Olli Dittrich: "I'm not a man for affairs"
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Mr. Dittrich, love is dead, people in relationships are tormented until vomiting, in the end one is alcoholic or permanent guest with the psychiatrist.
Olli Dittrich: For God's sake. Who says that?
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: you. In the first song on her new album "Elf Richtige". And that sounds pretty programmatic for the whole record - and for relationships in general, if you believe your songs.
Olli Dittrich: That would be terrible, it would always be so. No, whether in my roles or now in the lyrics: I tell individual stories. A mixture of what I experienced, experienced or observed myself. And yet they transport moods and feelings that everyone knows.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Let's stay with the first piece "Not a word true" - it's about a couple that has long since lost and still stays together.
Olli Dittrich: The couple from this song actually exist. And it stays together because it had plans. That's something nice, too. They hold on to their dreams in different ways. They got used to each other. But they do not care anymore. Not, not her love.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Tragic.
Olli Dittrich: Yes. But in every tragedy, in every failure there is also the potential for beautiful things. And for comedy. In "Blind Date", my series with Anke Engelke, we played a couple in one episode. He did not really know how long they've been together, how long they'll stay together, and most importantly, why they're even together. But they are.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Perhaps you yourself explain this dilemma when you sing, "The greatest love is the one you do not get."
Olli Dittrich: Yes, and on: "There is always hope in one's own strength, one always likes to be confused with passion." Everyone knows, right? This hoping that finally the phone rings. The more and more pure Reinsteiger in love, the less it is reciprocated. In fact, that is more of a narcissistic offense that you simply can not inspire the other for yourself.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: As in your song "Really a pity", in which a rock-solid guy can not land.
Olli Dittrich: Well. If it's easy, it does not seem exciting enough. This is especially true for women. Interesting thought actually.
On the next page: Olli Dittrich - no man for affairs
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: What are you looking for in love?
Olli Dittrich: One moment. If one or just a short time from right to left to go through the picture and just in the right way, a bit of stardust fall - that's sometimes enough to almost house and yard for it to bet. But, thank goodness, the triumph of aging and maturing is that you're not going to go that fast any more.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: We do not believe. In love you make the same mistakes over and over again.
Olli Dittrich: But you know that they are the same mistakes. That makes a difference. You know what kind of damage you are dealing with. And how to get back on your feet. This is more manageable at 40 than at 20.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: And the fall height decreases with age. If you have heartache, then at least the world goes under. , ,
Olli Dittrich: That's true. But you also regenerate faster when you're young. Of course not everyone. Each one is different. There are certainly people who have never made my mistakes in love and make others for it. But what does error mean here - even the basis of the judgments is fundamentally different. How do I keep it with the children? What does loyalty mean to me? Am I interested in affairs?
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: And? Is it you?
Olli Dittrich: No. I am not a man for affairs. I could never imagine that makes me happy. My romance is different from people who like changing partners. I often wonder, and not too close, what makes other people happy.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: So Olli Dittrich believes in loyalty and romance.
Olli Dittrich: Yes. And to the great love. Finished.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Have you seen them?
Olli Dittrich: Sometimes, with older couples. Those who have received something and treat each other magically. Then I think: There is, after all, great love. But it works only with people who have understood one thing.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: And that?
Olli Dittrich: That it is far more important to love than to be loved. That it does not matter, always to demand, always open a huge barrel, if these demands are not met.
On the next page: Olli Dittrich about his romantic side
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: A popular problem, which boils up especially in everyday trivial questions.
Olli Dittrich: And especially when you have to do with one another over medium and long distances. If togetherness is routine, if one knows the other well - even his unpleasant, everyday sides, which are inconsequential and not exciting. You have to get something in the daily business, which is great. For example, to look at one's counterpart and say: Great that you are there. And not only because I got so used to you.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Couples who live only out of habit, there are many ...
Olli Dittrich: That has more dimensions than mere habit. Change hurts, is exhausting. It has created an order to get along with each other. Or do not have the courage to get back on their own feet. Or is it touched by the realization that one has missed the point of starting something new.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: And then you just prefer to fit into your destiny.
Olli Dittrich: Maybe that's what interested me: Two people assume that fate did not work out with love.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: It's great that you still can not take your faith in love.
Olli Dittrich: I am very romantic. I believe that one can swarm into old age. And I think that you first have to come to terms with yourself. Then you are also able to love others better.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: If you only listen to your record, you might consider it a cynic. The strongest songs are those in which it does not work with love. A jubilant piece like "You are the sun" is rather superficial.
Olli Dittrich: Funny. Listen again. It is not at all. It's a little Trojan horse, this song.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Actually? It's about unreflected enthusiasm.
Olli Dittrich: Eben. Must be synonymous, and indeed right on the Twelve. Unconditional enthusiasm has to do with great love.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: How that?
Olli Dittrich: Because she pays homage to the moment. You can also feel the great love in a small moment. I have not realized that for very long. To allow the greatest possible moment to experience and celebrate is actually the only thing that really matters. And when you put together many such moments, fortune accumulates, so to speak - and makes a wonderful whole.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: And you had to learn that first.
Olli Dittrich: Well. That will probably happen with the years. I know today that what you do and do is something you do with yourself. My professional career is shaped by this.
On the next page: Olli Dittrich, the late bloomer
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: You have only had such good success at well over 30 years.
Olli Dittrich: It was not that the success fell from the sky, that people had opened the doors for me all the time and that I had received many opportunities. There certainly was a time when I had to complain that everything was so terribly difficult. But that includes two.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: And that?
Olli Dittrich: The ones that make life difficult for you. And those - that was me - who allow life to be made difficult. You always have to start with yourself. Do not let it get you down. And allow. These little moments that make me really happy. This can be so small and irrelevant - but if this little stuff makes me happy, then I know that I'm at peace with myself.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: There is also a very nice farewell song on the CD.
Olli Dittrich: Yes, "I have no more tears" - but I think it's an extremely positive farewell song. Because it radiates a lot of warmth, even in a way very lucky. Because it shows that you can leave with love and respect.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: The topic can be irritating to kitsch. As Roger Whittaker said, saying goodbye is a sharp sword.
Olli Dittrich: Or a black horse.
ChroniquesDuVasteMonde: Or a heavy sheep.
Olli Dittrich: A heavy sheep ... not bad either. I did not know that yet. But that's exactly how it is: farewell is a heavy sheep.
Olli Dittrich, the late bloomer
Born in Offenbach in 1956, he became well known only in 1993 with "RTL Saturday Night". Since then, he has excelled in various comedy formats as a subtle, melancholy everyday observer, rewarded with several Grimme- and other television awards (for "Blind Date" with Anke Engelke and "Dittsche - the really true life"). In the cinema he most recently played Joseph Goebbels in "Stauffenberg". And as a musician, he has been successful for a long time - whether in 1995 with Wigald Boning as a dumpling combo Die Doofen or 2006 with the country band Texas Lightning. Now there is "Elf Right" (x-cell music) the first solo album under his name. Dittrich lives in Hamburg.
