Carlo Karges

Carlo Karges (born July 31, 1951 in Hamburg ; † January 30, 2002 there ) was a German musician who was best known as a guitarist and songwriter for the Nena band .

Life

Karges grew up with his single mother in Hamburg. He started playing guitar and composing songs as a schoolboy. After gaining live experience in various Hamburg local bands such as Tomorrows's Gift and Release Music Orchestra , he was one of the founding members of Novalis in 1971 as a guitarist and keyboardist , for whom he wrote the text of the piece Wer Butterlinge laughs . In 1975 he left the band. In the following years he played with the bands Ramblers, Else Nabu Band and Desperado. In 1980 he replaced Piet Worthmann on guitar at Extrabreit .

In 1981 he got out of Extrabreit again to join the Berlin band Bleibtreu Revue, with whom he recorded the album Ungeheuer Paranoia (Intercord, SpiegelEi, INT 145.630) produced by Edo Zanki , where he also worked as a composer and lyricist and in 1981 for one extensive tour went. In the course of this he got to know Nena in Hagen and founded the band Nena with her . Karges co-wrote the Nena hit 99 Luftballons and wrote the lyrics for the song. He was also the co-author of ? (Question mark) and Anyway, Anywhere, Anytime . Save me and Vollmond were written and composed by him.

On August 31, 1985, Karges opened the musician café Carlo in Berlin , which due to its unfavorable location ^where? closed again in September 1986. After the band Nena broke up in mid-1987, Karges first founded the band Café Carlo and then played in bands such as Füll Service and La Vida; but he remained commercially unsuccessful. In 1989 Karges and Nena broke up when he published an open letter to Nena in Quick magazine after the death of their first son . ^Receipt?

In 1994, after his reconciliation with Nena in the previous year, as a songwriter he again contributed two songs ( Vor Deiner Tür and Ich bin die Liebe ) to her solo album And Alles wird bei, and he was involved in two other songs as a co-author. Likewise Karges was as a copywriter at ZDF - Soundtrack album Nena and the bamboo bears gang involved (1996). Most recently he played for the cover band Timebandits and at the same time TAXI.

Urn grove near chapel 2

Carlo Karges died of liver failure on January 30, 2002 in the Eppendorf Clinic . He was buried in Hamburg at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in the anonymous urn grove near chapel 2.

Web links

• Carlo Karges at Discogs (English)
• Carlo Karges at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 99 Balloons and the Chaos of Emotions , Der Spiegel 13/1984, March 26, 1984
2. ↑ Reichelt, Hans-Heinrich: Dead! The man who wrote the "99 balloons" for Nena , Berliner Kurier on February 1, 2002