Ede Staal
Ede Ulfert Staal , (born August 2, 1941 in Warffum , † July 22, 1986 in Delfzijl ) was an English teacher and dialect poet and singer from the Netherlands . He became known for songs about his home in the Groningen region and life there, mainly in the regional dialect of Groning . He also wrote songs under the pseudonym E. Paltrams (the Dutch word for schnulze , smartlap , spelled backwards).
biography
Ede Staal was the son of Boele Staal , a leader within the National Socialist movement NSB , who had to serve a long prison sentence after the end of the war for the murder of a resistance fighter. With his wife Sophia Theodora (Fieke) Spoel and his six sons, Ede Staal lived on various farms in the Groningen region.
Staal, who had already released a less than successful single in 1973 ( I'm in the blues ), was discovered in 1981 by Engbert Gruben, an employee of the Groningen local radio station Radio Noord . In 1982 Staals Mien Toentje ("My Little Garden") became the theme tune for Radio Noord's garden programs . The song became quite popular and Ede Staal was increasingly viewed as the folk singer of Groningen. There were many requests to perform, but he only rarely accepted them. These few appearances were very successful. He was accompanied by Henk Bemboom on piano and accordion . In 1984 he released "Mien Toentje" as a single. On the B-side was the song: Man, man, man, wat 'n boudel .
During his work for Radio Noord, Staal also provided repertoire for other artists. For example, he wrote songs for the Askay Brothers (Johan Raspe and Rieks Folgerts) , a well-known Groningen dialect duo. Staal wrote them Naargens Beter as Thoes, a successful title for several years.
Staal's first long-playing record (LP) was released in December 1984 . It contains twelve songs in the Groninger Platt . The work, u. a. with the title Mien Toentje , already known as a radio jingle , was a great success. The sale reached the level of a national success. In January 1985 Staal had to undergo two major operations. In November 1985, however, he appeared again at a festival in Delfzijl. In early 1986 received Staal a regular column in the program Sloaperstil of Radio Noord . His vertelstertjes (translated something like "Histörchen", "little stories") were broadcast every Sunday morning. Some of them also appeared in a regional-language magazine (Toal en Taiken).
Ede Staal founded the music label Mollebone Music together with Klaas Staal from Veendam (not related) . The name is based on the nickname of the people of Groningen, who are also called Mollebone (singular Molleboon ) after a regional pan specialty .
As he became more famous and popular, it became known that he was diagnosed with lung cancer . On July 22, 1986, after a short but successful artistic career, he died at the age of 44 on his farm on Farmsumerweg near Delfzijl. He was buried there too.
After his death
At the beginning of October 1986 his second LP As vaaier woorden was released posthumously . Like the first record, it was a great success. He dedicated the last months of his life to this work. When the first record was presented to his wife Fieke, a prize of 5000 guilders (2270 euros) was awarded, which is given every two years to people who have made a name for themselves on the radio for the Groningen region (but not professionally with the radio, regional development and tradition). For his part, Ede Staal also received a posthumous culture award for his services to the homeland of Groningen, the K. ter Laan Prijs . The poetic songs, performed in his melancholy way, include everyday observations, combined with humorous as well as serious thoughts.
Staal was already a celebrity, not just a local one, during his lifetime. This only increased after his death. Several hundred thousand copies of his CDs and songs have been sold. His songs in the Groninger Platt are often played on regional radio broadcasts. Ede Staal became more internationally known for his music contributions in the film The Polish Bride (“ De Poolse bruid ”, NL 2003).
On November 6, 1996, the RVU broadcaster broadcast a documentary (director: David Blitz) with the name "Ede Staal", Een portrait van de Groningse volkszanger Ede Staal . On June 22, 2011, 25 years after his death, Radio Noord broadcast a half-hour special about Ede Staal. At the same time, a bust of the artist was unveiled in the transmitter's building in the presence of his family. In Nieuwe Statenzijl , a small hamlet 25 kilometers southwest of Delfzijl, where Staal lived for a while, there is a plaque by the lock with the text of his song about this place. The actor Marcel Hensema used some of Staal's pieces in his one-man show Mijn Ede , which ran from 2013 to 2014.
monument
In 2001, a stele for Ede Staal was unveiled on the dike in Delfzijl, close to the center of the bay of Watum (belongs to the mouth of the Ems ). It is the work of the Dutch artist Chris Verbeek , a nine-meter-high, conical, steel column, wrapped with a stainless steel band , on which the first two stanzas of Staal's song Credo - Mien bestoan are engraved.
- Beginning of the tape from below:
- Ik vroag de wind moar dij verstaait mie nait
- Ik vroag de zee dij zingt heur aigen laid
- Geef mie de night din heb ik onderdak
- Doarom, doarom zing ik.
- Ik wait, who is n tied van komen,
- En ook n tied van goan,
- Everything is done,
- Yes, this is my best.
(Translation: I ask the wind, but it doesn't understand me / I ask the sea that sings its own song / Give me the night, then I'll be safe / That's why I sing // I know there is a time of Coming / And also a time to go / And everything in between / Yes, that is my existence. )
In 2012, a pedestrian and bicycle bridge was inaugurated in Stadskanaal , a municipality south of Delfzijl. The first line of the poem Wat moakt het oet can be read on the swiveling counterweight and, at the same time, the passage barrier of the small bascule bridge .
- Woar ik was born, woar ik de mensen ken
- Dat is mien Grunneger laand, doar aan de woaterkaant
- Woar ie de woorden heuren, dij joen imagined kleuren
- De goal van elk Verhoal
- Joen aigen toal
(Translation: Where I was born, where I know the people / This is my Groningen country, there on the waterfront / Where I hear the words that color the thoughts / the soul of every story [in the sense of history] / its own Language )
Discography
Albums
- 1984: Mien Toentje
- 1986: As vaaier woorden
- 1993: Zuzooien op zundagmörn
- 1996; Hear my song - as' t boeten disturbs
- 2005: Doarom zing ik
- 2015: Mien Grunningerlaand
Singles
- 1973: I'm in the blues
- 1983: Mien Toentje
- 1984: Het het nog nooit zo donker west
- 1997: Zalstoe aaltied bie mie blieven
- 2005: I'm in the blues
DVD publications
- 2004 Ede Staal
- 2005 Live 2005
- 2011 Credo - zien bestoan
- 2012 Ede Staal 2012 (by David Blitz)
literature
- Charles vd Broek: Ede Staal getekend (songs by Ede Staal in the style of comic strips), Babylon, Schiedam 2006
- Henk van Middelaar: Geef mie de night. Ede Staal, een biography (including photographs by Klaas Staal) Verlag Luminis, Veendam 2004, ISBN 90-72117-07-7
- Ede Staal: Deur de dook zai ik de moan. Groninger lyrics by Ede Staal (text and compilation by Siemon Reker), 2004
- Christof Beukema (illustration) & Peter Visser (poems): Hai nam mie mit. Een hommage aan de Groningse zanger, poet Ede Staal , Profiel, Bedum 2001
- Piet Huizenga (red.): Ode aan Ede. Herinneringen aan Ede Staal , Verhildersum, Leens 2000
- Charlotte Mutsaers : Cheese (book and CD, written and read by the author with music by Ede Staal) Rubinstein, Amsterdam 2003
- Ede Staal: Edes toal. Zuzooien op zundagmörn , Staalboek / Groningen: Stichting t Grunneger Bouk, Veendam 1993 (spoken and sung contributions by Staal from the program sloaperstil on Radio Noord, broadcast on Sundays 1985/1986)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Journal for Folk and World Music, Issue 71 from October / November 2000 , Dutch
- ↑ a b Target: Peter Middendorp, 'Beter dan Brel' , De Tijd, August 8, 2000
- ↑ Biography Johan Raspe in Poparchief Groningen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Staal, Ede |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Staal, Ede Ulfert (full name); Paltrams, E. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch English teacher and dialect poet and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warffum |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1986 |
| Place of death | Delfzijl |