Thomas Natschinski

Thomas Natschinski, 2008.

Thomas Natschinski (born October 25, 1947 in Claussnitz , Saxony ) is a German composer and singer who was particularly active in the GDR .

Life

Thomas Natschinski's family moved from Claussnitz to Leipzig in 1949 and to Berlin in 1953. Natschinski, who came into contact with music at an early age through his father, the conductor and composer Gerd Natschinski , began to learn the piano at the age of nine . At the age of 16 he wrote his first songs.

Natschinski studied composition, piano and music theory from 1964 to 1970 at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin . One of his teachers was Rudolf Wagner-Régeny .

While still a student he founded the band Team 4 , which musically leaned mainly on the Beatles , but with German lyrics by Hartmut König . The band name referred to the number of members. The song Mokka-Milch-Eisbar , published in 1968, also dates from this period . It's about the Mocha-Milk-and-Ice-Bar in Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin .

Beat music was still heavily promoted until 1965, but at the end of the year there was a change due to its overly western orientation: many bands were banned and Team 4 had to change the name to Thomas Natschinski and his group . The old name was no longer appropriate anyway, as the group had grown larger in the meantime. In 1968 the band's first Amiga LP, Die Straße , appeared under the following line-up:

• Thomas Natschinski ( lead guitar , vocals )
• Detlev Haak ( rhythm guitar , vocals)
• Fred Krüger ( electric bass , acoustic guitar )
• Martin Just ( keyboard , vocals)
• Gerrit Gräfe ( drums )
• Sanda Weigl (vocals)

In 1973 the band broke up because Thomas Natschinski founded the band Brot und Salz together with Haak . In 1976 he left Bread and Salt to work exclusively as a composer. He wrote many songs, including for Gaby Rückert ( touch from 1980) and Jürgen Walter (being a clown from 1983). He also appeared as a soloist ( A hat full of dreams , I love you more and more ).

1978/1979 Natschinski led Veronika Fischer's band . From 1981 to 1984 he played alongside Ulrich "Ed" Swillms keyboard at Karat .

Since 1976, Thomas Natschinski has been writing the music for numerous films and television games, including the spook series on GDR television and the Police Call 110 episode Katharina (1989), as well as, after the fall of the Wall, Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Dwarfs , The Trotskies and Agency Heart . His more recent works include the music for the RBB series Täter, Opfer, Polizei .

He has worked closely with the Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast since 1987. In 2001 he wrote the fantasy show WUNDERBAR-die 2002th Nacht for its revue theater , which by 2003 saw more than 700,000 spectators in over 400 performances. In 2004 he set to music the last text by Karat singer Herbert Dreilich Sometimes I think and sang it himself on the CD 30 Years of Karat in his honor .

For Natschinski's 60th birthday on October 25, 2007, artists such as Veronika Fischer , Bernd Römer , Rüdiger Barton , Gaby Rückert , Thomas Kurzhals , Jürgen Walter , Heinz-Jürgen Gottschalk and others gave a live concert for him and with him in the Berlin Wabe .

Natschinski lives in Eichwalde near Berlin, is widowed and has a daughter.

Filmography

• 1969: Out in Berlin
• 1980: The special day: light bulbs don't grow on trees

Audio book

• 2001: Kurt Tucholsky : Rheinsberg , arrangement: Matthias Thalheim, music: Thomas Natschinski, direction: Barbara Plensat, with Kurt Böwe, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Gunter Schoß, Dagmar Manzel u. a., Broadcasting of the GDR 1985; The Audio Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-89813-158-0 , reprint 2012: ISBN 978-3-86231-157-6

literature

• HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.
• Jan Wielgohs:  Thomas Natschinski . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Thomas Natschinski in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Works by and about Thomas Natschinski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Thomas Natschinski at Discogs (English)
• Official website of Thomas Natschinski