Götz Alsmann
Götz Alsmann (born July 12, 1957 in Münster ) is a German musician , multi-instrumentalist and singer . He became known as the presenter of the WDR show Zimmer frei .
Life
Already at the age of eight Götz Alsmann received piano lessons in his neighborhood in Münster and quickly decided to turn music into a profession. In 1973 he joined the Heupferd Jug Band , whose first album was released in 1974 with 17-year-old Götz Alsmann as a pianist, mandolinist and banjo player. Two more albums followed in 1977 and 1979. At the same time Alsmann began working as a studio musician in the Netherlands, where he played on numerous country & western and dialect productions.
Alsmann started school at the Josefschule in Münster in 1964. After graduating from the Johann-Conrad-Schlaun-Gymnasium in Münster, Alsmann studied German, journalism and musicology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1977 . He completed his musicology studies in 1985 with a doctorate as a Dr. phil. from (Thesis title: Nothing but Noise: The Independent Record Companies and the Development of American Popular Music 1943–1963 ). In 1980 he founded the rockabilly, swing and calypso band, Götz Alsmann & The Sentimental Pounders, who achieved international success in 1985 with their version of “People Are People”. In 1989 this group developed into the Götz Alsmann Band, with which he has been regularly releasing albums since 1994, which have so far been awarded two jazz echoes, the golden tuning fork and countless gold and platinum German Jazz Awards.
The members of his band are Rudi Marhold ( drums ), Markus Paßlick ( percussion ) and Altfrid M. Sicking ( vibraphone , xylophone , trumpet ), Michael O. Müller ( electric bass ) retired in 2016 for health reasons and died a short time later. The new bass player is jazz musician Ingo Senst . All of the band's albums since 2007 have been released on Blue Note Records , a renowned music label specializing in jazz music.
Alsmann has been a radio presenter since 1985. From 1986 to 1995 he hosted the Professor Bop Show, later On the Wings of Colorful Dreams and since 2000 Go, Götz, go! - Alsmann's radio show (all WDR ). Alsmann has also been a television presenter since 1986, initially in Roxy - the magazine for young adults on WDR . Among other things, he presented the five-hour live program High Life on RIAS TV from 1990 to 1993 , the gong show on RTL from 1992 to 1993 , Avanti on VOX from 1993 to 1994 and the NDR late show from 1994 to 1996 .
In 1996 Alsmann played the cashier of a supermarket and band leader Lothar Alzheim in the comedy Everything because of Robert de Niro with Angelika Milster and directed by Helmut Förnbacher . From 1996 to 2016 he hosted the show Zimmer frei! With Christine Westermann on WDR . for which both were awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2000 together with Jörg Thadeusz . On the occasion of the station's 50th anniversary, he hosted the almost two-hour program Mit Götz, Maus und Melone , a homage to the “heroes” from half a century of WDR children's television.
From 2006 to 2008, his Michael-Jary -Revue I know, a miracle will happen one day at the Städtische Bühnen Münster was performed in three seasons , in which he himself was on stage with his band. Alsmann designed and hosted “Götz Alsmanns Nachtmusik” for ZDF from 2005 to 2010. The 2011 album In Paris , recorded in Paris, pays homage to the French chanson classics; Alsmann sings in German.
In July 2011 Götz Alsmann was appointed honorary professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. There he teaches the history of popular music. Alsmann held his inaugural lecture on February 7, 2012.
On June 3, 2012, Alsmann received the echo for the second time . He was awarded in the category “Jazz - National Singer of the Year” for the chanson album In Paris .
Götz Alsmann lives in Münster, is married and has a son.
Albums trilogy
Paris, New York and Rome were the three stations of the Götz Alsmann Band in order to record albums with the respective music and historical German texts in legendary and historical studios in these cities, which are decisive for the development of light music. Together with the French producer Regis Ceccarelli and the respective studio teams, the albums In Paris (Studio Ferber), On Broadway (Sear Sound Studio) and In Rome (Forum Music Village) were created.
The first part of the trilogy of musical journeys to musical metropolises of the world was the triple gold album In Paris (2011), a homage to the French chanson . Broadway was the next album in the trilogy Alsmann recorded in New York in 2014; the focus there is on American evergreens, which became known between the 1930s and 1950s, are now part of the Great American Songbook and are interpreted by Alsmann with historical German texts. The last part of the Götz Alsmann und Band trilogy in Rome is dedicated to classic Italian hits. The recordings took place in the spring of 2017 in the studio Forum Music Village of Ennio Morricone instead. The album was released in early September 2017.
Activity on television
Götz Alsmann appeared on television for the first time in 1977, but it wasn't until 1986 that his career as a TV presenter began. After numerous youth programs, magazines and smaller entertainment shows at WDR, Rias-TV, Vox and RTL, it was the NDR Spät Show (1994–1997) in which he was able to live out his special kind of moderation and his talents as a musician. From 2006 to 2012 he presented popular classical music with world stars from opera and concerts in Götz Alsmann's Nachtmusik on ZDF.
Götz Alsmann's greatest television success was the show Zimmer frei !, which he presented weekly with Christine Westermann on WDR for twenty years (1996–2016). The high-performance show of anarchic humor, wildest games and touching musical interludes, disguised as a talk show, was awarded the Grimme Prize and helped the team of moderators to achieve undreamt-of popularity throughout the German-speaking area. In 2016 Christine Westermann and Götz Alsmann received room vacancies! the honorary award of the German Comedy Award.
Appearance
Götz Alsmann's trademark is, in addition to his emphatically elegant clothing (usually a suit with a pocket square , shirt with cufflinks ), his quiff in particular . He has been wearing them since he was 15. He is reluctant to be asked about the great, but once wrote to the writer Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre that he was inspired by the hairstyles of Andy Mackay and Bryan Ferry , which were shown in the photos on the inside of the cover for the first album in 1972 wore by Roxy Music .
Awards
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- Adolf Grimme Prize 2000 for free rooms! , together with Christine Westermann and Jörg Thadeusz
- Glasses wearer of the year 2000
- Tie Man of the Year 2004
- ECHO 2004 in the category "Jazz"
- Golden tuning fork 2006
- Munchhausen Prize of the City of Bodenwerder 2010
- ECHO 2012 in the category “Jazz - National Singer of the Year” for the album In Paris
- Louis Armstrong Memorial Prize 2015 from Swinging Hamburg e. V. Society for the Promotion of Classical Jazz; awarded on September 3, 2015 in Hamburg
- Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , presented by Prime Minister Armin Laschet in Nordkirchen Castle on August 23, 2019
biography
- Götz Alsmann - Almost a self-portrait (A film by Klaus Michael Heinz , WDR television, July 8, 2017)
Discography
With a hay horse
- 1974: Heupferd Jug Band
- 1977: Come on in!
- 1979: Mama's Little Sunny Boys
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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| 1982 | Party time | - |
as "Götz Alsmann & the Sentimental Pounders"
Sales: 2000 (limited edition) |
| 1985 | Saratoga Suitcase | - |
as "Götz Alsmann & the Sentimental Pounders"
Sales: 3000 (limited edition) |
| 1988 | 12 to 6 | - |
First release: June 1988
first solo studio album |
| 1993 | Big Bamboo | - |
First published: September 26, 1993
including karaoke versions |
| 1995 | Zazou | - |
First published: November 13, 1995
No. 3 in the jazz album charts ( BVMI ) |
| 1997 | Allow me ... Götz Alsmann |
DE-  |
First published: October 29, 1997
Sales: + 10,000 |
| 1998 | Rooms vacant! | - |
First publication: November 23, 1998
Music collection for Zimmer frei! |
| 1999 | Punk is ... | - |
First publication: May 25, 1998
as " Die Ärzte mit Götz Alsmann" |
| Sugar sweet |
DE- |
First published: August 16, 1999
Sales: + 10,000 |
|
| 2001 | Film ready |
DE59 (4 weeks)DE |
First published: May 28, 2001
Sales: + 10,000 |
| 2002 | In 80 days around the world | - | |
| 2003 | Taboo! |
DE52 (8 weeks)DE |
First published: April 28, 2003
Sales: + 10,000 |
| The Feuerzangenbowle | - |
First published: October 20, 2003
Audiobook published |
|
| 2005 | Three men in a boat | - |
First published: February 21, 2005
Audiobook published |
| kiss |
DE47 × 3
(7 weeks)DE |
First published: June 6, 2005
Sales: + 30,000 |
|
| 2006 | Max and Moritz and other favorite works | - |
First published: February 21, 2006
as " Otto Sander with Götz Alsmann" |
| Winter wonderland |
DE37  × 2
(4 weeks)DE |
together with the WDR Big Band
sales: + 40,000 |
|
| 2007 | Circus Alsmann - The best from Götz Alsmann | - |
First published: May 4th 2007
Musical compilation |
| My secret |
DE35 (4 weeks)DE |
First published: May 4, 2007
Sales: + 20,000 |
|
| I am not Karl May | - | ||
| 2008 | The Baskerville Dog | - |
First published: March 4th, 2008
Audiobook release |
| 2009 | Angel or devil |
DE41 (2 weeks)DE |
First published: May 15, 2009
Sales: + 10,000 |
| 2010 | Gentlemen's evening | - |
First publication: May 7, 2010
Audiobook publication |
| 2011 | In Paris |
DE30th × 3
(7 weeks)DE |
First published: October 21, 2011
Sales: + 30,000 |
| 2014 | On broadway |
DE69 (2 weeks)DE |
First published: October 20, 2014
Sales: + 10,000 |
| 2015 | Winter wonder world Vol. 2 |
DE69 (6 weeks) DE |
First release: November 13th, 2015
together with the WDR Big Band |
| 2017 | In Rome |
DE18th (5 weeks)DE |
First published: September 15, 2017
Sales: + 20,000 |
| 2018 | perhaps... | - |
First release: November 23, 2018
together with the SWR Big Band |
Guest Posts
- Sunny Domestozs (LP Barkin 'at the Moon, 1985)
- The Keytones (LP The Keytones Meet Götz Alsmann, 1989)
- The Fabulous Counter Sluts (CD Boobs Counter Temperaments, 1995)
- Jazzkantine (LP Frisch gepresst & live, 1996)
- The Doctors (single rebel , 1999)
- In Extremo (CD Don't Look Back , 2006, Singapore )
- Reinhard Mey (CD Hommage , 2006, Everything was I without you )
- Bela B. (Single black / white - Track Geisterreiter , 2009)
Fonts
- Stefan Blankertz / Götz Alsmann: Rock 'n' Roll subversive. Pandora's box, Wetzlar 1979. ISBN 3-88178-030-0 .
- Nothing but noise. The Independent Record Companies and the Development of American Popular Music 1943–1963. Huba, Drensteinfurt 1985. ISBN 3-9800414-9-2 .
Web links
- Works by and about Götz Alsmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Götz Alsmann's website
- Götz Alsmann on Myspace
- WDR 4 website for "Go, Götz, Go!"
- Götz Alsmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography, discography and news at JazzEcho
- Review by Artur Schulz on laut.de
- Review by Sven Kabelitz on laut.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten, August 29, 2019, RMS01.
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Ulk mit Ukulele , February 8, 2012
- ^ Public lectures by Götz Alsmann at the Musikhochschule Münster. In: Münster University of Music. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
- ^ Westfälische Nachrichten : North Rhine-Westphalia: Götz Alsmann takes up professorship at the University of Münster , dpa, February 7, 2012
- ↑ a b German Phono Academy e. V .: Singer of the Year national 2012 ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2013 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. , Accessed on June 10, 2012
- ↑ by Stuckrad-Barre, Benjamin, Deutsches Theater . Cologne, 2001. p. 159. ISBN 3462030507
- ^ Adolf Grimme Institute Society for Media, Education and Culture mbH: 36th Adolf Grimme Prize 2000 "Fiktion & Entertainment" , retrieved on July 25, 2014
- ↑ German Phono Academy e. V .: Jazz production of the year national / international 2004 ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed on July 25, 2014
- ↑ Charts: Official German Charts , Awards: Gold / Platinum Database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alsmann, Götz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and entertainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |