Almut Klotz

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Almut Klotz and Rev. Christian Dabeler at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2005

Almut Klotz (* 1962 in Pforzheim ; † August 15, 2013 in Hamburg ), from May 2013 Almut Klotz-Dabeler , was a German musician and author .

Life

Grave of Almut Klotz

Klotz grew up in the Black Forest and moved to Berlin- Kreuzberg in 1985 . There she moved around the Fischbüro and founded the band Lassie Singers in 1988 together with Christiane Rösinger and Funny van Dannen , which disbanded in 1998 after some successes. In the same year she founded the label Flittchen Records with Christiane Rösinger and together with Sandra Grether and Elmar Günther the band Parole Trixi , which she left shortly afterwards. Together with Maximilian Hecker and Jim Avignon she played for a short time in the band Maxi among people . In 2001 she founded the Popchor Berlin , which recorded choral cover versions of well-known pop songs, which were backed up with tracks newly arranged by DJs. She appeared together with Christian Dabeler as a pop duo; the first record was released in 2007 under the name Klotz + Dabeler .

Since 1997 Klotz has worked as a freelance writer, a. a. from 2001 to 2011 as a columnist for the Berliner Zeitung . In 2005, in collaboration with her partner Rev. Christian Dabeler, her first novel From the life of Manuel Zorn was published in the “Popliteratur series” published by Ventil Verlag . In May 2013 she married Dabeler in Hamburg. In 2016, the book “Fotzenfenderschweine” (named after Dabeler's exclamation) was published from the estate, in which she describes her love story with Dabeler. The book she worked on until her death has not been completed.

Almut Klotz died of cancer in August 2013. Their second album together with Reverend Dabeler, Let the Lady In , was released a week after their death. Her grave is in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin. She left a son with Aaron.

Bands

Discography

  • Lassie Singers: The Lassie Singers Help You , Sony Music / Columbia 1991
  • Lassie Singers: Sei A Go Go , 1992, Sony BMG
  • Lassie Singers: Town, Country, Crime , 1995, Sony BMG
  • Lassie Singers: Hotel Hotel , 1996, Sony BMG
  • Lassie Singers: Rest Of , 1998, Flittchen Records
  • Lassie Singers: Best Of , 1998, Flittchen Records
  • Popchor Berlin: Popchor Berlin CD # 1 , 2002, Flittchen Records
  • Popchor Berlin: Popchor Berlin CD # 2 , 2004, Flittchen Records
  • Europe: Pancho Villa on: B. Traven - Homage to a German Anarchist , 2003
  • Klotz + Dabeler: Menschen An sich , 2007, Zig Zag (Indigo)
  • Klotz + Dabeler: Höp Höp Höp / Mylord , 2010, zigzag
  • Klotz + Dabeler: Tausendschön (Basically) / Rendezvous , 2013, Staatsakt / Hanseplatte
  • Almut Klotz & Reverend Dabeler: Let the Lady in , 2013, State Act.

bibliography

  • Almut Klotz, Christian Dabeler: From the life of Manuel Zorn . Ed .: Christian Dabeler, Felix Scheinberger. 1st edition. Ventil, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-931555-92-5 .
  • Almut Klotz, Christian Dabeler: Tamara and consorts . Stories. Ed .: Christian Dabeler. 1st edition. Ventil-Verl., Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-931555-68-9 .
  • Almut Klotz: Fotzenfender pigs . Ed .: Aaron Klotz, Rev Christian Dabeler. First edition. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95732-165-7 .

Posts in

  • Jim Avignon: World and Knowledge . 1st edition. 1: Pictures and Stories. Verbrecher Verl., Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-935843-16-X .
  • Jörg Sundermeier, Sarah Diehl, Werner Labisch (eds.): Mittebuch . 1st edition. Verbrecher-Verl., Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-935843-10-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to biographical self-assessment in: Björn Kuhligk, Tom Schulz (Ed.): Das Berliner Kneipenbuch: Berlin authors and their pubs . Orig. Edition. Berliner Taschenbuch-Verl, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8333-0424-3 , pp. 208 .
  2. ↑ A sad news: On Thursday night Almut Klotz succumbed to cancer - taz.de. In: taz.de. August 19, 2013, archived from the original on August 22, 2013 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Felix Bayer: On the death of Almut Klotz: Why nice girls are never happy. In: Spiegel Online. SPIEGEL ONLINE, August 19, 2013, accessed August 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Almut Klotz (1962–2013). (No longer available online.) In: spex.de. August 20, 2013, archived from the original on August 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  5. ↑ Andrea-Hanna Hünniger: "Fotzenfender pigs": women like cats, men like dogs. In: Zeit Online. August 9, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016 .
  6. ^ Benjamin Moldenhauer: Almut Klotz 'posthumous marriage book: Love is sometimes undervalued . In: Spiegel Online . July 19, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Klotz, Almut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klotz-Dabeler, Almut (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 2013
Place of death Hamburg