Ellen Terwey
Ellen Terwey (born March 18, 1950 in Oldenburg ) is a German musician, song poet and teacher.
biography
Terwey is the daughter of the building contractor Hermann Terwey. She grew up with her two older brothers in Rastede . At the age of nine she began taking piano lessons, at fourteen with organ lessons and the like. a. at the Lambertikirche (Oldenburg) . She attended the Cäcilienschule Oldenburg in Oldenburg. In 1969 she married the future educator Koopmann; both have their son David Koopmann and have been divorced since 1978.
From 1969 to 1972 she lived in Hamburg and studied church music and organ in evening courses at the Hamburg University of Music in cooperation with the local evangelical church. She then studied pedagogy from 1973 to 1976 at the University of Oldenburg . In 1977/78 she worked as a trainee teacher in Elsfleth and from 1979 to 1992 in the Bremen school service. From 1988 to 1991 she worked at the Bremen Central Office for the Realization of Equal Rights for Women (FZS) and then at the archive for pop music at the Bremen University of Music .
Terwey worked from 1980 to 1983 in the women's music group Li (e) dschatten . She created poems and texts that u. a. by Hannelore Hoger , Ulrich Tukur , Ulrich Noethen , Daniel Brühl , Charles Brauer , Sarah Wiener , Alfred Biolek . In 1990 she created compositions for Lutz Görner and Katja Ebstein . In 1991 she co-founded the Bremen Women's Museum Association . From 1995 she ran her own event series Chansons im Salon in Bremen in her music salon in a merchant's house in Lüder Rutenberg on Rutenstrasse .
Awards
- 1981: Composition Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg
- 1982: Culture Prize from Villa Ichon in Bremen
Works
- Li (e) dschatten , Single, 1981
- Quarreled Hopefully danced , women's song collection , co-editor, Plans-Verlag , 1986.
- I touch you with my song . CD / LP, 1989.
- My blue piano , music to texts by Else Lasker-Schüler , 1992.
- How the earth turns , music to texts by Gisela Steineckert , 1992.
- Glasnost , single 1988.
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The food is a poem . Publishing house Die Werkstatt , Göttingen 2000.
- The food is a poem as an audio book. Random House Audio , Cologne 2009.
- Sheet music poster on architect paper , text and music, 2002.
- How about a borscht ? Text: Mascha Kaléko , music: Ellen Terwey.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information from Ellen Terwey
- ↑ Ute Helwege: Concert evenings are completely private . In: Weser courier
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Terwey, Ellen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, song poet and teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |