Couplet-AG
| Couplet-AG | |
|---|---|
 Couplet-AG lettering |
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| General information | |
| origin | Munich inn in the Isar valley |
| Genre (s) | Cabaret & Couplet |
| founding | 1993 |
| Website | couplet-ag.de |
| Founding members | |
| Jürgen Kirner , Anna M. Spies, Bernhard Gruber, Hans Dettendorfer | |
| Current occupation | |
| Bavarian music cabaret | |
Lyrics, singing |
Jürgen Kirner |
Compositions, diatonic harmonica and other instruments |
Bernhard Gruber |
Singing, electric bass, glockenspiel |
Bianca Bachmann |
Singing, guitar, electric guitar, piano |
Bernhard Filser |
| former members | |
1993-2009 |
Anna M. Spies |
1993-2012 |
Hans Dettendorfer |
2013 |
Anderl Lipperer |
The Couplet-AG (Couplet-ArterhaltungsGesellschaft) is a Bavarian music cabaret group that has set itself the goal of creating the traditional song form of the Bavarian couplet in connection with cabaret.
Act
Couplet-AG is known in southern Germany and Austria for its live cabaret programs, which they show to the public on cabaret and cabaret stages, but also at festivals and major official events as well as in radio and television broadcasts.
history
The group was founded in 1991 as a three-person cast under the name “Der Couplet-Wahnsinn” as part of the “white-blue cabaret” - a cabaret stage in the Munich “Wirtshaus zum Isartal”. In 1993 the line-up was expanded to its current form and the premiere of the first live program “Together we are unbearable” took place. This was followed by the program "And the white sausage lures forever" in April 1995. In 1996 the group was renamed to the current name "Couplet-AG", whereby the AG stands for "Species Conservation Society". That year the first live CD was released.
occupation
The Couplet AG consists of
- Jürgen Kirner
- Bernhard Gruber
- Anna M. Spies (until October 2009)
- Bianca Bachmann (since November 2009)
- Hans Dettendorfer (until December 2012)
- Andreas Lipperer (January 2013 to July 2013)
- Bernhard Filser (since August 2013)
Programs
- Together We're Unbearable (1993)
- And the white sausage beckons forever (1995)
- Tatort Bayern (1997) - Director: Gabi Rothmüller
- Heimat-Report (2000) - Director: Werner Winkler
- Endstation Wurmannsquick (2003) - Director: Hanns Christian Müller
- Pressack Royal (2003) - Director: Hanns Christian Müller
- Bread for Bavaria (2006) - Director: Eva Demmelhuber
- 15 years Couplet-AG (2008) - Director: Eva Demmelhuber
- From tomorrow brain again (2010) - Director: Eva Demmelhuber
- Pearls for the People (2013) - Director: Eva Demmelhuber
Awards
- 1995: Talent staircase of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
- 1995: Tollwood Prize
- 2001: Audience award at the 5th Augsburg Cabaret Days
- 2002: Honored by the City of Munich for services to popular culture
- 2004: Bavarian poet thaler
- 2005: Bavarian Cabaret Prize
- 2008: Culture Prize of the Münchner Wochenanzeiger
- 2013: Honored by the City of Munich for services to popular culture
- 2014: Pasinger Culture Prize
- 2018: Dialect Prize Bavaria (special prize)
Discography
- And the white sausage beckons forever (1996 / CD)
- Tatort Bayern (1998 / CD)
- Heimat-Report (2000 / CD)
- Terminus Wurmannsquick - 10 years on tour (2003 / CD & DVD)
- Munich Blood (2004 / CD)
- Pressack Royal (2004 / CD)
- 15 years Couplet-AG (2008 / CD)
- 15 years of Couplet-AG - live in the slaughterhouse (2009 / DVD)
- Brain again tomorrow (2010 / CD)
- aus.äpfe.amen - the first 20 years (2013 / CD)
- Pearls for the People (2014 / CD & DVD)
- News from Valentin - Unheard couplets and songs by Karl Valentin (2016 / CD)
Web links
- Couplet AG website
- Couplet-AG portrait at Kabarettlive.de