#And although I've reached out more to Nicole because of it she is ALSO busy graduating her Grad degree and with work and stuffs

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION (by me)

N.TV.DE 25/10/19

https://www.n-tv.de/leute/musik/Ich-bin-schon-wieder-von-mir-gelangweilt-article21329808.html

Tom, Conchita or Wurst?

"I'm bored of myself again"

In 2014, Conchita Wurst wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, as it has never before. In gilded robe, with long hair and full beard, she performs the anthem "Rise Like A Phoenix" and can inspire fans of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) worldwide. Since then, she has been an integral part of the gossip columns, although - or because - her look and gender identity have changed since then.

When Thomas Neuwirth was born in Austria, she now wants to be referred to as "he" again and only be called Wurst. Under this name, "Truth Over Magnitude" is now the third album of the singer, who previously performed rather as a singing drag queen. With his 2018 outing as an HIV-positive Wurst once again hit the headlines and was praised by many for his courage and his openness. He too does not see himself as a victim. Rather, he is one of the recipients, as he tells in an interview with n-tv.de. And he also explains why Heidi Klum has in his eyes quite the right to moderate on the side of him and Bill Kaulitz just a show for drag queens.

n-tv.de: You just introduced yourself to me as Tom, your album appears under the name Wurst, for a while you were Conchita or Conchita Wurst. Does it depend on your daily form or rather on the respective stage of life?

Wurst: You can really rely on nothing, right? (laughs) I'm always tempted to explain myself when I'm asked that question, and of course I want to give a good answer for everyone to be satisfied. But I'm afraid that answer does not exist. There are moments when Conchita is appropriate. Then there are moments when I would not call myself Conchita. There is no rule. If you're writing Conchita, it's just as correct as writing Wurst or Tom.

In the end, it's wurst (not important) - an ambiguous sentence somehow. At the very least, your album "Truth Over Magnitude" will appear under this name, which is far less glamorous than the title, the music or even you.

In fact, Wurst was a second. I'm a visual person, and we knew "Trash All The Glam" would be the first single. I saw the video in front of me and knew that I had to go down the escalator and stand there like an exit sign "Wurst". Suddenly everything was clear. Absurdly, looking back, Conchita Wurst sums me up perfectly. I have a side that is very glamorous, polished, friendly, polite and considerate. And then I have a page that is irrational, eaten away by ego. I can be terrible to the people I love.

That's the Wurst side?

This is the Wurst page. I started to separate that. As Conchita to be the president's wife and to live according to the protocol that I came up with. That's how I totally reduced myself. I understood that now. Now I'm getting everything I have. If I feel like it, I'm hyperfeminine, whatever that means. Or I am just masculine.

How do other people react to you? Are you exposed to hostility because of these traits?

I am an absolute lucky child, I had a great childhood. We were all teenagers, that's difficult, no matter if you wear braces or are gay. Something is always found. So far I have had no traumatizing encounters with people. So I can not really speak of what it means to feel threatened, because I never had to.

You have called your album "Truth Over Magnitude". Is that a kind of life motto? Your mantra?

That's something I had to learn or still learn. Being able to dose my own ego a bit, being a bit more sensitive - with myself too. As a bearded drag queen, I won the ESC and pinned it to my chest, individualism is great. I often came into the situation that I thought, why I do not actually listen to myself. Why do not I kill what I say? Why do I care so much what others say about me? And I think I've learned that over the past year and a half and reduced it to a large extent. I love being uncompromising myself. Now even more than before. And that is also this album. Had I been able to write it myself, I would have done it.

Again, you are more honest than many others who claim to make their music single-handedly.

I've teamed up with the most talented people in my environment, Eva Klampfer and Albin Janoska. She wrote the lyrics and tunes and he produced the album. That was so liberating and so beautiful. Eva knows a lot more about me than she ever wanted.

So you - like a therapist - told her about you, about your life, about your topics, and then she put that into song form?

It really was a bit of a therapy session. We talked about the world, how we see things that happened to me, how I feel that, how I put it. For me it was incredibly exciting, but also the way she works.

You've done glamorous pop music so far, "Truth Over Magnitude" is definitely more electronic. Why did you take this step?

My musical education ranges from Celine Dion to Björk. I always wanted to be Celine Dion and have achieved that a bit in my world. Then I thought: why do not I make the music that I also hear privately? And so the decision of the music style was already there. I wanted it to be closer to what I consume privately.

What other artists are there, who have influenced you in this regard?

A bit of Robyn, a bit of Moloko, a touch of Massive Attack ... that was about the Mood Board. What I found totally cool, is what Albin did: I pick up things that come to my mind in an irregular pattern on my laptop. Echo, Hall, I sing and yell something in there. I gave him everything and he swapped my voice samples, pitched and trallala. This is how a special sound was created.

So you were almost your own instrument?

Yeah, I take over. (Laughs)

You like to reinvent yourself. At some point - for example - do you ever have the feeling of having arrived?

I am already bored of myself again. What could I do now? I have been able to do a lot of new things in the near past, which has already inspired me a lot. I'm curious how this evolves.

Let's talk about it. You moderate at the side of Heidi Klum and Bill Kaulitz the Prosieben show "Queen of the Drags". Did you understand the criticism of the LGBTQ community of the decision to put Klum on the jury?

I can understand that it irritates at first glance. But I was also very surprised, because that was revealing of our community, which always insists on integration. I thought that was a pity and had to let me explain the problem first. I think Heidi has the absolute right to be on a jury that judges entertainment. She can. She has been in this business long enough.

And with Heidi Klum on the jury, you may also reach more people outside the LGBTQ cosmos. Do you think that such a show can open doors in this way?

I hope so. Of course, because Heidi is a multiplier for a format that did not exist in German-speaking countries. I want to have a great show, great performances, but I also think that this show has the potential to show people who are loveable and open hearts. That would be the most important thing to me. I'm not concerned that anyone understands something or suddenly finds it great, but that he sees that we are all human. We all have the same problems, the same uncertainties. Let's stop diverging.

Nicole Ankelmann spoke with Tom Neuwirth aka Wurst