Daniel Kempin

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Daniel Kempin (born July 22, 1964 in Wiesbaden ) is a German singer and guitarist.

Life

Daniel Kempin, the son of the church musician at St. Bonifatius , Peter Kempin, first studied classical guitar and music in Darmstadt, then Jewish studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and in Jerusalem , where he has a collection of around 6,000 Yiddish songs. Daniel Kempin did not leave the Talmud College during the Iraqi rocket bombing of Israel in the Gulf War . After ten years of deliberation, the son of a Catholic church musician confessed to Judaism, with which he reversed his grandmother's decision. Like Kempin's mother, she had been baptized because of the Nazi persecution.

He took intensive Yiddish language courses in Great Britain and Israel . Since 1983 he has also given international concerts with Jewish songs, including in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel and the USA. In 1992 he began working with the violinist Dimitry Reznik (* 1969 in Petrozavodsk), who belongs to the ensemble of the Cologne Philharmonic . Kempin has also contributed to the transmission of Yiddish songs with courses and workshops.

His third CD mir lebn eybik! von 1994 received the German Record Critics' Prize , a success that Kempin was able to repeat in 1998 with his sixth CD benkshaft ( Sehnsucht ). The recording for his fourth album Krakow ghetto-notebook with songs by Mordechaj Gebirtig from the Krakow ghetto was made at the invitation of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, as well as for his subsequent one: rise up and fight! . Kempin also interpreted the Yiddish tojtngesang by Rosebery d'Arguto , interpreted by Aleksander Kulisiewicz , which he passed on to his pupil Anna Werliková : "Two people in the world still sing this song - I am one of them".

As a board member, Kempin belongs to Kehillah Chadascha e. V., who was constituted in 2000 as an egalitarian minyan in the Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main . Daniel Kempin has been training to be a cantor for several years .

Publications

1994–1995: Rosinkess with almonds. Yiddish lullabies as a mirror of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. In: musikblatt. Journal for Guitar, Folklore and Lied Vol. 21 (1994), No. 168 (5/94), pp. 23-26; No. 169 (6/94), pp. 29-34; No. 170 (1/95), pp. 23-27; No. 171 (2/95), pp. 31-33; No. 172 (3/95), pp. 21-30 ISSN  0172-8989

2011: Shiru! Sing !: 60 Hebrew songs = Chirou! Chentez! Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house. ISBN 978-3-579-05934-1

Discography

  • 1990: singing and tants. The 2nd Festival of the Yiddish Song in Fürth
  • 1992: mazl un shlamazl. Yiddish songs. Melisma
  • 1994: I live eybik! lider fun getos un store. Melisma
  • 1995: Krakow ghetto notebook. Koch international classics
  • 1996: rise up and fight! Songs of Jewish partisans. Theodore Bikel with Daniel Kempin (guitar) and others. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • 1998: benkshaft. Melisma
  • 2002: Profolk. The CD for the price for folk, song and world music in Germany. TFF Rudolstadt (therein, together with Dimitry Reznik: Oy, mame, bin ikh farlibt ; Yoshke fort avek ; Vot ken yu makh - s'iz Amerike )
  • 2006: O bitter time. Camp songs 1933 to 1945. Ed. Fietje Ausländer, Susanne Brandt and Guido Fackler. 3 CDs, Papenburg, Documentation and Information Center (DIZ) Emslandlager (including: Nisht keyn roshinkes ; Tsu eyns, tsvey, dray ), ISBN 978-3-926277-14-5

Awards

literature

  • Naomi Bodemann and Dirk Vogel: Moments. Portraits of Jews in Germany . Mosse-Verlag, Berlin 2003
  • Micha Brumlik : At home, no home? Young Jews and their future in Germany . Bleicher-Verlag, Gerlingen 1998
  • Nikolaus Gatter: The Jerusalem of the East is irretrievably gone. Interview with the Yiddish songwriter Daniel Kempin. In: musikblatt. Journal for Guitar, Folklore and Lied Vol. 21 (1994), No. 168 (5/94) pp. 17-22 ISSN  0172-8989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Riemann: Daniel Kempin - musician from an unusual family. Digitized in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, June 11, 1999
  2. ↑ Jens Höhner: With the moral index finger. Mazl un Shlamazl: Daniel Kempin sings Yiddish songs about happiness and unhappiness. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung, November 11, 1995
  3. ^ Website of the egalitarian minyan in Frankfurt am Main
personal data
SURNAME Kempin, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden