Gunther Schmache

Gunther Schmäche is one of the German radio presenter and singer January Schlegel developed fictional character in which he as a radio host , radio comedian and comedy - singer occurs. The use of the Saxon dialect in texts and songs is a disgraceful trademark . He was also known as the author of dialect publications.

The fictional character

The character Gunther Schmache combines cabaret, comedic and folk-“country team” elements. For his comedy type, Jan Schlegel, who was born in Saxony in 1970 , grew up there and now lives in Leipzig , Saxony , uses various clichés such as that of a " philistine " ( Radio PSR : "the allotment gardener from Kleinpösna with his Saxon snout") and partly also used by a proletarian .

Schlegel was first under contract as Gunther Schmache with the private radio broadcaster NRJ Sachsen , later he switched to the “Private Saxon Broadcasting”, Radio PSR . Schmäches (Schlegel's) music style can be classified between Schlager and Pop . But he also appears as a songwriter in the Saxon dialect.

Under the pseudonym of his fictional character Gunther Schmache , Schlegel published, among other things, a fictional biography as well as translations into Saxon dialect of Goethe's Faust II and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet .

Schmache (Schlegel) also appears at public events (“Saxony's allotment gardener Gunther Schmache”, “Saxony cult presenter Gunther Schmache”) and sometimes stages himself in public.

Discography (selection)

Albums

• 1996: Exactly, exactly, exactly ...!
• 1997: Affair
• 1998: BUFF BANANA
• 1999: Alles Gunther-das Beste and more ... ( Best of )
• 2003: four seasons
• 2002: Romeo and Juliet in Saxon

Singles

• 1996: Garden song
• 1997: Spring song
• 1999: Honky Tonk®
• 2000: Summer in Saxony
• 2000: bad breath

Publications (selection)

• Gunther Schmache: The Autobiography . Verlag Faber & Faber , Leipzig 1998 ( Die Sisyphosse series ), ISBN 3-932545-16-8 .
• Gunther Schmache: Faust in Saxon . Eichborn Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8218-3485-4 .
• Gunther Schmächle: Romeo and Juliet in Saxon . Belchen Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, ISBN 3-933483-68-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gunther Schmache in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article about Gunther Schmache at the online music magazine Vampster
• Information about Gunther Schmache at Musicline.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Radio stations organize EU enlargement celebration . In: Multimedia magazine INFOSAT , April 23, 2004; Retrieved July 1, 2009.
2. ^ Sachsentreffen in Schwedt . ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2010 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. , Announcement of the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt from May 2007; Retrieved July 1, 2009. 
3. ↑ Juice from the radio gardener & a car from the lottery . sz-online , October 23, 2003; Retrieved July 1, 2009.