Gerhard Schöne

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Gerhard Schöne at the German Evangelical Church Congress, 2007

Gerhard Schöne (born January 10, 1952 in Coswig near Dresden ) is a German songwriter . He was one of the most famous interpreters in the GDR .

Life

Schöne grew up in a Protestant pastor's family in Coswig, Saxony, and his father Johannes Schöne was also a writer. He completed an apprenticeship as a body belt worker and later worked at Deutsche Post . He originally wanted to be an actor, but no approval was given for the study because he in the NVA to refusing armed service and instead as a construction soldier served. As an employee for children and youth work with a pastor, he wrote songs and completed a distance learning course at the Dresden Music Academy . He has been a freelance songwriter since 1979.

1981 appeared his first LP savings not your wine on for tomorrow at Amiga , the most famous label of the GDR. Gerhard Schöne was a guest at the Festival of Political Songs several times . Music from him was in the DEFA - children's films The boy with the big black dog (1986) and ... and I thought you liked me used (1987); In the former, Schöne also played a supporting role as a musician. His LP You just haven't tried it came out in 1988, which courageously expressed the mood of large parts of the population with songs like Mit dem Face zum Volke .

In 1991 Schöne performed at the songs on a summer evening and received a special award from the festival sponsors for “Songs that build bridges”. His song The Desire of the Film Projector came on the anniversary CD in 2011 . He performed there a second time in 2014 .

Schöne was one of the artists who actively helped to shape the fall of 1989/90. To this day he is socially committed. Gerhard Schöne, for example, supports development projects of the East German organization INKOTA-netzwerk , on whose advisory board he works.

Beautiful texts sometimes seem childishly naive, but are always sensitive and, shaped by his Christian faith, often socially critical. Schöne has become popular primarily through his collection of children's songs from all over the world and from his own pen, for example Kinderland and Jule never washes . He was also successful with songs for adults. He appears regularly at Evangelical Church Days .

Gerhard Schöne's albums have been published by Buschfunk-Verlag Berlin since the fall of the Wall . Since 1988, nine of his children's books have been published.

Schöne is married for a second time and has six children. He lives in Meissen .

Honors

Despite his critical tones, Gerhard Schöne was honored as the most successful songwriter in the GDR with the GDR Art Prize in 1987 and the GDR National Prize in 1989 . In 1994 he received the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin . Because of his tireless commitment to children, he was appointed UNICEF Ambassador. In 2002 the Association of German School Musicians recognized him for his achievements in music education with the Leo Kestenberg Medal. He was twice the winner of the German Record Critics' Prize : 1992 for Ich bin ein Gast auf Erden and 2004 for Fremde Federn . He was honored with the Leopold Prize of the Association of German Music Schools in 1997 and 2003.

In 1996 Schöne received the award of the Bible and Culture Foundation in the field of “Bible and Songwriter”. In 2012 he was awarded the German Music Author's Prize in the category “Text Children's Song”. In 2016 Schöne received the Johann Walter plaque from the Saxon Music Council .

Discography

Gerhard Schöne 1988
  • 1981: Don't save your wine for tomorrow (LP, as CD 1995)
  • 1982: Songs from Kinderland (LP, CD 1994)
  • 1983: Little Mr. Mutzelbach's great invention (1983 radio play production and first broadcast; 1996 CD release)
  • 1985: Menschenskind (LP, as CD 1995)
  • 1986: Children's songs from all over the world (LP, as CD 1994)
  • 1988: You just haven't tried it yet (live double LP)
  • 1989: signs of life
  • 1989: Children's songs gallery (LP, as CD 1990)
  • 1991: I am a guest on earth (German Record Critics' Award)
  • 1992: the seven gifts
  • 1993: Until the cat barks
  • 1993: Nice song package
  • 1993: songs
  • 1995: Bad Baby Kitty Schmidt (Leopold Media Prize)
  • 1997: Jule never washes
  • 1997: The clean-shaven Santa Claus
  • 1997: Strange Saints
  • 1998: Alligators in the sewers
  • 1998: The Life of Things
  • 2000: Paths to each other
  • 2000: The guinea fowl in the snow
  • 2001: Children's poems (Leopold Media Prize)
  • 2002: Klabüster, Klabuster (live double CD)
  • 2003: Foreign feathers
  • 2004: Kings from the Orient
  • 2005: The songs of the photographers
  • 2007: where? (Live-CD / DVD, castles and palaces tour 2006)
  • 2007: The angel who makes dreams
  • 2008: Drum My Heart For Life (recorded 1996)
  • 2010: When Franticek sneezes (with Nora Tschirner )
  • 2010: I open the door wide in the evening (with Jens Goldhardt and Ralf Benschu )
  • 2011: The songs in the mailboxes
  • 2016: A day in the life of a child (with the Gewandhauskinderchor Leipzig)
  • 2017: Come into the house (with the Gewandhauskinderchor Leipzig and Walter Zoller on the piano under the direction of Frank-Steffen Elster )
  • 2020: How do we want to give presents to our little one? Tender songs for the night
  • 2020: Hum Singen Schrei (with Jens Goldhardt (organ) and Ralf Benschu (saxophone))

Literary works

Varia

See also

literature

  • Danuta and Matthias Görnandt (eds.): I am a guest on earth. Views, conversations, songs. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-347-0 .
  • Lutz Kirchenwitz:  Beautiful, Gerhard . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Andreas Ciesielski : I want to be close to life. The songwriter and singer Gerhard Schöne . In: Ernst Günther, Heinz P. Hofmann, Walter Rösler (eds.): Cassette. Rock, pop, hit songs, revue, circus, cabaret, magic - an almanac (=  cassette ). No. 7 . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1984, p. 59-64 .

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Schöne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spades instead of weapons - the construction soldiers of the GDR. In: MDR Zeitreise , June 9, 2017.
  2. ↑ FIGARINO web channel - January 9th - 15th, 2011 Visiting Gerhard Schöne, a songwriter invites you ( memento from June 17th, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), mdr.de
  3. ^ Günter Platzdasch: Gerhard Schöne - Christlich human, in FAZ of August 26, 2004
  4. ↑ The INKOTA network advisory board . Website of INKOTA-netzwerk e. V. Accessed March 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Schöne sets the first children's book to music: "Children's dreams last forever" ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), SuperIllu, August 23, 2010.
  6. ↑ Gerhard Schöne website , accessed on January 11, 2017
  7. ^ The Leo Kestenberg Medal . Website of the Association of German School Musicians. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Leaderboard 1-2004 . Website of the German Record Critics' Prize. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  9. ↑ Leopold 1997 - Awarded the title “Recommended by the Association of German Music Schools” . Website of the Association of German Music Schools. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Leopold 2003/2004 - Awarded the title “Recommended by the Association of German Music Schools” . Website of the Association of German Music Schools. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  11. ↑ The previous winners . Website of the Bible and Culture Foundation. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
  12. ↑ The 2012 award winners . Website of the German Music Author Award. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Beautiful, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig (Saxony)