Achim Mentzel

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Achim Mentzel with Markus Lanz 2011

Achim Mentzel (born July 15, 1946 in Berlin ; † January 4, 2016 in Cottbus ), actually Heinz-Joachim Mentzel, was a German musician and television presenter .

Life

Achim Mentzel was the son of a German from Saarland and a French occupation soldier. He grew up in the East Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg and did an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and decorator after finishing school . In his youth he played soccer for Vorwärts Berlin and, according to his own statements, made it into the Berlin junior team.

In 1963 he founded the Diana Show Quartet , which played predominantly western beat songs. In 1965 the band was banned from performing throughout the GDR; Mentzel was drafted into the NVA , where he was soon accepted into a military band. After the end of his military service, he worked again in his learned profession as an upholsterer. The band leader Manfred Lindenberg finally recruited him for his Manfred Lindenberg sextet and made sure that the still valid performance ban for Mentzel was lifted. He later joined the Alfons Wonneberg Orchestra.

On June 1, 1973, Mentzel spontaneously used a performance by the Alfons Wonneberg Orchestra in West Berlin to flee to West Germany . He settled in Saarland , where a cousin lived, and earned his living as a welder during the day and as a musician in bars at night. After a few months he returned to the GDR . Because Republikflucht he was to ten months in prison sentenced to two years on probation have been suspended. After his return to the GDR he played again in the Alfons Wonneberg Orchestra, but after six months he switched to the Rostock Dance and Show Orchestra.

From 1975 he played together with Nina Hagen in Fritzen's steam band and achieved his first successes as a soloist in 1979. Among other things, he recorded the club anthem, composed by Harry Jeske von der Puhdys , “ Mood in the Alte Försterei” for 1. FC Union Berlin , which was published in 1985 on an Amiga quartet single. In the same year he was able to publish his first solo long-playing record Stimm, Jux und Mentzel . In 1988 he presented an edition of the famous Saturday evening show Ein Kessel Buntes on GDR television . From 1989 on, he moderated the Achim Hit Parade program there , in which mostly folk songs were presented. After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he continued broadcasting on MDR until it was discontinued in late 2006.

Achim Mentzel and various performers in Achim's hit parade were satirized regularly by Oliver Kalkofe in his show Kalkofes Mattscheibe in the 1990s . Mentzel, however, was the first artist to take Kalkofe's criticism with humor and to reciprocate amicably with similar actions - small attacks against Kalkofe placed in his show. A collaboration later developed from this. In the course of time, Mentzel appeared in various specials from Kalkofe's screen and has been friends with Kalkofe since then. In November 2011, the two went on tour through the new federal states with the show Großes Gernsehen . Mentzel also stood in front of the camera with Kalkofe for an episode of the television series Chili TV .

From 1997 he presented the casting show Herzklopfen free .

In the films The Legend of Paul and Paula , Fire Below Deck , Heroes Like Us , Der Wixxer and Neues vom Wixxer , he each made a short appearance. In June 2011 he played himself in a viral for a private railroad company, how he “sticks to the window and sleeps”.

From April 9, 2010 to April 23, 2010 Mentzel took part in the Let's Dance show on RTL . On the third show, he was selected with his dance partner Sarah Latton .

In June and July 2012 he took on the role of the self-loving show master Heinz Wäscher in No Pardon - The Musical for some shows .

Mentzel was married four times. He had eight children, including four from previous relationships and a son with his fourth wife, with whom he had been married since 1980 and brought the three children into the marriage. He most recently lived in the Cottbus district Gallinchen .

In October 2015, the published psychobilly band Thee Flanders a video for cover song Enjoy The Silence , leaning in the Mentzel to the original by Depeche Mode plays along as king.

Achim Mentzel died on January 4, 2016 at the age of 69 in the Carl-Thiem-Klinikum Cottbus . The cause of death was a severe heart attack. The autopsy revealed that he had suffered from an undetected heart defect .

Discography

Albums

  • 1985: Mood, Jux and Mentzel (LP)
  • 1993: The cow flies here today
  • 1998: Alles Achim or something Vol. 1
  • 1999: Alles Achim or something Vol. 2
  • 1999: The moon by Wanne Eickel (with his companion volume "Die Rachenputzer")
  • 1999: I am a Berliner
  • 2002: Sometimes you're up and then down
  • 2004: We're all not angels
  • 2004: I love green
  • 2010: My favorite words are cream cake
  • 2016: Unforgettable successes (20 hits incl. 8 new unreleased titles)

Compilations

  • 1979: Schlagersterne 2/79 (AMIGA)
  • 1990: The best from Achim's hit parade
  • 1996: Achim's hit parade
  • 1997: The best from Achim's hit parade 2
  • 1998: The best of Achim's hit parade 3
  • 2007: Achim Mentzel presents "The popular music parade"

Singles

  • 1978: It's also fun / stop for a while
  • 1979: Darling, buckle up your pants / thank god it's slim
  • 1981: Achim Mentzel ( Amiga quartet )
  • 1985: 1. FC Union (Amiga quartet)
  • 1991: If reality were like that ( Sabine Bruhns & Achim Mentzel)
  • 1991: Look who's coming (Sabine Bruhns & Achim Mentzel)
  • 1994: Come to Cottbus for the Federal Garden Show (BUGA-Song 95) (official song of the Federal Garden Show 1995 in Cottbus )
  • 1997: Man, do I have a pig
  • 1997: The roses are red
  • 1998: There is a women's choice in the Arsenal
  • 2001: I like green
  • 2002: Forever Rock 'n' Roll (Achim Mentzel meets Wildecker Herzbuben )
  • 2002: Mood in the Alte Försterei (new recording)
  • 2002: Hey Amanda
  • 2002: That night
  • 2003: Thank goodness she is slim
  • 2004: We're all not angels
  • 2004: don't be afraid
  • 2005: In the Cafe Venice
  • 2008: An adventure beckons behind your veil (Fatimah)

Filmography

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Achim Mentzel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fam. Mentzel: Heinz-Joachim Mentzel conversations. In: internet. telephone directory, January 26, 2017, accessed January 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Burkhard Weitz: Your father comes from Ghana, his is French: Two typical Germans explore: What is actually German about us? , chrismon , May 2004
  3. ↑ The "shaggy zone monster" never sings again. In: welt.de . January 4, 2016, accessed July 12, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Gunnar Leue: Union fan Achim Mentzel: “Something was going on in Köpenick”. Spiegel Online, October 8, 2010, accessed January 5, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Mentzel: I break down when I win the Union. BZ Berlin, February 10, 2013, accessed on January 5, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Philipp Cassier: "Mix of run-over hamster and Tony Marshall". Welt Online, July 15, 2011, accessed January 6, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b c Jürn Kruse: "I am also a bacon bun". the daily newspaper, October 2, 2009, accessed on January 6, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b c d Susann de Luca, Christian Köhler: "Live and let live" - ​​A visit to Lausitz. (PDF; 9.8 MB) In: 60plusminus. July 2010, accessed July 12, 2018 .
  9. ↑ So the title of the apparently amateur video, see version on YouTube .
  10. ↑ Thee Flanders feat. Achim Mentzel - Enjoy the Silence. Retrieved on February 7, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Hartmut Kascha: Entertainer and singer Achim Mentzel (69) is dead. In: BZ January 4, 2016, accessed on January 4, 2016 .
  12. ^ Horst Galuschka: cause of death. In: T-Online . January 14, 2016, accessed January 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mentzel, Achim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mentzel, Heinz-Joachim (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 2016
Place of death cottbus