Katharina Franck

Katharina Franck at Cologne Pride 2009

Katharina Franck (born July 28, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) is a German singer and instrumental musician. She was best known with her band Rainbirds .

Life

Katharina Franck grew up in Portugal because her father worked there as a Thyssen representative. From 1974 to 1977 she lived in São Paulo , Brazil, and began playing the guitar and writing songs in English. Back in Portugal she made her first band, stage and studio experience.

In 1981 she moved to Cologne. First attempts with cut-ups , poems and prose in German followed. When pop course at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg took her first singing lessons. In 1983 she moved to Berlin and initially kept herself afloat with part-time jobs. In 1985 she became a member of the band Les Black Carnations , where she operated under the name Justine Time .

In the spring of 1986 she founded the band Rainbirds , with which she won the Berlin Senate Rock Competition and was then signed to the Mercury record company . The single Blueprint became a European hit in 1988. The band was reformed several times and released a total of six studio albums. The last publication was Yonder in 2014 .

From 1990 to 1994 she was a member of the band Stein (along with FM Einheit von den Einstürzende Neubauten and Ulrike Haage ), with whom she released three albums.

After various guest appearances and a radio play release, Franck's first solo album Hunger was released in 1997 , which she describes as Spoken Popsongs . In 2002 the second solo album, Slow Motion Cinema, was released with further spoken pop songs .

A singer / songwriter album in English was released in 2006 with First Take Second Skin , followed by On the Verge of an Autobiography in 2008.

Between autumn 2009 and autumn 2010 Katharina Franck brought a song retrospective to the stage. Around 30 tracks from all albums, early works, and new, as yet unreleased songs. In the meantime, the collaboration with Reinhardt Repke's Club of Dead Poets began . The result was the album Eine Wunders Melodie - Rainer Maria Rilke set to music . The joint tour across Germany began on September 10, 2010 and ended on January 28, 2012.

Private life

Franck has lived in Neuruppin since 2012 , her partner lives in Neukölln . Your mother lives in Portugal.

Discography

With the Rainbirds

Rainbirds (1987)
Call Me Easy, Say I'm Strong, Love Me My Way, It Ain't Wrong (1989)
Two faces (1991)
In a different light (1993)
Making Memory (1996)
Forever (1997)
3000.live (1999)
Yonder (2014)

With the STEIN group

Stone (1990)
Stone Age (1992)
King Sugar (1994)

solo

Hunger (1997)
Slow motion cinema (2002)
First Take Second Skin (2006)
On the verge of an autobiography (2008)
Music! Music! (2018)

Guest appearances

Gudrun Gut - Members of the Ocean Club (1996)
Ammer / Haage - Seven Dances Of The Holy Ghost (1998)
Rosanna & Zélia - Coisario (1999)
Edgar Allan Poe - Visions (2006)
Reinhardt Repkes' Club der toten Dichter - A miracle's melody - Rainer Maria Rilke newly set to music (2010)

As Justine Time at LES BLACK CARNATIONS

THESE Were LES BLACK CARNATIONS (1988)
Beat The Attitude (1986)

Radio plays

1999: Franck / Haage / Bowles : With our way of life, it is very pleasant to be invited to a party well in advance . With Judith Engel , Katharina Franck, Tatja Seibt . BR Radio Play and Media Arts in 1999. From the German Academy of Performing Arts as a radio play of the month award September 1999.
2005: Franck / Haage: I was fishing , SWR 2005 radioARTliteratur. First broadcast on May 1, 2005
2007: The signal was given over the radio . With Katharina Franck, Mathias Mauersberger. Director: Katharina Franck. BR radio play and media art 2007. First broadcast May 4, 2007. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
2007: Nazaré - not the city, the woman . Radio play with Katharina Franck. Composition: Nuno Rebelo, Director: Katharina Franck. BR radio play and media art 2007. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
2013: Andreas Ammer : God . With Katharina Franck, Andreas Ammer, Carl-Ludwig Reichert . Composition: Console / NU / Karl Ivar Refseth . Director: Andreas Ammer. BR radio play and media art 2013. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.