Dirk Zöllner

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The customs officers 2013

Dirk Zöllner (born June 13, 1962 in East Berlin ) is a German singer, songwriter, composer and musical performer.

Life

Influenced by the musical preferences of his mother, who valued the music of Otis Redding and the Temptations , and those of his father, who introduced him to the music of the Renft group , Dirk Zöllner wanted to become a musician at an early age.

During his school days he turned to glam rock and founded the SWEET karaoke band with his friends . He got his first guitar as a gift in the 9th grade. Then he taught himself to play by himself . At school parties he played songs by Udo Lindenberg , Neil Young and Bob Dylan, among others . From 1980 to 1982 Zöllner had public appearances in churches and at cultural competitions.

In 1982, Zöllner played his first own compositions with his band Saumäßig , which he founded during his time in the army with the NVA . With the band Chicorée , founded in 1984 , the first studio productions for radio in the GDR were possible and the band received a license to play . The ballad Käfer auf'm Blatt was a success; numerous concerts followed. In 1985 the first studio productions for radio in the GDR took place.

With the requirement to complete a music degree at the Friedrichshain Music School , he was classified as a professional musician in 1986. Tours followed to Poland and Bulgaria . In 1987 the band was part of the DEFA music documentary whispering & screaming , but separated shortly afterwards due to differences. Zöllner looked for a new partner, the pianist André Gensicke, and founded Die Zöllner in November 1987, which played in 1988 in the opening act of James Brown in front of 70,000 spectators during the open-air festival on the Weißensee cycling track .

In 1989 the first video productions were made for the youth channel Elf 99 . On November 12, 1989, Die Zöllner was one of the few bands from the GDR who took part in the concert for Berlin in Berlin's Deutschlandhalle . Appearances with Mick Taylor , Heinz Rudolf Kunze and Wolf Maahn took place in 1990. In the same year the band's first LP was released on the Amiga record label , and Zöllner accepted an invitation to the New Music Seminar in New York . In 1993 the band gave around 100 concerts in Germany. Zöllner went on a DreiHIGHligentour with André Herzberg and Dirk Michaelis . The first three months of 1995 he took a creative break in California , where he played in amateur bands. After returning to Germany, a tour of Germany followed from April to September. Zöllner founded his own record label ZuG-Records . At the end of 1997, the nine members of the group Die Zöllner and their manager Reyk Zöllner, Dirk's brother, fell out. The band was dissolved and Dirk Zöllner announced that he would never again perform under the name “Die Zöllner”. The following album ran under "Dirk Zöllner", the next under "Zöllner" and in 2011 the lettering was again "Die Zöllner".

In 2006 he played the role of Jesus in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Dresden State Operetta, alongside the project Club der toten Dichter , which set poems by Heinrich Heine to music . Since 2009 he has also played this role in a production by the Pforzheim City Theater directed by Wolf Widder .

In 2017 the album Dirk und das Glück: Zöllner meets Karma was released , on which the texts written by Werner Karma for the Silly follow-up album by Alles Rot , but ultimately not used, can be found.

Private

Dirk Zöllner lives in Berlin-Köpenick . From 1988 to 1996 he was married to the journalist and author Abini Zöllner . His daughter Rubini (born 1992), who was born in this marriage, is now performing with her father. Zöllner has three other children.

politics

In the 2009 Bundestag election, Zöllner publicly called for the election of the Left Party . In 2013, Die Zöllner played in the left's election campaign.

Discography

  • 1990: The customs officers ( Amiga )
  • 1991: Café megalomania
  • 1993: golden times
  • 1995: Zöllner Light - Live
  • 1996: Boom Boom
  • 1997: Good bye, Chérie
  • 1999: I can do anything
  • 2000: Zöllner Classics
  • 2000: Die Drei HIGHligen (with André Herzberg and Dirk Michaelis )
  • 2002: OSTENde (with IC Falkenberg )
  • 2003: On the road - BEST OF
  • 2004: HIGHlive (with André Herzberg and Dirk Michaelis)
  • 2004: where is the dog?
  • 2006: The Book of Songs (Club of Dead Poets: Heinrich Heine)
  • 2008: 7 sins
  • 2011: Die Zöllner live in the Duo Infernale (not in free trade)
  • 2012: Shoreless
  • 2015: forever
  • 2017: Dirk and luck: customs officer meets karma
  • 2019: Zack Zack Zessions

Books

  • 2012: The Distant Islands of Happiness: A Biography
  • 2017: Affenzahn. Eulenspiegel, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-359-01345-7 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dirk Zöllner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Zöllner: The distant islands of happiness. New Life, Berlin 2012, ISBN 9783355500005 . Excerpts from books.google.de
  2. ↑ Lutz Pehnert: Hot rock summer . In: For you . No. 29/88 , July 1988, pp. 6th ff .
  3. ↑ Christine Wagner: The customs officers say goodbye. The chemistry was no longer right . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 5/1998 , January 26, 1998, scene, p. 18 .
  4. ↑ Torsten Wahl: GDR hit miracle: The poet behind the songs by Silly . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 20, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017. 
  5. ↑ Tour dates on Zöllner's website , accessed on September 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Customs officer, Dirk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, songwriter, composer and musical performer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin