Henry Pacholski

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Henry Pacholski, 1978

Henry Pacholski (born January 6, 1949 in Zeitz ; † November 15, 1978 near Kalisz in Poland ) was a German rock singer, lyricist and member of the popular GDR art rock band Lift .

Life

Although Pacholski's father Harry Pacholski (1929-2004) was a musician, he first learned to be a cattle breeder himself and later began studying veterinary medicine . In addition, he took singing lessons at an early age and during his three years of military service with the NVA he worked with the amateur band Hugo & Co. from Halle . Wolfgang Scheffler, the keyboardist of the Lift group, was doing his military service at the same time; Pacholski was his superior. In early 1976, after his discharge from the army, Scheffler returned to Lift on condition that Pacholski would also be included in the band. He replaced Stephan Trepte , who in turn switched to the newly formed band Reform . Due to his extremely powerful, soulful voice, Pacholski was immediately considered one of the most important rock singers in the GDR, but still remained down to earth. In a portrait of the Lift group, which was broadcast on GDR television in 1978 , it was jokingly stated - alluding to the profession he originally learned - that Pacholski could “not get past any cow”.

With Lift, Pacholski recorded the band's first Amiga LP with the title Lift in 1976 . In 1978 he was also significantly involved in the production of the second LP Meeresfahrt together with Luise Mirsch . On this album he sang among others the hits To the South and Day Trip . His voice is also very impressively expressed in the song Scherbenglas , which is accompanied by a string quartet . The record was only released in 1979, after Pacholski's death.

Pacholski also wrote several texts for Lift, which were set to music by Wolfgang Scheffler and Michael Heubach . All texts on the LP Meeresfahrt , with the exception of the older piece Tagesreise, are from him. To the south became best known with the lines: "Behind the hill I grew wings to get away before winter." The song was understood by some as an indication of an escape from the GDR, but was not forbidden by the censors.

In 1978 Pacholski was awarded the GDR Art Prize together with Gerhard Zachar , the head of Lift .

death

On November 10, 1978, Lift undertook a small tour of Poland, on which Pacholski sang several songs in Polish as a gesture to the hosts. There is a recording of one of these concerts that was broadcast by the youth broadcaster DT64 at the time . The last concert took place on November 15th in Rzeszów . Originally, the musicians were supposed to spend the night in a hotel afterwards, but decided to go straight back to Berlin. There was a serious accident at Kalisz, in which the 29-year-old artist had a fatal accident - together with the band leader Gerhard Zachar . Michael Heubach, who was behind the wheel, was seriously injured. The Wartburg in which the musicians were sitting had collided with a truck in a left turn. Lift processed the traumatic event in the ballad On Some Days' Evening with a text by Joachim Krause . Veronika Fischer published the title Never more on the death of the musician colleagues .

Henry Pacholski's grave is in Gera .

Lyrics (selection)

  • Early in the morning  - 1976, music: Michael Heubach
  • Ballade vom Stein  - 1976, music: Michael Heubach
  • We drive over the sea  - 1978, music: Wolfgang Scheffler
  • To the south  - 1978, music: Wolfgang Scheffler
  • Summer night  - 1978, music: Wolfgang Scheffler
  • Broken glass  - 1978, music: Wolfgang Scheffler
  • Sea trip  - 1978, music: Wolfgang Scheffler

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo from 1973 at deutsche-mugge.de, accessed on April 14, 2018
  2. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Stories from the Saxon three . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-323-3 , p. 270
  3. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Stories from the Saxon three . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-323-3 , p. 300

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personal data
SURNAME Pacholski, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock singer, lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1978
Place of death at Kalisz