has which does not get it. The people who have a clue about music - and I do not mean what's going on in the charts, I'm talking self-made music of people who master their craft and do not need 17 songwriters and "computer instruments" - the I think I'll be glad, that somebody will do something like that again.
The new album is called "XII Bestias". Which beasts are sung here?
Runge: I think the album accompanies the process of saying goodbye to the past, realizing that you can not or should not always forgive everything, get over it, mature from it, and learn not to make the same mistakes, but not to to be forgotten and thankful for everything that happened to you, because otherwise you would not be the person you are. During the creation of "XII Bestias", independently of each other but almost simultaneously, the three founding members of the band suffered heavy blows that may have even slowed down the process that made it harder to keep going. I was at a point in 2015 where I was about to finish all the projects, but again, Lejana was what caught me. That's exactly what the boys did with their experiences, so we slowed down and put what happened into the music. We were together and treated with this album. What can be equated with "temporarily driven to madness".
What does the great fascination of Mexican culture look like to you?
Runge: I grew up half Mexican, my grandparents lived in Mexico City with my dad in the Seventies for a long time. Back when they came back, they took all their furniture to Germany from there, and I grew up with my grandparents, so to speak I grew up Mexican. When I remember my father, I remember cowboy boots and old Ford cars. Mexico has always been an issue from an early age and somehow I always knew that I wanted to go there. Maybe to understand why my dad is the way he is.
At the age of 21, I went and knew I was at home. Because the first time I really connected with people right away. It begins with the fact that nobody takes a mince word, one does not take oneself too seriously. The appreciation of art and music is also deeper, there is much more underground than here and people crave it. In addition, there is more support for art and culture by universities and institutes, there are many more free channels and other.
In addition, the food is awesome and a cold corona with lime on which Mexican beach ALWAYS, my absolute survival elixir.
