Frank Suchland

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Frank Suchland (born May 31, 1962 in Kassel ) is a German musician , reciter , publisher , author and educator .

Life

pedagogy

Frank Suchland passed his Abitur in Bückeburg and then studied music and German for teaching at elementary and secondary schools in Hanover . After passing the second state examination , he started teaching in 1991 and worked as a teacher and vice-principal at various schools in Lower Saxony. He has been the head of a primary school since February 2014.

Artistic work

Frank Suchland began to write his own chansons, poems and short stories at a young age. He completed over 1000 concerts, readings and lectures in Germany, published more than 20 recordings and worked as a composer, performer and author with various artists of all genres. In 1990 he was awarded the Hanns Seidel Foundation's sponsorship award for young songwriters for his songs .

In 1989, Frank Suchland and good friends founded the independent label ContraPunkt , which he has been running alone since 1996. As a producer, he supervised many CD productions and gave lectures and seminars at universities, schools and other educational centers. Since 1992 Frank Suchland has been composing drama music for various theaters in Germany. His compositions were heard in more than 40 productions, most of which were in the field of children's theater .

Furthermore, Frank Suchland published two paperback books with poetry and prose in the small Göttingen literary publisher “Davids Drucke” as author and editor . He is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and is represented with journalistic or poetic contributions on the radio, in anthologies , educational media and magazines. He also works as a juror on various literary committees.

Since 1993 Frank Suchland has successfully held literary readings with texts by international authors. He either presents individual authors with biography and work or creates poetic theme evenings. In the summer of 2003, he expanded his ContraPunkt label to include a nationwide audio book publisher with distribution in Berlin.

Between 2006 and 2009 Frank Suchland produced an educational series of radio plays for children in the Schaumburg district , which is his home, and in 2015 wrote a small booklet with a new version of the most famous sagas from this region. Since 2018 he has published his own series of paperbacks with poetry by well-known authors, which he calls "poems for your pocket".

In addition, Frank Suchland is the artistic director of a series of cabarets in Bückeburg and regularly takes on moderation in the gala area, e.g. B. for political receptions or the UNICEF children's aid organization .

Works

Audiobooks (selection)

  • 12 gruesome classical & romantic ballads with works by Heine, Goethe, Uhland and others. a., ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2002, ISBN 3-9809108-4-9
  • But you are the port, love poems by Kästner, Kaléko, Kaschnitz and Ringelnatz , ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2003, ISBN 3-9809108-0-6
  • My heart is full of woes and longings, love letters from famous women and men , ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2004 (together with Catharina von Bargen), ISBN 3-9809108-1-4
  • The house with the hundred doors - mystical stories by Fanny Morweiser, ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2004 (together with Karin Schilling), ISBN 3-9809108-2-2
  • White cotton wool in the sky, poetry for sunny moments with works by Mörike, Hesse, Fontane and others. a., ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2005 (together with Catharina von Bargen), ISBN 3-9809108-3-0
  • 13 gruesome ballads of the romantic & modern with works by Kästner, Hebbel, Heym, Zech u. a. ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2006, ISBN 3-9809108-5-7
  • The cuckoo is a shy deer, poems for cheerful hours with works by Erhardt, Busch, Roth and others. a., ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809108-7-3
  • Lyrik-Live, literary comedy with works by Gernhardt, Morgenstern, Nehm, Ody, Kästner u. a., ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809108-8-0
  • Poetry, melodies & poems for intimate moments with works by Brecht, Goethe, Storm, Mozart, Bach and others. a., ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2010 (together with Claudia Urbschat-Mingues ), ISBN 978-3-9813327-0-4
  • Momento, melodies & poems for the moment with works by Tucholsky, Rilke, Hölderlin a. a., ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2011 (together with Ulrike Stürzbecher ), ISBN 978-3-9813327-2-8
  • I'm waiting for you in the evening wind (as editor), poems by Eva Strittmatter , read by Andrea Sawatzki , ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9813327-3-5
  • On your lips only sun and salt, poems from summer and the sea with works by Fried, Trakl, Neruda and others. a., ContraPunkt / AudioPool, 2014 (together with Ulrike Stürzbecher), ISBN 978-39813327-5-9

Sound carriers for children (selection)

As a composer:

  • Gute Freunde - The most beautiful melodies from stage music for children (CD), Traumsalon / ZYX Music , 1999 (together with Oliver Hartmann)
  • Even more good friends, The most beautiful melodies from stage music for children (CD), Dream Salon / ZYX Music, 2001
  • Today is a festival in the magic forest, music to dance and dream (CD), Traumsalon / ZYX Music, 2005 (together with Oliver Hartmann)

As a speaker, musician and producer:

  • The Schaumburger Spürnasen and their first case , detective radio play (CD), ContraPunkt, 2006 (book Torben Sven Schmidt)
  • The Schaumburg noses on a treasure hunt , detective radio play (CD), ContraPunkt, 2007 (book Torben Sven Schmidt)
  • The Schaumburg noses on ghost hunt , detective radio play (CD), ContraPunkt, 2009 (book Torben Sven Schmidt)
  • Schaumburger Gespenstergeschichten , staged reading (2 CDs), ContraPunkt, 2015 (book Marlies Kuhlmann), ISBN 978-3-9813327-6-6

Sound carrier as a singer-songwriter (selection)

  • Going it alone (LP), half-timbered, 1985
  • Just don't leave the silence alone (LP), ContraPunkt / Ariola , 1989
  • HerzHaft (CD), ContraPunkt / Ariola, 1991

Books

  • Without warning, the Frank Suchland book, poetry, prose & biographical notes , David's prints, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-921860-35-0
  • Schaumburger Jahreszeiten, Literature from the Province (as editor with Steffen Behlau), Davids Drucke, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-921860-38-5
  • The goblin in the mill , The most beautiful legends about the Schaumburger Land, ContraPunkt, Bückeburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9813327-7-3
  • My real heart. That is elsewhere! The most beautiful verses by Joachim Ringelnatz, poems for your pocket, compiled by Frank Suchland, ContraPunkt, Bückeburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96111-398-9
  • A song sleeps in all things , The most beautiful German poems, poems for your pocket, compiled by Frank Suchland, ContraPunkt, Bückeburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96111-399-6
  • My heart, I want to ask you! From love lust and love affliction, poems for your pocket, compiled by Frank Suchland, ContraPunkt, Bückeburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-96111-799-4
  • If you are lonely, you have it good! The most beautiful verses by Wilhelm Busch, poems for your pocket, compiled by Frank Suchland, ContraPunkt, Bückeburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-96443-435-7

Incidental music (selection)

Stage programs (selection)

  • Joachim Ringelnatz: “My real heart. That is elsewhere ... ”- Poet portrait
  • Erich Kästner: "One can be hideously lonely at times ..." - poet portrait
  • Hermann Hesse: "In the volatile air our names" - poet portrait
  • Wilhelm Busch: "If you are lonely, you have it good ..." - A cheerful, melancholy homage
  • “Des Singer's Curse” - mysterious art ballads of the classical and romantic periods
  • “Of Trees and People” - A literary walk through the seasons
  • "My heart is full of woes and longings" - famous love letters from three centuries
  • "It tightens your mouth" - cheerful verses and stories about wine
  • “Just for a moment!” - Chats from the history of literature
  • “Oh, you dear Christmas time!” - poetry and satire for the festival

literature

  • Literature in Lower Saxony. A manual . Ed .: Literaturrat Niedersachsen eV, Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-8924-4443-9 , p. 68.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Head of the Primary School Evesen , Bueckeburg.de (accessed on September 29, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Suchland, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, reciter, publisher, author and educator
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel