André Herzberg
André Herzberg (born December 28, 1955 in East Berlin ) is a German musician, singer and actor. He celebrated his greatest successes with the band Pankow .
Life
Herzberg was born as the youngest son in a strictly communist- oriented family of Jewish origin. The author and publicist Wolfgang Herzberg is his brother.
From 1961 he received violin lessons and was involved in gymnastics. In 1973 he joined the Weißensee band Bodyhall and received singing lessons at the Friedrichshain Music School in East Berlin. In 1979 Herzberg co-founded the Gaukler Rock Band and completed a music degree at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin . Herzberg and the juggler rock band had their first title in the GDR annual hit parade in 1981 with Boat Trip .
When Veronika Fischer , front woman of the band 4 PS , stayed in West Berlin after a concert in 1981 , Jürgen Ehle (guitar), Frank Hille (drums), Hans-Jürgen Reznicek (bass guitar) and Rainer Kirchmann (keyboard) founded the band Pankow . Herzberg was brought in as the front man.
His brother Wolfgang Herzberg (alias Frauke Klauke) wrote the text for the rock theater play Paule Panke , which realistically described the everyday life of an apprentice. Pankow made the music and staged it.
In 1982 the first productions were made in the studio as well as a live recording of the radio of the GDR from a concert in the House of Young Talents in Berlin, the publication of which failed in the year of its creation because of the texts that were perceived as not conforming to the system and which was only released shortly before the end of the GDR in 1989 on the state label Amiga .
In 1983 the first Pankow album Kille Kille was released , which sold 120,000 times. Pankow produced several number one songs such as The Miraculous Story of Gabi , Inge Pawelczik and the title Werkstattsong from the rock theater play. In 1984 the album and rock spectacle Hans im Glück was released based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm , which was re-staged on March 15, 2009 with actors from the Berlin Volksbühne .
They started their first tour in Western Europe in 1986 with their album Keine Stars . From 1987 Herzberg worked as an actor at the Schwedt Theater in the musical Paule Panke . In 1988 Pankow recorded the album Aufruhr im Augen . For the tenth anniversary of the band in 1991 a tour took place together with the big band of the western group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany. A concert recording of this was released on VHS cassette. In addition, Herzberg worked at the theater in 1989 with the diary of a madman after Gogol . In 1996 he recorded the album Am Rande vom Wahnsinn with Pankow , and in 1998 Pankow started a tour with some Brecht songs. On December 31, 1998 Pankow dissolved for the time being.
In 1991 Herzberg started a solo career with his own album. His second solo album Tohuwabohu was released in 1994 and he organized the theater show of the same name at the Volksbühne in Berlin. He hosted the TV show Anplackt for the MDR in 1995.
In 2000, Herzberg's book of short stories was published . He wrote some songs for the musical Das kalte Herz after Wilhelm Hauff at the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam .
In 2004, Herzberg's autobiographical novel Mosaik was published in the authors' edition of Berlin's Avinus Verlag .
Discography
- 1991: André Herzberg , K&P Music / BMG Ariola
- 1994: Tohuwabohu , K&P Music / BMG Ariola
- 1999: Herzberg 91-99 clearance sale (sampler), K&P Music / BMG Ariola
- 2004: Losglöst , Dunefish ( edel SE )
- 2008: The cold heart , Dunefish (edel SE)
- 2018: What became of us , Reptiphon
Fonts
- Stories from bed. Eulenspiegel, Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-359-00992-4 .
- Mosaic. Avinus, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-930064-22-9 .
- All near far , Ullstein, 2015, ISBN 978-3-550-08056-2 .
- What has become of us , Ullstein, 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-08164-4 .
literature
- Jan Wielgohs: Herzberg, André . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Web links
- Official website
- Works by and about André Herzberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- André Herzberg: Conversation with my mother. (Audio; 50 minutes) (No longer available online.) In: MDR Figaro . November 13, 2011, archived from the original on December 10, 2013 .
- Henry Bernhard : The song of the unspeakable: How the musician André Herzberg became Jewish. (mp3 audio; 8.9 MB; 9:42 minutes) In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Tag für Tag”. June 25, 2020 .
- Rock musician in the GDR: Portrait of André Herzberg. In: MDR time travel . May 29, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tanya Lieske: Musician André Herzberg - From life as a German Jew. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Büchermarkt”. August 21, 2015, accessed February 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 336ff.
- ^ Pankow: biography. In: sonymusic.ch . Archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; accessed on June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Rauhut: Shawm and leather jacket . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-065-X , pp. 257ff.
- ↑ The cold heart. In: volksbuehne-berlin.de. February 3, 2009, accessed June 25, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herzberg, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rock musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Berlin |