Oswald Henke
Oswald Henke (* 1967 ) is a German singer , composer , DJ , author and columnist .
Life
Oswald Henke initially lived in Schongau and trained as a nurse. He later moved to the vicinity of Bayreuth and was involved in the management of the Danse Macabre label. At the beginning of 1991 he gave up this post and devoted himself to his DJ work in the Bayreuth scene club Die Etage .
Oswald Henke owes his fame above all to his band Goethes Erben , in which he has been a composer and singer since 1989. However, the term “singer” is only partially applicable because, according to Henke himself, it is more of a kind of spoken song that he performs. As a result, in many of his musical works, his name can be found in the cast list after the function “words” instead of “song”. He also took on this function in his two musical projects fetisch: Mensch und Henke , as well as in the bands Erblast und Artwork, which have since also dissolved . He never belonged to the latter band, but was regularly involved as a guest singer.
Henke places the German language at the center of Goethe's heirs, which means that his artistic activity is not limited to music alone. The band Erblast did not have this focus, so that, in contrast to the songs by Goethe's heirs, the lyrics are often written in English. Henke regularly wrote the column "Henke Trocken" for the German music magazine Orkus , which is now continued as "Henke Digital" on its homepage. He is also the author of several books, including Walk Through a Minefield and FSK 18 - Tendentially Inhuman , with which Henke went on tour with book readings. His first book, FSK 18 - Tendenziell inhumansverververververchtend, existed as a numbered special edition only in the form of 500 copies, which were sold out within a few minutes. A paperback version was later released . On 156 pages, the work contains all of the poems by the band Goethes Erben as well as a selection of Henke's side projects.
At the end of 2007, Goethe's heirs took a break because, according to the official entry on the homepage, “Oswald Henke and Mindy Kumbalek will go different ways”. The band was not dissolved, but a further future remained uncertain. In July 2012, Goethe's heirs finally announced their dissolution.
Henke has also worked as an actor in several projects so far, such as the two theater pieces called Condition: Power and Shadow Thinking , as well as ZeitWände , which was created in cooperation with Markus Förster (text, staging and actor) and as part of the 17th Wave- Gothic meeting in the Leipziger Schauspielhaus was performed several times.
From the dissolved projects Artwork and Erblast, the band fetisch: Mensch emerged in 2006, which has now also been dissolved . In addition to Henke, it consisted of Tim Hofmann (electric guitar), with whom Henke had already worked at Erblast, as well as Jochen Schoberth (electric guitar, synthesizer ) and Dirk T Körperpe ( drums ). It was a live band. With Sometimes a complete album was offered for download in autumn 2008, but there was no release of a sound carrier. In 2011 Tbodpe and Schoberth left the band, they were replaced by Konrad Schubert (drums) and Harald Streitberger (guitar).
In May 2009 the band Henke had their premiere in Kulmbach. Since then, the band has performed at various festivals as well as their own concerts. The band's program originally consisted exclusively of tracks from Oswald Henke's earlier bands, but over time pieces were composed especially for the band. In contrast to fetisch: Mensch Tonträger: In February 2011 the EP “Vom A zum F” was released and in April of the same year the debut album Seelenfütterung accompanied by a tour of Germany. In March 2013 the 2nd album Maskenball der Nackten was released , with which Henke went on tour from March to April. In addition to Oswald Henke, members of the band Henke were: Tobias Schäfer (piano, keys, vocals), Tom Bola (bass, FX), Stefan Söllner (guitar) and Benjamin Küfner (drums). In response to multiple requests for new concert dates, Henke finally announced in 2016 that the band would not give any further albums or concerts.
In 2010 the short film "Osferatu" was released and premiered at the 19th Wave-Gotik-Treffen. In this reinterpretation of the classic Nosferatu , Henke appears again as an actor.
Goethe's heirs played on the occasion of their 25th band anniversary in 2014 in the Volkspalast Leipzig. With the support of the singers Sonja Kraushofer ( L Âme Immortelle ) and Julia Klimpel, the highlights of Henke's musical oeuvre were once again brought to the stage and recorded on video under the title “Return to No Man's Land” . The images were published on DVD.
In 2014 the book Scar Verses was also published , on the basis of which the music theater piece Menschenstille was created, which was performed on 2 evenings in October 2015 in the Bayreuth center. The video recordings of the performances were published on DVD. In 2016 the accompanying documentary Why continue living?
In the same year, Henke announced that he was working on another album and a corresponding musical theater piece entitled Opinion Disorder. The first single Lazarus was released for the tour in autumn 2017.
Works
music
with Goethe's heirs
- 1992: Dying is aesthetically colorful
- 1992: The dream of memory
- 1993: Life in no man's land (live recording from June 10, 1993 in the incident, Bochum)
- 1994: Dead eyes see life
- 1994: First chapter (republication of "Der Spiegel, whose path leads to the end through silent witnesses" and "Live Recording")
- 1995: Goethe's heirs (The "Blue Album")
- 1997: Chess is not life
- 1999: entitled to violence? (Republication of "The Brut" and "Seat of Grace")
- 1999: Condition: Power! - The musical work
- 2001: Nothing stays as it was
- 2005: in between
- 2018: On the edge
with artwork
- 1994: Ergo Vivamus
- 1996: Madremonio
with inheritance
- 1996: I.
- 1997: II
- 2000: VI
- 2002: third sex
with fetish: human
- 2009: Sometimes
with Henke
- 2011: soul feeding
- 2013: Masked ball of the naked
Movies
- Debilitas
- Glasgarten , music video, 2001, directors: Ulrike Rank , Oswald Henke and Peter Heppner
- Osferatu
Plays
- Times walls
- Condition: power!
- Shadow thinking
- Silence
literature
- Walk through a minefield , Orkus Verlag, 2004.
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FSK 18 - Tends to be inhumane .
- 1st edition, Arte Fakt Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-937364-00-5 .
- 2nd edition, Culex Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-981176-89-6 .
- I have weaned myself from love and am still addicted , Culex Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3-9811768-4-7 .
- Zwischengeist , Culex Verlag, Culex Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942003-05-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danse Macbre: News , In: Danse Macabre Magazine , Issue February / March 1991, p. 2
- ^ Thomas Manegold : 10 years of Goethe's heirs. In: Orkus Musikmagazin , issue 12/98, December 1998, p. 111.
- ↑ Interview with Oswald Henke ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. (October 16, 2001 - Maik Heinsohn)
- ↑ Interview with O. Henke about hereditary burden ( Memento from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: entry-magazin.de
- ^ Goethe's heirs homepage
- ↑ Goethe's heirs homepage "Volume: Goethe's heirs"
- ↑ Goethe's heirs are history. In: Mindbreed.de
- ↑ "
- ↑ "Sometimes art has to hurt" , [a] live , Oswald Henke in an interview
- ↑ Directors of Glasgarten
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henke, Oswald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer, composer and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |