Andreas Dorau

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Andreas Dorau (2011)
Andreas Dorau (2011)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The love and anger of others
  DE 56 07/14/2017 (2 weeks)
The essentials
  DE 34 06/14/2019 (1 week)
Singles
Fred from Jupiter (The Doraus & the Marinas)
  DE 21st 03/15/1982 (18 weeks)
  AT 13 05/01/1982 (4 weeks)
Girls in Love (Grungerman Remix)
  FR 9 09/13/1997 (6 weeks)
Andreas Dorau at Essen, original 2014

Andreas Dorau (born January 19, 1964 ) is a German musician . His most famous hit in Germany is the NDW song Fred vom Jupiter (1981). In France he landed a top 10 hit with Girls in Love (1996). In 2017 he made it into the album charts for the first time with his tenth album Die Liebe und der Ärger der Andere . He succeeded again with the follow-up album Das Essentials (2019), which appeared exactly two years later (34th place).

Life

Dorau is the son of a Protestant pastor, who as a member of the professing church in the time of National Socialism was imprisoned several times. Dorau learned to play guitar from Holger Hiller ( Palais Schaumburg ). He wrote at the age of 15 years as part of a school AG later NDW -Hit Fred vom Jupiter, he against the wishes of his teachers the label Ata Tak presently give, after he recorded the song along with the Marinas again. The single became a major independent hit on Neue Deutsche Welle.

In 1982 he appeared with Albert Oehlen under the title Evergreens of Psychoterror in order to "bring everything that annoys together".

Dorau studied at the University of Television and Film , Munich (thesis: Schlag Dein Tier ), wrote film music (for Manta - Der Film, among others ) and worked as a freelance video consultant (for Mousse T. , Xavier Naidoo , Söhne Mannheims, among others ).

The partner on his three albums from 1992 to 1997 was the musician Tommi Eckart , now one half of the duo 2raumwohnung . Most of the texts on his albums are written by Andreas Dorau himself, but Wolfgang Müller from Die Tödliche Doris has also written numerous texts for him since the 1990s .

In 1997 Wolfgang Voigt's Grungerman remix of the Dorau single Girls in Love reached the French charts and entered the top 10.

On the occasion of his 50th birthday in 2014, he released the album “Aus der Bibliothèque” along with a best-of album. He played this for the first time with a band, namely with the League of Ordinary Gentlemen , the successor band to Superpunk .

Dorau lives in Hamburg.

Discography

Albums

  • 1981: flowers and daffodils
  • 1983: The Doraus and the Marinas give open-hearted answers to burning questions
  • 1988: democracy
  • 1992: Trouble with immortality
  • 1994: New!
  • 1997: 70 minutes of music of unknown origin
  • 2005: I am one of us
  • 2011: Death Melodies
  • 2014: From the Bibliothèque
  • 2017: The love and anger of others
  • 2018: Koenig der Moewen (with Gereon Klug )
  • 2019: the essentials

Compilations

  • 1995: Harvest (Best of Atatak Releases)
  • 1995: What's NEW (Remixes)
  • 1995: Electronics against hardness (Mixtape)
  • 2014: Mainly Me (Best Of)

Singles and EPs

  • 1981: The laughing Pope
  • 1981: engine driver
  • 1981: Fred vom Jupiter (The Doraus & the Marinas)
  • 1982: Little House Maid (The Doraus & the Marinas)
  • 1983: The World is Bad (The Doraus & the Marinas)
  • 1985: Guten Morgen Hose (short opera), EP with Holger Hiller ( Ata Tak )
  • 1988: democracy
  • 1994: Stoned Faces Don't Lie
  • 1995: The phone says you
  • 1995: The sun is shining
  • 1996: Girls in Love
  • 1997: That's the way it is
  • 1998: The people are cold
  • 1998: What to say (with Justus Köhncke )
  • 2004: Through the night (with Justus Köhncke )
  • 2005: Street of Dreams
  • 2005: No love song (with Alexandra Prince )
  • 2005: Christmas in the forest
  • 2005: 40 women
  • 2006: We're Not Friends (with Alexandra Prince )
  • 2011: megalomania
  • 2011: Voices in the night
  • 2014: bottle deposit
  • 2014: Two remixes for the 50th anniversary
  • 2014: Ossi with swan
  • 2018: Feelings of Feelings
  • 2019: No.
  • 2019: Naive
  • 2019: identity
  • 2019: Invisible dancers

Remixes

  • 1995: Baby D - (Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime) I Need Your Loving
  • 1996: Blümchen - Boomerang (DJ IT Remix)
  • 1997: Stereo Total - Beautiful from Behind (Andreas Doraus 'Beautiful from Below' Remix)
  • 1999: Fantastic Plastic Machine - Lotto (Andreas Dorau Remix)
  • 1999: Bugge Wesseltoft - You Might Say (Andreas Dorau Remix)
  • 1999: Giorgio Moroder - Take My Breath Away (Andreas Dorau Remix)
  • 2000: Paula - When It Happened (Andreas Dorau Remix)
  • 2001: Station 17 - At Manni & Biene (Andreas Dorau & Justus Köhncke Remix)
  • 2002: Hildegard Knef - This morning was appointment (Andreas Dorau Remix)
  • 2005: Rocko Schamoni - Mauern (Walls Remix by Andreas Dorau & Marcus Rossknecht)

Filmography

  • 1982: The Last Revenge (Actor)
  • 1992: Schlag dein Tier (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1998: People are cold (director, screenplay, film music)

Radio plays

  • 2016: Theodor W. Adorno, Traumprotokoll . (As a speaker). Composition and realization: zeitblom . BR radio play and media art 2016. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.

literature

  • Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth: a documentary novel about German punk and new wave. Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 .
  • Andreas Dorau & Sven Regener : Trouble with immortality. Berlin, Galiani 2015, ISBN 3-86971-108-6 .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Dorau  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts FR
  2. ^ A b Carla Baum: News from Andreas Dorau on the 50th: earwigs and a bird sculpture. In: taz.de. January 17, 2014, accessed August 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jasmin Lütz: "From the Bibliothèque" by Andreas Dorau. In: laut.de. January 17, 2014, accessed August 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Koenig der Moewen at Laut.de
  5. ↑ For Jasmin - Das Blümchen remix album In: discogs.com
  6. ^ BR radio play Pool - Adorno, Traumprotokoll April 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dorau, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1964