Arnold Fritzsch

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Arnold Fritzsch (born September 5, 1951 in Schlettau ) is a German composer , singer , lyricist and producer .

Life

Fritzsch comes from the Ore Mountains and was born in the small town of Schlettau into a folk artist family. His grandfather was a wood carver and his parents performed with Anton Günther songs .

At the age of ten he learned to play the piano by himself and to play the trumpet in the trombone choir of the Protestant church. Early on, he kept gathering classmates interested in music around him and founded various bands, stimulated and driven by the Beatles' impulse of the century .

From 1966 to 1970 Arnold Fritzsch completed a musical education at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Zwickau and passed his Abitur in 1970 at the Käthe Kollwitz School in Zwickau . After trying mathematics for a semester, he moved to Berlin in 1971 to the Hanns Eisler Music Academy to study composition / arrangement and trumpet. His composition teacher was Wolfram Heicking .

During his studies, he founded the pop group " Kreis " in 1973 with his first wife Eva and other music students . With his hit “But I want to know”, written in 1975, the band was catapulted to the top of the GDR entertainment scene overnight. By 1982, “Kreis” had released four successful albums - the last on the West Berlin Hansa label “Rocktopus”, toured regularly in Czechoslovakia , Poland , Bulgaria , Romania , the Soviet Union and Cuba , but also in West Berlin. After the band broke up in 1982, Fritzsch was one of the first in the GDR to set up his own studio, where he produced songs and albums by other artists, including by Olaf Berger , Ines Paulke , Arnulf Wenning , Wolfgang Lippert and Milva .

Film music was also created for GDR television. He wrote the soundtrack for the first horse series on GDR television Jockei Monika and for twelve episodes of Polizeiruf 110 , including the crossword case .

At the end of the 1980s, Arnold Fritzsch was back on stage more often as a soloist. His album "Wärme" was released in the spring of 1990. The arrangements were made together with Wolfram Heicking. In 1990 the BMG Ariola signed an artist and producer contract with him.

In the 1990s, Fritzsch mainly wrote film music for TV series and TV films: Der Bergdoktor ( Sat.1 ), Dr. Monika Lindt ( RTL ), Herzschlag - Das Ärzteteam Nord ( ZDF ) a. v. a. In 2003 Fritzsch met the writer and actress Monika Radl at the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt and founded the music project “Monily and the paper planes” with her. In 2005 they released the joint album “Bleeding to death”. In 2009 the team of authors created the children's revue The Snow Queen for Berlin's Friedrichstadt-Palast - Europe's largest show stage, which was staged again in 2011. The CD of the same name was published by AMA-Verlag and was sold in large numbers because of the memorable melodies.

Since the mid-2000s, Arnold Fritzsch has been increasingly involved in larger projects. The musical “Mauerkinder” (Text: Werner Karma ) premiered in 2005 at the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt. In 2010 his first orchestral work "Planet der Drachen" (text: Bettina Bartz), a musical space adventure for a large orchestra and narrator, premiered in the concert hall of the UdK Berlin .

From 2005 to 2012 Fritzsch wrote the music for 85 episodes of the ARD series Um Himmels Willen and the Christiane Hörbiger film The Woman in a Red Dress .

In 2011 Arnold Fritzsch began his biggest project: the scenic oratorio "hadubrant", based on the Old High German text of the Hildebrand song . A cooperation between two high schools in Pankow arose from the idea of ​​“high school students and Germanic heroic songs” . The work was premiered on March 5, 2013 in the Gethsemane Church in Berlin. In addition to his work as a composer, Fritzsch has repeatedly performed live in different line-ups.

Private

Fritzsch lives in Berlin-Pankow, is married for the fourth time and has four sons and a daughter of different women. The nickname "marble" comes from his childhood. Fritzsch's son Marcus Gorstein (* 1973) is also a music producer.

Film music

Musical / stage

  • 2005: Children of the Wall
  • 2006: A MOMU on the S-Bahn
  • 2009: The Snow Queen
  • 2010: Planet of Dragons (music fairy tale for large orchestra and narrator)
  • 2012: Hadubrant (Hildebrandslied), scenic oratorio for choir, soloists & orchestra

Discography

  • 1976: Kreis ( Amiga )
  • 1978: Circle, all hands on deck (Amiga)
  • 1979: District, Supraphon-Prague (Hansa)
  • 1980: Circle, Rocktopus (Hansa)
  • 1987: Pop project - special disko mix (Amiga)
  • 1990: Pop Project - Presents Dance Dance Dance (Amiga)
  • 1990: Warmth (Amiga)
  • 1992: I want to love you (BMG Ariola)
  • 1995: Arnold Fritzsch, TV film scores and soundtracks
  • 2004: friend
  • 2004: Ritter Runkel's big hour (based on a play based on the GDR comics by Hannes Hegen's Digedags)
  • 2005: No bleeding to death : Monily and the paper planes
  • 2007: 60 years of Amiga - Box 3 - Arnold Fritzsch (Amiga / BMG)
  • 2008: Stock Diamond

literature

  • HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.

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personal data
SURNAME Fritzsch, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, singer, and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlettau