The Black

Lothar Lechleiter (2013)

The Black , real name Lothar Lechleiter (born May 13, 1942 in Ebenrode , East Prussia ) is a German songwriter , musician , songwriter , singer and presenter .

Life

Lothar Lechleiter was born in 1942 as the fifth child of the married couple Albert and Minna Lechleiter. His father Albert Lechleiter is missing in World War II . The eldest son Heinz also became a soldier. In 1944 the second oldest son Horst lost his life at the age of 14; he was shot by partisans. At the end of 1944, Minna Lechleiter fled the Red Army with the children Günther, Siegfried and Lothar . In 1945, she came to the Soviet occupation zone after Dassow , from where it west to two and a half Year in refuge . After staying in four refugee camps , the escape ended in February 1952 when the family was given a small apartment in Reuschenberg near Neuss. The eldest brother Heinz came back from Soviet captivity in 1952.

Lothar Lechleiter finished school in Reuschenberg and began an apprenticeship as a lathe operator . He played guitar and sang with the Neussers (later Die Pontocs ), South American and African music and madrigals by Luca Marenzio and Clemens non Papa in four-part movements since 1957 . It turned brown very quickly from exposure to the sun, which is why friends called it "Black".

From 1961 to 1962 he spent together with the group "Spielschar Burg Waldeck" - playing and singing theater - in South America . Hence his inclination towards South American folk music. Back in Germany, he made up his technical college entrance qualification in West Berlin to start studying engineering.

In autumn 1965 Lothar “Black” met Lech manager Wolfgang “Schobert” Schulz at a concert in the Parktheater Lüdenscheid. Both hit it off right away and founded the duo Schobert & Black in autumn 1965 . At Whitsun 1966 they first appeared as Schobert & Black at Waldeck Castle .

Lechleiter gave up engineering studies in favor of a music career.

From then on Schobert & Black were a successful singing duo in the songwriting scene. They had up to 300 performances a year and also filled large event halls. In 1985 they both decided to go their separate ways in the future. Black initially took a longer artistic break and worked as an entrepreneur for years. In 2008 he returned to the stage as "The Black".

Shaped by the experience of his own flight from East Prussia, Black is committed to refugees and those politically persecuted.

Lothar Lechleiter lives with his partner Helga in Bonn.

genre

In his concerts he interprets serious, thoughtful, humorous, witty but also political songs with a lot of fun, the necessary seriousness and without a raised index finger. His appearances are characterized by new Limericks , East Prussian stories and songs in memory of " Schobert & Black ". "Der Black" has expanded a much larger part of its repertoire to include texts that mostly come from authors he is friends with - critical, political and satirical texts - and others. a. by Klaus De Rottwinkel , Pit Klein, Volker Ludwig , Klaus Pawlowski , Bungter and Günter Frorath, Tom Stüve and the South Americans Víctor Jara and Atahualpa Yupanqui .

At his concerts “Der Black” is accompanied by the musician Philipp Römer (guitar, vocals) - “Barth & Römer”. From 2012 on he gave concerts with Ingo Insterburg entitled “Highlights from two artists' lives”.

Discography

• 2003: Listen to your contemporaries (BLACK & Pit Klein, Graßhoff Lieder)
• 2008: Meschugge
• 2011: Spread the word
• 2014: The BLACK sings
• 2014: Thoughts are free (together with Ingo Insterburg)

Awards

• 1975: German Cabaret Prize (as Schobert & Black)
• 2017: Satirical Seniors' Foundation ( German Cabaret Archive Foundation )

Web links

• The songwriter Lothar Lechleiter . Contribution by Irene Dänzer-Vanotti in the WDR series Experienced Stories on May 12, 2019.
• The Black

Individual evidence

1. ^ Conträr Musik Rolf Limbach: Schobert & Black - Biography - Conträr Musik. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ About the person In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de , accessed on January 30, 2018.
3. ↑ Schobert & Black - Limerick III. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
4. ^ Black. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
5. ↑ INGO INSTERBURG & The BLACK | Nature Conservation and Art - Leipziger Auwald eV Accessed on January 24, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Sophia Möbes: Ingo Insterburg and Black in Bernburg: "I loved a girl ..." In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . November 6, 2017 ( mz-web.de [accessed January 24, 2018]).
7. ↑ HAPPENED - NOTED | Deutsches Kabarettarchiv In: kabarettarchiv.de , November 3, 2017, accessed on January 29, 2018.