Ute Lemper on the songs of Kurt Weill

A teenage encounter with his music changed her life. Thirty years and thousands of miles later, Ute Lemper is still passionate about Kurt Weill. By Ed PilkingtonFor Ute Lemper, the smoky-voiced chanteuse who has turned the German songbook of the 1920s into the core of a global theatrical presence, music is not a passion or a skill or a vocation. It is far more visceral than that. For her, music was a means of escaping the suffocating small-mindedness of her Catholic German upbringing. It was the...

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