Hubertus Schmidt (musician)
Hubertus Schmidt (born March 8, 1951 in Leipzig ) is a German composer, pianist and singer.
Life
Hubertus Schmidt finished school in 1969 with a high school diploma at the extended high school "Karl Marx" in Leipzig, was then arrested in Hungary for " attempting to escape " to Austria and sentenced to a prison term of 15 months in the GDR . In the prison in Cottbus he got to know Andreas Reimann , who inspired him for literature, mainly for poetry. From 1971 he learned to be a porcelain repairer in his father's shop. From 1972 to 1977 he studied composition and accompaniment at the Leipzig University of Music . From 1974 to 1985 Schmidt worked as a répétiteur at the State Ballet School in Leipzig. In 1980 he began to work as a freelance composer, pianist and chanson interpreter. From 1981 to 1983 he took on a fee-based job at the Leipzig University of Choreography in the subjects of piano and music theory. In 1981 he received a mentor for interpretation in Werner Bernreuther : The first solo program "Glashaus" was created. In the same year he founded the Lied-Theater schmidt or something .
From 1982 to 1987 Schmidt took over the musical direction of several literary-musical programs at the student stage at Leipzig University. There he got to know Dietmar Voigt, with whom he subsequently performed several song theater programs. He also met Susanne Grütz at the student stage, with whom he worked from 1984 to 2001 in the field of German-language chanson. In 2001 he took over the part of the pianist in Tonight: Lola Blau by Georg Kreisler with Irene Budischowski as Lola Blau under the direction of Georg Mittendrein at Theater Naumburg, at that time: "Kleine Bühne Naumburg". From 2001 he worked as a répétiteur at the Leipzig Opera Ballet School until its completion in 2006, after which he switched to the "Johann Sebastian Bach" music school in Leipzig . Schmidt was a participant in the GDR-open chanson days in Michaelsstein Monastery and already ran a private studio in the mid-80s, in which, in the tradition of Magnitisdat, he also produced recordings for colleagues from the Leipzig song scene , such as Werner Bernreuther , Jens-Paul Wollenberg and Dietmar "Diddi "Voigt, Dieter Kalka and Menzel Menzel Mau.
In 2001 the duo Grütz / Schmidt said goodbye to their audience after a total of 953 concerts with two concerts in the Moritzbastei in Leipzig .
From 1971 until today Hubertus Schmidt composed around 700 songs based on texts by Andreas Reimann , Fritz Grasshoff , Christian Morgenstern , Bertolt Brecht and many others.
Hubertus Schmidt lives in Leipzig and works as a freelance musician. He is part of the Leipzig songwriting scene .
Works / stage programs
Student stage at the Leipzig University
- 1982 “Even grace can shake” - an Erich Kästner program
- 1985 “The choirs of the heart smoke like a fuse” - homage á Mayakowski
- 1986 “Dawn! Klabund! The days are dawning! ”- Alfred Henschke's lyrical panopticon
- 1997 "Keep me - up to date" - nonsense from three decades by Robert Gernhardt (GARNICH group)
Lied-Theater "schmidt oder so"
- 1981 "Gallows songs - a morning star evening" (Hubertus Schmidt & Dietmar Voigt - from 1983)
- 1983 "Glass eye in soap" - a nonsense program (Hubertus Schmidt, Dietmar Voigt & Susanne Grütz)
- 1984 "Leafed through the trash can" - a plebeian backyard ballad (Hubertus Schmidt & Dietmar Voigt)
- 1987 "Platform Phanta 19,000" - second attempt via Christian Morgenstern (Hubertus Schmidt & Dietmar Voigt)
- 2002 CD "Galgenlieder" (Hubertus Schmidt & Dietmar Voigt)
Duo Susanne Grütz & Hubertus Schmidt
- 1985 "... and even say what I want" - first stage program
- 1986 "Liedercircus '86" - tour with Circus Lila , Pension Volkmann , Werner Bernreuther, Hermann Naehring , Barbara Thalheim , Tobias Klug and Gerhard Schöne .
- 1986 LP “Liedercircus ´86” - LP Berlin Amiga, 1986; Stereo 845309 (participation) (recording from May 28, 1986 in the Ernst-Barlach-Theater Güstrow)
- 1987 "Café Knax" - Second stage program (Git: Sigmund Kiesant)
- 1989 "... and some people laughed badly too" - Third stage program
- 1990 “Through all heavens - all gutters” - a tribute to Fritz Grasshoff - fourth stage program
- 1993 “Tatort Stadt” - fifth stage program, texts: Andreas Reimann
- 1997 “Café Knax II” - Sixth stage program
- 1998 CD "Café Knax"
- 2001 CD "Farewell"
- 2009 DVD "Susanne Grütz and Hubertus Schmidt live in Machern Castle", recording of the duo's unique best-of program in Machern Castle
Solo projects
- 1981 “Glashaus” - first solo program with texts by Andreas Reimann
- 1984 "Hubertus Schmidt: Of course" - Second solo program
- 1985 “Major or minor?” Program with Heinz-Martin Benecke
- 1989 "22 Songs" - Third solo program (Git: Sigmund Kiesant)
- 1997 “So ein Leben” - fourth solo program
- 1997 CD "The Undertaker's Suicide" (on drums: Torsten Wolf)
- 1997 CD "Bats Round The Hotel"
- 1998 CD "Such a Life"
- 1998 CD "Ambelos - A Stranger On Crete" (instrumental work)
- 1999 CD “Desterweechn” - Saxon texts by Andreas Reimann
- 2002 CD "Alois Sander-Bor's Odd Journey" - a fairy tale for adults (Text: Hubertus Schmidt)
- 2003 CD “Krabbelkäferlieder” - children's songs
- 2004 CD "The beautiful beautiful youth" - remake of songs from 1971 to 1975
- 2005 CD "A place later - fourteen words from the clown" (Text: Hubertus Schmidt)
- 2010 CD "Strange People"
Other works
- 1986 “Der Drache Drax” - opera for children for the 40th birthday of the Theater der Junge Welt, Leipzig
- 1986 “Suite Sweet Grünau” - instrumental work for the 20th birthday of the Leipzig district of Grünau
- 1996 Music for the film "Die Stadt an der Stadt" - a portrait of the Leipzig district of Grünau, director: Christoph Bigalke
- 2004 CD "Banished from Austria" - songs based on texts by Theodor Kramer , together with Thomas Riedel
- 2005 stage program and CD “Always this Christmas stress” with Kristine Stahl, Naumburg
- 2007 Land, people and machines. Saxony in Film 1912–1940, DVD, ed. from the Saxon State Archives. Edited by Stephan Gööck, music by Hubertus Schmidt, Halle 2007. Publications of the Saxon State Archives, Series D: Digital Publications. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle, new edition at UAP Leipzig, 2013
- LEIPZIGER LIEDERSZENE from the 1980s , CD / DVD and book. Edited / Edited: Hubertus Schmidt, Jürgen B. Wolff , Uli Doberenz, Dieter Kalka . Loewenzahn / RUM Records. Leipzig 2018.
Awards
- 1974 Prize for composition from the Association of Composers and Musicologists of the GDR
- 1981 Prize for composition and interpretation at the National Chanson Festival of the GDR in Frankfurt / Oder
- 1985 Prize for composition and interpretation of the general management of the AWA (today: GEMA ), together with Susanne Grütz as a duo
Illegal sound productions / Magnitisdat
From the mid-1970s Hubertus Schmidt produced his own programs as well as those of other colleagues, which were then sold as Magnitisdat productions during the concerts. The artist found himself in a gray area and the reproduction of the sound recordings could have turned out to be legally to his disadvantage. A considerable number of sound recordings were made. They can still be heard regularly today in the regular song scene broadcasts on Radio Blau and podcasts on the Allgäu milk extractor Poesie & FeatureFunk.
Magnitisdat (selection)
- '' Lust and Loss '', "Reimann - Ensemble", Gisela Schmidt (voc), Andreas Reimann (voc), Hubertus Schmidt (p), studio schmidt or so 1976.
- '' Farewell '', Hubertus Schmidt, studio schmidt or something like that in 1980.
- '' Glashaus '', Hubertus Schmidt solo, studio schmidt or so in 1981.
- '' Galgenlieder '', Lied-Theater schmidt or something like that 1983.
- '' ... and even say what my desire is '', Duo Grütz / Schmidt, studio schmidt oder so 1986.
- ``22 songs '', Hubertus Schmidt with Sigmund Kisant, git., Studio schmidt oder so 1986.
- `` The blue flower '', Menzel, Menzel, Mau, studio schmidt or so 1987.
- '' Insatiable '', Dietmar "Didi" Voigt with Massa Großwig, studio schmidt or so in 1987.
- '' The utopian festival '', Dieter Kalka, studio schmidt oder so 1987.
- '' Die Schimmelblume '', Jens-Paul Wollenberg , Studio Schmidt or something like that in 1988.
- '' I still have the FREEDOM to love '', Dieter Kalka, Studio Schmidt or something and Studio Peter Gläser in 1988.
- '' Longing for homesickness '', Werner Bernreuther, studio schmidt oder so 1989.
Web links
- Website Hubertus Schmidt
- Liederszene-Sendung 1 with Hubertus Schmidt, August 22nd, 2017, 8 p.m., podcast on the Allgäu milk extractor Poesie & FeatureFunk
literature
- Petra Schwarz, Wilfried Bergholz: song people. 28 portraits. Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-7332-0053-5 .
- Lutz Kirchenwitz: Folk, Chanson and Songwriter in the GDR. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-320-01807-8 .
- Bernhard Scheller, Christian Becher (ed.): Theater with passion - the student stage at Leipzig University. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig, ISBN 978-3-938543-59-7 .
- Barbara Thalheim: Mugge. Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932180-76-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regional Council Rehabilitation Authority Chemnitz, AZ 23-5802.93 / 2007.09077
- ↑ According to the diploma from the Leipzig Music Academy of December 5, 1977.
- ↑ christian-morgenstern.de
- ↑ theater-naumburg.de
- ↑ 953 concerts
- ↑ tobias-klug.de
- ↑ buchfreund.de
- ↑ guestrow.city-map.de
- ↑ sigmund kiesant ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Löwenzahn-Verlag. ( Memento from February 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ DNB 135288592
- ↑ wolfsvision.de
- ↑ theaterderjungenweltleipzig.de
- ↑ crew-united.com
- ↑ logopaedie-connewitz.de
- ↑ Archives - Audiovisual Media. ( Memento from April 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Archives - Publications. ( Memento of October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), ISBN 978-3-89812-528-4 .
- ↑ Magnitizdat of the Leipzig song scene
- ↑ musikundpolitik.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Hubertus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, pianist and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |