Beitrag für Westart / WDR über das Moka Efti Orchestra
Verfügbar in der WDR Mediathek bis 01.02.2021
Autor: Tim Lienhard Kamera: Gunnar Uhlenhut Schnitt: Ines Müller

„I like this raw darkness of 20ies, this wilderness in the music, this kind of underground.“ „Ich mag diese rohe Dunkelheit der 20iger Jahre, diese Wildheit in der Musik, Underground.“ sagte Severija Janusauskaité, Star aus der TV-Serie BABYLON BERLIN.

Für mich war es ein großes Vergnügen Severija Janusauskaité persönlich kennenzulernen. Nachdem mein Beitrag im WDR ausgestrahlt wurde und das Moka Efti ORCHRESTRA auf der Berlinale-Party von ARTE einen Live-Auftritt hatte, besuchte ich Severija backstage und überraschte sie in Drag. Sie konnte mich erkennen…

Backstage besuchte ich in Drag die Sängerin Severija Janusauskaité vom Moka Efti Orchestra

„In the school I was singing with the boys in chorus, not with the girls.
I was really tall and skinny and with this really strange deep voice.“ „In der Schule habe ich mit den Jungen im Chor gesungen, nicht mit den Mädchen. Ich war groß und dünn und hatte diese wirklich tiefe Stimme.“ sagt Severija Janusauskaité.

Im Beitrag geht es um das Orchestra und natürlich auch die erfolgreiche Serie, aber hier nutze ich die Chance und stelle das Interview mit Severija zu größten Teilen online:

Now I am totally a road girl. Like from a road movie.

It´s a little bit like a road movie , interesting places, strange restaurants, different food of different regions, so it´s really nice.

I travelled a lot, all my life.

I always knew that I like to sing when I was young

In the school I was singing with the boys in chorus, not with the girls.
I was really tall and skinny and with this really strange deep voice.

I was sure that I wont get the role, so I went to Berlin totally relaxed because I didn´t have confidence in me at all, but it was in a funny way because I rehearsed, I showed what I can do an d it happened.

People told me come on you have to do something with that voice.

Being introvert you always feel like being an outsider all the time.

I like queer people .

I think I have something deep inside me.

All of us we have something feminin and masculin , both sides in ourselves , so it was not a problem at all for me. I think it´s really interesting, I think it´s first of all really sexy and erotic.

I had this problem a little bit with my looks, I have a lot of problems about that, on one way, on the other hand mostly I don´t care how I look, but I tried to hide being female, I felt this complex of attention.

I hate attention actually and I always cuted my hair short, because of trying to escape that attention from men.

But at the end it went opposite and I was really surprised.

I am a girl, I am a woman, my sex is a woman !

I like these images, this raw darkness of 20ies, this wilderness in the music, this kind of underground

I like black and white movies. I adore Jean-Luc Godard.

I shoot six movies a year.

I am workoholic, I am too creative, I need to create something beautiful, or ugly , but I am always busy.