Holger Biege

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Holger Biege (born September 19, 1952 in Greifswald , GDR ; † April 25, 2018 near Lüneburg ) was a German composer , singer , pianist , arranger and lyricist .

Life

Biege completed piano and vocal training at the Friedrichshain Music School in East Berlin and was a member of the Schubert Band from 1975 . In 1976 and 1977 he made his first appearances in Poland , the ČSSR and West Berlin . In 1978 Amiga released his first album When the evening comes. The album also contained his most successful and best-known title " Sagte mal ein Dichter ". Another album called Circulus followed in 19 79 . The lyrics of both long-playing records came from Fred Gertz and Ingeburg Branoner , the music from Biege himself. In 1978 and 1979 he was voted “Interpreter of the Year” by the youth magazine new Leben . He also composed for his brother Gerd Christian . In 1980 Biege founded his own band.

After an approved guest performance, he stayed in West Berlin in 1983 without an exit permit and then moved to Hamburg . After a few months of harassment , his family was allowed to move. The hoped-for artistic freedom did not come true for him, however, the ideological guidelines of the GDR had given way to strategic market interests of the western music industry, by which he also felt impaired. In 1984 he released his third album , his own face , his first LP in the Federal Republic of Germany, on the Polydor label . Michael Kunze wrote most of the lyrics for this album . However, he did not achieve fame or success in the FRG. After successfully leading a copyright dispute against Annette Humpe over the title Codo… düse im Sauseschritt , the melody of which goes back to a Biege composition in the GDR, Biege worked as an appraiser and expert for plagiarism cases . But he did not like the job, so that he ended it again and got into a difficult financial situation.

In 1990 Biege undertook a solo concert tour through the GDR . In the following years, Holger Biege and his wife acted as his own organizer in order to be self-determined, which meant an immense organizational effort for the couple. Concert tours through East Germany, where Biege was still known and popular, represented the main source of income for the family at that time.

In 1994 the album Leiser als Laut was released . A large part of the songs had already been written in the GDR in the early 1980s, although Biege saw himself hindered by the people in charge of AMIGA at the time . Some of the texts were supplied by Werner Karma . In January 1983, Biege took part in Rock for Peace with the karma title My Hands . A publication of the song on the accompanying AMIGA LP was prevented due to Biege's departure. This had also led to a rift with Werner Karma, who, like Silly , had valued Biege as a critical actor in the GDR music scene. After the fall of the Wall, however, Karma and Biege came together again. So the album could still be produced and released. In 1997 a fifth studio album was released with Zugvögel , on which Biege distanced himself even further from pop music and strived for the greatest possible authenticity and uncompromising quality.

On June 12, 2012, he suffered a stroke . A planned tour on the occasion of his 60th birthday could therefore not take place. For his 65th birthday, the songbook Deine Liebe and my song with CD was published in 2017 . Biege became increasingly impoverished, the family lived on welfare. A handicapped accessible car was financed through an appeal for donations. In April 2018, he finally succumbed to the consequences of a medical malpractice. In September 2018, supporters and friends founded Holger Biege eV .

Holger Biege was married and had two children. From 1998 he lived in Metzingen in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district .

Discography

Albums

  • 1978: When the Evening Comes (LP)
  • 1979: Circulus (LP)
  • 1984: Your Own Face (LP)
  • 1990: 84/85/90 (LP; compilation with a selection from the 1980s)
  • 1990: Will dare everything (LP / CD; compilation with a selection from the 1970s)
  • 1994: Quieter than Loud (CD)
  • 1994: When the evening comes / Circulus (CD; new edition of the first two LPs)
  • 1996: The Most Beautiful Ballads (CD)
  • 1997: Migratory Birds (CD)
  • 2001: Breathe songs, refuel songs (live) (CD)
  • 2003: productions from the 90's (CD, self-published)
  • 2006: productions from the 80's (CD, self-published)
  • 2010: Freestyle (unreleased)
  • 2015: The Original Albums (five CDs with 19 bonus tracks)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GDR songwriter Holger Biege is dead. In: Landeszeitung für die Lüneburger Heide . April 25, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ SuperIllu: Laying the East - Holger Biege. SUPERillu, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Holger Biege - once said a poet - hitparade.ch. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b c Wolfgang Martin: Once said a poet - Holger Biege. The biography. Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95958-191-2
  5. ↑ Appeal for donations. In: Website Holger Bieges. February 8, 2018, accessed April 26, 2018 .
  6. ^ Birthday concert: GDR music legend Holger Biege turns 65. In: Nordkurier . September 18, 2017, accessed April 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ https://www.svz.de/lokales/sternberg-bruel-warin/sAGEN-mal-ein-dichter-id21096977.html
  8. ↑ A songwriter without a voice . In: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung , March 14, 2014, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Biege, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, singer, pianist, arranger and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald , GDR
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2018
Place of death near Lüneburg