Christian Kunert

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Christian Kunert at a performance by the Klaus Renft Combo in 2003

Christian "Kuno" Kunert (born May 20, 1952 in Leipzig ) is a German songwriter , musician and writer.

Life

Kunert's mother was a concert pianist, his father a doctor. From 1961 to 1965 Christian Kunert was a member of the Leipzig Thomanerchor . When he had to go to the hospital for an appendix operation, a fellow patient got him excited about Beat . He promptly founded his first band, The Little Stars , in 1964 . The parents' cellar was converted into a rehearsal room and "Kuno", as he was now called, hardly missed a broadcast from the Beat Club . After graduating from the Thomas School , which he was able to take despite not being a member of the FDJ , and a simultaneous apprenticeship as a fitter, he began studying music. In 1971 he joined the Klaus Renft Combo as a keyboardist . After they were banned in 1975, he could only appear on unofficial occasions. He usually did this together with the former lyricist of the Klaus Renft combo Gerulf Pannach , and occasionally with the writer Jürgen Fuchs and the songwriter Bettina Wegner .

In 1976, after their protests against Wolf Biermann's expatriation , he, Fuchs and Pannach were arrested and expatriated under pressure to West Berlin on August 26, 1977 , where the Stasi continued to observe and persecute them.

“We didn't come to West Berlin voluntarily. For nine months we tried to counter the disgusting methods of the state security with our firm intention that we want to live in the GDR in order to help there as artists to achieve a progressive, humane society. I repeat: to live in the GDR and not perish in prison. "

- Jürgen Fuchs, Gerulf Pannach and Christian Kunert : Declaration in August 1977 in West Berlin

With their mixture of folk and blues , Pannach and Kunert initially performed quite successfully in the West, but they did not make their big breakthrough. Christian Kunert wrote music for film, television (including Tatort ) and theater. He also wrote the film music for Engel aus Eisen and "Domino" by Thomas Brasch . In "Domino" he briefly appeared singing. In 1988/89 he was musical director of the porcupines and worked with the cabaret artist Matthias Deutschmann .

After the fall of the wall, Pannach and Kunert gave more concerts again, especially in eastern Germany. On November 12, 1989, both were among the few musicians from the GDR who took part in the concert for Berlin in Berlin's Deutschlandhalle . In the early 1990s, Pannach & Kunert wrote the musical "Das Totenschiff", based on the novel of the same name by B. Traven . In 1993 Kunert moved to the Upper Harz and ran a guesthouse there.

After Gerulf Pannach's death in 1998, Christian Kunert performed again with the Klaus Renft Combo until 2005. He commented on the collaboration with his friend and colleague Pannach in the text edition of Salli Sallmann As I was like a bird . He now appeared frequently at events aimed at coming to terms with the SED dictatorship, including in 2006 in the Berlin House of Representatives , the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial , the former Stasi prison in which he was held in 1976/77. In 2006 Kunert lost his hearing. Then he first appeared again in April 2007; he took part in a reading as part of the Leipzig Museum Night. Since then, at his public appearances, he has almost exclusively performed new texts that are already available on two CDs. In 2017 Kunert published his novel "Ringelbeats".

Discography

plates

  • Fuchs, Pannach, Kunert: For Us Who We Still Hope (CBS 1977)
  • Pannach and Kunert live in Sweden: singer mot Rädslan (1978)
  • Pannach and Kunert (CBS 1979)
  • Pannach and Kunert: Fluche Seele, curse (MOOD Records 1981) - 1996 as CD on Nebelhorn / Buschfunk
  • Pannach and Kunert live: Pretty Woman don't look like that! (Bluesong 1991)

CD

  • Kuno and the Traellerasseln: I'll build you a song (RUM Records 1998)
  • Pannach and Kunert: Give me a handful of luck . Live 1977–1993 (Buschfunk 2000)
  • Christian Kunert: You don't have to be interested in that . Excerpts from an event with Christian KUNO Kunert on the Leipzig Museum Night on April 21, 2007 in the round corner (Marktkram 2007)
  • Pannach and Kunert: Sonne wie ein Clown (re-release of a record from 1979), bonus DVD with film recordings, Marktkram BF 07332 (2011)
  • Pannach and Kunert: Fluche, Seele, curse (reissue of the record released in 1981 by the MOOD label)

Audio book

literature

  • Christian Kunert: Don't look at me shyly because I like you. Rock in the GDR , in: Rock Session 2. Magazine of popular music. Edited by Jörg Gülden and Klaus Humann, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, pp. 198–212.
  • Christian KUNO Kunert: The times they are awesome. Barley, Renft and Rebellion , in: Bye bye, Lübben City. Blues freaks, tramps and hippies in the GDR. Edited by Michael Rauhut and Thomas Kochan , Berlin 2004, pp. 83–91.
  • Salli Sallmann (Ed.): When I was like a bird. Gerulf Pannach: The texts. With comments by Kuno Kunert. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8960-21869 .
  • Christian KUNO Kunert: Ringelbeats. Roman, Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-359-01736-3
  • Christian Kunert: GET NO , in: East of the Elbe. Songs and Pictures 1970–2013, ed. by Lutz Kerschowski and Andreas Meinecke, Berlin 2020, pp. 56/57.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Insights on kuno-kunert.de , accessed on July 20, 2010.
  2. ↑ Christian Kunert's biography on jugendopposition.de ( Federal Agency for Civic Education / Robert Havemann Society ), viewed on March 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ From the declaration by Jürgen Fuchs, Gerulf Pannach and Christian Kunert in August 1977 mdr-Figaro 2007 ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 20, 2010
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel of April 5, 2006, Edith Siepmann: "Everything is lying, Flierl must go!", Accessed on July 20, 2010
  5. ↑ Details on the CD at buchhandlung89.de , accessed on July 20, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Kunert, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kunert, Kuno (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter and musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig