Fredrik Vahle
Fredrik Vahle (born June 24, 1942 in Stendal ; actually Friedrich-Eckart Vahle ) is a German songwriter and author . He became known for his children's songs and books . Fredrik Vahle is a member of the PEN Center Germany .
Vahle also works as an adjunct professor for German studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and as a translator. He lives for decades Lollarer district saline soils .
Life
Friedrich-Eckart Vahle was born in Stendal in 1942 as the child of artistically active parents, the painter Fritz Vahle and the graphic artist Ingeborg Vahle-Giessler , he learned to play the piano from his grandfather . He and his family moved to West Germany in 1956, where he studied German and politics after graduating from high school. In 1968 he recorded his first LP with songs in the duo Ulli and Fredrik with Ulrich Freise . After graduating from university, he did a doctorate in sociolinguistics and pursued his interest in children's songs in a habilitation on children's language and children's songs .
Nursery rhymes
Together with Christiane Knauf, he wrote his first children's songs while working with a group of children with learning disabilities . Christiane & Fredrik performed regularly in kindergartens, bookstores and children's song festivals at home and abroad and in 1973 released their first children's record with Die Rübe . The release of various other MCs and CDs followed. After traveling through Central America in the 1980s, he also wrote children's books that tell about the life of children in these countries, such as Manuel and I tell about Pedro .
His main occupation, however, remained his own children's songs, which he recorded and performed in collaboration with Dietlind Grabe-Bolz as a singing partner.
Fredrik Vahle's early children's songs from the 1970s took up topics that were still taboo for children at the time, such as work and unemployment, school, upbringing, sexuality and the lives of foreign residents. The newer titles mainly deal with the joy of music, language and movement.
His best-known songs include Anne Coffeepot , The Cat's Paw Dance , The Sparrow , The Augustin Hare , The Fox , The Hau-Mich-Not-Song , The Cowboy Jim from Texas and The Peace Painter . With the title Kawuras, der Krebs , he produced the most successful song based on a Kalamatianos rhythm in Germany to date . Long before the cat's paw dance was publicly criticized for the fact that the protagonist in the text marginalized other animals on the basis of physical characteristics, Vahle recorded a version for all newer (re) publications in which the cat, after initial rejection, reconsiders and with each of the animals dances, not just with the hangover. In addition, he wrote nonsense songs and playful verses and bilingual songs for the integration of foreigners ( The Elephant - Songs in our and in your language , 1981).
In recent years, the new movement songs and workshops on language and movement have taken up a large part of his work, including his teaching at the University of Giessen.
Quote
"For me, commitment came from the spirit, from Heine and Brecht"
Works
Books
- The little sow zen or mindfulness with bristles . OSSOLit. Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-942450-25-6 .
- The Anne Coffee Pot Songbook . Ellermann im Dressler-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7707-3947-9 .
- Strengthening children internally through movement and music . Beltz Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-62901-2 .
Music sound carrier
- The elephant . 2017, ISBN 978-3-8398-4885-2
- Lilo Lausch runs quietly: songs about feeling, listening and mindfulness . 2015, ISBN 978-3-8398-4707-7
- Sing it works like this!: Children's songs, sounds and little chants . 2011, ISBN 978-3-7941-8570-2
- Everything is vibration, everything is sound . 2018, ISBN 978-3-8398-4902-6
- Anne coffee pot. 12 songs to sing, play, etc. Dancing . 1993.
Appreciations and awards
- At the end of March 2019, a special kind of homage album was published to honor Fredrik Vahle's achievements in children's songs : musicians from various genres paid homage to the master with individual interpretations of his most famous songs. Who participates in the album adding Heinz Rudolf Kunze ( Ping Pong Penguin ), Maren Kroymann ( Anne coffee pot ), Max Mutzke ( Peace painter ), amateur (= Wigald Boning & Roberto Di Gioia) ( Hocus Pocus Fidibus ) De-Phazz feat . Pat Appleton ( the witch girl ), your friends ( silence ), Mia Diekow ( lullaby for Anne ), Eki & Kathrin (= earth furniture ) ( the move ), Johannes Falk ( we are all heavenly children ), Hartmut Höfele ( the turnip ), Pawel Popolskis & Fräulein Schneider ( The Sparrow ), Stoppok & Fjarill (The colorful little beastly beast), Tex ( The Cowboy Jim from Texas ), Kai & Funky from Ton Steine Schherd with Gymmick (Dracula-Rock) , Max Prosa & Sarina Radomski ( Das Rackedickeducke-Lied ) and Randale ( Der Hase Augustin ).
- In June 2007 Vahle was granted honorary citizenship of the city of Lollar by resolution of the city council.
- In 2004 Fredrik Vahle received a platinum record for the album Anne Kaffeekanne .
- For his services in the development of the new children's song , Vahle was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon on February 29, 2000 .
literature
- Larissa Marie Schwarz: Fredrik Vahle or The Uncle Fritz with the songs (portrait on the occasion of his 75th birthday). In: Gießener Anzeiger , June 20, 2017
- Andreas Donauer: The new stars in the children's room: Developments and tendencies on the children's music market, children's songs and the children's music scene . In: Erika Lindig (Hrsg.): Folklore in educational studies. Regensburg admission theses on European and Bavarian ethnology . tape 66 . University thesis Institute for Folklore, Wiss. Approval work for the first state examination for teaching at Realschulen in Bavaria, Regensburg 2001 (PPN: 278792553).
Web links
- Literature by and about Fredrik Vahle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fredrik Vahle's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Zeit Online, July 23, 2020: "Unfortunately, Jim Knopf is still read a lot " (Christiane Kassame interviewed by Moritz Hermann)
- ↑ Alexander Jürgs: Children are a wonderfully anarchic audience , in: Der Freitag, No. 17 of April 25, 2019, p. 30
- ↑ Children's song classics: Fredrik Vahle - encore - musicians interpret his most beautiful songs . Argon Verlag , online portal, March 29, 2019. Accessed June 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed June 11, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vahle, Fredrik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vahle, Friedrich-Eckart (real name); Vahle, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German songwriter and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stendal |