Antje Schomaker

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Antje Schomaker at Bochum Total 2019

Antje Schomaker (* 1992 in Rheurdt ) is a German musician and songwriter in German-speaking indie pop .

Life

As a child, Schomaker learned to play the piano and bassoon, among other things , and attended the Krefeld Waldorf School . The guitar she taught himself. Later she began to write her own song lyrics. As part of her acting work at the Krefeld Kresch Theater, she performed a song sung a cappella , which attracted the attention of the music producer Swen Meyer . She then moved to Hamburg in 2012, after a year abroad in Ireland , where she still lives today. In addition to working on her own music, she studied systematic musicology there and worked for a music publisher.

music

After an internship with the Munich producers Kilian Reischl and Robin Karow , she began to work with them on their first album. In May 2016, Schomaker uploaded the song My Heart Needs a Break on the video platform YouTube . Through this video she became aware of the musician Bosse , whom she names as one of her musical role models. The two met at the Feel Festival 2016. As a result, she supported his tour with her band in 2016 as a support act. A year later she also accompanied Johannes Oerding , the band Gloria and, in 2018, Amy MacDonald as opening act on their tours. In 2017 Schomaker performed at the Hurricane Festival and the Deichbrand .

Her first album Von Helden und Halunken was released in 2018. After the tour that was part of the album, the song Liebe auf Fern was released in cooperation with Revolverheld . Another album is announced for 2019.

Podcast

Schomaker has been publishing its own podcast called Antjes Freundebuch since August 22, 2018 . This appears every two weeks with changing guests, with whom she fills out a friend's book and has conversations. Guests of the podcast included Bosse , Lea and Joris .

Discography

Albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2018 From Heroes and Scoundrels
Columbia Records 		DE45 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: February 23, 2018

EPs

year Title
music label 		Remarks
2017 Less & Sea (acoustic session)
Columbia Records 		First published: September 8, 2017

As a guest musician

year Title
music label 		Remarks
2018 Love at a Distance
Columbia Records 		First published: September 7, 2018
( Revolverheld feat.Antje Schomaker)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Antje Schomaker. laut.de, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Interview with singer Antje Schomaker: "Life is not a Tomte song". Westdeutsche Zeitung, October 28, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Sabine Hannemann: "Love at a distance" brings success very close. Rheinische Post, local part Neukirchen-Vluyn, October 27, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Steffen Rüth: Antje Schomaker: "Life is full of changes". In: Südkurier . April 3, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ralf Kühling: Antje Schomaker is guaranteed to make Berlin sweat. In: BZ March 7, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Steffen Rüth: Portrait of Antje Schomaker Honestly original and cleverly poppy. Dattelner Morgenpost, March 8, 2018, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  7. ^ Gérard Otremba: Antje Schomaker: Portrait of the Hamburg songwriter. Sounds & Books, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Stefan Düsterhöft: Antje Schomaker From Hamburg into the indie pop world. Hamburger Morgenpost, March 7, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Oliver Witt: Live on WDR 4: Antje Schomaker. WDR4, February 23, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Arno Frank: Take a break from time to time. ZEIT, March 14, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Antje Schomaker is the heroine of her story. In: Sputnik Soundcheck. MDR Sputnik, February 20, 2018, accessed December 8, 2018 .
  12. ↑ a b Antje Schomaker gives another insight into her debut with "Auf und vom". Shark Magazine, February 17, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Gérard Otremba: Song of the day: All good things by Antje Schomaker. Sounds & Books, July 21, 2018, accessed November 14, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Pascal Faltermann: Hurricane starts with storms, delays and heat. Weser Kurier, June 22, 2017, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  15. ↑ https://antjesfreundebuch.podigee.io/
  16. ↑ https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-351167
personal data
SURNAME Schomaker, Antje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheurdt