Bodo Wartke

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Bodo Wartke at a stage appearance (2011)
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Bodo Wartke (born May 21, 1977 in Hamburg ) is a German cabaret artist , songwriter and actor .

Life

Bodo Wartke was born as the son of a couple of doctors and grew up as an only child in Reinbek and Bad Schwartau . His sister died as an infant when Bodo Wartke was three years old. At the age of eight he lost the fingertip of his left ring finger in an accident. In 1996 he graduated from the Schwartau Leibniz Gymnasium and completed his community service in the South City Hospital in Lübeck . In 1997 he began studying physics in Berlin , but after two semesters changed the subject and studied music for ten semesters to become a teacher at the University of the Arts . From 1998 to 2004 Bodo Wartke was a member of SAGO , Christof Stählin's Academy for Poetry and Music . He is a graduate of the Celle School .

According to his own statement, Wartke likes to pursue the extreme sports snowboarding and kite surfing . Since a sevenfold skull fracture due to a snowboard accident, which was fortunate enough to have no consequential damage, he has been slowing down.

Wartke lives in Berlin-Kreuzberg and has been the father of a son since 2016.

art

Piano cabaret

During his piano cabaret performances, Wartke accompanies himself on the grand piano . He also uses instruments such as the ukulele , cajón and harmonica . The music and the lyrics are almost all my own. The texts are mostly German and are mainly characterized by puns and rhymes.

Wartke has written six piano cabaret programs to date. His first program was I think so I sing (premiere 1998), which he performed until 2012. This was followed by Achillesverse (premiered in 2003), which was shown for ten years. From 2006 to 2016 Wartke played his third piano cabaret program Noah was an archetype . His fourth program is called Klaviersdelikte (premiere in January 2012). Wartke's fifth piano cabaret program, What if? premiered on September 14, 2015. The sixth piano cabaret program Wandelmut premiered on February 4, 2020 in the cabaret stage Die Wühlmäuse in Berlin.

A frequently recurring theme in his songs is love, which he mostly addresses in a funny ( yes, honey! ), But also in a serious form ( To you , 90 degrees ). His love song achieved particular fame . This consists of a variable number of short stanzas with almost identical content, all of which are written in different languages. In 2011 Bodo Wartke had this stanza in 88 languages ​​in his repertoire, including various dialects from the German-speaking area as well as constructed languages such as Esperanto , Sindarin , Quenya or Klingon . On his homepage you could listen to the translations with the love song generator and put them together. In addition, under the name of your stanza , Wartke has made love strophes available free of charge for around 600 women's names on the melody of his song Andrea on his homepage . With the publication of another 90 names for Valentine's Day 2018, Wartke ended his work on this project after five years.

Wartke also devotes himself to political and social issues in his songs. In Monica he reckons with a proclaimed hypocritical moral understanding of American society and George W. Bush's presidency; In The Americans , he satirically tackles anti-American clichés. Loveparade is an ironic hymn of praise to the techno parade of the same name , Gaffer a sarcastic commentary on the greed for sensation. In 2016 he wrote the song Not in my name in which he speaks out against radical interpretations of religions . In 2017 he developed his utopia of an ideal country in The Land I Want to Live in . In the song Hambacher Wald , published in 2018, he positions himself against the evacuation of the Hambacher Forest and the continuation of open-cast lignite mining .

Other recurring themes in his texts are everyday situations and the process of musical composition and performance. I don't trust myself and the last piece are a series of everyday situations that are characterized by a common connecting motif and that come to a head in the process. PCdenzfall is about the difficulties of working on the PC and the inadequacies of Microsoft's products. At the beginning of 2007, Wartke published four web episodes as a column on Apple and Microsoft on the website of the specialist magazine Mac Life . Dodecacophony and listen to me ! embed composition techniques and motifs from classical music in a framework story.

His repertoire also includes dance numbers and poems in which he accompanies himself as a tap dancer . His program Noah was an archetype contains the piano piece Alla Turca Stomp , which does not require any vocal accompaniment and is an adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's well-known Rondo from the piano sonata No. 11 . An edited version of Mozart's Sonata Facile is included in Klaviersdelikte .

Guest musicians such as the violinist Sonja Firker or the singer Melanie Haupt accompany him on selected performances . Several of his songs, including My New Girlfriend and Monica , have been covered by a cappella groups including Basta and Wise Guys . For a performance at a songwriting festival, Bodo Wartke sang the piece Andrea together with the group Viva Voce , as did Ja, Schatz! and the love song .

Plays

He makes his theater appearances with two programs. Wartke presented the one-man play King Oedipus in May 2009. In January 2011 this was also premiered in an ensemble version at the Wiesbaden State Theater . With this modern adaptation of the ancient drama and myth about King Oedipus , Wartke would like to address the question of providence or destiny. He performed the first two parts (later referred to as Episode IV and V based on Star Wars ) in his first stage program I think, so I sing . The prehistory to this is contained as episodes I and II in his program Noah was an archetype . Since 2009 he has been performing the approx. 100-minute piece separately from his other programs. A live DVD of this program was released in 2010.

On April 9, 2018, the follow-up play Antigone , also a modern adaptation of the ancient original , premiered in the Schmidt Theater Hamburg . Wartke is supported by his long-time stage partner Melanie Haupt. Both pieces are particularly characterized by the fact that the texts have been translated into a modern language and are largely performed in rhyme.

Orchestral appearances

In 2013, Wartke started the Swingende Necessity program . Instead of the usual solo piano cabaret, this is a swing arrangement of pieces from the previous programs as well as some new pieces. Wartke sings and dances while he is accompanied by the Capital Dance Orchestra . The recordings for a live CD took place in October 2013 in Berlin's Admiralspalast , the CD was released on September 12, 2014. The tour will continue, with a concert in the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt am Main in 2020 .

further activities

In 2005, Wartke founded the publishing house "Reimkultur Musikverlag GbR" after various music labels had refused to represent him. In the meantime, the "Reimkultur", which is now run as a GmbH & Co. KG, represents several artists. The company is committed to the common good economy and attaches importance to ecologically sustainable action (e.g. by packing the labels' CDs and DVDs with as little plastic as possible ).

From 2006 to 2011 he moderated the annual music festival Songs on a summer evening , which was organized by Bayerischer Rundfunk until 2009 and had already been an artist in 2002, 2004 and 2005. He led through the program with specially composed songs. Also in 2014 he appeared there again. Through the festival he became friends with the local regular guest Reinhard Mey .

In 2020, Wartke will host the songwriter festival Lieder auf Banz , which has been taking place on a summer evening since 2017 on the monastery meadow of the Banz monastery in Bad Staffelstein instead of the songs .

Bodo Wartke is also active in other projects: as a composer and musical director, he participated in a Hamburg production of Dylan Thomas ' play Unter dem Milchwald, and wrote a German libretto for Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in der Unterwelt . For Roger Cicero's album Relationally (2007) he wrote the text for The Call and for the 33rd German Evangelical Church Congress in Dresden the song ... there will be your heart (2011).

Wartke has been the anniversary ambassador of the von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel since 2017 .

Awards

Bodo Wartke states on his homepage that he has received the following awards:

Works

Full evening programs

  • So I think I sing (developed from 1998 to 2002), published on:
    • CD (1998)
    • CD "I think, therefore I sing - on the go" (updated, 2001)
    • CD "I think, therefore I sing - live 2009" (updated, 2009)
    • DVD (2004)
  • Achillesverse (premiere 2003), published on:
    • CD (December 2003)
    • DVD (November 2005)
    • Double CD Achillesverse - live in Berlin (updated version, 2006)
  • Noah Was An Archetype (premiered November 2006), appeared on:
    • Maxi-CD Noah was an archetype - The first time (excerpts from a spontaneous live recording of the program at the premiere in Alma Hoppe's Lustspielhaus, Hamburg, November 2006, published January 2007)
    • CD Noah was an Archetype - The Album (November 2007)
    • DVD Noah was an archetype (recording took place on May 12, 2008 in Hamburg at Schmidts Tivoli)
    • Double CD Noah was an Archetype - Second Version (April 6, 2011)
  • King Oedipus - The Solo Play (Premiere May 2009)
    • DVD King Oedipus - The Solo Play (April 2010)
  • Piano offenses (premiere in January 2012)
    • CD Klaviersdelikte (first studio CD by Bodo Wartke, February 2012)
    • Double CD Piano Offenses - live in Bremen (September 2013, recorded together with DVD Piano Offenses )
    • DVD / Blu-Ray piano crime (recording took place on February 15 and 16, 2013 in the Musical Theater Bremen, publication September 2013)
  • Swinging Necessity - Best of program by Bodo Wartke together with The Capital Dance Orchestra (premiere in December 2012)
    • CD Swingende Necessity - live in Berlin (September 12, 2014)
  • What if it does? (Premiere on September 14, 2015)
  • Antigone (premiere April 9, 2018)
  • Wandelmut (premiere on February 4, 2020)

Other works

  • Bodo live - Das Konzert (first release on CD, production funded by NDR as a special prize at the NDR Comedy Prize 1996; first edition no longer available, new edition on the occasion of the 10th stage anniversary; limited edition 1996 pieces), CD (1996, 2006)
  • Unter dem Milchwald (soundtrack: Wartke, composed 1996, release on CD, on the occasion of the 10th stage anniversary; limited edition of 500 pieces), CD (2004)
  • Lyrics for the call on the album or by Roger Cicero

Books

  • So I think I sing - music book. 1st edition September 2005
  • Achilles verse - music book. 1st edition December 2006
  • Noah was an archetype - music book. 1st edition April 2008, music book as a supplement to the music book: April 2011
  • King Oedipus - piece text. 1st edition October 2009
  • Piano offenses - music book. 1st edition February 2012, music book as a supplement to the music book: September 2013
  • What if it does? - Music book. 1st edition February 2016

Web links

Commons : Bodo Wartke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ suedkurier.de: Bodo Wartke: The gentleman on the piano
  2. ↑ Bodo Wartke: Piano offenses - premiere criticism. In: LIVEUNDLUSTIG. January 28, 2012, accessed on August 23, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Guest book. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Massengeschmack.tv: Speech Planet, episode 36. Alsterfilm, accessed on November 15, 2019 ((Paywall)).
  5. ↑ TV Noir: Bodo Wartke on "from my living room". In: YouTube. Google Ireland Limited, April 26, 2020, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Reimkultur GmbH & Co KG, Bodo Wartke, Til Tessin, Sven Schütze: Bodo Wartke - I think, therefore I sing - piano cabaret in rhyme culture. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ http://www.bodowartke.de/seiten/index.php?nav=328
  8. ↑ rhyme culture GmbH & Co KG, Bodo Wartke, Til Ticino, Sven Sagittarius: Bodo Wartke - wav'ring - piano cabaret in rhyme culture. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Benjamin Wirtz: An interview with piano cabaret artist Bodo Wartke: "Sing the songs where they belong". Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Wayback Machine. April 30, 2012, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  11. ↑ http://www.bodowartke.de/deinestrophe
  12. ↑ Not in my name. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The country I want to live in. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Bodo Wartke - Hambach Forest. In: YouTube. September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
  15. ↑ King Oedipus - Caroline Stolz 'premiere of Bodo Wartke's Motherfucker-Revue: Iokaste - What haste? . In: nachtkritik.de. Retrieved November 21, 2011
  16. ↑ Production diary entry from April 17, 2009
  17. ↑ a b bodowartke.de: antigone , accessed on July 10, 2017
  18. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRfSjhnF30A
  19. ↑ http://www.swingende-notwendigkeit.de/
  20. ↑ Reimkultur - Reimkultur - Welcome to Reimkultur. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Bodo Wartke | Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel. Archived from the original on April 26, 2017 ; Retrieved April 25, 2017 .
  22. ↑ rhyme culture GmbH & Co KG, Bodo Wartke, Til Ticino, Sven Sagittarius: Bodo Wartke - Life and Work (wav'ring) - piano cabaret in rhyme culture. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
  23. ↑ The winners. DasSchwarzeSchaf.com , accessed on July 8, 2013 .
  24. ↑ rhyme culture GmbH & Co KG, Bodo Wartke, Til Ticino, Sven Sagittarius: Bodo Wartke - wav'ring - piano cabaret in rhyme culture. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wartke, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist, pianist and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg