Daniel Helfrich

Daniel Helfrich (2019)

Daniel Helfrich (born March 7, 1973 in Weinheim ) is a German cabaret artist , composer , pianist , singer , band leader and presenter .

Life

Daniel Helfrich (pianist, singer, cabaret artist, composer, presenter and band leader) was born in 1973 in Weinheim. Growing up in Grasellenbach-Scharbach (Odenwald), he started playing the piano at the age of 7.

After graduating from high school and doing community service, studied from 1994 to 1999 at the Heidelberg University of Education (subjects: music and catholic theology). As a piano and keyboard teacher, he taught from 1992 to 2002 at the “Youth Music School Überwald-Weschnitztal eV”.

Since completing his studies in 1999, Daniel Helfrich has been working as a freelance artist. Initially mostly as a pure solo pianist and singer. During this time he framed gala evenings, private celebrations and company events, played a. a. on Aida ships and was regularly booked in various first-class hotels across Europe.

As a member of the rock'n'roll show band "The Crazy Petticoats", he shows his creative class as well as together with top musicians in the jazz area in various trio and quartet line-ups. Concert tours as a musician have taken him to Hungary, Nigeria, Czechoslovakia, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Rome. With the Indian tabla player Shahdaab Roshan Bhartiya, he produced a CD with his own compositions in Bombay / India in 2007.

From 2006 the Odenwälder resident in Berlin is now almost exclusively on the road as a piano cabaret artist in the entire German-speaking area. With his five previous cabaret solo programs, he was nominated for various cabaret prizes (Stuttgart Lied and Chanson Competition, Paulaner Solo, Cabaret Kaktus, the Black Sheep from the Lower Rhine, Obernburger Mühlstein, Krefeld Crow, etc.). In June 2007 he won the 31st Trier Comedy Slam and qualified for the annual finale of the talent factory of the Quatsch Comedy Club in Berlin in March 2008. 2011–2012 he was a participant in the Cabaret Bundesliga. In 2013 he was honored as the winner of the 4th Bad Essener Kultur Kanapees. In 2017 he was named the winner of the Mannheim Comedy Cup 2017 at the Capitol Mannheim.

He worked as a copywriter and co-author, including a. for "Cabaret Shower", the ensemble of Klapsmühl´ Mannheim and has been commissioned with several compositions for various theater and musical productions since 2016. Since 2008 he has moderated and organized the monthly "Kultursalon" show in the Sapperlot Theater in Lorsch. Daniel Helfrich has had his main residence in Weinheim since 2018.

Daniel Helfrich has been at home on stages as a musician and entertainer for over 30 years. He describes his art of entertainment as a cabaret artist as critical of society, media and consumption, presented in a bizarre way. Daniel Helfrich doesn't just want to play words, he also wants to bite into words. Sayings are reversed, terms are crossed anew, he collages and reassembles. This also applies to the patchwork oeuvre of his musical quotations and style imitations. He always has a catchy tune on the hook. Helfrich's performance is a mixture of rousing piano music with fervently performed, wonderfully weird and somewhat morbid, sometimes more, sometimes less serious texts.… Whimsical, witty piano cabaret with an absolute guarantee of laughter.

cabaret

Since 2006 Daniel Helfrich has been traveling all over Germany mainly as a piano cabaret artist. Already his first program Everyone raise your hand! brought him numerous nominations for cabaret and cabaret prizes (Stuttgart song and chanson competition, Paulaner solo, cabaret cactus, the black sheep from the Lower Rhine, Obernburger Mühlstein, Krefeld crows etc.). In 2007 he won the 31st Trier Comedy Slam, 2008 he qualified for the annual finale of the talent factory of the Quatsch Comedy Club in Berlin. 2011–2012 he was a participant in the Cabaret Bundesliga. In 2013 he was honored as the winner of the 4th Bad Essener Kultur Kanapees. In 2017 he was named the winner of the Mannheim Comedy Cup 2017 at the Capitol Mannheim. In addition to numerous stage appearances in the entire German-speaking region, he was also seen in TV programs such as Ottis Schlachthof , Cabaret from Franconia (both BR ), Müller and friends ( SWR ) or Hessen laughs at the Fassenacht (HR). In November 2016, HR-Fernsehen recorded a 30-minute excerpt from its fourth program "Actually I'm a dancer" in the series Comedy from Hessen and broadcast it several times. Reps were also shown on 3SAT and on SWR television. He moderates various cabaret mix shows (including the Kultursalon in Theater Sapperlot in Lorsch since 2008) and works as a composer and copywriter (including for the Mannheim cabaret shower ).

Awards

• 2007 31st Trier Comedy Slam, 1st place
• 2008 Euskirchener Kleinkunstpreis, 2nd place
• 2008 annual finale of the talent factory of the Quatsch Comedy Club Berlin
• 2009 Dattelner Kleinkunstpreis, 3rd place
• 2013 Bad Essen Culture Sofa, 1st place
• 2017 Mannheim Comedy Cup, 1st place

Solo programs

• 2006 "Everybody raise their hands!"
• 2010 "MusiZierFische - we are all excluded!"
• 2013 "The half-naked horror - songs and stories from bad guys"
• 2016 "Actually, I'm a dancer"
• 2019 "Food combining is not a farewell dinner"

CD publications

• 1999 Vanilla Diesel (live)
• 2004 Daniel Helfrich - solo
• 2007 Daniel Helfrich - India
• 2008 "ch-s-sch", cabaret songs from "All times raise your hand!"
• 2010 MusiZierFische (live in the Sapperlot-Theater Lorsch)
• 2010 "Kurpfälzer Comedians" presented by Eichbaum (two songs)
• 2011 single "Leben am Limit", studio production with Adax Dörsam
• 2014 Leben am Limit (live in the Sapperlot-Theater Lorsch and Kulturzentrum Hufeisen Germersheim)
• 2017 I'm actually a dancer (live in the Sapperlot-Theater Lorsch)
• 2020 food combining is not a farewell dinner

Web links

• Daniel Helfrich homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ARD-Mediathek Daniel Helfrich - Actually, I'm a dancer ( Memento from May 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ 31st Trier Comedy Slam, 1st place