Axel Bergstedt
Axel Bergstedt (born April 2, 1962 in Bleckede ) is a German conductor and composer who currently lives in Brazil .
After 1994 for manslaughter was sentenced to his wife in Germany to a prison term, he succeeded in February 2001 during a free passage to escape to Brazil , where he, however, in the following year by Interpol was picked up.
Life
As an adolescent, Bergstedt lived near the Ratzeburg Cathedral , a center of church music in Germany. His teacher was the conductor and organist Neithard Bethke before he began his training at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater , where he studied church music and conducting with Klauspeter Seibel and organ playing with Heinz Wunderlich .
In 1985 he took over as conductor of the Hamburg Bach Orchestra , which is dedicated to church music of the 18th century. In 1994 his children's musical Ronja Robber's Daughter , based on the book by Astrid Lindgren , premiered with an orchestra and 120 people on stage.
In 1995/96 he took part in the album The Time of the Oath by the German power metal band Helloween . In 1998, in the film Snake on the Altar, he played a church organist who works in a prison.
In 1994 he was invited to Brazil. After marrying a Brazilian woman, he lived in Belo Horizonte and Vitória . In 2001 he started working on social projects. In 2004 the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil invited him to take part in a new project in Cariacica , for which he wrote numerous compositions and arrangements. Most famous are his Louva ao Senhor and Aquecendo Corações , the Brazilian version of Let our hearts burn from his CD Aquecendo Corações .
He also translated cantatas and oratorios, such as the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach , which premiered in Portuguese in 2009 in Brasília .
Killing his wife and escaping
In 1994, after an argument, he killed his 29-year-old wife Heike with an ax and buried the body in the garden of her house in the Hamburg district of Rahlstedt . He reported his wife to the police as missing and accused her of leaving the Bach orchestra with 300,000 D-Marks , but the investigation led to the discovery of the body. Bergstedt was sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter. The couple had two daughters, who were eight and three years old at the time.
In 2001, Bergstedt managed to escape to Brazil during a day off, but how exactly that happened remained unclear. He had remarried in Brazil and appeared to be leading a normal life when he was caught by Interpol a year later. After his arrest, he was first sent to prison in Cariacica , Espírito Santo. After more than a year in prison, he was extradited to Germany on February 28, 2003, where he served the remainder of his sentence.
Web links
- Bergstedt's homepage
- Ronja the robber's daughter
- Victoria Varejão e Gabriela Ribeti: Maestro alemão atualizava blog de pedofilia dentro de igreja, diz polícia ESPÍRITO SANTO, from March 10, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b vr: Fugitive prisoner caught after a year in Brazil In: Die Welt from January 26, 2002
- ↑ Allmusic
- ^ Internet Movie Database
- ↑ The Lutheran Church of Brazil (Portuguese)
- ^ Video Louva ao Senhor
- ↑ Kristina Johrde: Delivered: The musician who buried his wife ( Memento from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Abendblatt.de, from March 1, 2003
- ↑ zv: Brazil delivers offenders Bergstedt. In: Die Welt from March 1, 2003
- ↑ Brazil. Supreme Federal Court (Portuguese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bergstedt, Axel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bleckede |