Frank Koellges
Frank Köllges (pseudonym: Adam Noidlt ) (* 18th November 1952 in Dusseldorf , † 1. January 2012 in Neuss ) was a German Jazz - percussionist , composer and performance artist .
Live and act
In 1969 Köllges founded the padlt noidlt performance group with Michael Jansen . Between 1970 and 1975 he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and the University of Music in Cologne . During this time he played with Frédéric Rabold . In 1975 he founded the Cologne Jazz Trio with Rainer Linke and Andy Lumpp . He also played in the Third Eye group, initially with Jan Huydts , then Rob van den Broeck and Ali Haurand . In the following years he held three festivals with his group and in 1979 he became Kapellmeister of padlt noidlt - the mad orchestra of the Roncalli circus . In 1980 he founded the Klimarkant group with Reiner Winterschladen , Michael Heupel , Markus Wienstroer , Walfried Böcker and Lutz Köllges . He temporarily completed the Düsseldorf industrial band Die Krupps , with whom he recorded the original version of the steel mill symphony in 1981 , which was named "LP of the Week" by the New Musical Express .
Frank Köllges was a drummer in various formations around Michael Sell for years . After training as a helmsman and social pedagogue on board the sailing training ship Sigandor , he founded the group hard 10 with Mike Herting and Valerie Kohlmetz in 1983 , with which three albums were created. He opened documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987 with his Adam Noidlt Intermission Orchestra (with Ingo Kümmel, among others ) . In the following years he performed with the group in Cologne, Düsseldorf and at the opening of Art Basel . In 1989 he began working with Ulrich Tukur , with whom he toured in 1990.
Since then Köllges has appeared at various festivals, participated in theater, radio and television projects and worked in a duo a. a. with Michael Riessler , Gunter Hampel , the painter Barbara Heinisch and the poet Thomas Kling . In addition, several CDs were made with Norbert Stein's Pata Orchestra . Since 1997 he has been working on the project The Planet Drivers , in which one hundred artists, scientists and technicians should undertake a three-year trip around the world on a container ship that has been converted into a university. In 2000 he founded the Modern Percussion Quintet with Hans Kanty , Achim Krämer , Peter Eisold and Martin Blume , followed in 2001 by AUTOFAB with Jan Klare and Hartmut Kracht . His ensemble Adam Noidlt Missiles , founded in 1999, gave the opening concert Winter Night in the Autostadt Wolfsburg . In 2005 he founded the Bimbotown Orchestra Leipzig .
He died in a hospice after a long period of cancer .
Discography
- Sweet Nightmares
- Toscana emotion
- Knispel never
- 25 years of the Moers Festival
- Frank Koellges - Jeffrey Morgan
- Adam Noidlt Intermission
- The stones of the singers
- Adam Noidlt Missiles
- Thomas Kling-Oswald from Wolkenstein
- The Brunswick Cathedral
- The Wienerplatz
- The machine concert
- Live in the pot
- Hardness 10 1983
- Hardness 10 1985
- Hardness 10 Gugu Dada
literature
- Enno Stahl (Ed.): Duo creations. Thomas Kling & Frank Köllges, together with others. Edition Virgines, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944011-60-8 .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
- Film Wanderjahre or the soul of the drummer by Detlev F. Neufert, WDR, 1988.
Web links
- Works by Frank Köllges in the catalog of the German National Library
- Frank Köllges on MySpace
- In memoriam Frank Köllges
- Frank Köllges at Discogs (English)
- BimboTown Orchestra at archive.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The free spirit: On the death of Frank Köllges RP-Online, January 5, 2012
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 290; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
- ↑ Album "Gugu Dada" at Discogs. 7, accessed August 17, 2015 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Koellges, Frank |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Noidlt, Adam |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and performance artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 2012 |
Place of death | Neuss |