Hans Unstern
Hans Unstern is one or more people who have been making music, concerts, poetry, performances, art and musical instruments since 2008.
Career
Under the name of Hans Unstern , a multitude of people are artistically active who appear as an individual, similar to the writers' collective Wu Ming , the political group Luther Blissett and the band The Residents . Unstern says in the interview: “I am more than one person.” And “Host for a lot of people”, a “great pop asylum”, to which celebrities like Sibylle Berg and René Pollesch were attached .
For the debut Kratz Dich Raus (2010) Unstern was referred to as “the greatest language skeptic that German-speaking songwriting has produced” with regard to poetry.
The album The Great Hans Unstern Swindle (2012) became the Spex record .
Hans Unstern worked at the Hebbel am Ufer Theater in Berlin in 2016/2017 and produced a radio play for NDR in 2017 .
The 3rd album DIVEN has been announced for 2020.
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Scratch yourself out
For the album Kratz Dich Raus, Hans Unstern plays with a band that does not have its own name and is very much geared towards one person. The following musicians took part in Kratz Dich Raus: Simon Bauer (double bass), Daniel Schröteler , Earl Harvin, Els Vandeweyer , Pascal Stoffels (bass), Ben Lauber (keyboard, piano), PC Nackt (piano, flute, percussion), Anna Viechtl (Harp), Paula Sell (accordion), Dominik Bollow, Jonathan Kassner (guitar), Nils Tegen (keyboard, trumpet), Milian Vogel (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone). Hans Unstern himself plays the guitar and sings or recites.
Hanky Panky Know How - dealing with constructions of authorship and heteronormativity in the music business
To promote the volume of poetry Hanky Panky Know How and the album The Great Hans Unstern Swindle , the Berlin performance and theater artist Tucké Royale pretended to be Hans Unstern , clean- shaven and with dyed blue hair, in a white suit and mirrored glasses. He gave interviews, gave a reading of his poems and quoted the feminist Donna Haraway as a critique of the heteronormativity of the music business:
“I came across a sentence from the biologist Donna Haraway: 'It's not about speaking for someone, but with someone.' The language that always believes it can speak for someone, Haraway describes as white, male, heterosexual jargon, which does not understand itself as jargon, but as the dominant, generally applicable language. So this unmarked singing of a male white heterosexual. He takes the stage and starts singing, 'There she was just a-walkin' down the street ... 'That's that jargon. He refers to the automatism of this dominant language, namely that all who listen have to assume that every woman or every man is heterosexual. And if you ask me now: How should you write the song correctly, then I say you should do without such a song. If you think you really have something to say about and against society, you can't keep writing in its language! "
The performance critically questioned notions of authorship as they are constructed in music journalism:
“Objectively speaking, that's the only thing reality can learn from music: to lie and, now the important point is that everyone knows it. Nothing is automatically true. We are cheating on you, but you know! That alone would make sense: not to deal with the fraud that harms you, but with the one that helps you ... In the interview, again, another stage, it is expected that the entertainment will end here and the "real one." “Human comes out. That is what is demanded. That's not my thing."
The artist Roland Brückner (street artist Lindas Ex ), the draftsman of the video Paris , modified 10 editions of the book Hanky Panky Know How in an artistic way: He drew on the blank pages contained in the book.
The Great Hans Unstern Swindle
On the second album: Daniel Schröteler (drums, percussion), Anke Lucks (trombone), Anne Grabow, Steffi Engtanz, Pauline Boeykens (tuba), Philipp Thimm (cello), Nackt (Patrick Christensen) (piano, harmonium, keyboard, Xylophone, percussion), Christoph Hamann and Simon Bauer (violin), Tanno Pippi and Lysander (background vocals), Simon Bauer (mandolin). The album was produced by PC Nackt . Orlando de Boeykens, Daniel Schröteler, Vanessa Kehl and Simon Bauer provide support for live performances. The band plays self-made instruments, among other things. These harps (a chord board, a prepared imitation piano, a large round harp and two "posterboy chord banjos" or a sounding chair) were developed together with Simon Bauer.
On the associated tour in Germany and Austria in November 2013, Hans Unstern toured with a band together with Mary Ocher .
Not punk, Pololo
Since 2013, Hans Unstern has worked alongside other artists on the piece Not Punk, Pololo by the performance duo Gintersdorfer / Klaßen .
Boiband
Together with Tucké Royale and the producer Black Cracker, the album The Year I Broke My Voice was released in 2017 . Stylistically, the music moves in the area of Pop / R'n'B.
Pop & Secret Knowledge, the word with the V in the middle
In the performance series Pop & Secret Knowledge, the Word with the V in the Middle , Hans Unstern and Simon Bauer bring the creation of the 3rd album to the stage in the Hebbel am Ufer Theater in Berlin in 2016/2017 .
Divas [premix]
On December 20, 2017, the radio play Diven [premix] by Hans Unstern has its debut on the NDR broadcast.
Discography
- 2010: Yes, Panik / Hans Unstern (Split 7 ", State Act , AKTSIE 013)
- 2010: Scratch yourself out (Album, Staatsakt, Akt709LP and Akt709CD)
- 2013: The Great Hans Unstern Swindle (Album, Staatsakt, AKT739LP)
- 2017: Boiband - The Year I Broke My Voice (Album)
Video and presentation
- 2010: A cover song (music: Hans Unstern, director: Moana Vonstadl), awarded as one of the ten best music videos in the music video competition of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
- 2010: Paris (music: Hans Unstern, drawings: Roland Brückner)
- 2012: I'm ashamed (music: Hans Unstern, director: Moana Vonstadl), winner of the MuVi Award of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
- 2019: Appearance in the television film Beyond Fear (2019)
bibliography
- Hans Unstern: Hanky Panky Know How . Merve-Verlag , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88396-315-0 . (Poetry book)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Literaturverein Edit eV Leipzig: Josefine Rieks: The new honesty. October 14, 2014, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ^ Merve Verlag Berlin / Hans Unstern: Hans Unstern - press conference. Retrieved January 8, 2020 (German).
- ↑ RockCity Hamburg eV: Operation Ton # 8 Sound & Instruments: Simon Bauer "Inside The Unstern Swindle! Build your own sound". February 4, 2015, accessed January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Jens Uthoff: musician Hans Unstern on crypto-folk: "I am just a metabolic medium" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . November 28, 2013, ISSN 0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed January 8, 2020]).
- ↑ Hans Unstern Blog: Shows Archive. In: Hans Unstern. Retrieved January 8, 2020 (German).
- ↑ The festival for self-made music. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Radek Krolczyk: Wu Ming is many. In: Friday. November 6, 2013.
- ↑ Jens Uthoff: I am just a metabolic medium. Interview with Hans Unstern. In: taz , November 28, 2013.
- ^ Lutz Happel: Sound carrier. In: The time. October 26, 2012.
- ↑ Holger In't Veld: Hans Unstern The Great Hans Unstern Swindle. In: SPEX. October 26, 2012, accessed on January 8, 2020 (German).
- ↑ HAU: Pop & Secret Knowledge. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Divas [premix]. In: NDR. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ News & Reviews: Hans Unstern - Non-stubborn × NEØLYD - Magazine for Pop Culture. Accessed January 11, 2020 (German).
- ↑ cit. after Hans Unstern - press conference. August 30, 2012 at Merve Verlag Berlin. In: Youtube.
- ↑ a b c I disappoint you - I disappoint myself - I mistake you - I mistake myself - I exchange myself - I exchange you - for myself . Hans Unstern original sounds, transcript of the quotes from the Hans Unstern press performance at Merve Verlag Berlin, August 30, 2012.
- ↑ Hans Unstern. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 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. In: Arte Tracks. 4th January 2013.
- ↑ Tucké Royale's blog ( Memento of the original from October 5, 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.
- ^ Shop on the website of Hans Unstern
- ^ Hans Unstern - Musical Instruments. In: Hans Unstern. Accessed January 11, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Hans Unstern: The Great Hans Unstern Swindle . Hans-Unstern-Newsletter of October 26, 2012.
- ↑ Not Punk, Pololo, in: Gintersdorfer / Klaßen website
- ^ Hans Unstern, in: Gintersdorfer / Klaßen website
- ↑ HAU3 Hebbel Am Ufer Theater. Retrieved January 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Ester Cara: Hans Unstern produces new album live at HAU / ticket raffle. In: SPEX. May 16, 2017, accessed on January 8, 2020 (German).
- ↑ MuVi Award for “A Cover Song” at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, website of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
- ^ Video Paris on the website of Hans Unstern
- ↑ MuVi Award for "I am ashamed" at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, website of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Unstern, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1980 and 1989 |