Ecco Meineke

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Ecco Meineke, 2020
Ecco DiLorenzo at a folk and blues performance in 2017
Ecco Meineke, Sept. 2011

"Ecco" Meineke (* 1961 in Kaufbeuren ) is a German artist who works in a wide variety of genres. As a soul, jazz and chanson singer, he is also known under the extended stage name Ecco DiLorenzo .

music

While still at school, the Munich Ludwigsgymnasium , Ecco Meineke met the later TV presenter and songwriter Werner Schmidbauer . The two became an integral part of the Bavarian cabaret scene as the duo "Jedermann" and performed more than 800 performances from 1978 to 1985 (including the Michael Schanze Show ). Even after that they worked together. B. together with the Irish singer Valery McLeary in the comedy trio "Folksfest".

In 1987 Ecco Meineke founded the 11-person soul formation “Innersoul” and called himself “Ecco DiLorenzo” as a singer. In the course of the 80s he founded various bands. With the Bully-Herbig guitarist Dieter Holesch, he played the “Good Time Blues” duo through the clubs. In 2000 the two received the film music contract for "Bully" Herbig's film Der Schuh des Manitu . Meineke / DiLorenzo contributed the lyrics and sang all male vocal tracks. In 1994 he founded the klezmer group “Die Shtetlmusikanten” together with clarinetist Andreas Arnold .

In 1995 Meineke ventured into the jazz scene with a Nat King Cole program.

From 1996 to 1997 he was a participant in the comedy quiz Quast - The very last from all over the world on Bavarian television .

In 2000 his singer-songwriter album "The Third Monday" was released. For this he received the German Folk Promotion Prize .

In 2004 Ecco Meineke became a member of the “ Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft ” ensemble . For 7 years and 5 programs he wrote texts and was on stage.

In 2010 Meineke was called to the “polittbüro” theater in Hamburg. There he took part in the revue project “The 7 Deadly Sins” in order to share the role of Elbphilharmonie director “DuMont” with Gustav Peter Wöhler.

In 2010 Meineke, alias “Maurice Brox”, gave club concerts with the singer-songwriter project “Anthony's Garden”. At the end of 2011, “Anthony's Garden” released their first album how to grow a plant .

With his "Ecco DiLorenzo Jazz Quartet" he released the album Selffulfilling Prophecies in 2012 with his own German lyrics.

For the action room is music is room , Meineke / DiLorenzo brought together artists from the fields of sculpture, video art, photography and jazz in the summer of 2013. To this end, he visited 11 sculptors in their studios and each selected one object as a godfather for a jazz composition. and he played a series of four concerts in the middle of the sculptures at the Einstein.Kultur-Zentrum in Munich.

In 2014 the Raus Revue was performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele . In 2015 Meineke presented his chanson program Meineke in the Munich Künstlerhaus . Chansons. in front.

For the reopening of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich in autumn 2013, Meineke was awarded the contract to design the temporary art platform Schaustelle / Schauing. Realized with over thirty artists from the fields of sculpture / drama / film / blues / light projection / agit-prop and hip-hop, the area was transformed into a Dadaist reflection of the Oktoberfest.

In October 2015 the album Soultrain BaBaDee by "Ecco DiLorenzo and his Innersoul" was released.

cabaret

  • 1993: Completely out of date
  • 1996: Stirninger-Man (with Christian Springer)
  • 1999 Award (with Christian Springer)
  • 2001: The women eat everything away from us! (with Susanne Rohrer )
  • 2004: Beyond OZ - A cabaret fairy tale ( laughing and shooting company )
  • 2005: Abandoned (laughing and shooting party)
  • 2006: Extended - anniversary program 50 years of laughing and shooting society
  • 2008: Last Minute (laughing and shooting party)
  • 2010: Without limit (laugh and shoot society)
  • 2010: and we came out of the water (solo program)
  • 2011: Fake! (Solo program)
  • 2012: 1st cabaret annual review 2012 in the Schwabing clubhouse
  • 2013: Liberté! Égalité! Humbatäterä-Tatä! (Solo program)
  • 2017: The topic is eaten (solo program)

Awards

  • 1985: 1st Prize Jugendfilmfest Medienzentrum München for: DUNKELMANN, WG comedy / horror film parody, 90 'min. (Script: Martin Östreicher and Echo Meineke)
  • 2001: RUTH Folk Promotion Prize for "The Third Monday"
  • 2011: 1st prize at the “Munich International Short Film Festival” / kaliber35 for the contribution “The bottom line was that I had a good week”.
  • 2013: Melsunger Cabaret Prize " Sharp Beards "
  • 2013: Nomination for the Franconian Cabaret Prize

Discography

  • 2003: The third Monday (solo folk)
  • 2012: Self-fulfilling Prophecies (Ecco DiLorenzo Jazz Quartet, GLM , with Chris Gall , Paul Tietze , Wolfgang Peyerl and Andreas Dombert )
  • 2012: How to Grow a Plant (with Anthony's Garden)
  • 2015: Soultrain BaBaDee (Ecco DiLorenzo and his Innersoul)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ecco Meineke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Appearance of the Michael Schanze Show
  2. ↑ / Report Farewell Tour Trio "Folksfest ( Memento from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ "Innersoul" website
  4. ↑ article on the Shtetlmusikanten in the AA from May 7, 2015
  5. ^ Chronicle of the laughing and shooting society
  6. ↑ Anthony's Garden website
  7. ↑ EccoDiLorenzo at GLM Music
  8. ↑ / The Raus Revue - Who is the Nazi here
  9. ↑ "Meineke.Chansons."
  10. ↑ DADA-Wiesn - art event for the reopening of the Pinakothek der Moderne 2013
  11. ↑ / Participant Franconian Cabaret Prize
personal data
SURNAME Meineke, Ecco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DiLorenzo, Ecco (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist, musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren