Barbara Thalheim

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Barbara Thalheim 2017 at the song festival at Waldeck Castle

Barbara Thalheim (born September 5, 1947 in Leipzig ) is a German singer and songwriter who celebrated her 40th stage anniversary in 2013.

Life

Barbara Thalheim is the daughter of a German communist who emigrated to Africa and France in 1933 and was later extradited to the Gestapo . He survived the Dachau concentration camp and worked in various cultural institutions in the GDR after the war . Barbara Thalheim was trained as a singer in the Central Studio for Entertainment Art of the GDR and was taught by Wolfram Heicking at the Berlin University of Music "Hanns Eisler" . She has two children and lives in Berlin.

Artistic work

From 1970 to 1972 she was a singer in the "Chansongruppe Berlin", during which time she released her first single for the state record company Amiga . Her next band was a classical string quartet , with which she worked until 1980. Since 1977 she has made regular guest appearances in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland and France, but also continued to publish records in the GDR. The first two LPs - curriculum vitae and What do I start with ... - also appeared under license in the Federal Republic of Germany . Until 1993, Fritz-Jochen Kopka , with whom she lived for 25 years and has two daughters, wrote the lyrics of her songs. She stood together with Georges Moustaki , Konstantin Wecker , Herman van Veen , Hanns Dieter Hüsch , Marek Grechuta , Hana Hegerová , Georg Danzer u. a. on stage.

In 1980 she protested with a text published in the German media against the SED leadership's ban on performances by GDR artists in Western Europe. She was then expelled from the SED and repeatedly banned from appearing. After a long break, however, she was able to record LPs again with Amiga with a new band and new programs and represented the GDR in the West with concerts and talk shows.

In 1990 she went on tour with the East German rock band Pankow , with whom she produced the CD Ende der Märchen .

From 1993 she worked with the French composer and accordionist Jean Pacalet , who died in the summer of 2011. Since 2001 the texts for her songs have been created in close collaboration with the Dresden poet Michael Wüstefeld .

In 1995 she announced that she no longer wanted to perform as a singer and went on a stage farewell tour. Then she founded a culture and management office and organized a. a. the summer festival Schaustelle Berlin for the Berlin Senate . After a serious illness she "resigned from his resignation" in 1999 and she went on tour with Jean Pacalet and band again with new songs and took part in theater productions.

Barbara Thalheim with her trio in 2017 at the song festival at Waldeck Castle

In spring 2012 the songwriter was a quarterly scholarship holder of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture at Künstlerhof Schreyahn , Wendland. There new songs were created, with which she is on the road again. In December 2012 Barbara Thalheim was in Chile for concerts .

Awards

  • 1975, 1977 and 1979: Gold medal "Performance show of entertainment" (the GDR) for the programs There are days , curriculum vitae and In the night, in power, in need, people do not like to be alone
  • 1980: Buxtehuder Kleinkunstigel
  • 1989: Art Prize of the GDR
  • 1990: Martini Prize of the Palatinate SPD for “Services to Enlightenment and Democracy” with Ulrike Poppe and Friedrich Schorlemmer
  • 1994: German Record Critics' Award for the album Fremdegehen (1994)
  • 2001: "Coup de coeur" in France for their French CD Fière de ma grande gueule (2001)
  • 2004: Prize of the German Record Critics for the album Insel sein

Stasi past

In 1972 Barbara Thalheim signed a declaration of commitment with the Ministry for State Security . After being expelled from the party in 1980, the latter ended their cooperation with Thalheim, after having previously set up an operational procedure directed against them . On July 29, 1996, Der Spiegel published a short article called IM Elvira . Barbara Thalheim had previously made her IM work public in an interview , which had not yet been broadcast when the Spiegel article appeared. She also reported in various interviews that she had asked the journalist Karl-Heinz Baum from the Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) in 1993 to research and publish her files . This publication in the Frankfurter Rundschau took place on July 29, 1996 under the heading: “We would never have hinted at a word to you”. The songwriter Barbara Thalheim was a Stasi informant, but she did not put her friend in jail. She herself discussed the background to the publication with the Spiegel article in a dispute with Henryk M. Broder . In 2000, Barbara Thalheim described her recruitment as an IM in the autobiography Mugge . In the book she contradicts the allegations that she had provided reports about her colleagues Stephan Krawczyk and Freya Klier , which Krawczyk addressed in an article in Stern : “The reports from Ms. Thalheim contributed to the fact that her long-time friend Gabi L. Had to sit in prison. Now Mrs. Thalheim wants to wash herself clean with her thin sacrificial bag and is peddling it. The fat criminal record is in the archive. It looks bad there. At some point, Ms. Thalheim will have taken sufficient care to ensure that she is remembered as a good person. ”However, the alleged victim also had a say in the Frankfurter Rundschau of July 29, 1996 and contradicts the claim that Barbara Thalheim had her“ anti-republicans ” “Reveal plans. According to her acts of sacrifice, this cannot be shown. In 2005, Ed Stuhler's feature for Deutschlandradio (“Nothing remains secret”) focused on her IM work.

politics

In the 2009 Bundestag election, Thalheim publicly called for the election of the Left Party .

Discography

  • Spring in the Schönhauser / She stood on the balcony (with Klaus-Dieter Adomatis), single 1971, Amiga
  • CV , LP 1977, Amiga, Polydor
  • What do I do with myself , LP 1979, Amiga, Polydor
  • And nobody says: I love you , LP 1982, Amiga
  • Die Kinder der Nacht , LP 1985, Amiga
  • Living Without Regulations , LP 1988, Castle Records
  • The woman from the man , LP 1988, Amiga
  • Neue Reiche , LP / CD 1990, German records Berlin
  • From the west of the world , LP / CD 1991, Nebelhorn
  • Ende der Märchen , LP / CD 1992, Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin (with the rock band Pankow )
  • Cheating , CD 1993, Nebelhorn (with Jean Pacalet )
  • So let's shine until we become , CD 1995, Nebelhorn
  • Abgesang , CD 1995, BMG
  • On our own behalf - Neue Lieder , CD 1998, BMG
  • Fière de ma grande gueule , CD 2001, Nebelhorn (with Jean Pacalet)
  • To be German ... , CD 2003, duo-phon-records (with Jean Pacalet)
  • Insel sein , CD 2004, duo-phon-records (with Jean Pacalet)
  • Poe & Sie - Rabenverse und Wi (e) derlieder , CD 2006, duo-phon-records
  • Still , CD 2007, plans
  • heart lost , CD 2009, plans
  • Interlude , CD 2013, conträr musik
  • AltTag , DVD 2015, conträr musik
  • full year , DVD 2018

Publications

  • Barbara Thalheim: Mugge. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932180-76-3
  • Before death, all is life: lyrics / notes / thoughts / stories , with pictures by Linde Kauert. Double edition, 2011, ISBN 978-3-940408-17-4 .

literature

  • Lutz Kirchenwitz:  Thalheim, Barbara . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • I have questions. I have truths. in Gerda Szepansky: The silent emancipation. Women in the GDR. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12075-6 .
  • Wolfgang Lange: Barbara Thalheim. Seekers in life and in art. Wolfgang Lange in conversation with the songwriter and singer . In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. Rock, pop, hit songs, revue, circus, cabaret, magic - an almanac (=  cassette ). No. 7 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1984, p. 6-14 .

Movie

Web links

Commons : Barbara Thalheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Longing for the broken . In: Die Zeit , No. 38/1991
  2. ↑ nachtausgabe.de of November 5, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nachtausgabe.de
  3. ↑ The elder would like to die of your forgetfulness ... (with Jean Pacalet and Klaus Fiedler ), Magdeburger Feuerwache , 2009 ( schauspielschule-berlin.de: Chronicle ( Memento from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))
  4. ↑ portrait. ( Memento from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Festival Music and Politics
  5. ↑ Buxtehude Kleinkunstigel
  6. ↑ Wehleid anger resistance . In: Die Welt , April 14, 2001
  7. ^ Winner of the Martini Prize ( Memento from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Winner 2004
  9. ↑ faz.net
  10. ↑ a b Thalheim confirmed Stasi support . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 30, 1996
  11. ↑ IM Elvira . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1996, pp. 157 ( online ).
  12. ^ IM Elvira: incurably healthy Henryk M. Broder's homepage
  13. ↑ Article The Star
  14. ↑ Karl-Heinz Baum: Article Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved June 29, 1996 .
  15. ↑ Feature Deutschlandradio 2005
  16. ↑ Call for the election of the left, signed by Thalheim ( Memento from January 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Born to see ( Memento from September 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on filmzeit.de
personal data
SURNAME Thalheim, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig