Dotschy Reinhardt
Dotschy Reinhardt (* 10. November 1975 in Ravensburg as Michaela Reinhardt ) is a German jazz -Musikerin, author and human rights activist.
Live and act
Dotschy Reinhardt is Sinteza and started singing at the age of four. With her family, accompanied by jazz guitarists like Bobby Falta , she sang the first jazz standards from the Great American Songbook and in this way also got to know the compositions of her famous relative Django Reinhardt . The singer made her first public appearances at church services, where she sang spirituals in German and in Romanes , the language of the Sinti. From a very early age she was musically influenced by Frank Sinatra , Julie London , Pat Morrissey and Django Reinhardt. The first singing lessons and organ lessons soon followed. She made her first professional appearances at the age of eleven during the swing evenings that Horst Jankowski directed monthly in Stuttgart. At the age of 15 she appeared on the TV show "Swing & Talk" with the RIAS dance orchestra under the direction of Jankowski.
She has lived in Berlin with her husband, the singer David Rose, since 2003 and helped shape the cultural landscape there.
In 2006 she released her debut album Sprinkled Eyes , on which she modernized gypsy swing and developed it in the direction of modern jazz and bossa nova . Her second album Suni was also praised for its diversity. The third album Pani Sindhu is considered to be "a sympathetic, coherent, cleverly composed concept album ."
In 2008 Dotschy Reinhardt published her first book Gypsy: The Story of a Large Sinti Family at Scherz Verlag, in which she told the story of her family. Her second book Everybody's Gypsy: Pop culture between exclusion and respect was published by Metrolit Verlag in 2014. Reinhardt reports on the "gypsy culture" and the false images that exist of it. She explains how Sinti and Roma confidently assert themselves against exclusion and the appropriation of their culture. And she goes on a road trip through the centers of pop culture with stories about music and fashion, literature and art, film, television and everyday life.
Since 2016 she has been chairwoman of the regional council of Roma and Sinti RomnoKher Berlin-Brandenburg eV and an active member of the SPD.
Fonts
- Gipsy. The story of a large Sinti family. Frankfurt am Main: Scherz-Verlag, 2008
- Everybody's Gypsy. Pop culture between exclusion and respect. Berlin: Metrolit Verlag 2014 online
- Preface, in: The Dawn of Words. Modern poetry atlas of the Roma and Sinti. Berlin: Verlag Die Andere Bibliothek 2018.
Discographic notes
- Sprinkled Eyes (2006, with Grégoire Peters , Christian von der Goltz , Alexej Wagner, Ulli Bartel, Scott White)
- Suni (2008, with David Rose, Christian von der Goltz / Florent Gac, Alexej Wagner, David Reinhardt , Lancy Falta, Ulli Bartel, Scott White, Yoann Serra , Armando Chuh)
- Pani Sindhu (2012, with Christian von der Goltz, Al Gromer Khan / Matyas Wolter, Armando Chuh, Ravi Srinivasan)
- Chaplin's Secret (2018)
Web links
- Jazz singer with Sinti roots: Dotschy Reinhardt (Goethe-Institut)
- Interview: I go my way , Jazzzeitung 1/2007
- Dotschy Reinhardt at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The girl from the next caravan , Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 14, 2008
- ↑ Suni (Jazzdimensions) ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The musician Dotschy Reinhardt On Your Own Path , Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 19, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reinhardt, Dotschy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reinhardt, Michaela (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz singer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ravensburg |