Max Raabe & Palast Orchester

The Palast Orchester was founded in 1986 by Max Raabe and a group of fellow students to play music from Germany's roaring twenties.

They had their first chart success in Germany in 1992 with “No pig calls me” penned by Max Raabe. Two years later she made her collaboration with director Sönke Wortmann known to a large audience for the film “The Moving Man”.

The ten-year stage anniversary of Max Raabe & Palast Orchester was celebrated in 1997 in the sold-out Waldbühne in Berlin.

Concert tours abroad soon followed, the number of which increased significantly in the early 2000s. The ECHO awarded CD “Charming Weill” contributed to this, as did two albums on which Max Raabe & Palast Orchester interpreted current pop titles in the style of the twenties. In particular, the versions of “Sex Bomb”, “Kiss” and “Super Trouper” are still played frequently today.

Since then, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester have toured regularly in the USA and Canada, where they play in famous halls such as the Chicago Symphony Hall, Davies Hall in San Francisco and New York's Carnegie Hall. Further concert tours have taken them to China and Japan over the years , Italy, Russia, Hungary, Poland, the Netherlands, France, England and recently also to Scandinavia and the Baltic States.

In 2010 a successful tour to Israel attracted a lot of attention. The Berlin-Potsdam Jewish Film Festival opened a film documentation of this trip in 2012 and was shown at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Live concert recordings from the Berlin Waldbühne, the Festspielhaus Baden Baden (“Palast Revue”) and the Berlin Admiralspalast were released on DVD (“Tonight or never” and “One night in Berlin”), an original theater from the 20s. This venue also provided the perfect setting for the 2016 TV production “Let's Do It”.

In 2017 Max Raabe & Palast Orchester toured with their concert program “That was still missing”. The title was the motivation for a special campaign: The fans were asked via the Internet to name their favorite songs from the Palast Orchester repertoire, which comprised more than 600 pieces. The most popular became part of “That was still missing”.

Since January 2018, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester have been presenting their program "The perfect moment .. is going to sleep today". The title comes from the latest album that Max Raabe wrote in collaboration with German "pop experts". The concert program consists of a mix of selected tracks from the CD with original arrangements from the 20s / 30s.