Beate Barwandt

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Beate Barwandt (born April 15, 1950 in Dobbertin (?); † January 1975 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was a German pop and chanson singer. From 1973 until her untimely death she was the soloist of the Gerd Michaelis Choir .

Live and act

From 1962 Beate Barwandt received singing and violin lessons at the Parchim music school . From 1968 she completed a friendship pioneer training at the central school of the pioneer organization in Droyzut . The following year she took up a position as a pioneer leader at the Dobbertin high school and at the same time took over the leadership of the Dobbertiner singing group.

Between 1971 and 1972 Barwandt completed the 4th qualification course for pop singing at the Central Studio for Entertainment Art . Alfons Wonneberg compared her timbre with that of Katja Ebstein and, because of her visual appearance, saw all the prerequisites for her future success as given. She called the melody and rhythm the "insider tip" among the course graduates.

In 1971 Beate Barwandt went on a concert tour through the GDR with Hansi Biebl , Friedhelm Schönfeld , Mario Peters , Mäcki Gäbler , Sieghart Schubert , Endrik Moll , Joachim Graswurm , Jörg Dobbersch , Angelika Mann and Uschi Brüning . In 1972 she sang with Uschi Brüning, Angelika Mann and Nina Hagen in the Reinhard Lakomy Choir. The first radio productions were made in the same year. In 1973 she brought Gerd Michaelis into his rejuvenated Gerd Michaelis choir .

In addition, Beate Barwandt was also active as a soloist. Her debut single Wherever You Come From was released in 1973 by Amiga. In 1973, in a duet with Manfred Krug , she sang the song Mach's gut, I must go ; 1974 with Jan Spitzer So hold me .

She came to a performance in Karl-Marx-Stadt with an untreated severe flu. There her condition worsened; she passed out in the cloakroom. Beate Barwandt fell into a coma and died in January 1975 at the age of 24 in the Karl-Marx-Städter Hospital. She was buried in the Dobbertin monastery cemetery .

Due to the death of Beate Barwandt, the Gerd Michaelis Choir got into a serious crisis, as the singer could not be replaced elsewhere. Several members left the choir in 1975. The choir director Gerd Michaelis, who was a close friend of the singer, got into a life crisis and in 1976 handed over the leadership of the choir to Vlady Slezák for health reasons.

Discography

Albums
  • Uschi Brüning and the Günther Fischer-Quintet , Amiga, 1973 (together with Angelika Mann and Sabine Roterberg as singer)
  • Gerd Michaelis Choir , Amiga, 1974 (as choir singer and soloist)
  • Manfred Krug: Greens , Amiga, 1975 (song Mach's gut, I must go in a duet)
Singles
  • Wherever you are from / Let's be happy , Amiga, 1973
  • Gerd Michaelis Choir: Waterloo , Amiga, 1974 (as choir singer and soloist)
  • Gerd Michaelis Chor: This year , Amiga, 1974 (as a choir singer and soloist)
Sampler
  • You (love songs of our time) , Amiga, 1974: Because of love , faraway sister , in a duet with Jan Spitzer So hold me
  • This is the world in which I am happy (songs and chansons - your mink for sport) , Amiga, 1975: Because of love
  • And we approached each other (The most beautiful rock and pop duets) , Amiga, 2009: in a duet with Manfred Krug Take care , I must go
VHS DVD
  • The young world is guest in Berlin , Amiga, 2013: Sing on all streets (with the Gerd Michaelis choir), Singt our song (with Dean Reed and the Gerd Michaelis choir)

Broadcast recordings

  • 1972: Sunshine and you are no longer there (with the Reinhard Lakomy orchestra), Then you came (with the Berlin Radio Dance Orchestra)
  • 1973: Once you dream my dreams and what you do for others (each with the Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Berlin, the latter as a song for the X. World Festival)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beate Barwandt is not listed in the Dobbertiner birth register in 1950, probably in the Lübz district hospital.
  2. ↑ Alfons Wonneberg: Wherever you sing, let yourself down in entertainment art volume 2/1972
  3. ↑ The best will prevail in Melodie und Rhythm, Volume 3/1972
  4. ↑ Hansi Biebl on ostbeat.de (archive version )
  5. ↑ Reinhard Lakomy on ddr-tanzmusik.de
  6. ↑ Interview with Reni Baptist on deutsche-mugge.de
  7. ↑ Interview with Reni Baptist on deutsche-mugge.de
  8. ↑ Interview with Hartmut Schulze-Gerlach on deutsche-mugge.de
personal data
SURNAME Barwandt, Beate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Dobbertin
DATE OF DEATH January 1975
Place of death Karl Marx City