Mr. Raabe, you will be 60 this week. Will it be, as your current song says, a "day like gold"? This time I'll skip it, but more out of laziness. Either you celebrate a sixtieth really big, or you don't. We're on tour, it's massive times, I'm glad to have a day off. Two or three of us will have a nice meal.

They made the 1920s trend. Can you get something out of other wild times in Berlin? I came to Berlin in 1985 and felt like the happiest person in the world. I was 20, had my own apartment and thoroughly enjoyed the Berlin clubs – from jungle to Tresor. And Berlin does us the favor of never being boring.

How did you show up in the clubs back then, for example in a tuxedo? Ha, I also wore a jacket in the techno club. But admittedly not a tie.

Is it a loss that men today hardly ever wear a tie or even a tails? I'm in my role the second I put on my tuxedo. And that has something to do with attitude that these clothes give. A starched shirt also works inwards. But you shouldn't take it too seriously, the tailcoat only works if you do and say nonsense in all the elegance.

If it's not a birthday party, what is your best moment in life? Summer, a garden, a hammock, a lake. This is my greatest happiness.