Ernst Molden & Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln feat. Tini Kainrath - mei liab

Prinz-Eugen-Straße/ Ecke Plößlgasse

1030 Wien

 

The love song, affectionately yet irreverently called "Hadern" (meaning rags) in Viennese dialect, is a cornerstone of the work of singer-songwriter and poet Ernst Molden. This has been true at least since he attended Nick Cave's class at the School of Poetry in the 1990s, where Cave, in a lecture titled "The Lovesong and How to Write One," explained to his students that there is no nobler art than writing a love song. Molden told Ö1: "Actually, I've been writing songs for decades to be considered cool by the same woman."

The album project "Mei Liab" is now dedicated entirely and exclusively to the love song, in a unique and unprecedented collaboration: With the Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln (comprising violinists Peter Uhler and Nikolai Tunkowitsch, the grandmaster of the Viennese button accordion, Marie-Theres Stickler, and contraguitarist and bandleader Peter Havlicek), Ernst Molden has found himself alongside sensitive modernizers of classic Viennese folk music and outstanding arrangers.

The collaboration began after the death of Willi Resetarits, when Ernst Molden stepped in with the Schrammeln in place of the deceased singer. This was followed by several concerts in Vienna and the Austrian provinces, culminating in a joint performance as part of André Heller's Vienna Evening at the Elbphilharmonie in March 2024. The "Mei Liab" cycle brings together eight newly composed love songs by Molden with four older, sometimes iconic, pieces (e.g., "Es Lem").


The collaboration began after the death of Willi Resetarits, when Ernst Molden performed with the Schrammeln in his place. Following the tragic loss of Walther Soyka in spring 2025, Marie-Theres Stickler (known, among other things, from Alma) will now be playing the accordion.

Lineup: Ernst Molden: vocals, guitar; Tini Kainrath: vocals; Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln:
Peter Uhler, Nikolai Tunkowitsch: violin; Marie-Theres Stickler: chromatic button accordion;

Peter Havlicek: contraguitar

(Source: theaterimpark.at)