Ekkehard Göpelt

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Ekki Göpelt (2013)

Ekkehard "Ekki" Göpelt (born January 1, 1945 in Nerchau , Grimma district ; † February 25, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German pop singer and presenter .

Life

In the GDR he worked as a teacher for German and music and appeared in public for the first time on June 12, 1965 in the television program Herzklopfen for free with Heinz Quermann .

He has been recording tracks for radio since the 1970s. His first LP Ich bleib am Ball was released in 1988 by Amiga . At the ORB (later RBB ) he moderated the program “ Glückwunschantenne ” until it had to give way to another program. He hosted his own Sunday program, Sonntagsvergnügen , for 14 years for RBB-Welle Antenne Brandenburg .

On September 1, 2008, he gave the go-ahead for the nationwide hit and folk music channel Radio Paloma , where he hosted the show More fun at work from Monday to Friday and more fun on weekends on Saturdays . He also toured the country with presenter, actor and copywriter Michael Niekammer . He was also parodied several times by Oliver Kalkofe , including his title Tapatoo and for his moderation of the Superwirt parade .

tomb

His 2010 album Fühl dich gut im Ihr Leben contained titles like I would have loved to have kissed you awake so much , let's go dancing again , stay here a little longer or do you sometimes still dream of me , a cover version of Reality ( Richard Sanderson ) La Boum - The party .

Most recently Ekki Göpelt worked for the radio station Radio B2 in Berlin. He died on February 25, 2016 in the intensive care unit of the UKB in Marzahn of organ failure. On March 18, 2016 Ekki Göpelt was buried in the Resurrection Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

souvenir

Radio B2 annually awards the Radio B2 Ekki Göpelt Prize to young performers from the hit industry.

Albums

  • Keeping It Up (1988)
  • Full of energy (1992)
  • Time to be Happy (1994)
  • I love life (1995)
  • Thank you (2000)
  • My life for the hit (4 CD collection; 2007)
  • Feel good in your life (2010)
  • I'm so glad when you're okay (2012)

Singles

  • You're too good to be true (2011)
  • You robbed me of hibernation (2011)
  • Simsalabim (2012)
  • All roses of Berlin (2012)
  • Take Your Time To Dream (2013)
  • And then we sail (out to sea) (2013)
  • I'm so happy when you're okay (2013)
  • I feel like it was yesterday (2014)

Publications

  • Haig Latchinian : Nerchauer mourn their Ekki Göpelt. “Bury me in the pub” - for 17 weeks his most successful title was number 1 in the hit parades. Ekki Göpelt, who was born in Nerchau , was considered the stand-up man of the German hit scene, jumped death several times - he died on Thursday at the age of 71. Full-page obituary in the Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, February 27, 2016, page 31

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sina Kampe: He's not 63 at all: Ekki Göpelt and the birthday error . Berliner Kurier , January 2, 2013, p. 14
  2. ↑ Hartmut Kascha: Ekki Göpelt: "I've been a pop singer for 44 years and have never had a hit" . bild.de , January 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Oliver Kalkofe: Das Schlagerreservat 2005
  4. ↑ Marcus Böttcher: shock message organ failure: Ekki Göpelt (71) is dead . Berliner Kurier, February 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Ekki Göpelt
  6. ↑ www.radiob2.de: Feuerherz wins Radio-B2-Ekki-Göpelt-Preis, accessed on July 29, 2017 ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiob2.de
personal data
SURNAME Göpelt, Ekkehard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göpelt, Ekki (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Nerchau , Grimma district
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2016
Place of death Berlin