Barbara Lexa

Barbara Lexa (born February 5, 1967 in Munich ; bourgeois Barbara Frank ) is an Upper Bavarian yodel teacher and dialect author.

Life

Lexa grew up in a musical family in Wolfratshausen, Upper Bavaria . She learned to play the guitar and piano at an early age, and sang in a duet with her mother, a yodeler and folk actress . At the age of nine she composed her first songs .

Lexa completed a pastry apprenticeship and worked as a wood fire painter. In addition, as a teenager she played the accompaniment guitar of a house music formation for six years and then twelve years of electric bass and keyboard at weddings and birthday parties. From 2009 to 2015 she was married to the author and musician Rupert Frank. She has been giving yodel courses since 2012. She lives in Wolfratshausen with her two children.

Music and cabaret

As a yodeler , Lexa had guest appearances in Japan , Brazil , Oman and Iceland , in 1993 her title Mei Wolfratshausen reached first place in the charts on the private radio station Radio Alpenwelle . After the birth of her children, Barbara Lexa specialized in her own songs in dialect with socially critical and humorous texts .

The premiere of the first solo program took place in Wolfratshausen in 2001, and later she also appeared with actor Winfried Frey and songwriter Peter Horton . In 2004 she wrote the musical laudation on the occasion of a celebration for the Bavarian director Franz Xaver Bogner and in 2005 won 3rd place at the 1st Wolfratshauser Bavarian Music Award. In the meantime she also worked with the dialectologist Ludwig Zehetner , wrote articles for the Association for the Preservation of the Bavarian Language and Dialects eV and campaigned for the promotion of dialect in kindergartens.

In 2006, in collaboration with the Schratzlwerkstatt, the music radio play for children Grummewugg and Regnwurmdregg was created , in which Markus Tremmel , speaker at Bavarian Broadcasting, participated. In autumn 2006 a live recording of the Oa-Frau program Melodisch, Magisch, Mundart! .

At the "Wolfratshauser Bavarian Music Award", Barbara Lexa achieved 1st place in 2007, followed by 2nd place at the "Geretsrieder Liedermacher-Festival" in 2008. In October 2008, Barbara Lexa ended her solo career and started a dialect music cabaret with Rupert Frank with the title "Views without a View of Through". The focus was on tongue twisters, play on words and humorous rhymes in Bavarian dialect, accompanied by accordion, guitar, euphonium and Styrian. For her Oa-Frau program (one woman program) Lexa was not only a composer , lyricist , singer and arranger , she also designed the posters and flyers, took over the contact with the press and on small stages the tasks of stage technician and sound engineer . Her accompanying instruments are guitar , Styrian harmonica and piano . She described her artistic activity as "dialect", her program as a mixture of music, cabaret , songwriting evening and Bavarian course.

From 2008 to 2014 Barbara Lexa performed under the name MundARTissimo with her husband Rupert Frank, who accompanied the fast-paced wordplay and punchy stories on accordion and baritone horn.

The artist has been giving yodel courses since 2012.

From 2016 on, Barbara Lexa also devoted herself to the mantras in Boarisch, a mixture of alpine joie de vivre and Eastern spirituality, which she also released as a music book with CDs in the same year.

Works

• Mei Wolfratshausen (1993)
• Neideitsch (2001)
• Blechdepp-Tango (2001)
• Gray-Blue Woikn (2002)
• Chinese marriage proposal (2004)
• Sausage with mustard (2006)
• Samba hoib and hoib (2008)
• Tango Barbarita e Ruperto (2009)
• Full and blue is da sky (2015)

CDs (selection)

• So a Musi (1993 - yodel)
• Courageous-Deliberate-Boarisch (2001)
• Courageous-Amused-Boarisch (2003- live)
• Melodic, magical, dialect! (2005)
• Grummewugg and Regnwurmdregg (2006 - dialect radio play for children from 3 to 99)
• Barbara Lexa, live 2006 (anniversary edition, five years Oa-Frau program)
• Pfeigrod and kloavadraad (2008)
• Views with no prospect of perspective (2009 - with Rupert Frank)
• "MundARTissimo ... and Bavarian lives!" (2011 - with Rupert Frank)
• Drialleiho! (Traditional yodelling and yodelling songs - 2013)
• YODELMANTRAS (2014)
• Mantras in Boarisch (2016)

Prices

• 2007 Wolfratshauser Bavarian Music Award, 1st place
• 2008 Geretsrieder songwriter festival, 2nd place

Books

• The Chain of Life (1992 - Reflections on Incredible Things)
• Melodic, magical, dialect! (2005 - 45 texts from the program, some with humorous translation into German, foreword by Ludwig Zehetner )
• Fairy tales in Boarisch (2009 - 12 old fairy tales in a new guise, rhymed and moved to the Bavarian country)
• Märchen auf Boarisch Volume 2 (2011 - 13 wise stories, found worldwide, moved to Bavaria, rhymed and bound - with Rupert Frank). The foreword was written by Prof. Dr. Helmut Zöpfl.
• Advent stories 2.0
• Mantras in Boarisch (2016 - sheet music with CDs)
• Entry aids for dropouts (2017)
• My menopause (2017)
• Learn to yodel (2017 - booklet with exercise CD)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ vita . barbara-lexa.de. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
2. ↑ Fairy tales in Boarisch . Retrieved June 11, 2011.

Web links

• https://www.barbara-lexa.de
• http://www.lexa-musik.de
• Literature by and about Barbara Lexa in the catalog of the German National Library