About the artists
The Wienerlied is alive!
And the acoustic duo Die Strottern is not entirely innocent of this: for over 20 years, Klemens Lendl and David Müller have been dusting off the Viennese song so thoroughly, both musically and in terms of content, that a local song tradition has given rise to music that is understood all over the world. Awards such as the German World Music Prize RUTH or the AMADEUS Austrian Music Award bear witness to this.
At the end of the 1980s, as teenagers, Klemens Lendl and David Müller began to make music together. They made their first acquaintance with old Viennese songs in the mid-1990s, but it was not until they met the Viennese poet Peter Ahorner around the turn of the millennium that they found their musical home in the New Viennese Song. In 2003, they released their first CD of original songs, and since then Die Strottern have explored the fringes of Viennese music on eight more albums. Again and again they search for new and today valid means of expression and themes for the Viennese song in interaction with musicians from other genres from jazz to old music.
This has resulted in joint programs with JazzWerkstatt Wien, Ensemble Mikado, Franui, Hannes Löschel, Christoph Bochdansky, Matthias Schorn, Willi Resetarits, Velvet Elevator, Ramsch & Rosen, Barbara Romen & Gunter Schneider, Zur Wachauerin, Maja Osojnik, Lukas Kranzelbinder, Matthias Loibner and with their "DeLuxe line-up" Die Strottern & Blech (with Martin Eberle on trumpet/flugelhorn and Martin Ptak on trombone/harmonium).
Klemens Lendl, vocals & violin
David Müller, vocals & guitar
