Frank Koellges

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Frank Köllges with padlt noidlt in the "Logo" in Hamburg, January 1980
Frank Köllges (at the world premiere of Albrecht Maurer's Protuberanza 2009)

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.

Frank Köllges at a public rehearsal of the Intermission Orchestra group in the Stollwerck machine hall in Cologne , December 28, 1986, photographed by Eusebius Wirdeier

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The free spirit: On the death of Frank Köllges RP-Online, January 5, 2012
  2. ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 290; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
  3. ↑ Album "Gugu Dada" at Discogs. 7, accessed August 17, 2015 .
personal data
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