Elmar Peter Schwenke

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Elmar Peter Schwenke (born September 19, 1958 in Leipzig ; pseudonym : Peter Lemar and Erik Sanders ) is a German pedagogue , pop musician and author .

Life

After attending the Polytechnic and Extended High School in Leipzig, Schwenke did his 18-month military service with the NVA and studied music education from 1979 to 1983 at the Art and Cultural Studies section of the University of Leipzig . During his time as a teacher of German and music, he played keyboards for the Logo group, with whom he landed a No. 1 hit on the Radio DDR-Tipparade in 1986. In 1987 he switched to the Halle band Zebra , which was known in the GDR for adapting Brecht / Weill songs (including from the Threepenny Opera ). After 1990 and the collapse of the East German cultural landscape, he worked in other professions, including a. as a furniture carrier, taxi driver and painter. From 1993 to 1998 he was a radio producer ( Radio Leipzig , Radio PSR ). In 2003, his volume of short stories, The Abstract Woman, was presented at the Leipzig Book Fair (Leipzig reads), a mixture of science fiction, fantasy and psycho- story that is very reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka . Elmar Schwenke is co-founder of the MUSIFA Music School, the first music academy with a certified music education in Central Germany, and has been a member of the Bee Gees co-association Jive Talkin '- Portrait Of The Bee Gees since 2004 . In 2014 his debut single Ein Teil von mir reached number 122 in the German pop charts. Elmar Schwenke is a member of the Association of German Writers and lives as a freelance author in Leipzig. He runs a blog on current topics on his website.

Works

Other publications (selection)

  • Nietzsche and the Eternal Return, Tabvla Rasa No. 29/2007 (Jenenser magazine for critical thinking)
  • Peter Lemar: Kurt Gödel and the truth . About human knowledge. In: Tabvla Rasa, Jenenser magazine for critical thinking . Issue 31, 2008 ( tabvlarasa.de [accessed April 22, 2018]).

Awards (selection)

  • 2007: Artist of the year (artist magazine)
  • 2017: Artist of the Year (artist magazine), each with Jive Talkin '- Portrait Of The Bee Gees

Discography (selection)

Singles

  • 2014: Ev'rybody's Dancin '
  • 2014: I want to Remember
  • 2014: Part of me

Albums

  • 2010: You Will Be Mine
  • 2011: Time Goes By
  • 2012: I'm looking for you

grades

  • Just Piano! - Pop, romantic, bluesy, swinging ...

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members from S – Z. Elmar Schwenke. In: vs-in-sachsen.de. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  2. Just piano! In: ama-verlag.com. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  3. Our authors. NEPA Verlag, accessed on April 22, 2018 .
  4. Elmar Schwenke. In: Wartenberg Verlag. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
  5. a b Elmar Schwenke. Association of German Writers in Saxony, accessed on October 1, 2019 .
  6. Literature by and about Elmar Peter Schwenke in the catalog of the German National Library .
  7. Peter Lemar: Nietzsche and the eternal return . In: Tabvla Rasa, Jenenser magazine for critical thinking - issue 29 . ( tabvlarasa.de [accessed on April 22, 2018]).
  8. Allmusic - Peter Lemar Discography. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
  9. RazzMaTazz Music Entertainment - Online Shop | . ( razzmatazz-music-entertainment.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).
  10. ^ Peter Lemar: Time Goes By . ( spotify.com [accessed September 29, 2019]).
  11. Peter Lemar: I seek you . ( spotify.com [accessed September 29, 2019]).
  12. Erik Sanders: Just Piano! - Poppy, romantic, bluesy, swinging ... ( ama-verlag.com [accessed on September 29, 2019]).