Heiner Lürig

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Heiner Lürig (* 1954 in Hanover ) is a German musician , guitarist , producer , composer and musical writer. For many years he was the musical director of the backing band Reinforced by Heinz Rudolf Kunze .

Life

Heiner Lürig originally wanted to study medicine, but finally changed his mind in 1979 and became a professional musician. He first played in local bands before joining Bernward Büker as a guitarist and co-writer in 1981 . In the EMI studios he met Horst Luedtke, who later made contact with Heinz Rudolf Kunze. In 1983 and 1984 Lürig and Hanz Marathon produced two albums with instrumental music under the name "Magic Guitars". Heiner Lürig has lived in Fritzlar since 2015 .

Cooperation with Heinz Rudolf Kunze

As a musician, composer, producer

In 1985 Lürig began his collaboration with Heinz Rudolf Kunze, to which he brought the music to Kunze's successful hit “ Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz ”. Since then he has created the musical garb for many Kunze texts, so that they have become successful hits. “With body and soul”, “Find Mabel”, “Anything she wants”, “If you don't come back”, “Don't hang up”, “All over the world” - these songs are exemplary.

Lürig was from then on in all albums and tours of Heinz Rudolf Kunze as a musician, musical director of the backing reinforcement and often also involved as a music producer prevail.

In 2002 Lürig decided to withdraw from the close cooperation with Heinz Rudolf Kunze for the time being. Kunze's 25th stage anniversary in 2005, Kunze and Lürig celebrated together, the double DVD "Man see yourself - 25 years HRK" was produced by Heiner Lürig and Phil Friederichs . The album “Klare Zeiten” (2006) was the last album produced together - Kunze and Lürig went their own way from there. According to his own statements, Heiner Lürig has been on stage at around 1,500 concerts at the side of Heinz Rudolf Kunze and made music.

In 2005 Kunze and Lürig contributed to the German Evangelical Kirchentag 2005 the Kirchentaglied More than this / If your child asks you tomorrow . For this purpose, a CD special edition with a print run of 10,000 copies was published.

In 2008 Lürig edited the four most successful Kunze albums and supplemented their new releases with demo and live versions as well as unreleased songs. For the 30th stage anniversary of Heinz Rudolf Kunze in 2010, the DVD box "In old Freshness" was released under Lürig's supervision, which also contains the concert "An evening with glasses" (uncut version from the E-Werk in Cologne, April 22, 1991 - it is considered one of the best HRK concerts).

In January 2014 the "Heinz Rudolf Kunze - Limited Deluxe Edition" was published, which consists of five CD boxes (12 CDs). The limited edition of the rocket label comprises a total of eight Kunze albums restored by Lürig from the creative phase between 1983 and 2001.

On the occasion of the official end of hard coal mining in Germany in December 2018, Heiner Lürig composed music to a text by Bettina von der Höh. The resulting song is titled "The last shift of the mate - Black tears pit", sung by the composer.

Heiner Lürig composed the two songs The time is ripe and Today is good , which he also produced in his studio in Fritzlar, for Heinz Rudolf Kunze's album Der Truth die Ehre (2020) . The album reached number 3 on the German album charts when it was released.

As a musical composer and producer

The collaboration between Lürig and Kunze continued in the area of ​​musicals: In the summer of 2003, the Kunze-Lürig musical A Midsummer Night's Dream premiered in the Herrenhausen Gardens, Hanover's open-air theater. A new musical was created based on William Shakespeare. The piece was performed again from 2004 to 2006 and 2010 to 2014 in Hanover-Herrenhausen. In a total of five seasons, this musical brought it to the last curtain on August 30, 2014 to 89 performances with 65,000 spectators.

In 2006 Heiner Lürig composed 20 new songs for another Shakespeare musical. Heinz Rudolf Kunze wrote the lyrics, and in the summer of 2007 “Clothes Make Love or: What You Want” premiered, again in Herrenhausen, again with great response. A CD for the musical was also released.

In 2011 "The Tempest" followed in Herrenhausen as the third Shakespeare musical by Lürig and Kunze. In 2018 the two artists performed their version of As You Like It in the Theater am Aegi in Hanover. The musical A Midsummer Night's Dream by Kunze and Lürig was performed from June 21 to July 28, 2018 at the Württemberg State Theater in Esslingen - the venue was the Maille City Park.

In October 2019 Heiner Lürig released an album he produced with the songs of the Kunze Lürig musical As You Like It , sung by the performers of the world premiere in 2018 in Hanover and the composer.

Collaboration with other musicians

Heiner Lürig has also worked for other artists: for example, he composed and produced titles for Herman van Veen such as Blaue Flecken , Du or Du und Ja . For Reinhard Mey he produced a few songs on the CDs “Alles geht” and “Farben”. In 2015, Heinz Rudolf Kunze and Heiner Lürig wrote the song “Das Gute” for Bernd Stelter , which appeared on the album “Who sings songs, doesn't need a therapist”.

Important Lürig was the first German-German production "Welcome to the world" with a native of the GDR Tino Eisbrenner . It was continued in 1999 with the album "Stark sein", to which Lürig contributed compositions.

In 2008, the collaboration between Lürig and Tino Eisbrenner revived. The band project is called houseboat . The album “strom ab” was released in October 2009. In 2010 the track “Wouldn't be difficult” became a small radio hit. The second houseboat album "The River of Time" was released at the end of March 2017, followed in January 2020 by the album The Last Holy Things .

In Fee Badenius' album Superheldenteam (2020) , Heiner Lürig and his son Marius Lürig are musically involved in two tracks, the songs were recorded and produced in Lürig's recording studio in Fritzlar.

Film music composer

After moving to Fritzlar in 2015, Lürig composed the music for the film “No Future was yesterday” in his new studio, which was released in April 2016.

Varia

  • In 2012 the album Ich bin von Heinz Rudolf Kunze was released with a duet title sung by Kunze and Heiner Lürig.
  • Heiner Lürig had already devised the compositions of some of the later successful titles before he began working with Kunze - Kunze then wrote the lyrics for the finished melodies. Examples of this are the songs "Your is my whole heart", "With body and soul" and "Rubble and ash".

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - accessed on February 28, 2016
  2. ↑ Heiner Lürig: Published compositions 1980–2020 (as of January 2020). Homepage of Heiner Lürig. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Source: HL, information from July 2019
  4. ↑ epd agency report and lyrics , accessed on February 22, 2020
  5. ↑ Heiner Lürig (2010): “I wanted to show the path of a band that - without even knowing it at the time - fit together ideally and especially with Heinz Rudolf Kunze, like no other line-up before or after. When the "Rumor Brass" joined the very successful 1986 band, the peak of musicality and power development on stage was reached, which the 1991 "Brille" concert, recorded in Cologne's "E-Werk", impressively shows. It was recorded at the highest point of the curve, so to speak. In the series 1985 Hamburg - 1989 Berlin - 1991 Cologne - 1994 Cologne the stations are traced: The way in which Heinz changed during this time, how his singing style developed, how the songs became more complex - towards "Goethe's Banjo", what Atonal ends and stands at one end of the musical spectrum. At the other end, however, a love song like “Ich habs tried.” This balancing act shows the full strength of HRK & reinforcement. As the absolute highlight of the box, I see a document from spring 1989, when HRK & Reinforcement were allowed to give a concert in East Berlin shortly before the end of the GDR. The German version of “Imagine” was incredibly intense. The concerts that should be used were quickly clear. It took a very long time to get all rights to It was up to Phil Friederichs, Heinz and me to view the audio and video material. The biggest problem was initially finding the original tapes, as they weren't really understandable were agert. We discovered that most of the multitrack tapes could no longer be played and could not be restored - hope for a good ending waned ... I then tried to create a usable sound from the existing audio material until everyone involved was satisfied and believed in the project again. There was only a mono recording of one of the concerts, but even with that I was able to work in the end. The image cuts were also partially revised, as the camera recordings from some concerts were still available. It took a total of five years - from the first idea to the finished box. The result is more than satisfactory. For those involved at the time, it is touching to see and a fantastic document of this nine-year, extremely creative phase of a German rock band. "- Source: Original template by Heiner Lürig, April 2020
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FNKvm1GbQA - accessed December 28, 2018
  7. ↑ https://werkzeug.heinzrudolfkunze.de/musik/songs/diezeitistreif.html , accessed on February 29, 2020
  8. ↑ https://werkzeug.heinzrudolfkunze.de/musik/songs/heuteistgut.html , accessed on February 29, 2020
  9. ↑ https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-400188 , accessed on February 29, 2020
  10. ↑ http://www.shakespeare-herrenhausen.de/index.php
  11. ↑ http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-Stadt/Uebersicht/Keine-Neuauflage-fuer-Sommernachtstraum
  12. ↑ http://wieeseuchgefaellt-musical.de/ - accessed on June 2, 2018
  13. ↑ http://wieeseuchgefaellt-musical.de/ - accessed on August 4, 2018
  14. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.freiluft-musical-esslingen-der-sommernachtstraum-ein-grosser-irrtum.09b84951-bd18-413a-8e54-dc891d655cb1.html
  15. ↑ http://www.heinerluerig.de/neuheiten/ , accessed on October 1, 2019
  16. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - accessed on February 28, 2016
  17. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/hausboot-die-letzt-heiligen-dinge/hnum/9582434
  19. ↑ https://hinterhofhelden.de/ , accessed on August 8, 2020
  20. ↑ https://www.heinerluerig.de/fee-badenius-2 , accessed on August 8, 2020
  21. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - accessed on February 28, 2016
  22. ↑ http://nofuture-derfilm.de/home/produktion/index.html
  23. ↑ http://werkzeug.heinzrudolfkunze.de/musik/alben/ichbin.html
  24. ↑ Supplement to the digitally remastered Heinz Rudolf Kunze CD “One for all”, page 4, published in 2014
personal data
SURNAME Lürig, Heiner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, guitarist, producer, composer and musical writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover