This past Christmas Day, viewers in Germany and Austria tuned in to schlager/pop superstar, Helene Fischer, as she hosted her first TV special.
From the snippets we got, Fischer was stunning in appearance, as usual, and the offer of a prime time TV special at 8:15 pm on Christmas, was clearly an indication of Helene Fischer's growing popularity in the German-speaking world.
The event was shot before an audience of 12,000 at the Berlin Velodrom, Germany's second largest concert venue and was broadcast on both MDR and ADR TV networks.
It was a variety show, with plenty of musical acts, including such schlager mainstays as Andrea Berg and Semino Rossi. It also featured an intriguing, if somewhat bizarre, acrobatic act which exhibited Fischer's own acrobatic dexterity.
It also included Ms. Fischer participating in a magic act, video of which, we mercifully were unable to obtain and view.
On the downside, the show included Fischer performing a schmaltzy duet, with the ever-saccharine American has-been, Michael Bolton. (Why is she so insistent on continually performing with this 80s re-tread?)
Here from her 2011 Christmas TV special, Fischer sings the legendary American crooner, Frank Sinatra's 1966 pop hit, "Somethin' Stupid" with Sesame Street's (which was a creation of the US Public Broadcasting System) Bert and Ernie:
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