Marianne Mendt

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Marianne Mendt (2016)

Marianne Mendt (* 29. September 1945 in Vienna as Marianne Krupicka ) is an Austrian singer and actress .

Life

As a child, Marianne Mendt received private lessons in classical singing and enjoyed six years of piano lessons. After graduating from business school, she worked for the detergent company Henkel for three years , but then followed her calling. After completing her vocal training and having passed the exam as a “performing artist”, she toured Europe with her band The Internationals as a singer and bassist.

In 1970 she returned to Vienna and was discovered by Gerhard Bronner . He wrote the text for the song Wie a Glock'n for her , which is considered to be the initial spark for Austropop and the Austrian “dialect wave”. The music for this came from Hans Salomon and was the theme tune of Bronner's satirical TV show "The Big Bell". The song was presented in the 10th episode of this program, broadcast on June 30, 1970 in the first program of the ORF . The album Wie a Glock'n, which Mendt released with Bronner and Salomon with the assistance of André Heller and Werner Schneyder in 1970, also features (jazz) classics such as Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; Spinning Wheel or the musical hit Aquarius , for which an "Austrian" text was written.

Wie a Glock'n was voted 8th of the “100 most important Austrian pop songs” by the pop culture magazine The Gap in 2020 in the AustroTOP ranking.

In 1971 she represented Austria in Dublin at the Eurovision Song Contest , but achieved only 16th and third from last place with her song Musik .

In 1972 Mendt released the long-playing record Gute Lieder sind wie Pistolen, which was produced by André Heller . In addition, Georg Danzer , Robert Opratko and Richard Oesterreicher were involved as lyricists and composers on this album .

After the birth of her daughter Anna, Mendt concentrated mainly on work in Vienna and increasingly played theater, including at the Vienna Raimund Theater and the Theater in der Josefstadt , and in feature films, but also continued to publish long-playing records and appeared as a singer in television programs in Germany and Austria. She achieved great fame in the years 1992 to 2000, especially in the role of 'Gitti Schimek' in the ORF television series Kaisermühlen Blues .

In 2000 Mendt released the album Friends and Prophets, on which she rearranged some of her early songs as duets with some of her early companions such as André Heller or Georg Danzer .

Marianne Mendt (2008)

From 2002, Mendt was chairwoman of SOS Mitmensch for a year .

On November 1, 2004, she started the young talent competition “Take Your Chance” in the Viennese backdrop ; this ended on May 13, 2005 in Dornbirn . At the same time she organized a jazz festival . This MM jazz festival took place for the first time from September 14th to 18th, 2005 in St. Pölten , with participants such as Peter Wolf , Upper Austrian Bigband , Lungau Big Band , Karl Ratzer , Richard Oesterreicher and Viktor Gernot , and established itself in the following years, young talents from the MM jazz promotion team were also presented. Since 2004, “die” Mendt has been a regular guest with her band - Thomas Kugi ts, Oliver Kent p, Werner Feldgrill b, Mario Gonzi dr - in Vienna's Jazzland between Christmas and New Year .

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Singles

  • 1970 Like a bell
  • 1971 music
  • 1972 Good songs are like pistols
  • 1972 I wish myself for Christmas
  • 1972 I'm there in you
  • 1974 Come on, old piano player
  • 1977 I laugh tears when you lie
  • 1981 Berlin
  • 2000 Like a bell
  • 2000 will be alright , with Georg Danzer

LPs / CDs

  • 1970 Like a Glock'n ... (LP)
  • 1972 Good songs are like pistols (LP)
  • 1974 Viennese songs (LP)
  • 1975 Lieder Songs Schlager (LP)
  • 1975 My songs (LP compliance)
  • 1978 New Songs (LP)
  • 1994 Momendt (CD)
  • 1997 Jazz Mendt Live (Live CD)
  • 2000 Friends and Prophets (CD)
  • 2000 Gold Collection (CD compliance)
  • 2003 Momendts (Live CD)
  • 2004 The Very Best Of (CD compliance)
  • 2010 Wie a Glock'n - The EMI recordings 1970–1972 (CD re-release of the LPs Wie a Glock'n and Gute Lieder are like pistols as well as the singles I wish me for Christmas and music with the respective B-sides)
  • 2010 Come on, old piano player - The EMI recordings 1974–1981 (CD re-release of the LPs Lieder Songs Schlager and Neue Lieder as well as the singles I laugh tears when you lie and Berlin with the respective B-sides)
  • 2014 More… and more Jazz (CD)

Soundtracks / Duets

  • 1971 "The Seven Sins" - Soundtrack "The Naked Countess" - 1 track
  • 1990 “Heasd Karli, you bisd a madness”, duet with Georg Danzer
  • 1999 "Kaisermühlen Blues" - soundtrack "Kaisermühlen Blues" - 1 track
  • 2000 "Musical highlights from his time" - "I don't get on love anymore" (from "Das Appartement") - 1 title
  • 2005 "Austria for Asia", charity CD with Marianne Mendt, Stürmer, Ambros, Fendrich, Danzer, Papermoon etc.

Filmography

Theater / musical

  • Funny Girl (musical, German premiere), Essen / Cologne 1972/1973
  • The apartment (musical), Theater an der Wien 1973/1974
  • Moral , St. Gallen 1974
  • The apartment (musical), Zürcher Schauspielhaus 1976/1977
  • Richard's Korkbein , Graz Schauspielhaus 1977
  • Faith, love, hope , theater in the Josefstadt 1977/1978
  • Parisian Life , Schillertheater Berlin 1978/1979
  • Liebelei , tour 1981
  • I'll get out and do my own show , tour 1984
  • Die Gigerln von Wien , Raimundtheater 1985
  • The tramps , Raimundtheater 1986
  • All waltzes , Kammerspiele 1988/1989
  • Duel / Duet , Austrian theaters 1988/1989
  • Visiting time , Rabenhof 1990
  • Vienna Dance of Death , Rabenhof 1990
  • Rumors - Rumors , Kammerspiele 1991
  • The Entertainer , Theater in der Josefstadt 1994
  • Lumpazivagabundus , Theater in der Josefstadt 1995/1996
  • Nonsense , Metropol 1998
  • Liebelei , Reichenau 1999
  • The last days of mankind , Semmering 2000
  • Time Out (musical), Stockerau, 2001/2002

Awards

Web links

Commons : Marianne Mendt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AustroTOP - The 100 most important Austrian pop songs - page 22 from April 28th, 14th 2020, accessed on April 23rd, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Marianne Mendt became "Frau Professor" on ORF on September 14, 2014, accessed on October 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ orf.at - Marianne Mendt receives Amadeus Award for life's work . Article dated March 21, 2016, accessed March 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Mendt, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krupicka, Marianne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria