“I prefer to look ahead, to what I still want to do and what I can do.” Sepp Krassnitzer does not see his birthday today as an occasion to look too far into the past, as he assures in the OÖN interview. The now 75-year-old would have many reasons for this, because after all he was one half of the Austropop duo Waterloo & Robinson. In the 1970s, the two had stormed the international hit parades from Linz.
“This is my little world” – one of the songs with which Krassnitzer helped write Austrian music history. Linz has remained his little world. This is where the native Carinthian ended up at the age of ten when he moved to the provincial capital with his parents and two brothers. Here he met Hans Kreuzmayr, with whom he founded Waterloo & Robinson. From 1969 to 1981, the two were the highly successful pop duo, which also has a hit for eternity in its repertoire with “Hollywood”.
“Time flies”
It would be a lie that he didn’t care what was there on the big stages of the world (including the Song Contest with number 5 in 1976), but in all honesty one has to say that 75 years of life is a clear indication of one thing: “The Time goes by.”
So today Krassnitzer is three quarters of a century old and he can look back on an eventful artistic life. The young man, who studied violin at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz because he really wanted to join the Vienna Philharmonic at the time, became a touchable pop star who has never denied his origins and who has remained musically active to this day. Two years ago, “Licht, Luft und Sonne” was a musical sign of life that brought him back to the German language. A new album is to follow in autumn, and Krassnitzer will present the first single from it next week. “Music is and will always be my life.”
His promotion path will also lead him to Burgenland, where his former singing partner is now at home. “Maybe he’ll stop by when I’m in Eisenstadt,” says Krassnitzer. They would call each other again and again, a reunion is not part of the plans, but Krassnitzer does not want to rule it out either. And today? Today he will celebrate as usual, on a day that is special. Who can say they celebrated their 75th on a Good Friday? (rgr)
Source: Nachrichten
