Harald Baumgartner and Ursula Anna Baumgartner clear up a misunderstanding right at the beginning: “No, we’re not married,” the two 37-year-olds say in unison. And yet the common name gave the impetus for their collaboration. The singer and the actress got to know each other through friends: “We thought that if we have the same name, we should do something together,” says Harald Baumgartner, who comes from Vöcklabruck. So it was perfect that they also harmonize on the abusive level: “We don’t have any other project where we both laugh so much,” says the Linz native.
The name was also the decisive factor for their program “From the Root to the Coronation”, in which they work out parallels between trees and people with songs, poems and dialogues. On Friday, the Upper Austrians, who now both live in Vienna, will be guests at the Posthof for the first time at 8 p.m. with their program as part of the “Heimspiel” series. They call their job “plant-based cabaret”: “We don’t have any claim to power like we do in cabaret,” says Ursula Anna. “People can laugh and be touched.”
Twice at the song contest
Both are no strangers to their metiers. Harald has already released three dialect albums, written a song for Parov Stelar and was twice as a background singer in the song contest – 2013 with Natália Kelly in Malmö, 2015 with the Makemakes in Vienna. “I was really impressed by how professional everything is going,” he recalls. Ursula Anna, a trained musical actress, was a member of “Vaginas im Dirndl” until its dissolution and can be seen in the play “Amadé und Antoinette” in Vienna’s “Theater der Jugend” from February 16th.
Source: Nachrichten
