On November 20th, GOTTHARD took part in RTL's TV show Spendenmarathon - the longest charity broadcast on German television.

An update reads:

It has been a true marathon for Freddy Scherer (guitar) and Marc Lynn (bass) of Gotthard: nearly without any sleep the musicians left Fürth after their show to arrive in Cologne early in the morning, where they had been invited by the biggest German TV show collecting money for poor children, the RTL Spendenmarathon.

Next to an amount of 1001 - the 1001 standing as a symbol for "1001 dreams", for hope - Gotthard were also giving their charming personalities. For more than one hour the two musicians answered the phone calls of people wanting to donate money. Among other telephone celebrities such as boxing legend Henry Maske and soap star Susan Sideropoulus, they were helping to collect as much money as possible during the 24 hour TV marathon.

Directly after their RTL visit, Freddy and Marc had to rush to Gießen where they had their next show the same evening. Leaving with the nice feeling of having done something good, of course, and with admiring all people working in call centres.

"This is really pretty exhausting", both of them summarized. "Our full respect to all of them doing something like this every day."

(Photo: RTL/Gregorowius)